· Private foundation
Carole & Gene Chambers 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER | $10,000 |
| PREGNANCY HELP CENTER W HOUSTON- ADIRA CLINIC | $5,000 |
| HOPE PREGNANCY CENTER | $5,000 |
| EYES ON ME INC | $5,000 |
| ALPHA PRISON MINISTRIES | $3,000 |
| ELIJAH RISING | $3,000 |
| VINDEX MEDIA- THE WHITE ROSE RESISTANCE | $2,500 |
| PRESTONWOOD PREGNANCY CENTER | $2,500 |
| PTSD FOUNDATION OF AMERICA - CAMP HOPE | $2,500 |
| YMCA OF THE ROCKIES - MISSION 623 | $2,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $2,000 |
| HIS BRIDGEBUILDERS | $2,000 |
| WORLD VISION | $1,300 |
| IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| GRIME ANDERSON VOL FIRE DEPT | $500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 28% of Carole & Gene Chambers 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. Read by recipient address, 86% of the giving stays in TX; read by stated purpose it is 63% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +82% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- HPHOPE PREGNANCY CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $26k · revenue +85%
- EOEyes On Me Inc4× · 2020–2025 · $17k · revenue +197%
- FCFreedom Church Alliance7× · 2017–2023 · $16k · revenue +230%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $2k
- CCCAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRISTone grant, 2017 · $2k
- EHENGAGE HOPE MINISTRYone grant, 2017 · $2k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
We minister to orphans and widows in their distress by transitioning children from orphanages into loving families. We do this through Christ- centered care, training and social work.
Church planting and leadership training.
House of Hope Kansas City is unique, because we work with teens and their parents to find solutions and ultimately, restoration of healthy family relationships. We serve families in crisis with our program for residents to experience the…
Evangelizing the lost through gospel crusades, camps and conferences; Empowering orphans and widows and those in need through Christ-centered vocational training; and Equipping ministers of the gospel through Christian seminars and…
Freed Life exists to eradicate human trafficking through empowering survivors, equipping communities and changing systems.
Love Life is uniting and mobilizing the church to create a culture of love and life that will bring an end to abortion and the orphan crisis.
Equipping and enabling believers worldwide to conduct church-based evangelism projects to reach unbelievers and make disciples.
Freedom seekers international is a christian organization that exists to rescue the most severely persecuted for their religious faith in hostile and restrictive countries. through collaborative partnerships we deliver those who are…
Save a life international helps women in crisis; including crisis pregnancies, domestic violence, post-abortion depression and other types of hardships. they provide education and bring awareness to young people about the importance of…
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
World orphans vision is to empower the church to care for orphans and vulnerable families. we equip, inspire, and mobilize the church to care for orphans and vulnerable children. churches engaged. children restored. communities transformed…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is World Vision Inc and the most unlike its peers is Barbara Bush Houston Literacy Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
22 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 38 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds HOPE PREGNANCY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Eyes On Me Inc ↗
- Who funds Freedom Church Alliance ↗
- Who funds HIS BRIDGEBUILDERS INC ↗
- Who funds Elijah Rising ↗
- Who funds Agape Development Ministries ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds PTSD FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds THE SOURCE FOR WOMEN ↗
- Who funds FREE THE CAPTIVES ↗
- Who funds SHAOHANNAHS HOPE INC dba SHOW HOPE ↗
- Who funds 1000 HILLS MINISTRY INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds Living Water International ↗
- Who funds IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALPHA PRISON MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds GOOD NEWS INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION ↗
- Who funds VINDEX MEDIA ↗
- Who funds MIO Frontiers ↗
- Who funds BARBARA BUSH HOUSTON LITERACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAVED IN AMERICA ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · More Than The Move Foundation DBA Hope Legacy Collective · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Shell USA Company Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Carole & Gene Chambers 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.
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.