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Ability to Succeed Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$13k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

International$20kHuman Services$13kRecreation & Sports$13kEducation$7kFood & Nutrition$6kYouth Development$3kReligion$2k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$2,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$244k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LETTING EVERYONE ACHIEVE DREAMS$3,000
HOPE SPEAKS INTERNATIONAL$2,000
J'S HOUSE$2,000
KIDS' MEALS INC$2,000
WORLD VISION INC$2,000
FRIENDS OF KINGWOOD BASEBALL$1,500
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY24–25, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%J'S HOUSE: $3k → 16%J'S HOUSE: $2k → 16%KIDS' MEALS INC: $2k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 10% of Ability to Succeed Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Ability to Succeed Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.2% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$35k · 6 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
3

Total granted

$35k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+90%

Still filing today

67%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsInternationalReligionHealthOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • YM
    Young Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area
    4× · 2021–2024 · $8k · revenue +12%
  • SS
    Softball Sisters
    2× · 2020–2021 · $8k · 32% of their budget
  • L
    LIFT-UP
    2× · 2023–2024 · $7k

Funded once

  • HI
    HOUSTON INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
  • CI
    COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SAN ANTONIOgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +90%
  • PM
    PROBE MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +14%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Communities in Schools of Central Texas

Communities in schools of central texas (cisct) ensures students have holistic support, removing academic and nonacademic barriers to their success in school.

Education
2
Communities in Schools of Baytown Inc

Our mission is to surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.

Education
3
Kids Hope Usa

Kids Hope USA connects churches and organizations with neighborhood elementary schools to operate a proven, established school-based mentoring program. Through these partnerships, Kids Hope USA mobilizes Christ-followers as trained…

Education
4
Girls Incorporated of Greater Houston

The mission of Girls Incorporated of Greater Houston is to inspire all girls to be strong, smart and bold.

Youth Development
5
Communities in Schools of the South Plains Inc

To meet the needs of students in at-risk situations by improving academics, marketable skills, attendance, and behavior through the partnership of school, home, and community so that young people stay in school, learn successfully and…

Youth Development
6
Communities in Schools of the Heart of Texas

To surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.

Human Services
7
St John's School

See Schedule OSt. John's School is an independent, co-educational day school presenting a 13-year sequence of college preparatory training. A non-profit institution, it was founded in 1946 to provide the community with a school of exacting…

8
Presbyterian School

Family, School, and Church united in the education and support of each child - this is the founding premise upon which Presbyterian School nurtures and challenges its students. The school provides an educational program of the highest…

Education
9
The Woodlands Christian Academy

TWCA is an independent, Christ-centered college preparatory school that integrates learning with biblical faith and challenges our students to reach their highest potential - intellectually, creatively, physically, and socially - for the…

10
Yes Prep Public Schools Inc

YES Prep Public Schools, Inc. prepares low-income youth to enter a four-year college or university by implementing an innovative and rigorous academic program which also emphasizes community service.

Education
11
Lutheran Education Association of Houston

The mission of the Lutheran Education Association of Houston (LEAH) is to operate and champion exemplary Lutheran schools in the Houston area to expand Christ's Kingdom.

12
The Greatest School in West Houston

Christian pre-school from age 3-months to school-age, and school from

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Communities in Schools of Houston Inc and the most unlike its peers is Softball Sisters. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 14 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WORLD VISION INC — $13,450 · InternationalWORLD VISION INCSERVE HOPE INTERNATIONAL — $4,900 · InternationalSERVE HOPE INTERNATIONALYoung Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area — $8,000 · Human ServicesYoung Men's Christian Asso…JS HOUSE INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesJS HOUSE INCKIDS' MEALS INC — $2,000 · Human ServicesKIDS' MEALS INCLIFT-UP — $6,515 · OtherLIFT-UPHOUSTON INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT — $3,000 · OtherHOUSTON INDEPENDE…LETTING EVERYONE ACHIEVE DREAMS — $3,000 · EducationLETTING EVERYON…COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF HOUSTON INC — $2,750 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN …COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SAN ANTONIO — $1,500 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN …FRIENDS OF KINGWOOD BASEBALL — $1,500 · EducationFRIENDS OF KING…Softball Sisters — $8,000 · Recreation & SportsSoftball Siste…HOPE SPEAKS INTERNATIONAL INC — $2,000 · HealthPROBE MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL — $1,500 · Religion
International$18,350Human Services$15,000Other$9,515Education$8,750Recreation & Sports$8,000Health$2,000Religion$1,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWORLD VISION INC — $13,450 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area — $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSoftball Sisters — $8,000 over 2y, 32% of budgetJS HOUSE INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSERVE HOPE INTERNATIONAL — $4,900 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLETTING EVERYONE ACHIEVE DREAMS — $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF HOUSTON INC — $2,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SAN ANTONIO — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROBE MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL — $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA9.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Ability to Succeed Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Ability to Succeed Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Ability to Succeed Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 14 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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