· Private foundation
First Community Cares Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k30 grants · $63k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $93k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $85k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SPRING BRANCH EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $84,500 |
| VINCE LOMBARDI CANCER FOUNDATION INC | $25,000 |
| CY-HOPE INC | $20,000 |
| CHILD ADVOCATES INC | $16,000 |
| ALIEF ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $11,100 |
| CY-FAIR EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $10,500 |
| LONE STAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $10,500 |
| MESA OUTREACH INC | $7,500 |
| YMCA OF GREATER HOUSTON - LANGHAM CREEK FAMILY | $7,200 |
| CU ALLIANCE LLC | $5,000 |
| TOMAGWA HEALTHCARE MINISTRIES | $4,000 |
| KATY ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC | $4,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON ALUMNI ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| S BREUNIG | $2,000 |
| V PEREZ | $2,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $800) 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.
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 +17% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 26 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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $78k 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
- CICY-HOPE INC2× · 2023–2024 · $35k · revenue +35%
- NHNORTH HARRIS MONTGOMERY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT2× · 2023–2024 · $21k · revenue +26%
- AIALIEF ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $21k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- YLYMCA - LANGHAM CREEKone grant, 2023 · $13k
- CECY-FAIR EDUCATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $6k
- RCRotary Club of Houstonone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +5%
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 HISD Foundation is dedicated to mobilizing the local community to support innovative priorities in HISD to improve outcomes for all students in the district. Our mission is to fund projects and programs of merit that fall outside of…
See Schedule OCristo Rey Jesuit Houston Foundation is a supporting organization for Jesuit Cristo Rey High School of Houston, Inc. (dba Cristo Rey Jesuit College Preparatory School of Houston). A Catholic high school that inspires and…
The Humble ISD Education Foundation inspires innovation and enhances academic opportunities to create the foundation for lifelong learning.
Operated exclusively for educational purposes specifically including to further educational activities at texas a& m university-central texas within the meaning of 501(c)(3).
Grants and support are provided to other nonprofit organizations to assist those organizations to function
The Foundation's purpose is to provide financial support for the general activities of Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Houston, Inc.
Develop, promote, and present programs of continuing education and professional development interest to cpas in the houston area. the foundation also has fundraising programs for endowments and chartiable causes
Create and sustain a visionary coalition of businesses and citizens generating investments and funding for innovative programs and initiatives that enrich and inspire educational and leadership opportunities that will benefit the students…
The Houston Bar Foundation supports programs that help provide legal representation to the indigent, promote community understanding of our legal system, and foster the administration of justice.
American Leadership Forum (ALF) brings together, in classes, leaders with diverse perspectives so they can build relationships, learn to dialogue and respectfully differ, and work together for the good of our community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Sunshine Kids Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Fire Outreach of Houston. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
24 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. 24 of the 59 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 SPRING BRANCH EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CY-HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds Vince Lombardi Cancer Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTH HARRIS MONTGOMERY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT ↗
- Who funds ALIEF ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MESA-OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds TOMAGWA MINISTRIES INC DBA TOMAGWA HEALTHCARE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds CY-FAIR EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KATY ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON ALUMNI ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Rotary Club of Houston ↗
- Who funds Helping a HeroOrg ↗
- Who funds TOMBALL LIONS CLUB CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds Bo's Place ↗
- Who funds CHILDBUILDERS ↗
- Who funds CY-FAIR HOUSTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds CADDIES FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds LAMAR EDUCATIONAL AWARDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Tomball Education Foundation ↗
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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Methodist Hospital Group · Tomball Health Coalition · Durotech Foundation · The Houston Food Bank · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
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 First Community Cares 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.
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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