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Gfgh Fundraising at a glance

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Gfgh Fundraising

The corporation is organized and shall be operated for the purposes of providing support to the greater houston community foundation, a texas nonprofit corporation ("ghcf").

$260k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

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

Health$128kHuman Services$106kFood & Nutrition$70kYouth Development$55kEducation$35kPhilanthropy$28k
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $105k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $155k
$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$113k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EIGHT MILLION STORIES INC$55,000
FULLER LIFE FAMILY THERAPY INSTITUTE$50,000
CANDLELIGHTERS CHILDHOOD CANCER FAMILY ALLIANCE$50,000
THIS ONES FOR THE GALS$35,000
LUNCHES OF LOVE$35,000
EAST FORT BEND HUMAN NEEDS MINISTRY INC$35,000
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 (FY23–24, $128k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%ANCHOR POINT: $50k → 14%FULLER LIFE FAMILY THERAPY INSTITUTE: $50k → 16%THE SANCTUARY FOSTER CARE SERVICES: $28k → 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 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
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
2
Love Fosters Hope

Love Fosters Hope is a Texas based Non-Profit Organization with many facets but one purpose To impact the lives of children and teens in foster care who have been abused, neglected or abandoned.

Human Services
3
Sunny Glen Children's Home Inc

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.

Human Services
4
Ft Bend County Child Advocates Inc

Fort Bend County Child Advocates, Inc. provides a voice, heals the hurt and breaks the cycle of abuse and neglect for children in Fort Bend County.

Civil Rights
5
Agape Manor Homes Inc

Our missison is to create a safe and supportive environment for abused and neglected children giving them love, attention and guidance for positive growth and successful life. We RE-PARENT each child for successful family re-unification.

Human Services
6
Family Promise of Lubbock Inc

To provide homeless families with children the tools necessary to achieve long term financial, parental, and personal self-sufficiency through a comprehensive program of temporary housing, case management, and supportive services.

Housing & Shelter
7
Found Mission

The love of Jesus compels us to advance toward the needs in our communities in creative ways. We are a movement of Light Love and Hope toward areas of darkness loneliness and despair. We believe everyone needs to know they are FOUND. We do…

Human Services
8
Abrazo Foster Family Agency

Our Mission is to take the lead in protecting children entrusted to our care or protection from further abuse and neglect by carefully selecting the most qualified and dedicated foster parents available to operate foster homes for the…

Human Services
9
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Milam County
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10
Fort Bend Care Center

To transform community wellness through literacy, health, spiritual and wellness programs

Human Services
11
Bread for Our Children

Provide nutrition meals for communities in the Dallas/Ft Worth, Texas areas

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12
Tip of Texas Family Outreach Inc

To strengthen families through parenting classes educational programs, youth programs and referral services for the prevention of child abuse and neglect.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fuller Life Institute; the most unlike its peers is Eight Million Stories Inc. 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

11 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.

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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FULLER LIFE INSTITUTE: $50,000 · Human ServicesFULLER LIFE INSTITUTEAPM Outreach Inc Anchor Point: $50,000 · Human ServicesAPM Outreach Inc Anchor PointEAST FORT BEND HUMAN NEEDS MINISTRY: $35,000 · Human ServicesEAST FORT BEND HUMAN NEEDS MINISTRYThe Sanctuary Foster Care Services: $27,750 · Human ServicesThe Sanctuary Foster Care ServicesBIG LOVE CANCER CARE SERVICES: $27,750 · Human ServicesBIG LOVE CANCER CARE SERVICESCandlelighters Childhood Cancer Family Alliance: $50,000 · OtherCandlelighters Child…CASA DE ESPERANZA DE LOS NINOS INC: $27,750 · OtherCASA DE ESPERANZA DE…EIGHT MILLION STORIES INC: $55,000 · Youth DevelopmentEIGHT MILLION …LUNCHES OF LOVE: $35,000 · Food & NutritionLUNCHES O…THIS ONES FOR THE GALS: $35,000 · EducationTHIS ONES…Fort Bend ISD Education Foundation: $27,750 · Philanthropy
Human Services$190,500Other$77,750Youth Development$55,000Food & Nutrition$35,000Education$35,000Philanthropy$27,750

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEIGHT MILLION STORIES INC: $55,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetFULLER LIFE INSTITUTE: $50,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetAPM Outreach Inc Anchor Point: $50,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetCandlelighters Childhood Cancer Family Alliance: $50,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetLUNCHES OF LOVE: $35,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetEAST FORT BEND HUMAN NEEDS MINISTRY: $35,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHIS ONES FOR THE GALS: $35,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetThe Sanctuary Foster Care Services: $27,750 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCASA DE ESPERANZA DE LOS NINOS INC: $27,750 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFort Bend ISD Education Foundation: $27,750 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetBIG LOVE CANCER CARE SERVICES: $27,750 over 1y, 2.1% 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.

Shell USA Company Fou…Greater Houston Commu…The George FoundationHarry S & Isabel C Ca…Albert & Ethel Herzst…The Blackbaud Giving …Enterprise Holdings F…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…National Philanthropi…Natl Christian Charit…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…
Shell USA Company FoundationTX20.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Shell USA Company Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · The George Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Gfgh Fundraising funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gfgh Fundraising. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%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
    3report 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.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Gfgh Fundraising?

    Find your warmest path to Gfgh Fundraising 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 11 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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