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Fluor Cares

The mission of FLUOR CARES is to empower volunteer teams to identify and carry out volunteer service projects that positively impact local communities and support non-profit organizations.

$636k
Granted FY2022
14
Grants FY2022
3
States reached
$120k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2022.

Employment$573kFood & Nutrition$537kHealth$482kHousing & Shelter$359kScience & Tech$235kHuman Services$158kRecreation & Sports$150kEducation$117kOther$0
02FY2022 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 14 grants below total $582,693 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $636,316 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $53,623 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k5 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $23k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $526k
$58,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOMES OF HOPE$120,000
PROJECT HOST$100,000
FEED & SEED$67,000
CLOTHED BY FAITH$60,600
GOD'S GARDEN$60,523
GIGI PLAYHOUSE$60,000
TEXANA CENTER$58,000
SC FIRST LEGO LEAGUE & ROBOTICS EDU$13,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL ORANGE$10,000
FORT BEND EDUCATION FOUNDATION$9,100
CAMP PENDELTON$7,000
IRVING SCHOOLS FOUNDATION$6,000
GREENSPACE DALLAS$6,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREENVILLE$5,470
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 (FY18–22, $122k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 74% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CAMP PENDELTON: $7k → 11%CAMP PENDELTON: $7k → 11%FORT BEND SENIORS: $7k → 8%SECOND MILE MISSION CENTER: $25k → 8%PENDLETON PLACE: $10k → 10%CLOTHED BY FAITH: $61k → 16%KID'S MEALS: $6k → 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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 7% of Fluor Cares’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Fluor Careslessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

28%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$802k · 7 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.

7 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2022, 5 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
26

Total granted

$802k
$1.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+36%

Still filing today

100%
96%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $470k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22
Human ServicesHealthEducationFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther

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

  • PH
    PROJECT HOST INC
    2× · 2019–2022 · $297k · revenue +42%
  • CC
    Candlelighters Childhood Cancer Family Alliance
    2× · 2018–2019 · $100k · revenue +100%
  • CC
    CINCO CHARITIES INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $85k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • GI
    GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF UPSTATEMIDLANDS SOUTH CAROLINA INC
    one grant, 2018 · $428k · revenue +23%
  • RM
    ROPER MOUNTAIN SCIENCE CENTER ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $235k · revenue +64% · 75% of their budget
  • GG
    GREATER GREENVILLE PARKS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $150k · revenue -60% · 62% of their budget

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
Houston Botanic Garden

To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.

Environment
2
Brighter Bites Inc

To create communities of health through fresh food. Brighter Bites seeks to improve health outcomes among children and families in under-resourced communities by using data-driven, evidence-based strategies for providing fresh produce and…

Food & Nutrition
3
Feeding Texas

To lead a unified effort for a hunger-free texas.

Community Improvement
4
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Charlotte Inc

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Charlotte (RMHC of GC) provides essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare. Charlotte is recognized as a leading destination…

Human Services
5
Food Bank of West Central Texas

To procure and distribute nutritional food to qualified agencies that feed the hungry of West Central Texas.

Food & Nutrition
6
Homebound Meals Inc

The Organization's mission is to assist shut-ins, usually the elderly, by delivering hot, nutritious and low-cost meals to them in their homes.

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7
Breakthrough Houston

The mission of Breakthrough Houston (BTH) is to work with highly motivated students to achieve post-secondary success and empower aspiring leaders to become the next generation of educational advocates.

Education
8
West Texas Food Bank

The WTFB exists to collect, purchase, and distribute food to feed the hungry in 19 counties in West Texas in partnership with volunteers and community organizations and to educate these partners and the public at large about the real face…

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9
Austin Habitat for Humanity Inc

Through faith in action, austin habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.

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10
FIRST3YEARS

First3years nurtures early relational and mental health of infants and toddlers in texas. working in deep collaboration with caregivers, parents, and professionals statewide, we cultivate strong early childhood systems, educate our…

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11
Fostering Family

Fostering family dba the riverside project is a 501(c)(3) public charity that on behalf of houston's children and their families, brings together organizations and passionate people working as one to help families heal and children thrive.

Community Improvement
12
Homeward Bound Inc

Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Sc Inc and the most unlike its peers is Heaven Instead. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number30%0%<5yr17%2%5–10yr20%30%10–20yr16%23%20–35yr8%35%35–55yr9%9%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value30%0%<5yr17%1%5–10yr20%22%10–20yr16%27%20–35yr8%48%35–55yr9%2%55yr+

The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 18% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/45
the rest of the field
18%
5,015/27,520

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

42 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. 42 of the 45 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/42
Grantees still filing
32/42
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PROJECT HOST INC — $297,000 · OtherPROJECT HOST INCROPER MOUNTAIN SCIENCE CENTER ASSOCIATION — $235,000 · OtherROPER MOUNTAIN SCIENCE CENTER ASSOCIATIONCandlelighters Childhood Cancer Family Alliance — $100,000 · OtherCandlelighters Childhood Cancer Family AllianceGREENVILLE FREE MEDICAL CLINIC INC — $99,787 · OtherGREENVILLE FREE MEDICAL CLINIC INCHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC FORT BEND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $63,262 · OtherFORT BEND FAMILY PROMISE — $60,000 · OtherGIGIS PLAYHOUSE INC — $60,000 · OtherTEXANA CENTER — $58,000 · OtherCLOTHED BY FAITH INC — $60,600 · OtherThe Periwinkle Foundation — $80,500 · OtherThe Periwinkle FoundationGOD'S GARDEN — $60,523 · OtherREBUILD UPSTATE — $90,000 · OtherREBUILD UPSTATE+18 more — $211,327 · Other+18 moreGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF UPSTATEMIDLANDS SOUTH CAROLINA INC — $427,660 · EmploymentGOODWILL INDUSTR…MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SC INC — $142,553 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH…CINCO CHARITIES INC — $85,000 · HealthCINCO CHARI…Blessed Be Hope for Three Inc — $50,000 · HealthBlessed Be …Heaven Instead — $20,000 · HealthHeaven Inst…GREATER GREENVILLE PARKS FOUNDATION — $150,000 · Youth DevelopmentINSPIRATION RECOGNITION OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY SOUTH CAROLINA — $13,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CAPISTRANO VALLEY — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentHOMES OF HOPE INC — $120,000 · Housing & ShelterOPERATION FINALLY HOME — $50,761 · Housing & ShelterFt Bend County Child Advocates Inc — $165,000 · Civil RightsFEED & SEED CO — $67,000 · EducationSmall Steps Nurturing Center — $40,000 · EducationLinda Lorelle Scholarship Fund — $25,000 · EducationThe Monarch School Monarch Institute for Neurological Diff — $25,000 · Education
Other$1,475,999Employment$427,660Health$297,553Youth Development$173,000Housing & Shelter$170,761Civil Rights$165,000Education$157,000

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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF UPSTATEMIDLANDS SOUTH CAROLINA INC — $427,660 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPROJECT HOST INC — $297,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetROPER MOUNTAIN SCIENCE CENTER ASSOCIATION — $235,000 over 1y, 75% of budgetFt Bend County Child Advocates Inc — $165,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetGREATER GREENVILLE PARKS FOUNDATION — $150,000 over 1y, 62% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SC INC — $142,553 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetHOMES OF HOPE INC — $120,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCandlelighters Childhood Cancer Family Alliance — $100,000 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetGREENVILLE FREE MEDICAL CLINIC INC — $99,787 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetREBUILD UPSTATE — $90,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetCINCO CHARITIES INC — $85,000 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetThe Periwinkle Foundation — $80,500 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetFEED & SEED CO — $67,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC FORT BEND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $63,262 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetCLOTHED BY FAITH INC — $60,600 over 1y, 10% of budgetGOD'S GARDEN — $60,523 over 1y, 58% of budgetFORT BEND FAMILY PROMISE — $60,000 over 2y, 8.9% of budgetOPERATION FINALLY HOME — $50,761 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBlessed Be Hope for Three Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetSmall Steps Nurturing Center — $40,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetThe Monarch School Monarch Institute for Neurological Diff — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNextOp Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSECOND MILE MISSION CENTER — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWEST HOUSTON ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES INC — $20,812 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHeaven Instead — $20,000 over 1y, 41% of budgetHouston Museum of Natural Science — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARMED SERVICES YMCA OF THE USA — $14,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINSPIRATION RECOGNITION OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY SOUTH CAROLINA — $13,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetHUNGER ENDS HERE — $12,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetBIG LOVE CANCER CARE SERVICES — $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF GREENVILLE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTrees For Houston — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPENDLETON PLACE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CAPISTRANO VALLEY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFort Bend ISD Education Foundation — $9,100 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFeeding Children Everywhere Inc — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFort Bend Seniors Meals on Wheels and Much Much More — $6,800 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGreenspace Dallas — $6,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetIRVING SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKIDS' MEALS INC — $5,645 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREENVILLE INC — $5,470 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Harry S & Isabel C Ca…Albert & Ethel Herzst…The George FoundationShell USA Company Fou…Greater Houston Commu…Scsymmes FoundationThe Fluor FoundationThe Henderson-Wessend…The Jolley FoundationTexas Instruments Fou…Fort Bend Junior Serv…Daniel-Mickel Foundat…
Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust CompanyTX32.1× affinity13 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · The George Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Scsymmes Foundation · The Fluor Foundation · The Henderson-Wessendorff Foundation · The Jolley Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Fort Bend Junior Service League · Daniel-Mickel 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 Fluor Cares 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Fluor Cares?

    Find your warmest path to Fluor Cares 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 45 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record but names no grant recipient (grants abroad are filed by region only, and grants under $5,000 are not itemized), so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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