· Public charity
Dynamo and Dash Charities Inc
To promote educational and recreational opportunities for youths.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 25 grants below total $546,729 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $648,932 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $102,203 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $272k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $251k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| US SOCCER FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| SCIENCE OF SPORT | $51,120 |
| MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER | $50,000 |
| BLUE ANGELS FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| FAMILIES HELPING FAMILIES IN HOUSTON | $40,654 |
| HOUSTON INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION | $35,605 |
| REBUILDING TOGETHER HOUSTON | $25,000 |
| BAKERRIPLEY | $21,000 |
| ONE TREE PLANTED INC | $15,000 |
| MEMORIAL PARK CONSERVANCY | $12,500 |
| TREES FOR HOUSTON | $12,500 |
| BIG LOVE CANCER CARE | $10,000 |
| TEAM RUBICON | $10,000 |
| LEARN FRESH | $10,000 |
| HOUSTON FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $91k) 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.
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.
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 +18% since the first grant, against -19% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $391k 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
- RTRebuilding Together Houston2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +18%
- KMKIDS' MEALS INC2× · 2020–2021 · $25k · revenue +106%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- HPHouston Parks Boardgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $124k · revenue +25%
- TAThe American Legionone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -6%
- HUHEARTS UNITED FOR KINDNESSone grant, 2019 · $10k
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.
To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.
The mission of Breakthrough Houston (BTH) is to work with highly motivated students to achieve post-secondary success and empower aspiring leaders to become the next generation of educational advocates.
The Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston's mission is to inspire and enable all youth, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens.
The Houston Local Information Initiative, Inc. provides public service journalism that reflects the civic needs of the diverse communities comprising Greater Houston.
The Houston Parks Board Foundation provides the Houston Parks Board with financial assistance to support operations and park projects.
The Houston Bar Foundation supports programs that help provide legal representation to the indigent, promote community understanding of our legal system, and foster the administration of justice.
As the Houston affiliate of the National Christian Foundation (NCF), our mission is to serve and encourage givers to grow as faithful stewards who give wisely to further the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
See Schedule OThe Women's Resource of Greater Houston helps women and girls make choices toward becoming independent, productive, and financially stable. We fulfill our mission by recruiting volunteer instructors to deliver our programs in…
The mission of the Houston Museum of Natural Science shall be to preserve and advance the general knowledge of natural science; to enhance in individuals the knowledge of and delight in natural science and related subjects; and to maintain…
American Leadership Forum (ALF) brings together, in classes, leaders with diverse perspectives so they can build relationships, learn to dialogue and respectfully differ, and work together for the good of our community.
Good Reason Houston strives to grow and sustain great schools while advocating for families and communities.
The mission of the Houston Area Parkinson Society is to use a whole-human approach to community building, which reduces the fear and isolation associated with a Parkinson's diagnosis.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Good Sports Inc and the most unlike its peers is Angel By Nature. 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.
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 31 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 35 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 Houston Parks Board ↗
- Who funds Houston Independent School District Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES SOCCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Families Helping Families in Houston ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE OF SPORT ↗
- Who funds Rebuilding Together Houston ↗
- Who funds BLUE ANGELS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ONE TREE PLANTED INC ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds KIDS' MEALS INC ↗
- Who funds BakerRipley ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Memorial Park Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds SurviveHER ↗
- Who funds Trees For Houston ↗
- Who funds ACCESS U INC ↗
- Who funds LEARN FRESH EDUCATION CO ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON - HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds The American Legion ↗
- Who funds A MIND TO WORK COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON REVISION ↗
- Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PEDIATRIC CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BIG LOVE CANCER CARE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Foundation ↗
- Who funds GOOD SPORTS INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds THE ST BERNARD PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Houston Habitat for Humanity Inc ↗
- Who funds PURSUIT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANGEL BY NATURE ↗
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 · Houston Endowment Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Halliburton Charitable Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Baker Hughes Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Dynamo and Dash Charities 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.
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.
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