· Public charity
Good Reason Houston Inc
Good Reason Houston strives to grow and sustain great schools while advocating for families and communities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
- $250k+1 grant · $289k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Texas Tech Foundation | $288,934 |
| Summer House Institute | $75,000 |
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 (FY20–20, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% 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 +54% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 18 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, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $364k 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
- YPYES Prep Public Schools Inc3× · 2020–2023 · $1.8M · revenue +63%
- KTKIPP Texas Inc3× · 2021–2023 · $1.2M · revenue +21%
- WMWilliam Marsh Rice University2× · 2023–2024 · $375k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- SSSTEPPING STONES CHARTER ELEMENTARYone grant, 2023 · $90k · revenue +16%
EMPOWER SCHOOLS INCone grant, 2022 · $75k · revenue +14%- HIHouston Independent School District Foundationone grant, 2023 · $60k · revenue -68%
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.
KIPP, the Knowledge Is Power Program, is committed to developing in underserved students the academic skills, intellectual habits, and qualities of character necessary to succeed at all levels of pre-kindergarten through 12th grade,…
The mission of Royal Public Schools is to spark students' natural curiosity and love of learning while providing the knowledge and skills they need to lead successful and fulfilling lives.
See Schedule O. The Fay School ("the School") is a nonsectarian, not-for-profit, co-educational school in which children of diverse talents and backgrounds with strong academic abilities are offered a high-quality education in a secure,…
Trinity episcopal school (trinity) is a not-for-profit independent school whose mission is to provide an enriched academic curriculum in a christian environment. trinity is not affiliated with or sponsored by any parish. we will nurture…
The charter school is a model for the next generation of schools, working to prepare students, especially poor and minority students, for the workplace and college.
Our mission drives academic and socio-emotional development (see Schedule O) through a rigorous college preparatory, STEM-based learning model. The model is anchored on 21st century skills, embraced by a character-building approach, and…
Ser-ninos charter school is a public school which provides an innovative dual language curriculum in the southwest area of houston, texas. it offers a high quality education through public and private funding to-at-risk children in grades…
See Schedule OThe purpose of Awty International School (Awty) is to create an environment where students experience excellence every day to make their mark on the world alongside their community, in a spirit of curiosity, courage and…
See Schedule OSt. John's School is an independent, co-educational day school presenting a 13-year sequence of college preparatory training. A non-profit institution, it was founded in 1946 to provide the community with a school of exacting…
Apie provides college and career readiness support through individualized academic and mentoring programs to prepare students for success.
The mission of basis texas charter schools is to empower students to achieve at globally competitive levels with a transformative k-12 academic program.
The organization's mission is to partner with urban public school districts in texas to create and manage neighborhood schools that provide high quality teacher and leadership development programs along with a researched based curriculum,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Empower Schools Inc and the most unlike its peers is William Marsh Rice University. 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 22 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 14% of your grantees by number, and just 2% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 33 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 YES Prep Public Schools Inc ↗
- Who funds KIPP Texas Inc ↗
- Who funds William Marsh Rice University ↗
- Who funds TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LATINOS FOR EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds REVE PREPARATORY INC ↗
- Who funds EIGHT MILLION STORIES INC ↗
- Who funds Elevate Collegiate Inc dba Elevate Collegiate Charter School ↗
- Who funds AMIGOS POR VIDA - FRIENDS FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds ETOILE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds THE BETA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STEPPING STONES CHARTER ELEMENTARY ↗
- Who funds EMPOWER SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds SUMMER HOUSE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Houston Independent School District Foundation ↗
- Who funds TEJANO CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CONCERNS INC ↗
- Who funds THE DALLAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IDEA Public Schools ↗
- Who funds Civic Heart Community Services ↗
- Who funds ATTACK POVERTY ↗
- Who funds THE PARENT TEACHER COLLABORATIVE CO ↗
- Who funds WONDERLAND EDUCATIONAL ESTATE DBA BEATRICE MAYES INSTITUTE ↗
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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · The Brown Foundation Inc · The Houston Food Bank · Project Lead the Way Inc · Houston Texans Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Powell Foundation · United Way of Greater Houston · Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund · Round It Up America Inc · For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST)
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 Good Reason Houston Inc 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.