· Public charity
Fort Bend Cares Foundation
Fort bend cares provides our community non-profit services with resources to meet the needs of disadvantaged children.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 6 grants below total $53,593 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $70,243 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $16,650 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 · FY2021
- Under $10k3 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EAST FB HUMAN NEEDS MINISTRY | $10,000 |
| SECOND MILE MISSION | $10,000 |
| ROSE-RICH HELPING HANDS | $10,000 |
| TEXANA CENTER | $8,593 |
| FORT BEND COMMUNITY PARTNERS | $7,500 |
| FORT BEND FAMILY PROMISE | $7,500 |
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 (FY18–21, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 69% 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 +71% since the first grant, against -124% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2021, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- FBFORT BEND FAMILY PROMISE4× · 2017–2021 · $35k · revenue +231%
- EFEAST FORT BEND HUMAN NEEDS MINISTRY3× · 2018–2021 · $30k · revenue +71%
- PYPARKS YOUTH RANCH INC2× · 2018–2019 · $28k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $100k
- APATTACK POVERTYone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -124%
- HPHOOF PRINTS & HEART BEATSone grant, 2017 · $9k
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.
Faith Family Hospitality's mission is to support families experiencing homelessness to achieve sustainable self-sufficiency in a timely and dignified manner. This interfaith volunteer effort coordinates the work of 30 diverse Fort Collins…
We are a faith based non-profit organization that serves and cares for members in our community experiencing homelessness in the East Lancaster corridor of Fort Worth, TX. Every Sunday evening, we provide warm meals, drinks, clothes, hair…
A faith-based, sober living house, for men who are serious about maintaining a life of sobriety from addictive substances.
The mission of pinnacle resource center is to provide emergency shelter, food, clothing, and supportive services to individuals and families experiencing homelessness and poverty, with the goal of promoting stability and self-sufficiency.
Food Pantry to combat hunger and prevent homelessness.
Shelter and services for domestic abuse
Services to runaway youth
The mission of the Bastrop County Emergency Food Pantry and Support Center is to serve Bastrop County residents going through periods of transition by providing emergency food assistance, education and support.
Indianapolis Interfaith Hospitality Network leverages the resources of houses of worship in the greater Indianapolis area to provide emergency shelter, food, case management, and aftercare services to families experiencing homelessness.
to reach functional zero homelessness in Hays County through outreach case management direct aid and emergency response while maintaining the dignity of the people we serve
To provide temporary shelter, related services and nuturing support to housing insecure families with children in baldwin county.
Resource for housing and other essential needs
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is East Fort Bend Human Needs Ministry and the most unlike its peers is Reining Strength Therapeutic Horsemanship. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 12 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 FORT BEND FAMILY PROMISE ↗
- Who funds EAST FORT BEND HUMAN NEEDS MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds PARKS YOUTH RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds REINING STRENGTH THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIP ↗
- Who funds FORT BEND COMMUNITY PARTNERS RAINBOW ROOM ↗
- Who funds DEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds ROSENBERG RICHMOND HELPING HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND MILE MISSION CENTER ↗
- Who funds ATTACK POVERTY ↗
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: The George Foundation · Fred and Mabel R Parks Foundation · The Henderson-Wessendorff Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Fort Bend Junior Service League · United Way of Greater Houston · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Gulf Coast Medical Foundation · The Houston Food Bank · Texas Instruments Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc
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 Fort Bend 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.