· Private foundation
Good Earth Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THERAGOOD DEEDS | $8,000 |
| KID'S MEALS | $7,000 |
| SMALL PLACES | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| CASA DE ESPERANZA | $3,420 |
| LORD OF THE STREETS EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $2,500 |
| EL CENTRO DE CORAZON | $2,500 |
| HOUSTON RECOVERY CENTER | $2,500 |
| THE COUNCIL ON RECOVERY | $2,000 |
| HOUSTON FOOD BANK | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $49k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.
22 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 2 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- KMKIDS' MEALS INC8× · 2017–2025 · $33k · revenue +579%
- ECEL CENTRO DE CORAZON8× · 2017–2025 · $20k · revenue +27%
- TWTHE WOMEN'S HOME6× · 2017–2024 · $15k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- COCHURCH OF THE EPIPHANYone grant, 2018 · $5k
- CFCENTER FOR MIND BODY HEALTHone grant, 2017 · $3k
- PEPRISON ENTREPENEURIAL PROJECTone grant, 2017 · $2k
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.
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.
Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.
See schedule ocentral houston champions a thriving downtown by connecting influential leaders through initiatives that advance the future of business and community for all.
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.
Central houston civic improvement lnc.'s mission is to ensure the continued vitality and to support development of downtown and the central city that is critical to the continued health and growth of houston.
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.
Rebuilding Together Houston is the only organization in Houston and Harris County providing free home repairs to hundreds of families each year. We employ licensed contractors to restore homes to safe, livable conditions, extending each…
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.
See Schedule OThe Women's Resource of Greater Houston helps women and girls make choices toward becoming independent, productive, and financially stable. We fulfill our mission by recruiting volunteer instructors to deliver our programs in…
The mission of Target Hunger is to alleviate hunger and its root causes in the Houston neighborhoods we serve. Target Hunger is on the front lines of hunger every day through its food distribution system that includes multiple food…
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…
Our mission is to provide high quality and caring services to promote healthy people and communities.
The Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston's mission is to inspire and enable all youth, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens.
How this is measured
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 37 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds KIDS' MEALS INC ↗
- Who funds EL CENTRO DE CORAZON ↗
- Who funds THERAGOOD DEEDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Small Places ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds THE BEACON OF DOWNTOWN HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds The Council on Recovery ↗
- Who funds CHERISH OUR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds Houston Botanic Garden ↗
- Who funds The Arc of Harris County ↗
- Who funds Christian New Creation Inc ↗
- Who funds Best Buddies International Inc ↗
- Who funds THE INTREPID FALLEN HEROES FUND ↗
- Who funds HOME RUN HITTERS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds PRELUDE MUSIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AVDA ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Strake Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · The Brown Foundation Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Medallion Foundation Inc · Charity Guild of Catholic Women of Harris County Inc · Mechia Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · John S Dunn Foundation · Wayne Duddlesten Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Good Earth Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Good Earth Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Best Buddies International Inc: 6% of income from government
How this is measured
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