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Fort Bend Cares Foundation

Fort bend cares provides our community non-profit services with resources to meet the needs of disadvantaged children.

$70k
Granted FY2021
6
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Human Services$63kHousing & Shelter$62kFood & Nutrition$52kRecreation & Sports$28kHealth$25kEducation$10kOther$0
02FY2021 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $53,593, the rows itemized in this filing. The $70,243 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $16,650 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k3 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EAST FB HUMAN NEEDS MINISTRY$10,000
ROSE-RICH HELPING HANDS$10,000
SECOND MILE MISSION$10,000
TEXANA CENTER$8,593
FORT BEND FAMILY PROMISE$7,500
FORT BEND COMMUNITY PARTNERS$7,500
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%DEPELCHIN: $12k → 16%DEPELCHIN: $10k → 16%SECOND MILE MISSION: $10k → 8%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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$211k · 8 repeat orgs$129k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +71% since the first grant, against -124% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
3

Total granted

$211k
$119k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+71%
-124%

Still filing today

88%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyInternationalOther
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

  • FB
    FORT BEND FAMILY PROMISE
    4× · 2017–2021 · $35k · revenue +231%
  • EF
    EAST FORT BEND HUMAN NEEDS MINISTRY
    3× · 2018–2021 · $30k · revenue +71%
  • PY
    PARKS YOUTH RANCH INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $28k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • AP
    ATTACK POVERTY
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -124%
  • HP
    HOOF PRINTS & HEART BEATS
    one grant, 2017 · $9k
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
Family Housing Network of Fort Collins Inc

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…

Human Services
2
Under the Bridge Ministries Inc

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…

Human Services
3
River Bend Recovery

A faith-based, sober living house, for men who are serious about maintaining a life of sobriety from addictive substances.

Health
4
Pinnacle Resource Center

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.

Housing & Shelter
5
People Help Exchange Inc

Food Pantry to combat hunger and prevent homelessness.

Public Safety & Disaster
6
Rainbow House Domestic Abuse Services Inc

Shelter and services for domestic abuse

Human Services
7
Reach Resource Services

Services to runaway youth

Human Services
8
Bastrop County Emergency Food Pantry

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.

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9
Family Promise of Greater Indianapolis Inc

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.

Housing & Shelter
10
Homeless Outreach Mitigation and Emergency Center

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

Human Services
11
Family Promise of Baldwin County

To provide temporary shelter, related services and nuturing support to housing insecure families with children in baldwin county.

Human Services
12
Places of Change

Resource for housing and other essential needs

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is East Fort Bend Human Needs Ministry; 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.
04the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 12 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $100,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFORT BEND FAMILY PROMISE: $34,500 · OtherFORT BEND FAMILY PROMISEREINING STRENGTH THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIP: $27,600 · OtherREINING STRENGTH THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIPTEXANA CENTER: $24,593 · OtherTEXANA CENTERROSENBERG RICHMOND HELPING HANDS INC: $22,000 · OtherROSENBERG RICHMOND HELPING HANDS INCHOOF PRINTS & HEART BEATS: $8,500 · OtherEAST FORT BEND HUMAN NEEDS MINISTRY: $30,000 · Human ServicesEAST FORT BEND HUMAN…DEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER: $22,000 · Human ServicesDEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S…SECOND MILE MISSION CENTER: $10,000 · Human ServicesSECOND MILE MISSION …PARKS YOUTH RANCH INC: $27,896 · Housing & ShelterPARKS YOU…FORT BEND COMMUNITY PARTNERS RAINBOW ROOM: $22,010 · PhilanthropyATTACK POVERTY: $10,000 · International
Other$217,193Human Services$62,000Housing & Shelter$27,896Philanthropy$22,010International$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFORT BEND FAMILY PROMISE: $34,500 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetEAST FORT BEND HUMAN NEEDS MINISTRY: $30,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetPARKS YOUTH RANCH INC: $27,896 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetREINING STRENGTH THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIP: $27,600 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetFORT BEND COMMUNITY PARTNERS RAINBOW ROOM: $22,010 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetDEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER: $22,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROSENBERG RICHMOND HELPING HANDS INC: $22,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSECOND MILE MISSION CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetATTACK POVERTY: $10,000 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.

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.

The George FoundationFred and Mabel R Park…The Henderson-Wessend…Shell USA Company Fou…Fort Bend Junior Serv…United Way of Greater…The Blackbaud Giving …Greater Houston Commu…Gulf Coast Medical Fo…The Houston Food BankTexas Instruments Fou…Natl Christian Charit…
The George FoundationTX24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%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
    1report 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, FY20–24
    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.

    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 12 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2022) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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