· Public charity
Fort Bend Junior Service League
The Fort Bend Junior Service League is an organization of women committed to promoting volunteerism and developing women and to improve Fort Bend County through community involvement.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 25 grants below total $265,620 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $356,399 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $90,779 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $74k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $192k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Access Health | $20,000 |
| Hope for Three | $18,975 |
| East FB Human Needs | $16,975 |
| George Ranch | $16,495 |
| God's Garden | $15,000 |
| Houston Museum of Nat Hist | $13,975 |
| Fort Bend Rainbow Room | $12,500 |
| TOM Help Center | $12,000 |
| Child Advocates of FB | $12,000 |
| College Community Career | $12,000 |
| Brazos Bend Guardianship | $12,000 |
| FB Habitat for Humanity | $10,000 |
| Katy ARTreach | $10,000 |
| BoysGirls Club of Hou | $10,000 |
| Fort Bend Hope | $8,389 |
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 (FY17–25, $385k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 34% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +40% since the first grant, against -8% for the ones you funded once.
37 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $57k 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
- ACACCESS COMMUNITY HEALTH NETWORK9× · 2017–2025 · $153k · revenue +27%
- BBBlessed Be Hope for Three Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $142k · revenue +40%
- EFEAST FORT BEND HUMAN NEEDS MINISTRY9× · 2017–2025 · $131k · revenue +92%
Funded once
- YMYoung Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Areaone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -8%
- CPCullinan Park Conservancyone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue -76%
- APAbigail's Placegraduatedone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +31%
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.
To transform community wellness through literacy, health, spiritual and wellness programs
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.
Sunny Glen Childrens Home, Inc. cares for children in need. Our care will be competent, compassionate and professional. We will help every child achieve their greatest potential-physically, emotionally, spiritually and academically.
To provide quality care to children and adults with developmental disabilities in a safe, loving home environment where they are treated with respect, compassion, and dignity and provided the means, support, and encouragement to reach…
The mission of Family Service Center of Houston and Harris County (Family Houston) is to create a stronger community for tomorrow by helping individuals and families meet the challenges they face today. We help others help themselves.
To provide family services and to provide residential child care for dependent children where there is a need to assist children and families disrupted by problems.
To promote positive behavioral health and independence for individuals and families suffering from drug abuse, addiction, criminal behavior, and mental illness.
Seeking to put God's love into action, Houston Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope to provide a world where everyone has a decent place to live.
LifeHouse is a Christ-centered ministry ensuring life for unborn children by providing opportunities for housing, help, and hope for young women during their pregnancies and beyond.
To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.
Fort bend family health center, inc. is dedicated to excellence in providing integrated health care services to improve the quality of life in the communities it serves. accesshealth will enable to achieve a personal state of wellness…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope Fort Bend Clubhouse 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.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 31% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 19% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
41 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. 41 of the 48 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 ACCESS COMMUNITY HEALTH NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Blessed Be Hope for Three Inc ↗
- Who funds Ft Bend County Child Advocates Inc ↗
- Who funds EAST FORT BEND HUMAN NEEDS MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds PARKS YOUTH RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Inc ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON - HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds FORT BEND COMMUNITY PARTNERS RAINBOW ROOM ↗
- Who funds Fort Bend Seniors Meals on Wheels and Much Much More ↗
- Who funds SIRE INC ↗
- Who funds REINING STRENGTH THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIP ↗
- Who funds Houston Museum of Natural Science ↗
- Who funds GIGI'S PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC FORT BEND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds LUNCHES OF LOVE ↗
- Who funds FORT BEND HISTORY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CollegeCommunityCareer Inc ↗
- Who funds FORT BEND COUNTY WOMEN'S CENTER INC SOS/SHELTER-OUTREACH-SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds Brazos Bend Guardianship Services ↗
- Who funds LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF FORT BEND ↗
- Who funds Fort Bend Children's Discovery Center LLC ↗
- Who funds GOD'S GARDEN ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SAN ANTONIO INC ↗
- Who funds FORT BEND HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds CLOTHED BY FAITH INC ↗
- Who funds The Brookwood Community Inc ↗
- Who funds AS ONE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NETWORK FOR GOOD ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area ↗
- Who funds Hope Fort Bend Clubhouse ↗
- Who funds Sole Loved Shoes Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ROSE ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF FORT BEND COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC GEORGE RANCH ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Cullinan Park Conservancy ↗
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 · The Henderson-Wessendorff Foundation · Fred and Mabel R Parks Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Harris & Eliza Kempner Fund Inc · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Madison Charitable Foundation Inc · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · Gulf Coast Medical Foundation · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Lindsey & May Tape 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 Fort Bend Junior Service League 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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