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Avenue Community Development Corporation

The mission of Avenue Community Development Corporation ("Avenue") is to invest in people, homes and communities to advance opportunity for all Houstonians.

$109k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$29k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Housing & Shelter$4.9MFood & Nutrition$88kHuman Services$59kPublic Benefit$36kArts & Culture$10kYouth Development$8k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $83,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $109,029 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $25,529 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $69k
$19,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$58M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Wesley Community Center$29,000
MD Anderson Family YMCA$20,000
Legacy Community Health Services$19,500
Sam Houston High School PTO$8,000
Memorial Hermann Community Benefit Corp$7,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $103k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%Wesley Community Center: $31k → 16%Wesley Community Center: $29k → 16%MD Anderson Family YMCA: $24k → 16%MD Anderson Family YMCA: $20k → 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.
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.0M · 4 repeat orgs$71k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
3

Total granted

$5.0M
$56k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
0%

Still filing today

100%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterHealthCivil RightsEducationSocial ScienceOther
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
    NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF WACO
    3× · 2021–2023 · $4.9M · revenue +18% · 43% of their budget
  • WC
    WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC OF HOUSTON TEXAS
    2× · 2024–2025 · $60k · revenue 0%
  • YM
    Young Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area
    2× · 2024–2025 · $44k · revenue -27%

Funded once

  • YI
    YOUNG INVINCIBLES
    one grant, 2017 · $36k · revenue -23%
  • MP
    MAGNOLIA PARK ARTS & COMMUNITY
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • JC
    JULIA C HESTER HOUSE INC
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
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
Houston Health Foundation

Houston health foundation (hhf) has the mission of creating private/public partnerships for sustainable health and wellness initiatives and programs in our communities.

Philanthropy
2
Houston Family Association
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3
Spring Branch Community Health Center

To increase the number of healthy families in our community by providing high quality, comprehensive health services.

Health
4
Community Family Centers Inc

To equip families with the tools they need to become self-sufficent members of the community.

Human Services
5
Health Services of North Texas Inc

Health services of north texas (hsnt) is a nonprofit, federally qualified community health center dedicated to improving the quality of life for all north texans through medical care, support services, and advocacy. hsnt provides…

Health
6
Civic Heart Community Services

Civic Heart Community Services is one of the largest black-founded community-based organizations in the Greater Gulf Coast Region. Continued on Schedule O Civic Heart is a human and social services organization, employing a holistic,…

Human Services
7
Chicago House & Social Service Agency

Provides housing and support services to individuals and families impacted by hiv/aids

Health
8
HealthTexas Provider Network

To deliver the highest value patient experience through quality, safety, accessibility, and cost-effectiveness, enhanced by medical education and research in collaboration with Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH).

Health
9
Southern Sector Health Initiative

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
10
Houston Saengerbund
Arts & Culture
11
Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute for Texas

Independent and nonpartisan, the Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute works at the intersection of policy and programs to create equitable systemic changes so all people in Texas, the nation, and the world can obtain the health care they…

Health
12
Community Action Inc of Central Texas

Established in 1965, community action, inc. of central texas has continuously worked to assist low to moderate income families in central texas by providing a variety of social services and economic opportunities. the agency has four areas…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area; the most unlike its peers is Sam Houston Hs Pto. 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

7 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. 7 of the 9 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
2/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF WACO: $4,898,261 · Housing & ShelterNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF WACOWESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC OF HOUSTON TEXAS: $59,500 · Human ServicesYoung Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area: $43,918 · Human ServicesYOUNG INVINCIBLES: $36,200 · Civil RightsLEGACY COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INC: $26,500 · HealthMAGNOLIA PARK ARTS & COMMUNITY: $10,000 · OtherJULIA C HESTER HOUSE INC: $10,000 · OtherSAM HOUSTON HS PTO: $8,000 · EducationMemorial Hermann Community Benefit Corporation: $7,000 · Social Science
Housing & Shelter$4,898,261Human Services$103,418Civil Rights$36,200Health$26,500Other$20,000Education$8,000Social Science$7,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF WACO: $4,898,261 over 3y, 43% of budgetWESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC OF HOUSTON TEXAS: $59,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area: $43,918 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG INVINCIBLES: $36,200 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLEGACY COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INC: $26,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJULIA C HESTER HOUSE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMemorial Hermann Community Benefit Corporation: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Greater Houston Commu…United Way of Greater…Houston Endowment IncThe Bank of America C…Amazonsmile Foundation
Greater Houston Community FoundationTX14.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · United Way of Greater Houston · Houston Endowment Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Avenue Community Development Corporation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Avenue Community Development Corporation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
    3report 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, 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.

    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 9 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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