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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 FY2025(still arriving)
33
Grants FY2025
24
Organizations funded FY2024
33%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$7,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$110,000
Organizations funded a year
21 to 24
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$7.3M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations H H and Edna Houseman Charitable Tr funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $94k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Crime & LegalHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving33$532k39%
FY202424$432k33%
FY202324$859k29%
FY202221$415k19%
FY202121$470k24%
FY202024$550kn/a
93% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

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

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Orange Christian Services Inc$190,000616%
Advocates for Children Inc Casa of the Sabine Neches Region$175,00067%
Julie Rogers Gift of Life Program$120,00061%
Garlyn Place$110,00018%
Buckner Children & Family Services Inc$107,65060%
Stable-Spirit$55,92067%
Girl Scouts of San Jacinto Council$51,00060%
Lamar University$40,8005n/a
Fishers of Men Ministries$40,0002n/a
Big Thicket Association$27,00055%
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All grantees of H H and Edna Houseman Charitable Tr by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Orange Christian Services Inc$190,000616%
Advocates for Children Inc Casa of the Sabine Neches Region$175,00067%
Julie Rogers Gift of Life Program$120,00061%
Garlyn Place$110,00018%
Buckner Children & Family Services Inc$107,65060%
Stable-Spirit$55,92067%
Girl Scouts of San Jacinto Council$51,00060%
Lamar University$40,8005n/a
Fishers of Men Ministries$40,0002n/a
Big Thicket Association$27,00055%
Samaritan Counseling Center$25,00017%
Hospice Care Team Inc$24,00040%
Boy Scouts of America - Three Rivers Council$15,00031%
Southeast Texas Food Bank Inc$12,50020%
Symphony of Southeast Texas Inc$11,00021%
American Heart Association Inc$10,00010%
Orange County Special Angels Rodeo$7,20016%
Southeast Texas Arts Council Inc$7,0002n/a
Crime Stoppers of Southeast Texas Inc$5,00012%
Sleep in Heavenly Peace Inc$5,00010%
Nehemiah's Vision Inc$5,00012%
Buckner Retirement Services Inc$5,00010%
Beaumont Pets Alive$5,00011%
Embracing Freedom Ministry$5,00011%
Little Cypress Christian Academy$5,00011%
Hope Center for Crisis Pregnancy dba Hope Womens Resource Clinic$4,94510%
Wells of Agape Inc$2,2201n/a
Barefoot on the Bayou Film Group$2,0001n/a
The Rose$2,00010%
Jackson Community Center$1,5401n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.2M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget H H and Edna Houseman Charitable Tr supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetCrime Stoppers of Southeast Texas Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSleep in Heavenly Peace Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNehemiah's Vision Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetBuckner Retirement Services Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBeaumont Pets Alive: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetEmbracing Freedom Ministry: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLittle Cypress Christian Academy: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 24.

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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.

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

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.

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About H H and Edna Houseman Charitable Tr

How much does H H and Edna Houseman Charitable Tr give?
H H and Edna Houseman Charitable Tr reported 33 grants totaling $532,490 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 24 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does H H and Edna Houseman Charitable Tr fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (35%), Health (23%), Crime & Legal (6%).
Who are H H and Edna Houseman Charitable Tr's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Orange Christian Services Inc ($190k), Advocates for Children Inc Casa of the Sabine Neches Region ($175k), Julie Rogers Gift of Life Program ($120k).
Does H H and Edna Houseman Charitable Tr fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does H H and Edna Houseman Charitable Tr accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as H H and Edna Houseman Charitable Tr?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mamie McFaddin Ward Heritage Foundation, Foundation for Southeast Texas Inc, B a and E W Steinhagen Benevolent Trust.
Where is H H and Edna Houseman Charitable Tr based?
H H and Edna Houseman Charitable Tr is based in LA.

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 61 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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