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H H and Edna Houseman Charitable Tr

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$532k
Granted FY2025still arriving
33
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$110k
Largest
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Human Services$1.2MHealth$734kCrime & Legal$185kEducation$180kYouth Development$152kPublic Safety & Disaster$145kArts & Culture$84kReligion$42kOther$0
02FY2025 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k18 grants · $78k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $265k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $190k
$7,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$7.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GARLYN PLACE$110,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHEAST$80,000
UNITED CHRISTIAN CARE CENTER OF$39,750
CASA OF THE SABINE NECHES REGION$30,000
ORANGE CHRISTIAN SERVICES INC$30,000
RAPE & SUICIDE CRISIS CENTER OF$25,000
BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES$20,100
SALVATION ARMY - ORANGE$20,000
JULIE ROGERS GIFT OF LIFE PROGRAM$20,000
FISHERS OF MEN MINISTRIES$20,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH$15,000
VIDOR ROTARY CLUB$15,000
SAMARITAN COUNSELING CENTER OF SE TX$10,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION INC$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
02The need
03

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 (FY20–25, $327k) 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES: $29k → 19%BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES: $20k → 19%BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES: $15k → 19%BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES: $15k → 19%BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES: $15k → 19%BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES: $14k → 19%NEHEMIAH'S VISION INC: $5k → 14%ORANGE CHRISTIAN SERVICES INC: $40k → 14%HOSPICE CARE TEAM INC: $6k → 19%HOSPICE CARE TEAM INC: $6k → 19%HOSPICE CARE TEAM INC: $6k → 19%HOSPICE CARE TEAM INC: $6k → 19%ORANGE CHRISTIAN SERVICES INC: $30k → 14%ORANGE CHRISTIAN SERVICES INC: $30k → 14%ORANGE CHRISTIAN SERVICES INC: $30k → 14%ORANGE CHRISTIAN SERVICES INC: $30k → 14%ORANGE CHRISTIAN SERVICES INC: $30k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.4M · 26 repeat orgs$825k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +13% since the first grant, against -4% for the ones you funded once.

26 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
22

Total granted

$2.4M
$664k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
-4%

Still filing today

46%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $161k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterCivil RightsOther

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

  • OC
    ORANGE CHRISTIAN SERVICES INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $190k · revenue +31%
  • JR
    Julie Rogers Gift of Life Program
    6× · 2020–2025 · $120k · revenue +49%
  • S
    Stable-Spirit
    6× · 2020–2025 · $56k · revenue +133%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $420k
  • CH
    CHRISTUS HEALTH FOUNDATION OF
    one grant, 2023 · $55k
  • SM
    ST MARY CATHOLIC SCHOOL
    one grant, 2024 · $28k

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.

1
HealthTexas Provider Network

To deliver the highest value patient experience through quality, safety, accessibility, and cost-effectiveness, enhanced by medical education and research in collaboration with Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH).

Health
2
Baylor Regional Medical Center at Grapevine

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
3
South Texas Rural Health Services

South Texas Rural Health Services, Inc. provides charitable health services, including the recruitment of health care personnel to the rural service area, and primarily serves the low income population.

Health
4
Texas Community Counseling

When care is within reach, lives change. Texas Community Counseling is a faith-based nonprofit committed to bringing hope and healing through mental health care to the communities that need it the most. We empower individuals to heal,…

Human Services
5
Behavioral Health Solutions of South Texas

To develop and implement effective age-appropriate, consumer-driven, evidence-based services to prevent and reduce substance use and strengthen mental wellness across the southernmost Texas communities.

Human Services
6
Scott & White Hospital-College Station

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
7
Texas Non-Profit Hospice Alliance

The Texas Nonprofit Hospice Alliance (TNPHA) is a group of nonprofit hospices dedicated to sharing best practices and providing quality care for individuals with life-limiting illnesses.

Human Services
8
Texas Palliative Care

Texas palliative care operates to strengthen and further the goals and purpose of hospice of east texas, a texas non-profit corporation.

Health
9
Baptist Hospitals of Southeast Texas

The mission of Baptist Hospitals of Southeast Texas is to perform sacred work by uniting kindness, quality, and healing through the provision of health care services to the community.

Health
10
Baylor Research Institute

To improve the care and well being of our community, nationally and internationally, through innovative clinically relevant research that is consistent with the mission, vision and values of Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH).

Health
11
Carter BloodCare

Carter bloodcare saves lives by making transfusion possible.

Health
12
South Texas Pregnancy Care Center

Crisis pregnancy counseling.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Buckner Children & Family Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Garlyn Place. 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 28 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%12%<5yr12%8%5–10yr21%20%10–20yr16%28%20–35yr11%12%35–55yr20%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%30%<5yr12%1%5–10yr21%6%10–20yr16%48%20–35yr11%4%35–55yr20%12%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 12% of your grantees by number, and just 30% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/30
the rest of the field
13%
186/1,421

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.

04the grantee network

25 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 61 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
10/25
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHEAST — $480,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHEASTIndividual grant recipient — $420,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUNITED CHRISTIAN CARE CENTER OF — $243,400 · OtherUNITED CHRISTIAN CARE CENTER OFRAPE & SUICIDE CRISIS CENTER OF — $147,500 · OtherRAPE & SUICIDE CRISIS CENTER OFAMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS — $140,000 · OtherAMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSSVIDOR INDEPENDENT SCHOOL — $130,000 · OtherVIDOR INDEPENDENT SCHOOLTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH — $125,000 · Other+37 more — $679,148 · Other+37 moreORANGE CHRISTIAN SERVICES INC — $190,000 · Human ServicesORANGE CHRISTIA…GARLYN PLACE — $110,000 · Human ServicesGARLYN PLACEBUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC — $107,650 · Human ServicesBUCKNER CHILDRE…HOSPICE CARE TEAM INC — $24,000 · Human ServicesHOSPICE CARE TE…+2 more — $17,500 · Human ServicesJulie Rogers Gift of Life Program — $120,000 · HealthStable-Spirit — $55,920 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc — $10,000 · Health+1 more — $4,945 · HealthADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN INC CASA OF THE SABINE NECHES REGION — $175,000 · Civil RightsGirl Scouts of San Jacinto Council — $51,000 · Youth DevelopmentORANGE COUNTY SPECIAL ANGELS RODEO — $7,200 · Youth DevelopmentBUCKNER RETIREMENT SERVICES INC — $5,000 · Housing & ShelterSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC — $5,000 · Housing & ShelterEMBRACING FREEDOM MINISTRY — $5,000 · Crime & LegalCRIME STOPPERS OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS INC — $5,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$2,365,048Human Services$449,150Health$190,865Civil Rights$175,000Youth Development$58,200Housing & Shelter$10,000Crime & Legal$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetORANGE CHRISTIAN SERVICES INC — $190,000 over 6y, 16% of budgetADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN INC CASA OF THE SABINE NECHES REGION — $175,000 over 6y, 7.0% of budgetJulie Rogers Gift of Life Program — $120,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetGARLYN PLACE — $110,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetBUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC — $107,650 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetStable-Spirit — $55,920 over 6y, 6.8% of budgetGirl Scouts of San Jacinto Council — $51,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBig Thicket Association — $27,000 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetSamaritan Counseling Center — $25,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetHOSPICE CARE TEAM INC — $24,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA - THREE RIVERS COUNCIL — $15,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSoutheast Texas Food Bank Inc — $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSYMPHONY OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS INC — $11,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetORANGE COUNTY SPECIAL ANGELS RODEO — $7,200 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetLITTLE CYPRESS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBUCKNER RETIREMENT SERVICES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEMBRACING FREEDOM MINISTRY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCRIME STOPPERS OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetNEHEMIAH'S VISION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHope Center for Crisis Pregnancy dba Hope Womens Resource Clinic — $4,945 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ROSE — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 ORANGE CHRISTIAN SERVICES INC
  • Who funds ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN INC CASA OF THE SABINE NECHES REGION
  • Who funds Julie Rogers Gift of Life Program
  • Who funds GARLYN PLACE
  • Who funds BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC
  • Who funds Stable-Spirit
  • Who funds Girl Scouts of San Jacinto Council
  • Who funds Big Thicket Association
  • Who funds Samaritan Counseling Center
  • Who funds HOSPICE CARE TEAM INC
  • Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA - THREE RIVERS COUNCIL
  • Who funds Southeast Texas Food Bank Inc
  • Who funds SYMPHONY OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS INC
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc
  • Who funds ORANGE COUNTY SPECIAL ANGELS RODEO
  • Who funds SOUTHEAST TEXAS ARTS COUNCIL INC

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.

Mamie McFaddin Ward Heritage FoundationTX26.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mamie McFaddin Ward Heritage Foundation · Foundation for Southeast Texas Inc · B a and E W Steinhagen Benevolent Trust · Mechia Foundation · Young Mens Business League of Beaumont · He and Kate Dishman Charitable Trust · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Union Pacific Foundation · United Way of Orange County Inc · Wilton and Effie Hebert Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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 H H and Edna Houseman Charitable Tr 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your 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
    10report 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, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 61 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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