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First Community Cares Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$240k
Granted FY2024still arriving
37
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$85k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Education$298kHealth$46kCrime & Legal$33kCommunity Improvement$30kHuman Services$25kYouth Development$3kArts & Culture$3kRecreation & Sports$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k30 grants · $63k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $93k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $85k
$2,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$149k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
LONE STAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION$10,500
CY-FAIR EDUCATION FOUNDATION$10,500
MESA OUTREACH INC$7,500
YMCA OF GREATER HOUSTON - LANGHAM CREEK FAMILY$7,200
CU ALLIANCE LLC$5,000
KATY ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC$4,000
TOMAGWA HEALTHCARE MINISTRIES$4,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON ALUMNI ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION$2,500
S BREUNIG$2,000
V PEREZ$2,000
02The need
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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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FIRE OUTREACH OF HOUSTON: $800 → 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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$311k · 11 repeat orgs$128k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against +5% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
22

Total granted

$311k
$49k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+5%

Still filing today

91%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $78k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
EducationHealthCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
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

  • CI
    CY-HOPE INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $35k · revenue +35%
  • NH
    NORTH HARRIS MONTGOMERY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT
    2× · 2023–2024 · $21k · revenue +26%
  • AI
    ALIEF ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $21k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • YL
    YMCA - LANGHAM CREEK
    one grant, 2023 · $13k
  • CE
    CY-FAIR EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $6k
  • RC
    Rotary Club of Houston
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +5%
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
Houston Independent School District Foundation

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…

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2
Heb Tournament of Champions Charitable Trust
Philanthropy
3
Cristo Rey Jesuit Houston Foundation

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…

Education
4
Humble Isd Education Foundation

The Humble ISD Education Foundation inspires innovation and enhances academic opportunities to create the foundation for lifelong learning.

Education
5
Texas a&M University-Central Tx Foundati

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).

Education
6
Kiwanis Foundation of Houston

Grants and support are provided to other nonprofit organizations to assist those organizations to function

Community Improvement
7
Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Foundation

The Foundation's purpose is to provide financial support for the general activities of Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Houston, Inc.

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8
Houston Tscpa Foundation

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

Community Improvement
9
Lindale Isd Education Foundation Inc

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…

Education
10
Houston Geological Society Foundation
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11
Houston Bar Foundation

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.

Crime & Legal
12
American Leadership Forum Houston Gulf Coast Chapter

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Sunshine Kids Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

24 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. 24 of the 59 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/24
Grantees still filing
13/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SPRING BRANCH EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $144,750 · EducationSPRING BRANCH EDUCATION FOUNDATIONCY-HOPE INC: $35,000 · EducationCY-HOPE INCNORTH HARRIS MONTGOMERY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT: $21,000 · EducationNORTH HARRIS MONTGOMERY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICTALIEF ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $20,600 · EducationALIEF ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATIONCY-FAIR EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $10,500 · Education+5 more: $17,750 · Education+5 moreVince Lombardi Cancer Foundation Inc: $25,000 · OtherVince Lombardi Cancer Founda…YMCA - LANGHAM CREEK: $12,500 · OtherYMCA - LANGHAM CREEKYMCA OF GREATER HOUSTON - LANGHAM CREEK FAMILY: $7,200 · OtherYMCA OF GREATER HOUSTON - LA…CY-FAIR EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5,525 · OtherCU ALLIANCE LLC: $5,000 · OtherRotary Club of Houston: $5,000 · OtherALIEF ISD: $5,000 · Other+34 more: $45,650 · Other+34 moreCHILD ADVOCATES INC: $30,625 · Crime & LegalMESA-OUTREACH INC: $20,000 · Community ImprovementTOMBALL LIONS CLUB CHARITIES: $2,700 · Community ImprovementTOMAGWA MINISTRIES INC DBA TOMAGWA HEALTHCARE MINISTRIES: $16,000 · HealthCHILDBUILDERS: $2,000 · Health+1 more: $500 · HealthHelping a HeroOrg: $4,000 · PhilanthropyBo's Place: $2,500 · Arts & Culture
Education$249,600Other$110,875Crime & Legal$30,625Community Improvement$22,700Health$18,500Philanthropy$4,000Arts & Culture$2,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSPRING BRANCH EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $144,750 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCY-HOPE INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCHILD ADVOCATES INC: $30,625 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetVince Lombardi Cancer Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetNORTH HARRIS MONTGOMERY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT: $21,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALIEF ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $20,600 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetMESA-OUTREACH INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTOMAGWA MINISTRIES INC DBA TOMAGWA HEALTHCARE MINISTRIES: $16,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCY-FAIR EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $10,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKATY ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON ALUMNI ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetRotary Club of Houston: $5,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetHelping a HeroOrg: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTOMBALL LIONS CLUB CHARITIES: $2,700 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetBo's Place: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDBUILDERS: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCY-FAIR HOUSTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $1,950 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCADDIES FOR KIDS: $1,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTomball Education Foundation: $1,250 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLAMAR EDUCATIONAL AWARDS FOUNDATION: $1,250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFire Outreach of Houston: $800 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCY-WOODS ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE SUNSHINE KIDS FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Greater Houston Commu…Shell USA Company Fou…Methodist Hospital Gr…Tomball Health Coalit…Durotech FoundationThe Houston Food BankCenterpoint Energy Fo…The Blackbaud Giving …Natl Christian Charit…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…
Greater Houston Community FoundationTX19.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 First Community Cares Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from First Community Cares Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to First Community Cares Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to First Community Cares 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 59 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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