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· Public charity
Collaborative for Children
To build resources for early chilhood education in the region.
$372k
Granted FY2022
13
Grants
1
Communities
$23k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 91% of Collaborative for Children’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
hurricane harveyharvey reliefuwbb salarysalary incentive
2019
uwbb salarysalary incentive
2020
covid rentalrental ewpessential workersrental essentialuwbb salarysalary incentive
2021
wfs-trs incentiveincentive covidsalary incentivesuwbb salarysalary incentive
2022
salary incentives
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2022 · 13 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k11 grants · $78k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $36k
$7,962
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
- Peter E Hyland Child Care Center$23,107
- Blossom Heights$12,595
- The Bridge Over Troubled Waters$9,251
- Tiny Toes LLC$8,993
- Chinese Community Center$8,182
- AAMA Inc - George I Sanchez$8,006
- Galena Park ISD PEP Center$7,962
- Star of Hope$6,628
- Tiger Trail$6,366
- Galena Park ISD Child Care Center$5,994
- The Bridge Shelter$5,758
- Lion Lane$5,564
- Bear Blvd$5,460
02The need
04
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 (FY17–22, $374k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
22%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.2M · 24 repeat orgs$4.3M to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +55% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2022, 15 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
24
184
Total granted
$1.2M
$4.3M
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+55%
+20%
Still filing today
25%
3%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesReligionHealthHousing & 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
- CCChinese Community Ctr6× · 2017–2022 · $82k · revenue +17%
- AIAAMA Inc - George I Sanchez6× · 2017–2022 · $72k · revenue +61%
- TBThe Bridge Shelter5× · 2017–2022 · $62k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- CSChildhood Seasons Learning Academy 23× · 2020–2024 · $192k
- CLCrayola Learning Cntr3× · 2020–2024 · $163k
- UCUnique Childcare IIIone grant, 2020 · $145k
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.
1
Nehemiah Center Inc
Our goal is to build children's lives, their minds, their hearts and their spirits.
Human Services
2
Child Care Council of Greater Houst
Provide and promote high standards of child care.
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3
First Presbyterian Christian
To offer the community a quality childcare center program that is deeply rooted in attracting and retaining a professional staff, encouraging parental involvement, taking a holistic approach to development and learning, instilling…
Human Services
4
Christian Church Day Care Center
To provide quality child care for families in need of such a service at a reasonable rate
—
5
Presbyterian School
Family, School, and Church united in the education and support of each child.
Education
6
Meadows Place Preschool
The Mission of Meadows Place Preschool is the operation of a Preschool to serve Meadows Place, TX, and the surrounding areas, with a focus on providing quality education and religious instruction in a Christian environment, operating in…
Education
7
Haymount United Methodist Church Preschool Inc
To guild children toward an understanding of God's love and their place in his kingdom. To developwell rounded children who are happy, secure, confident, and eager to learn
Education
8
Giggles & Grace Early Learning Center
Giggles & Grace Early Learning Center, Inc., with community, parents and teachers, is committed to providing a safe, nurturing Christian environment emphasizing the total development of each child; spiritual, intellectual, emotional,…
Human Services
9
Horizons Christian Academy
Educational programs and care for children 8 weeks to 12 years
Philanthropy
10
Denton City-County Day School
Denton City County Day School provides quality, affordable childcareto families in Denton County. Our mission is to provide qualitypre-kindergarten education and loving care to children ages 2 through 5 years. Our vision is that all DCCDS…
Human Services
11
Life Christian Academy Inc
Life christian academy provides christian-based care for children ages 6 weeks to 5 years old. it provides child care services to support families who need care for their children.
Education
12
Harbor Christian Academy
Harbor Christian Academy (HCA) exists to transform students through classical Christian education.
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Generation One Inc and the most unlike its peers is Redeemed Christian Church of God. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
0.4%1/239
the rest of the field
16%
3,230/20,202
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
21 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/21
Grantees still filing
15/21
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$5,047,541Human Services$373,806Religion$63,599Housing & Shelter$48,580Health$17,550
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.
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.
Save The Children Federation IncCT27.1× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Save The Children Federation Inc · United Way of Greater Houston · Houston Texans Foundation · Discovering Healthy Foods · The Methodist Hospital · The Houston Fund for Social Justice · The Houston Food Bank · Houston Endowment Inc · Texas Mutual Insurance Company · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Shell USA Company 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 organisation Collaborative for Children 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: ABC123ACatMe.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~18 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 5 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
5 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 4.8× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 760207056 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on ABC123ACatMe, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 18 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 31% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Collaborative for Children?
Find your warmest path to Collaborative for Children through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines