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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 it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Education$242kPhilanthropy$95kAnimals$36kHuman Services$29kEmployment$29kRecreation & Sports$20kArts & Culture$18kCommunity Improvement$17kOther$0
02FY2023 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
SER JOBS FOR PROGRESS$5,000
LATINA WOMEN'S INITIATIVE$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
Individual grant recipient$2,000
LULAC COUNCIL 60$2,000
LATINOS FOR EDUCATION$2,000
THE CRISTINA PROJECT$2,000
CARRILLO ELEMENTARY PTO$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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 ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentEmploymentAnimalsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • BT
    BACK TO SCHOOL GIVEAWAY
    5× · 2018–2022 · $151k
  • BD
    BARRIO DOGS INC
    4× · 2018–2023 · $36k · revenue +115%
  • 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%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Project Grad Houston

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

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2
Center for Career Transformation

The purpose of the organization is to transform lives by offering comprehensive solutions that lead to better employment throgh education, knowledge and career servcices in the great houston area. specifically, services will include, but…

Employment
3
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
4
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.

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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.

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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
Latinas On the Plaza
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8
Community Action Inc of Central Texas

Established in 1965, community action, inc. of central texas has continuously worked to assist low to moderate income families in central texas by providing a variety of social services and economic opportunities. the agency has four areas…

Human Services
9
Houston's Capital Investing in Develop- Ment and Employment of Adults Inc

Capital idea houston's mission is to invest in working adults by providing educational pathways from low-wage to living-wage careers.

Employment
10
Tex-E Inc
Education
11
Hispanic Womens Network of Texas

The Hispanic Womens Network of Texas promotes the advancement of women in public, corporate, and civic life through education, personal, and professional development.

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12
Houston Hispanic Scholarship Fund

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

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tejano Center for Community Concerns Inc; 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 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. 14 of the 36 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.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetTEJANO CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CONCERNS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAREER & RECOVERY RESOURCES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKEEP ENRICHING YOUTH SUCCESS: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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 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 TEJANO CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CONCERNS INC ↗
  • Who funds CAREER & RECOVERY RESOURCES INC ↗
  • Who funds KEEP ENRICHING YOUTH SUCCESS ↗

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.

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Felix and Angela Morales Memorial Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Felix and Angela Morales Memorial Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's 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, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 36 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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