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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
Itemized grants FY2023
3
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2023
$50k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2023
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 7
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1
Total assets, FY2023
$3.3M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Emancipation Park Conservancy funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’22’23
Arts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesEducationFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20233$50k100%
FY20225$51k100%
FY20201$10k100%
FY20197$119kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2023.

Arts & Culture$104kCommunity Improvement$40kRecreation & Sports$25kHealth$20kEducation$20kHuman Services$20k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Houston Area Urban League Inc$30,00011%
Houston Play on Purpose$25,0001n/a
Colour of Music$25,0001n/a
Third Ward Community Fund Management Corporation$20,00016%
Texas Southern University Foundatio$20,00010%
African American Library-Gregory Friends I$13,1051n/a
Dinkins Music & Art Foundation$11,9131n/a
Texas Dental Association Smiles Foundation$10,00014%
Lucilles 1913 Community Kitchen$10,00011%
Trinity East United Methodist Church$10,0001n/a
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All grantees of Emancipation Park Conservancy by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Houston Area Urban League Inc$30,00011%
Houston Play on Purpose$25,0001n/a
Colour of Music$25,0001n/a
Third Ward Community Fund Management Corporation$20,00016%
Texas Southern University Foundatio$20,00010%
African American Library-Gregory Friends I$13,1051n/a
Dinkins Music & Art Foundation$11,9131n/a
Texas Dental Association Smiles Foundation$10,00014%
Lucilles 1913 Community Kitchen$10,00011%
Trinity East United Methodist Church$10,0001n/a
Houston Museum of African American Culture$10,00011%
Emancipation Economic Development Council$10,00013%
Houston Freedmen's Town Conservancy Inc$10,00012%
Community Music Center of Houston$9,4201n/a
Nia Cultural Center$7,50011%
Community Artists Collective$7,35014%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Emancipation Park Conservancy supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetTexas Dental Association Smiles Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetLucilles 1913 Community Kitchen: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHouston Museum of African American Culture: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetEmancipation Economic Development Council: $10,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetHouston Freedmen's Town Conservancy Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetNia Cultural Center: $7,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCommunity Artists Collective: $7,350 over 1y, 4.5% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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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.

About Emancipation Park Conservancy

How much does Emancipation Park Conservancy give?
Emancipation Park Conservancy reported 3 itemized grants totaling $50,000, out of $51,250 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 7 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Emancipation Park Conservancy fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2023, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (45%), Community Improvement (17%), Recreation & Sports (11%).
Who are Emancipation Park Conservancy's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2023: Houston Area Urban League Inc ($30k), Houston Play on Purpose ($25k), Colour of Music ($25k).
Does Emancipation Park Conservancy fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Emancipation Park Conservancy?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Houston Arts Alliance, Houston Endowment Inc, Shell USA Company Foundation.
Where is Emancipation Park Conservancy based?
Emancipation Park Conservancy is based in TX.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 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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