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Astros Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
88
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Public Benefit$3.4MHealth$3.2MHuman Services$2.8MEducation$2.5MEnvironment$1.5MHousing & Shelter$1.5MYouth Development$491kFood & Nutrition$403kOther$0
02FY2024 · 88 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k42 grants · $217k
  • $10k–50k33 grants · $507k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $1.3M
  • $250k+2 grants · $570k
$10,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$25M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LEMONADE DAY$300,000
CY-HOPE INC$270,257
AVONDALE HOUSE$200,000
BIG LOVE CANCER CARE SERVICES$150,000
SUNSHINE KIDS FOUNDATION$150,000
CANDLELIGHTS CHILDHOOD CANCER FAMILY ALLIANCE$150,000
TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$150,000
THE IMANI SCHOOL$100,000
INCARNATE WORD ACADEMY$100,000
TEJANO CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CONCERNS$100,000
STAR OF HOPE MISSION$80,000
ATHLETES AND CAUSES$55,000
CAJUN NAVY GROUND FORCE$53,015
BREAD OF LIFE$39,083
SHRINER'S HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN$26,028
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $2.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HOPE'S DOOR NEW BEGINNING CENTER: $15k → 5%WOMEN'S CENTER OF BRAZORIA COUNTY: $10k → 10%BIG LOVE CANCER CARE SERVICES: $50k → 10%SAFEHAVEN OF TARRANT COUNTY: $29k → 11%ABIGAIL'S ARMS COOKE COUNTY FAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $9k → 13%EAST TEXAS CRISIS CENTER INC: $9k → 13%WOMEN'S SHELTER OF EAST TEXAS: $11k → 16%FAMILY SERVICES OF SOTHEAST TEXAS: $10k → 19%BREGMAN CARES: $10k → 14%TRUE PATRIOT INC: $10k → 15%DENTON COUNTY FRIENDS OF THE FAMILY: $11k → 8%FOCUSING FAMILIES: $10k → 14%BREGMAN CARES: $10k → 14%G-UNITY FOUNDATION: $19k → 14%FORT BEND COUNTY WOMEN'S CENTER: $17k → 8%RESOURCE AND CRISIS CENTER OF GALVESTON: $10k → 14%CHOICE LIVING COMMUNITY: $8k → 17%G-UNITY FOUNDATION: $19k → 14%FORT BEND COUNTY WOMEN'S CENTER: $10k → 8%ANGEL REACH INC: $12k → 9%ANGEL REACH INC: $12k → 9%BRIGHTER TOMORROWS INC: $8k → 8%YMCA OF GREATER HOUSTON: $100k → 16%COVENANT HOUSE HOUSTON: $250k → 16%HOUSTON AREA WOMEN'S CENTER: $310k → 16%HOUSTON AREA WOMEN'S CENTER: $36k → 16%HOUSTON AREA WOMEN'S CENTER: $25k → 16%COLLABORATIVE FOR CHILDREN: $25k → 16%CASA DE MISERICORDIA: $9k → 16%BREAD OF LIFE: $300k → 16%AVDA INC: $193k → 16%BREAD OF LIFE: $39k → 16%HOUSTON POLICE FOUNDATION: $30k → 16%FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION SERVICES: $27k → 16%FAMILY ABUSE CENTER: $12k → 16%THE BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER: $24k → 16%HOUSTON POLICE FOUNDATION: $210k → 16%THE BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER: $10k → 16%THE FAMILY PLACE: $32k → 16%NORTHWEST ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES: $10k → 16%LATIN WOMEN'S INITIATIVE: $10k → 16%KATY CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $10k → 16%LATIN WOMEN'S INITIATIVE: $10k → 16%BAY AREA TURNING POINT INC: $14k → 16%PRECINCT2GETHER: $300k → 16%KIDS MEALS INC: $140k → 16%CORREA FAMILY FOUNDATION: $102k → 16%BAY AREA TURNING POINT INC: $10k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
SD
CA
KY
VA
MD
AZ
NM
AR
NC
DC
HI
OK
LA
MS
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

50%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.6M · 100 repeat orgs$8.8M to everyone else

100 repeat relationships: 79 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

100
206

Total granted

$8.6M
$8.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+26%

Still filing today

70%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $698k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • NH
    New Hope Housing Inc
    2× · 2020–2021 · $1.3M · revenue +23%
  • HA
    Houston Area Women's Center
    3× · 2020–2022 · $371k · revenue +44%
  • TC
    Texas Children's Hospital
    3× · 2022–2024 · $325k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • CO
    CITY OF HOUSTON
    one grant, 2020 · $3.4M
  • TM
    TEXAS MEDICAL CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $400k · revenue +15%
  • PI
    PRECINCT2GETHER INC
    one grant, 2022 · $300k · revenue -10%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Family Service Center of Houston and Harris County

The mission of Family Service Center of Houston and Harris County (Family Houston) is to create a stronger community for tomorrow by helping individuals and families meet the challenges they face today. We help others help themselves.

Human Services
2
LifeHouse of Houston Inc

LifeHouse is a Christ-centered ministry ensuring life for unborn children by providing opportunities for housing, help, and hope for young women during their pregnancies and beyond.

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3
Houston Local Information Initiative Inc

The Houston Local Information Initiative, Inc. provides public service journalism that reflects the civic needs of the diverse communities comprising Greater Houston.

Arts & Culture
4
Crisis Assistance Center Inc dba Community Assistance Center

To provide emergency assistance to people in Montgomery County, TX who are in an unexpected crisis.

Human Services
5
Rebuilding Together Houston

Rebuilding Together Houston is the only organization in Houston and Harris County providing free home repairs to hundreds of families each year. We employ licensed contractors to restore homes to safe, livable conditions, extending each…

Housing & Shelter
6
Houston Area Community Services

Our mission is to provide high quality and caring services to promote healthy people and communities.

Health
7
Montgomery County Childrens Advocacy Center Inc

Serves abused children through a comprehensive approach to services for abused children and their families.

Crime & Legal
8
Harris County Domestic Violence Coordinating Council

The organization's mission is to coordinate and collaborate domestic violence services and systems to increase the safety of victims, hold perpetrators accountable, and prevent future domestic violence in harris county.

Human Services
9
West Street Recovery

West Street Recovery's mission is to connect communities to the resources they need to rebuild after climate disasters such as Hurricane Harvey and build resilient, secure, and stronger communities.

Public Safety & Disaster
10
The Beacon of Downtown Houston

To provide essential and next-step services to restore hope and help end homelessness in houston.

Health
11
Homeless Network of Texas

To lead texas communities to make homelessness rare, brief, and non- curring; to help communities strategically plan to prevent and end homelessness.

Community Improvement
12
Crisis Intervention of Houston Incorporated

The mission of Crisis Intervention is to help people in crisis. Crisis Intervention provides 24/7 crisis counseling to persons in mental health trauma or dealing with suicide ideation. In FY 21/22, Crisis Intervention facilitated 33,521…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tralee Crisis Center for Women Inc; the most unlike its peers is Mr October Foundation for Kids. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 201 of the 318 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
36
Early backer (in before they grew)
198/201
Grantees still filing
142/201
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITY OF HOUSTON: $3,423,583 · OtherCITY OF HOUSTONTEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY: $515,000 · OtherTEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITYCandlelighters Childhood Cancer Family Alliance: $300,000 · OtherSBP INC: $300,000 · OtherLEMONADE DAY: $300,000 · OtherBIG LOVE CANCER CARE SERVICES: $300,000 · Other+97 more: $3,056,433 · Other+97 moreHouston Area Women's Center: $371,129 · Human ServicesHouston Area Women…BREAD OF LIFE INC: $339,083 · Human ServicesBREAD OF LIFE INCPRECINCT2GETHER INC: $300,000 · Human ServicesPRECINCT2GETHER IN…COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $250,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE TEX…HOUSTON POLICE FOUNDATION: $240,000 · Human ServicesHOUSTON POLICE FOU…AVDA: $192,624 · Human ServicesAVDAKIDS' MEALS INC: $152,400 · Human ServicesKIDS' MEALS INCCORRERA FAMILY FOUNDATION: $101,955 · Human ServicesYoung Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area: $100,000 · Human Services+42 more: $687,930 · Human Services+42 moreHermann Park Conservancy: $1,512,950 · EnvironmentHermann Pa…+1 more: $10,000 · EnvironmentNew Hope Housing Inc: $1,255,000 · Housing & ShelterNew Hope …STAR OF HOPE MISSION: $170,000 · Housing & ShelterSTAR OF H…Avondale House Inc: $400,000 · EducationAvondale …CY-HOPE INC: $270,257 · EducationCY-HOPE I…iEDUCATE: $250,000 · EducationiEDUCATETHE IMANI SCHOOL: $200,000 · EducationTHE IMANI…Mr October Foundation for Kids: $50,000 · Education+15 more: $225,494 · Education+15 moreTEXAS MEDICAL CENTER: $400,000 · HealthTEXAS MED…THE SUNSHINE KIDS FOUNDATION: $400,000 · HealthTHE SUNSH…Texas Children's Hospital: $325,000 · HealthTexas Chi…THE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $50,000 · HealthSNOWDROP FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · HealthTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $47,385 · Health+7 more: $110,118 · Health+7 moreUnited Way of Greater Houston: $210,200 · PhilanthropyTHE JOE NAMATH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $55,000 · PhilanthropyThe Periwinkle Foundation: $50,000 · PhilanthropyCACTUS JACK FOUNDATION INC: $44,820 · PhilanthropySpindletop Community Impact Partners Inc: $29,000 · PhilanthropyPINK BOWS FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Philanthropy+3 more: $27,014 · Philanthropy
Other$8,195,016Human Services$2,735,121Environment$1,522,950Housing & Shelter$1,425,000Education$1,395,751Health$1,382,503Philanthropy$436,034

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHermann Park Conservancy: $1,512,950 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetNew Hope Housing Inc: $1,255,000 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetAvondale House Inc: $400,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetTEXAS MEDICAL CENTER: $400,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE SUNSHINE KIDS FOUNDATION: $400,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetHouston Area Women's Center: $371,129 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetBREAD OF LIFE INC: $339,083 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetTexas Children's Hospital: $325,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPRECINCT2GETHER INC: $300,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetCandlelighters Childhood Cancer Family Alliance: $300,000 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetCY-HOPE INC: $270,257 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $250,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetiEDUCATE: $250,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetHOUSTON POLICE FOUNDATION: $240,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Houston: $210,200 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE IMANI SCHOOL: $200,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetAVDA: $192,624 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetSTAR OF HOPE MISSION: $170,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetKIDS' MEALS INC: $152,400 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetTEJANO CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CONCERNS INC: $125,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetANGELS AND CAUSES INC: $110,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetCORRERA FAMILY FOUNDATION: $101,955 over 1y, 32% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTEACH INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE JOE NAMATH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $55,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetTHE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBIG LOVE CANCER CARE SERVICES: $50,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetSNOWDROP FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetThe Periwinkle Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetMr October Foundation for Kids: $50,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $47,385 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOUSTON TEXANS FOUNDATION: $45,711 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCACTUS JACK FOUNDATION INC: $44,820 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetG-UNITY FOUNDATION: $37,738 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetSIRE INC: $36,702 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTHE BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC: $34,108 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe Family Place: $31,967 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW AND RODEO INC: $31,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFORT BEND COUNTY WOMEN'S CENTER INC SOS/SHELTER-OUTREACH-SOLUTIONS: $30,061 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetANGEL BY NATURE: $30,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetUniversity of St Thomas: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGirls Incorporated of Greater Houston: $30,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetSpindletop Community Impact Partners Inc: $29,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetSAFEHAVEN OF TARRANT COUNTY: $28,928 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE SAFE ALLIANCE: $27,821 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Inc: $27,230 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAGAPE RANCH: $26,916 over 2y, 1.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Texas Council on Fami…Greater Houston Commu…United Way of Greater…Houston Endowment IncAlbert & Ethel Herzst…Centerpoint Energy Fo…Texas Association Aga…The Methodist HospitalHarry S & Isabel C Ca…The Houston Food BankThe Brown Foundation …Baker Hughes Foundati…
Texas Council on Family Violence IncTX87.2× affinity40 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Texas Council on Family Violence Inc · Greater Houston Community Foundation · United Way of Greater Houston · Houston Endowment Inc · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Texas Association Against Sexual Assault Inc · The Methodist Hospital · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · The Houston Food Bank · The Brown Foundation Inc · Baker Hughes Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Astros Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Astros Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
  • Bentley University: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
66report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Astros Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Astros 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 318 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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