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Felix and Angela Morales Memorial Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$137k
Granted FY2023
22
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$45k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 71% of FELIX AND ANGELA MORALES MEMORIAL FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2023 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k19 grants · $42k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $95k
$2,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DIRECT CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES - DEAT$45,000
DIRECT CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES - BACK$25,489
DIRECT CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES - COLL$25,000
LATINA WOMEN'S INITIATIVE$5,000
SER JOBS FOR PROGRESS$5,000
BARRIO DOGS$3,500
PROMOTERS OF EDUCATION AWARENESS AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT$3,012
OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE SCHOOL$3,000
EL CENTRO DE CORAZN$3,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER HOUSTONGALVESTON$2,500
THE CRISTINA PROJECT$2,000
LATINOS FOR EDUCATION$2,000
CARRILLO ELEMENTARY PTO$2,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
LULAC COUNCIL 60$2,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–23, $32k) 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.

area typical 11%LATINA WOMEN'S INITIATIVE: $5k → 16%COMMUNITY FAMILY CENTERS: $12k → 16%COMMUNITY FAMILY CENTERS: $10k → 16%COMMUNITY FAMILY CENTERS: $5k → 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 edge
repeat funding

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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$322k · 9 repeat orgs$174k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2023, 8 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
5

Total granted

$322k
$41k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+58%

Still filing today

44%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 3% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $134k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesEducationEmploymentYouth DevelopmentAnimalsOther

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

  • BT
    BACK TO SCHOOL GIVEAWAY
    5× · 2018–2022 · $151k
  • BD
    BARRIO DOGS INC
    4× · 2018–2023 · $36k · revenue +136%
  • FM
    FELIX MORALES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
    2× · 2017–2018 · $28k

Funded once

  • HE
    HOUSTON EAST END CHAMBER OF COMMERCEgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $14k · revenue +66%
  • LATINOS FOR EDUCATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +58%
  • Teach for America Inc
    one grant, 2019 · $6k · revenue -18%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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
Project Grad Houston

Improving low-income communities by helping individuals get into and through college/career training.

2
Houston Latino Film Festival

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

Arts & Culture
3
Houston Hispanic Forum

Empower and inspire the success of the large and fast-growing hispanic community in the greater houston area thereby strengthening the entire community.

4
Houston Health Foundation

Houston health foundation (hhf) has the mission of creating private/public partnerships for sustainable health and wellness initiatives and programs in our communities.

Philanthropy
5
The East End Chamber of Commerce Foundation

Committed to serving the educational and communal needs of houston's east end by partnering with public officials, chamber members, and the community to offer workforce development, monetary support and guidance to local students.

6
Launch Point Cdc Inc

Launch Point CDC is a non-profit organization based in Northeast Houston. Our mission is to empower individuals and families in underserved communities to reach their full potential through access to education, job training and community…

Human Services
7
Tex-E Inc
Education
8
Houston Hispanic Scholarship Fund

To provide college scholarships to hispanic individuals to further advance their education and professionalism.

Education
9
Women in Sports and Events Houston Inc

WISE is the leading voice and resource for professional women in the business of sports. WISE Houstons activities include its signature mentor program, networking events, and educational seminars. The mission of WISE is to create and…

Philanthropy
10
Hispanic Health Coalition

The organization mission is to advance the overall health of houston's hispanic community through education, advocacy and research

Human Services
11
Compassionate Houston Inc

Promote compassionate culture in Houston area

Human Services
12
Houston Nursing Education Foundation
Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tejano Center for Community Concerns Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Cristina Project. 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

14 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. 14 of the 36 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
6/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BACK TO SCHOOL GIVEAWAY — $150,837 · OtherBACK TO SCHOOL GIVEAWAYDIRECT CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES - DEAT — $45,000 · OtherDIRECT CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES - DEATFELIX MORALES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL — $27,901 · OtherFELIX MORALES ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHOUSTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE — $27,250 · OtherHOUSTON COMMUNITY COLLEGEDIRECT CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES - BACK — $25,489 · OtherDIRECT CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES - BACKDIRECT CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES - COLL — $25,000 · OtherDIRECT CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES - COLLHOUSTON EAST END CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $14,492 · Other+17 more — $52,762 · Other+17 moreCOMMUNITY FAMILY CENTERS INC — $26,500 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY …HOUSTON ASSOCIATION OF HISPANIC MEDIA PROFESSIONALS — $17,500 · Human ServicesHOUSTON AS…LATIN WOMENS INITIATIVE — $5,000 · Human ServicesLATIN WOME…BARRIO DOGS INC — $35,965 · AnimalsSER-JOBS FOR PROGRESS OF THE TEXAS GULF COAST INC — $22,500 · EmploymentCAREER & RECOVERY RESOURCES INC — $1,000 · EmploymentANGELS AND CAUSES INC — $20,000 · Recreation & SportsLATINOS FOR EDUCATION INC — $10,015 · EducationTeach for America Inc — $6,000 · EducationThe Cristina Project — $2,000 · EducationTEJANO CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CONCERNS INC — $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentKEEP ENRICHING YOUTH SUCCESS — $500 · Youth Development
Other$368,731Human Services$49,000Animals$35,965Employment$23,500Recreation & Sports$20,000Education$18,015Youth Development$1,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBARRIO DOGS INC — $35,965 over 4y, 10% of budgetCOMMUNITY FAMILY CENTERS INC — $26,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSER-JOBS FOR PROGRESS OF THE TEXAS GULF COAST INC — $22,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetANGELS AND CAUSES INC — $20,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetHOUSTON ASSOCIATION OF HISPANIC MEDIA PROFESSIONALS — $17,500 over 3y, 35% of budgetHOUSTON EAST END CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $14,492 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetLATINOS FOR EDUCATION INC — $10,015 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTeach for America Inc — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLATIN WOMENS INITIATIVE — $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of Greater Houston/Galveston Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCAREER & RECOVERY RESOURCES INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEJANO CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CONCERNS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKEEP ENRICHING YOUTH SUCCESS — $500 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

  • Who funds BARRIO DOGS INC
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FAMILY CENTERS INC
  • Who funds SER-JOBS FOR PROGRESS OF THE TEXAS GULF COAST INC
  • Who funds ANGELS AND CAUSES INC
  • Who funds HOUSTON ASSOCIATION OF HISPANIC MEDIA PROFESSIONALS
  • Who funds HOUSTON EAST END CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
  • Who funds LATINOS FOR EDUCATION INC
  • Who funds Teach for America Inc
  • Who funds LATIN WOMENS INITIATIVE
  • Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Houston/Galveston Inc
  • Who funds The Cristina Project
  • Who funds CAREER & RECOVERY RESOURCES INC
  • Who funds TEJANO CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CONCERNS INC
  • Who funds KEEP ENRICHING YOUTH SUCCESS

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.

Centerpoint Energy Foundation IncTX21.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · The Brown Foundation Inc · The Methodist Hospital · United Way of Greater Houston · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Felix and Angela Morales Memorial Foundation 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
202122232425
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Felix and Angela Morales Memorial Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Felix and Angela Morales Memorial Foundation 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 36 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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