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Caring Forever Foundation

The foundation is a supporting organization of memorial drive united methodist church and was established exclusively for charitable, religious, and educational purposes.

$138k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$66k
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, FY2018 to 2024.

Religion$394kHuman Services$87kYouth Development$46kEducation$29kFood & Nutrition$14kHousing & Shelter$10k
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $99,220, the rows itemized in this filing. The $137,540 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $38,320 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $66k
$8,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$7.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MEMORIAL DRIVE UNITED METHODIST CHU$66,220
CORNERSTONE FAMILY MINISTRIES$10,000
MIKEY'S PLACE$8,000
FAMILY POINT RESOURCES$7,500
HOUSE OF AMOS$7,500
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 (FY20–24, $86k) 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%ELIJAH RISING: $7k → 16%HOUSE OF AMOS: $8k → 16%HOUSE OF AMOS: $7k → 16%HOUSE OF AMOS: $6k → 16%FAM HOUSTON: $30k → 16%MAM: $9k → 16%MAM: $6k → 16%KIDS' MEALS: $8k → 16%KIDS' MEALS: $6k → 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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$518k · 7 repeat orgs$63k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
3

Total granted

$518k
$47k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+19%

Still filing today

86%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterHealthOther
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

  • Southern Methodist University
    3× · 2019–2021 · $29k · revenue +37%
  • CF
    CORNERSTONE FAMILY MINISTRIES
    3× · 2022–2024 · $27k · revenue +96%
  • MA
    Memorial Assistance Ministries
    2× · 2020–2023 · $14k · revenue +87%

Funded once

  • FI
    FAM INTENTIONAL COMMUNITY
    one grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue +19%
  • GH
    GALVESTON HOUSING PLUS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • ER
    Elijah Risinggraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue ×15
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
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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2
Fostering Family

Fostering family dba the riverside project is a 501(c)(3) public charity that on behalf of houston's children and their families, brings together organizations and passionate people working as one to help families heal and children thrive.

Community Improvement
3
Houston Family Association
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4
Main Street Ministries Houston

Main Street Ministries (MSM) is on a mission to build paths out of poverty empowered by the love of Jesus.

Human Services
5
Redeeming Justice Network

Houston Legal Aid Center protects and advances the rights of the poor through the poor through the provision of pro bono or reduced cost legal services while also addressing the underlying spiritual and relational issues affecting…

Civil Rights
6
St Stephen's Episcopal School

St. Stephen's Episcopal School - Houston ("St. Stephen's", "the School") nurtures each child's academic, creative, and spiritual potential.

Education
7
Sunny Glen Children's Home Inc

Sunny Glen Childrens Home, Inc. cares for children in need. Our care will be competent, compassionate and professional. We will help every child achieve their greatest potential-physically, emotionally, spiritually and academically.

Human Services
8
Journey Home Houston

Journey Home exists to provide stable houing that ministers holissticallyto young women who have aged out of the foster care system

—
9
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
10
Abigail's Place

Committed to supporting displaced single mothers in Fort Bend County by providing housing assistance and wraparound services.

Housing & Shelter
11
Villagehouston of the Assemblies of God

Christian nbsp;innercity nbsp;community nbsp;outreach nbsp;ministry

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12
Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston

To bring people of diverse faith traditions together for dialogue, collaboration, and service.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cornerstone Family Ministries; the most unlike its peers is Mikeys Place. 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

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 12 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MEMORIAL DRIVE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $394,437 · OtherMEMORIAL DRIVE UNITED METHODIST CHURCHNewspring: $19,400 · OtherFAM INTENTIONAL COMMUNITY: $30,000 · Human ServicesFAM INTENTIONAL COMMUNI…CORNERSTONE FAMILY MINISTRIES: $26,600 · Human ServicesCORNERSTONE FAMILY MINI…House of Amos: $20,500 · Human ServicesHouse of AmosMemorial Assistance Ministries: $14,450 · Human ServicesMemorial Assistance Min…KIDS' MEALS INC: $14,000 · Human ServicesKIDS' MEALS INCMikeys Place: $8,000 · Human ServicesMikeys PlaceElijah Rising: $7,000 · Human ServicesElijah RisingSouthern Methodist University: $28,667 · EducationGALVESTON HOUSING PLUS INC: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterFamilyPoint Resources: $7,500 · Health
Other$413,837Human Services$120,550Education$28,667Housing & Shelter$10,000Health$7,500

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 budgetFAM INTENTIONAL COMMUNITY: $30,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetSouthern Methodist University: $28,667 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCORNERSTONE FAMILY MINISTRIES: $26,600 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetHouse of Amos: $20,500 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetNewspring: $19,400 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetMemorial Assistance Ministries: $14,450 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKIDS' MEALS INC: $14,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMikeys Place: $8,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetFamilyPoint Resources: $7,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetElijah Rising: $7,000 over 1y, 2.7% 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…Baxter Trust Co Priva…Shell USA Company Fou…Vanguard Charitable E…Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Greater Houston Community FoundationTX16.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Baxter Trust Co Private Foundation Services · Shell USA Company Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Caring Forever Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Caring Forever Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 12 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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