· Public charity
Evolve Houston
Improve air quality and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by supporting and enabling the greater houston area to increase ev adoption.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 14 grants below total $215,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $555,146 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $340,146 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEXAS SOURTHERN UNIVERSITY | $30,000 |
| FRIENDS OF COLUMIA TAP | $15,000 |
| IVY LEAF FARMS | $15,000 |
| GREATER FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH | $15,000 |
| SCOTTY'S BIKES | $15,000 |
| GROW | $15,000 |
| HUE TECHNOLOGY | $15,000 |
| EIGHT MILLION STORIES INC | $15,000 |
| DRINKICKS | $15,000 |
| HYPE FREEDOM SCHOOL INC | $15,000 |
| WOLD WIDE BARRIER BREAKERS | $15,000 |
| SUMN | $15,000 |
| ALLIANCE FOR MULTICUTURAL COMMUNITY | $10,000 |
| HARLEM CLARKE FORT BEND | $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 (FY23–23, $12k) 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.
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 +354% since the first grant, against +69% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 10 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, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $165k 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
- NANORTH AMERICA REAL ESTATE COUNCIL2× · 2023–2024 · $27k
- GGROW2× · 2023–2024 · $25k
- AFALLIANCE FOR MULTICULTURAL COMMUNITY SERVICES2× · 2023–2024 · $25k · revenue +354%
Funded once
- RERYDE ENTERPRISESone grant, 2023 · $86k
- COCOALITION OF COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONSone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +18%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON- DOWNTOWNone grant, 2023 · $15k
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.
The eco foundation works collaboratively with the people we serve to provide education, healthy food, and employment opportunities, so they can meet their needs today and thrive for generations to come
To provide education and resources to minority operated businesses
The Social Engineering Project, Inc. TSEP is an Oakland based, 501c3 tax exempt social impact venture with Stanford University designed to address the lack of diversity in the tech industry through culturally relevant STEM pipeline…
To promote, support and foster initiatives within the hispanic community relating to education achievements in the areas of science thechnoloby, engineering and math
Community development
The specific purpose for which the Corporation is organized is to provide learning pathways like intensive software training that enable more individuals to participate as developers in the digital economy.
The mission of uedc includes the administration of programs and sevices designed to improve the lives of underserved populations by providing economic empowerment, housing and employment services, and education and community programs…
To provide to the Youth in Lower Communities education college preparation Life Skills and Youth Unification
Supporting Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion through open and transparent governments. Building infrastructures connecting people, businesses, and non-profits through localized data. Equipping institutions and communities with modern tools…
Training and jobs for exoffenders
Environmental Justice & Equality
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Edison Arts Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Coalition of Community Organizations. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 21 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 TEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIO ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR MULTICULTURAL COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds HYPE FREEDOM SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds EIGHT MILLION STORIES INC ↗
- Who funds COALITION OF COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS ↗
- Who funds GREATER FIRST MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH ↗
- Who funds EDISON ARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH UNION COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC SOUTH UNION CDC ↗
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: Houston Endowment Inc · Houston Texans Foundation · The Methodist Hospital · United Way of Greater Houston · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · 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 Evolve Houston 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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