· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEXAS SOURTHERN UNIVERSITY | $30,000 |
| HUE TECHNOLOGY | $15,000 |
| WOLD WIDE BARRIER BREAKERS | $15,000 |
| FRIENDS OF COLUMIA TAP | $15,000 |
| IVY LEAF FARMS | $15,000 |
| GREATER FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH | $15,000 |
| SCOTTY'S BIKES | $15,000 |
| DRINKICKS | $15,000 |
| GROW | $15,000 |
| EIGHT MILLION STORIES INC | $15,000 |
| HYPE FREEDOM SCHOOL INC | $15,000 |
| SUMN | $15,000 |
| ALLIANCE FOR MULTICUTURAL COMMUNITY | $10,000 |
| HARLEM CLARKE FORT BEND | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +354% since the first grant, against +69% for those 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
How this is measured
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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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
How this is measured
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Evolve Houston funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Evolve Houston. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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