How much did GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION reported 1,724 grants totaling $253,805,619 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION based?

GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is based in TX.

GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

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GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

The mission of the GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (ghcf) is expanding philanthropic impact by connecting donors to the causes they care about, providing excellent stewardship of assets entrusted to us, and convening resources to address important community needs.

$254M

Granted FY2024

1,724

Grants

Communities

$10M

Largest

01What you fund

0172% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Philanthropy$243MHealth$181MEducation$177MHuman Services$115MArts & Culture$99MYouth Development$51MReligion$49MCommunity Improvement$46MInternational$38MOther$638M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

galaluncheondinnerdonor advisorhurricane harveytournamentdistributed follows

2019

disease disorderliteracy computerscomputers librarieshousing shelterprotection welfaresports leisurefood nutrition

2020

motivaemployeeadvisor attendingcovid reliefharris covidrelief phaseplease send

2021

nycpwageson-farmfood sovereigntyunifygolfersbvfb's

2022

rwandamyositisvermilionimplementbighornarmy historyrazom

2023

speoxfordwycliffe hallsailingimaginationquailcats kittens

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 1724 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k264 grants · $1.8M
$10k–50k821 grants · $16M
$50k–250k455 grants · $48M
$250k+184 grants · $166M

$25,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.1B

Total assets

Largest grants

NATIONAL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC$10,026,050
TEXAS A&M FOUNDATION$8,964,257
ST JOHNS SCHOOL$7,082,000
MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC$6,719,247
UNITED WAY OF GREATER HOUSTON$5,963,392
ALPHA USA$4,559,304
IMPACT INVESTING CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC$4,090,000
HUGHEN CENTER INC$3,875,000
THE KINKAID SCHOOL INC$3,322,017
BROOKLYN ORG$3,175,000
ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION$3,045,989
FRIENDS OF RAISING THE VILLAGE INCORPORATED$3,000,000
THE IRVIN M SHLENKER SCHOOL OF CONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL$2,712,700
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN$2,682,785
INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION$2,553,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $53.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 10%. 93% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.4B · 1582 repeat orgs$254M to everyone else

1582 repeat relationships — 1033 still active in FY2024, 549 since wound down; 123 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

1582

295

Total granted

$1.4B

$228M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%

+59%

Still filing today

82%

80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyInternationalOther

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

NC
National Christian Foundation
6× · 2018–2024 · $68M · revenue +109%
Schwab Charitable Fund
6× · 2018–2024 · $44M · revenue +179%
YL
Young Life West Houston
8× · 2017–2024 · $29M · revenue +26%

Funded once

WN
WOOD NEXT PHILANTHROPIES
one grant, 2022 · $170M · revenue -97% · 77% of their budget
RF
RUPANI FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $3.0M · revenue +422%
EJ
Equal Justice Works
one grant, 2018 · $1.8M · revenue -11%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

TrueWorks Houston

To see well-formed people create well-formed ventures and transform our city.

Religion

Texas a&M Research Foundation

To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.

Education

Glasstire

Glasstire is an online magazine for visual art in Texas.

Arts & Culture

The University of TexasTexas a&M Investment Management Company

To provide professional investment management and related services for the funds under management and control of the Board of Regents of The University of Texas System.

Education

Baylor Research Institute

Faith based medical research organization bringing innovative treatment to patients through basic science, clinical trials, and health care effectiveness and quality of care research.

Health

Progress Texas Institute

The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.

Civil Rights

Texas Bar Foundation

The Foundation solicits charitable contributions and provides funding to enhance the rule of law and the system of justice in Texas.

Crime & Legal

Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education

Houston MediaSource

Houston MediaSource provides public access cable television programming for the City of Houston.

Arts & Culture

American Civil Liberties Union

To champion individual rights under a charter granted by the ACLU (National Affiliate).

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Community Information Now

Community information now (cinow) provides data, tools, analysis, and training to inform decisions to improve texas communities.

Community Improvement

Baylor Scott & White Medical Centers-

Faith based hospitals providing exemplary patient care, medical education, medical research and community service to the greater Austin, Texas metropolitan service area and the surrounding communities.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Both Ends Believing Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Basilica Landmark. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1%75/5,167

the rest of the field

13%

17,143/131,637

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.

05the grantee network

1692 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

186

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

560

Early backer (in before they grew)

1646/1692

Grantees still filing

1302/1692

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$771,446,097Philanthropy$242,700,267Health$181,081,159Education$176,637,331Human Services$114,576,312Arts & Culture$98,533,581Youth Development$50,851,359

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.

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.

Albert & Ethel HerzsteinTX103.6× affinity210 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Albert & Ethel Herzstein · The Elkins Foundation · The Methodist Hospital · Vivian L Smith Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · The Brown Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Houston · Strake Foundation · Charity Guild of Catholic Women of · MD Anderson Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation · Sterling-Turner 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 organisation GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: FARMYARD ANIMAL RESCUE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

3 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 861823929 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on FARMYARD ANIMAL RESCUE, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 100% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Greater Houston Community Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Greater Houston Community Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

More from the funding graph

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

Strange bedfellows

the named clusters of US funding

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines