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Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc

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.

$18M
Granted FY2025still arriving
483
Grants FY2025still arriving
18
States reached
$2.9M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Philanthropy$28MEducation$15MHousing & Shelter$12MHuman Services$7.1MYouth Development$5.7MCommunity Improvement$5.5MEnvironment$5.3MArts & Culture$3.6MOther$0
02FY2025 · 483 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k119 grants · $559k
  • $10k–50k268 grants · $5.0M
  • $50k–250k88 grants · $6.4M
  • $250k+8 grants · $6.4M
$15,000
Median grant
18
States reached
$53M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC$2,923,797
Individual grant recipient$783,751
UNITED WAY OF GREATER HOUSTON$740,000
CLEAN UP HOUSTON INC$500,000
HOPE FOUNDATION$500,000
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION$350,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS INC$315,000
CENTRAL HOUSTON CIVIC IMPROVEMENT INC$250,000
UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON FOUNDATION$210,000
THE SALVATION ARMY SOUTHERN TERRITORY$200,000
LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION$190,000
REBUILDING TOGETHER HOUSTON$150,000
BARBARA BUSH HOUSTON LITERACY FOUNDATION$125,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF EVANSVILLE$125,000
COMMUNITY ONE INC$125,000
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 (FY21–25, $6.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC: $250k → 17%CAMP NAVIGATE INC: $70k → 19%CAREY SERVICES INC: $50k → 19%DOORS OF HOPE TRANSITION MINISTRIES: $50k → 18%CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER OF POSEY COUNTY: $50k → 10%COLLABORATIVE FOR CHILDREN: $50k → 16%SOUTH TEXAS ADVANCEMENT RESOURCE: $40k → 21%YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $50k → 15%EVANSVILLE CHRISTIAN LIFE CENTER INC: $50k → 15%COLLABORATIVE FOR CHILDREN: $50k → 16%LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF FORT BEND COUNTY INC: $102k → 8%MOSAIC IN ACTION: $50k → 10%LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF FORT BEND COUNTY INC: $50k → 8%MEMORIAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $300k → 15%IMMIGRANT WELCOME AND RESOURCE CENTER INC: $75k → 15%HOMEFULL: $150k → 14%4C OF SOUTHERN INDIANA INC: $50k → 15%COLLABORATIVE FOR CHILDREN: $50k → 16%BRIDGEYEAR: $75k → 16%BRIDGEYEAR: $50k → 16%DRESS FOR SUCCESS HOUSTON: $50k → 16%BRIDGEYEAR: $40k → 16%DRESS FOR SUCCESS HOUSTON: $40k → 16%JACOBS VILLAGE INC: $50k → 15%DRESS FOR SUCCESS HOUSTON: $40k → 16%JACOBS VILLAGE INC: $40k → 15%CHANGE HAPPENS: $40k → 16%WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC (TX): $100k → 16%WORK TEXAS TRAINING CENTER: $100k → 16%EVANSVILLE CHRISTIAN LIFE CENTER INC: $40k → 15%YMCA OF GREATER HOUSTON: $37k → 16%PRECINCT4FORWARD: $150k → 16%PRECINCT4FORWARD: $75k → 16%HOUSTON AREA WOMEN'S CENTER: $50k → 16%HOUSTON POLICE FOUNDATION: $160k → 16%TARGET HUNGER: $200k → 16%TARGET HUNGER: $50k → 16%TARGET HUNGER: $50k → 16%CENTER FOR PURSUIT: $90k → 16%MEMORIAL ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES: $45k → 16%DEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER: $50k → 16%NORTHWEST ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES: $50k → 16%MAKING IT BETTER DBA LITERACY NOW: $75k → 16%PRECINCT2GETHER INC: $107k → 16%KIDS MEAL INC: $50k → 16%KIDS MEALS INC: $50k → 16%KIDS MEALS INC: $50k → 16%MY CONNECT COMMUNITY: $50k → 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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

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Where the work is directed

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

About 7% of Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc’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.

Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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.
$67M · 587 repeat orgs$27M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +10% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.

587 repeat relationships — 306 still active in FY2025, 281 since wound down; 167 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

587
623

Total granted

$67M
$23M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+4%

Still filing today

84%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.3M 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 ServicesPhilanthropyArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • JA
    Junior Achievement of Southeast Texas Inc
    5× · 2021–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +64%
  • THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $850k · revenue +44%
  • TC
    Texas Children's Hospital
    3× · 2022–2024 · $807k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • 2C
    2020 Contributions Statement
    one grant, 2020 · $11M
  • SO
    STATE OF INDIANA GOVERNOR'S OFFICE
    one grant, 2021 · $750k
  • MC
    MEMORIAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $300k · revenue +122%

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.

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Central Houston Inc

See schedule ocentral houston champions a thriving downtown by connecting influential leaders through initiatives that advance the future of business and community for all.

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2
Leadership Austin

Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.

Youth Development
3
Raise Texas

RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…

Human Services
4
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
5
Tulsa Area United Way

The tulsa area united way unites people and resources to improve lives and strengthen our communities.

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6
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
7
Leadership Indianapolis Inc

Educate, Inspire, Connect and Mobilize Community Leaders to serve and strengthen greater Indianapolis.

Public Benefit
8
Community Information Now

Community information now (cinow) provides data, tools, analysis, and training to inform decisions to improve texas communities. cinow's vision is improved lives and decreased disparities through democratized data.

Community Improvement
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United Way of North Central Iowa

Seeking to build a stronger, more caring community by forming partnerships with businesses, community experts, education & health & human service agencies to achieve targeted outcomes & sustained changes in community conditions which will…

Philanthropy
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United Way of East-Central Texas

To support local united way agencies to provide needed services to community members.

Philanthropy
11
United Way of Central Ohio Inc

United way of central ohio is the local organization that harnesses the power of communities working together - people, nonprofits, businesses and government - to create a stronger, more equitable central ohio. see schedule o.we do this…

Philanthropy
12
Impact Community Action Partnership Inc

Reducing the barriers and burdens that families in poverty experience by increasing access to essential needs.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heart of Indiana United Way Inc and the most unlike its peers is Abba's Tables Incorporated. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyAffordable Housing Construc…Health Access Advocacy and …Senior Support ServicesElementary Literacy TutoringYouth Sports ProgramsCommunity College Foundatio…Local History MuseumsPolicy Research and AdvocacyChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Local Food System Organizat…Faith-Based Social ServicesSchool District FoundationsSchool Parent OrganizationsChristian Youth CampsYouth Development CentersCommunity Food PantriesAnimal Rescue and ShelterChristian Missionary Organi…Community Arts CentersMilitary Veterans SupportJewish Community Organizati…Domestic Violence ServicesOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Women & Girls Leadership De…Independent K-12 SchoolsYmca Youth DevelopmentYouth Development ServicesCommunity FoundationsCancer Support ServicesPublic Library OperationsYouth Mentoring ProgramsImmigrant Worker SupportVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Food Banks and PantriesFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…United Way AffiliatesEnvironmental Conservation …Affordable Housing Developm…Community Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%5%<5yr14%10%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr16%24%20–35yr13%24%35–55yr16%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%4%<5yr14%9%5–10yr19%15%10–20yr16%23%20–35yr13%24%35–55yr16%25%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.4%4/1,109
the rest of the field
13%
240,392/1,818,456

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

1016 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. 1016 of the 1,399 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)
209
Early backer (in before they grew)
998/1016
Grantees still filing
563/1016
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

2020 Contributions Statement — $10,915,298 · Other2020 Contributions StatementIndividual grant recipient — $4,140,874 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $1,510,000 · Other+92 more — $25,441,573 · Other+92 moreUnited Way of Greater Houston — $6,226,369 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of Greater Hou…AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC — $3,519,800 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FO…GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $2,900,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY…CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA — $2,782,470 · PhilanthropyCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION …UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN INDIANA INC — $971,728 · Philanthropy+7 more — $2,155,982 · Philanthropy+7 moreCOMP-U-DOPT INC — $743,856 · EducationUniversity of Houston Foundation — $711,000 · EducationDolly Parton's Imagination Library — $500,000 · EducationTHE HOPE FOUNDATION INC — $500,000 · EducationiEDUCATE — $300,000 · EducationNATIONAL MATH & SCIENCE INITIATIVE INC — $285,000 · EducationUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC — $283,000 · EducationWilliam Marsh Rice University — $255,000 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF HOUSTON INC — $250,000 · EducationThe Brookwood Community Inc — $220,000 · Education+17 more — $2,387,144 · EducationHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF EVANSVILLE — $775,000 · Housing & ShelterGREATER MUNCIE INDIANA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $625,000 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITY ONE INC — $585,000 · Housing & ShelterRebuilding Together Houston — $451,500 · Housing & ShelterAvenue Community Development Corporation — $425,000 · Housing & ShelterHouston Habitat for Humanity Inc — $355,000 · Housing & ShelterHOPE OF EVANSVILLE INC — $260,000 · Housing & ShelterPROJECT BUILD A FUTURE INC — $235,000 · Housing & ShelterECHO HOUSING CORPORATION — $220,000 · Housing & Shelter+11 more — $1,305,000 · Housing & ShelterTarget Hunger Inc — $335,000 · Human ServicesMEMORIAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $300,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC — $250,000 · Human ServicesHOUSTON POLICE FOUNDATION — $235,000 · Human ServicesPRECINCT4FORWARD — $225,000 · Human ServicesKIDS' MEALS INC — $225,000 · Human ServicesBRIDGEYEAR — $215,000 · Human ServicesWESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC OF HOUSTON TEXAS — $205,000 · Human ServicesBakerRipley — $200,000 · Human ServicesLITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF FORT BEND — $186,500 · Human ServicesMaking It Better dba Literacy Now — $166,500 · Human ServicesCollaborative for Children — $150,500 · Human ServicesHOMEFULL — $150,000 · Human ServicesDRESS FOR SUCCESS HOUSTON — $135,000 · Human ServicesPRECINCT2GETHER INC — $132,000 · Human Services+7 more — $756,800 · Human ServicesNATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION — $750,000 · EnvironmentUrban Harvest Inc — $285,000 · EnvironmentCoastal Prairie Conservancy — $250,000 · EnvironmentHouston Botanic Garden — $225,000 · EnvironmentEVOLVE HOUSTON — $200,000 · EnvironmentThe Houston Audubon Society — $186,200 · EnvironmentTHE ARTIST BOAT INC — $185,000 · EnvironmentHermann Park Conservancy — $175,100 · EnvironmentSYCAMORE LAND TRUST INCORPORATED — $150,000 · EnvironmentArmand Bayou Nature Center Inc — $114,000 · EnvironmentMemorial Park Conservancy Inc — $100,000 · EnvironmentDucks Unlimited Inc — $100,000 · Environment+2 more — $187,340 · EnvironmentLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION — $502,000 · Community ImprovementCLEAN UP HOUSTON INC — $500,000 · Community ImprovementJOBSOURCE INC — $425,000 · Community ImprovementSERVEMINNESOTA — $400,000 · Community ImprovementCENTRAL HOUSTON CIVIC IMPROVEMENT INC — $250,000 · Community ImprovementForever Parks Foundation of Pearland — $175,000 · Community ImprovementVision Galveston — $150,000 · Community ImprovementBEACON INTERFAITH HOUSING COLLABORATIVE — $130,000 · Community ImprovementCenter for Houston's Future Inc — $100,000 · Community ImprovementElevate Ventures Inc — $100,000 · Community Improvement
Other$42,007,745Philanthropy$18,556,349Education$6,435,000Housing & Shelter$5,236,500Human Services$3,867,300Environment$2,907,640Community Improvement$2,732,000

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUnited Way of Greater Houston — $6,226,369 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetAMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC — $3,519,800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $2,900,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA — $2,782,470 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetEVANSVILLE PARKS FOUNDATION — $1,293,000 over 3y, 54% of budgetJunior Achievement of Southeast Texas Inc — $1,076,500 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN INDIANA INC — $971,728 over 5y, 7.9% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC — $850,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTexas Children's Hospital — $807,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF EVANSVILLE — $775,000 over 3y, 7.6% of budgetNATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION — $750,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCOMP-U-DOPT INC — $743,856 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetUniversity of Houston Foundation — $711,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank — $701,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJunior Achievement of SW Indiana Inc — $692,398 over 5y, 33% of budgetGREATER MUNCIE INDIANA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $625,000 over 5y, 6.9% of budgetCOMMONBOND COMMUNITIES — $615,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetTWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $595,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY ONE INC — $585,000 over 5y, 16% of budgetMINNESOTA ASSISTANCE COUNCIL FOR VETERANS — $550,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER DAYTON INC — $550,000 over 5y, 8.7% of budgetLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION — $502,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC — $501,500 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetDolly Parton's Imagination Library — $500,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetCentral Indiana Community Foundation Inc — $500,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCLEAN UP HOUSTON INC — $500,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetTrees For Houston — $475,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetRebuilding Together Houston — $451,500 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetHOUSTON AREA URBAN LEAGUE INC — $430,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetAvenue Community Development Corporation — $425,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetJOBSOURCE INC — $425,000 over 3y, 8.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION ALLIANCE INC — $415,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetSERVEMINNESOTA — $400,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSER-JOBS FOR PROGRESS OF THE TEXAS GULF COAST INC — $380,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetLOUIS J KOCH FAMILY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF EVANSVILLE INC — $360,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetHouston Habitat for Humanity Inc — $355,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetDream Center Evansville — $343,000 over 5y, 8.0% of budgetTarget Hunger Inc — $335,000 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetBARBARA BUSH HOUSTON LITERACY FOUNDATION — $328,442 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Inc — $327,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetHEART OF INDIANA UNITED WAY INC — $313,780 over 5y, 7.5% of budgetMEMORIAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $300,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $300,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Houston Partnership Inc — $300,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetiEDUCATE — $300,000 over 4y, 8.8% of budgetNATIONAL MATH & SCIENCE INITIATIVE INC — $285,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetUrban Harvest Inc — $285,000 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC — $283,000 over 4y, 0.1% 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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.

Cecil a and Mabel Len…Albert & Ethel Herzst…Community Foundation …United Way of Greater…Houston Endowment IncThe Brown Foundation …Evansville Endowment …Welborn Baptist Found…The Powell FoundationKoch Foundation IncBaxter Trust Co Priva…Houston Texans Founda…
Cecil a and Mabel Lene Hamman Foundation IncIN101× affinity59 shared granteesties to 4 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Cecil a and Mabel Lene Hamman Foundation Inc · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation Alliance Inc · United Way of Greater Houston · Houston Endowment Inc · The Brown Foundation Inc · Evansville Endowment Fund Inc · Welborn Baptist Foundation Inc · The Powell Foundation · Koch Foundation Inc · Baxter Trust Co Private Foundation Services · Houston Texans 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 Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
75report 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

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 Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc 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 1399 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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