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Emancipation Park Conservancy

Emancipation Park Conservancy's mission is to enhance Emancipation Park by preserving its integrity and enriching its heritage as a local, state, national, and international landmark.

$51k
Granted FY2023
3
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192023.

Arts & Culture$104kCommunity Improvement$40kRecreation & Sports$25kHealth$20kEducation$20kHuman Services$20k
02FY2023 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 3 grants below total $50,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $51,250 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,250 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.

$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Texas Southern University Foundation$20,000
Third Ward Community Cloth$20,000
Freedman's Town Conservancy$10,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY23–23, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%Third Ward Community Cloth: $20k → 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.

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.

03Your 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
Houston Latino Film Festival

Mission to promotote hispanic and latino culture through art and film from both local and international artists

Arts & Culture
2
Harmonia Stellarum Houston

Harmonia Stellarum is an ensemble of professional vocalists and instrumentalists specialized in historically informed performance practice who seek to inspire, entertain, and enlighten audiences with meaningful, historically informed…

Arts & Culture
3
Texas City Cultural Arts Foundation

To promote, protect, and maintain the arts and culture in texas city; 2. to receive and maintain a fund or funds of real property, or both, and subject to the restrictions and limitations set forth, to use and apply the whole or any part…

Arts & Culture
4
Houston Museum of Natural Science

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…

Arts & Culture
5
New Orleans African American Museum of Art Culture and History

The mission of the New Orleans African American Museum is to preserve, interpret and promote the African American cultural heritage of New Orleans, with a particular emphasis on the Tremé community.

Arts & Culture
6
Emancipation Park Conservancy

Emancipation Park Conservancy's mission is to enhance Emancipation Park by preserving its integrity and enriching its heritage as a local, state, national, and international landmark.

Recreation & Sports
7
Houston Arts Alliance

See Schedule OHouston Arts Alliance (HAA) is a local arts and culture organization whose principal work is implementing the City of Houston's vision, values, and goals for its arts grantmaking and civic art investments. HAA conducts work…

Arts & Culture
8
Art Colony Association Inc

Art Colony Association provides art experiences and education for the greater Houston community by bringing diverse artists to urban Bayou City Art Festivals and supporting local non-profit organizations.

Arts & Culture
9
Lubbock Roots Historical Arts Council

The Lubbock Roots Historical Arts Council seeks to enrich the life and history of the African Americans of West Texas by promoting a greater understanding of the African American experience through the practice and appreciation of the…

10
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston

The museum of fine arts, houston serves as a welcoming and inclusive place for all people, connecting the communities of houston with diverse histories of art spanning 6,000 years and six continents. through our permanent collections,…

Arts & Culture
11
National Center of Afro American Artists

To promote general knowledge of Afro-American history and culture and to encourage, support and promote the development of artistic and cultural expressions within Black communities in the United States.

Human Services
12
East Austin Creative Coalition Inc

EACCs overarching mission is to focus on providing multidisciplinary cultural content, programming, preservation efforts, and arts and cultural development services anchored in the East Austin Cultural Heritage District.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Artists Collective and the most unlike its peers is Lucilles 1913 Community Kitchen. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

12 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 16 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
7/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HOUSTON AREA URBAN LEAGUE INC — $30,000 · OtherHOUSTON AREA URBAN LEAGUE INCHouston Play on Purpose — $25,000 · OtherHouston Play on PurposeAFRICAN AMERICAN LIBRARY-GREGORY FRIENDS I — $13,105 · OtherAFRICAN AMERICAN LIBRARY-GREGORY FRIENDS IDINKINS MUSIC & ART FOUNDATION — $11,913 · OtherDINKINS MUSIC & ART FOUNDATIONTRINITY EAST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — $10,000 · OtherTRINITY EAST UNITED METHODIST CHURCHCOMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER OF HOUSTON — $9,420 · OtherCOMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER OF HOUSTONColour of Music — $25,000 · Arts & CultureColour of MusicHOUSTON MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURE — $10,000 · Arts & CultureHOUSTON MUSEUM OF AFRICA…NIA CULTURAL CENTER — $7,500 · Arts & CultureNIA CULTURAL CENTERCommunity Artists Collective — $7,350 · Arts & CultureCommunity Artists Collec…TEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIO — $20,000 · EducationTEXAS SOUTHERN…TEXAS DENTAL ASSOCIATION SMILES FOUNDATION — $10,000 · EducationTEXAS DENTAL A…THIRD WARD COMMUNITY FUND MANAGEMENT CORPORATION — $20,000 · Human ServicesTHIRD WAR…Houston Freedmen's Town Conservancy Inc — $10,000 · Community ImprovementHouston F…EMANCIPATION ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL — $10,000 · Community ImprovementEMANCIPAT…Lucilles 1913 Community Kitchen — $10,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$99,438Arts & Culture$49,850Education$30,000Human Services$20,000Community Improvement$20,000Food & Nutrition$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHOUSTON AREA URBAN LEAGUE INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHIRD WARD COMMUNITY FUND MANAGEMENT CORPORATION — $20,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetTEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIO — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOUSTON MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURE — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTEXAS DENTAL ASSOCIATION SMILES FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetHouston Freedmen's Town Conservancy Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetLucilles 1913 Community Kitchen — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetEMANCIPATION ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL — $10,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetNIA CULTURAL CENTER — $7,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCommunity Artists Collective — $7,350 over 1y, 4.5% 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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Houston Arts AllianceTX21.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Houston Arts Alliance · Houston Endowment Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Houston Fund for Social Justice and Economic Equity · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Emancipation Park Conservancy 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
2021222324
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY2024

    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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    How do I get to Emancipation Park Conservancy?

    Find your warmest path to Emancipation Park Conservancy 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 16 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $4k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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