· Public charity
Collaborative for Children
The mission of Collaborative for Children is to meaningfully improve the quality of early childhood education and care for Greater Houston's children through those most influential in their lives.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 13 grants below total $113,866 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $371,517 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $257,651 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k11 grants · $78k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $36k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (FY17–22, $374k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
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.
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 +55% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2022, 15 since wound down.
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 FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- CCCHINESE COMMUNITY CENTER INC6× · 2017–2022 · $82k · revenue +17%
- AFASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MEXICAN AMERICANS6× · 2017–2022 · $72k · revenue +92%
- TBTHE BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC5× · 2017–2022 · $62k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- CSChildhood Seasons 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.
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.
Christian pre-school from age 3-months to school-age, and school from
Provide christian based daycare and pre-school
Child care
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,…
Wee Disciples provides a Christian atmosphere for young children to grow academically, socially, emotionally, and spiritually. We provide a safe, secure, loving environment while celebrating life through music, dance, and art.
Horizons christian academy is a childcare center in chester, south carolina offering exceptional care for children 8 weeks old up to 12 years of age. our childcare programs build a solid foundation for children to grow, expand their…
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…
To train, prepare and equip our children in spiritual, academic and physical excellence for the purpose of fulfilling the lord's great commission to win the lost. matthew 28:19-20. providing faith based education and childcare.
Life christian academy provides christian-based care and education for children ages 6 weeks to 5th grade. it is a private, christian preschool and school.
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.
The mission of the center is to provide childcare and teach with christian guidance materials to promote the child in all aspects of his/her growth.
To provide a safe educational environment for young children to grow physically and spiritually.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Generation One Inc and the most unlike its peers is Greater Sonora Missionary Baptist Church. 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.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% lost their exemption, against 19% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
23 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. 23 of the 208 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
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
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.
Open a dossier: Save The Children Federation Inc · United Way of Greater Houston · The Houston Fund for Social Justice and Economic Equity · Discovering Healthy Foods · The Houston Food Bank · Houston Texans Foundation · Texas Mutual Insurance Company · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Share Our Strength · Shell USA Company Foundation · Local Initiatives Support Corporation
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 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.
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.