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Harvey R Houck Jr and Patricia W Houck Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
63
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Philanthropy$1.7MCrime & Legal$1.4MEmployment$1.3MHuman Services$1.2MCivil Rights$1.2MHealth$865kFood & Nutrition$786kPublic Safety & Disaster$388kOther$0
02FY2024 · 63 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k30 grants · $113k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $267k
  • $50k–250k17 grants · $1.6M
$10,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$28M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ACLU Foundation of Texas Inc$200,000
Schwab Charitable$200,000
Goodwill Industries of Houston$150,000
Houston Food Bank$150,000
Oficina Legal Del Pueblo Unido Inc DBA Texas Civil Rights Project$100,000
Hope & Healing Center and Institute$100,000
ACLU Foundation of Texas Inc$100,000
American National Red Cross$95,000
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$90,000
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation$85,000
First Unitarian Church of Dallas$60,000
Avenue Community Development Corporation$50,000
United Against Human Trafficking$50,000
Children at Risk$50,000
Genesys Works$50,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Camp Kesem National: $1k → 14%Koins for Kenya: $500 → 6%Jewish Family Service: $150k → 16%Jewish Family Service: $5k → 16%Houston Area Women's Center Inc: $300k → 16%Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston: $13k → 16%Houston Area Women's Center Inc: $50k → 16%Houston Area Women's Center Inc: $50k → 16%Houston Area Women's Center Inc: $50k → 16%Houston Area Women's Center Inc: $50k → 16%Houston Area Women's Center Inc: $50k → 16%Houston Area Women's Center Inc: $25k → 16%Boat People SOS Inc: $5k → 16%YMCA of Greater Houston Area: $13k → 16%YMCA of Greater Houston Area: $5k → 16%The Center for Pursuit: $10k → 16%The Center for Pursuit: $10k → 16%The Center for Pursuit: $5k → 16%Memorial Assistance Ministries Inc: $10k → 16%Memorial Assistance Ministries Inc: $10k → 16%Memorial Assistance Ministries Inc: $10k → 16%Memorial Assistance Ministries Inc: $10k → 16%Memorial Assistance Ministries Inc: $8k → 16%Northwest Assistance Ministries: $50k → 16%Northwest Assistance Ministries: $25k → 16%Reach Unlimited Inc: $1k → 16%United Against Human Trafficking: $50k → 16%United Against Human Trafficking: $50k → 16%United Against Human Trafficking: $50k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
IL
NY
OR
OH
CA
UT
CO
VA
DC
HI
OK
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 12% of Harvey R Houck Jr and Patricia W Houck Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Harvey R Houck Jr and Patricia W Houck Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.7M · 68 repeat orgs$435k to everyone else

68 repeat relationships: 51 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

68
29

Total granted

$8.7M
$405k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+27%

Still filing today

85%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationEnvironmentHealthCivil RightsArts & CultureOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • GI
    GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF HOUSTON
    6× · 2018–2024 · $850k · revenue +44%
  • The Houston Food Bank
    7× · 2018–2024 · $786k · revenue +28%
  • ACLU Foundation of Texas Inc
    6× · 2019–2024 · $740k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • SA
    SHARE ALL OUR BLESSINGS INC
    one grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue -30% · 38% of their budget
  • AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $65k · revenue +110%
  • EP
    ESPERANZA PEACE AND JUSTICE CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -17%
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.

04Its field

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.

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Houston Local Information Initiative Inc

The Houston Local Information Initiative, Inc. provides public service journalism that reflects the civic needs of the diverse communities comprising Greater Houston.

Arts & Culture
2
Breakthrough Houston

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.

Education
3
American Civil Liberties Union of Texas Inc

The ACLU of Texas works with communities, at the State Capitol, and in the courts to protect and advance civil rights and civil liberties for every Texan, no exceptions.

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4
Collaborative for Children

The mission of Collaborative for Children is to meaningfully improve the quality of early childhood education and care for Greater Houston's children through those most influential in their lives.

Human Services
5
Houston Museum of Natural Science

The mission of the Houston Museum of Natural Science shall be to preserve and advance the general knowledge of natural science; to enhance in individuals the knowledge of and delight in natural science and related subjects; and to maintain…

Arts & Culture
6
The Women's Resource of Greater Houston

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…

Philanthropy
7
Good Reason Houston Inc

Good Reason Houston strives to grow and sustain great schools while advocating for families and communities.

Education
8
Houston Independent School District Foundation

The HISD Foundation is dedicated to mobilizing the local community to support innovative priorities in HISD to improve outcomes for all students in the district. Our mission is to fund projects and programs of merit that fall outside of…

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9
American Leadership Forum Houston Gulf Coast Chapter

American Leadership Forum (ALF) brings together, in classes, leaders with diverse perspectives so they can build relationships, learn to dialogue and respectfully differ, and work together for the good of our community.

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10
Rebuilding Together Houston

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…

Housing & Shelter
11
Houston Christian Foundation dba National Christian Foundation Houston

As the Houston affiliate of the National Christian Foundation (NCF), our mission is to serve and encourage givers to grow as faithful stewards who give wisely to further the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

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12
Central Houston Inc

See schedule ocentral houston champions a thriving downtown by connecting influential leaders through initiatives that advance the future of business and community for all.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Houston Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Sabinal Alumni. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

93 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 93 of the 111 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
91/93
Grantees still filing
62/93
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Houston Food Bank: $785,500 · OtherThe Houston Food BankOFICINA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO UNIDO INC: $435,000 · OtherOFICINA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO UNIDO INCAmerican National Red Cross: $347,500 · OtherAmerican National Red CrossTexas Women's Foundation: $300,000 · OtherTexas Women's FoundationAvenue Community Development Corpor: $250,000 · OtherHope and Healing Center & Institute: $525,000 · OtherHope and Healing Center & InstituteFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $389,075 · OtherFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUNDTexas Children's Hospital: $200,000 · OtherAvenue Community Development Corporation: $200,000 · Other+60 more: $1,587,900 · Other+60 moreHouston Area Women's Center: $575,000 · Human ServicesHouston Area…UNITED AGAINST HUMAN TRAFFICKING: $300,000 · Human ServicesUNITED AGAIN…JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $155,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMIL…NORTHWEST ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES: $75,000 · Human ServicesNORTHWEST AS…Memorial Assistance Ministries: $47,500 · Human Services+7 more: $77,500 · Human Services+7 moreDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $870,000 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVIS…Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $85,000 · PhilanthropyAmalgamated…+5 more: $100,000 · Philanthropy+5 moreACLU Foundation of Texas Inc: $740,000 · Civil RightsACLU Found…THE TAHIRIH JUSTICE CENTER: $150,000 · Civil RightsTHE TAHIRI…AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $65,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN C…FE Y JUSTICIA WORKER CENTER: $35,000 · Civil Rights+2 more: $20,000 · Civil RightsChildren At Risk: $687,000 · Crime & LegalChildren …LONE STAR LEGAL AID: $180,000 · Crime & LegalLONE STAR…SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $75,000 · Crime & LegalSOUTHERN …+1 more: $1,000 · Crime & LegalGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF HOUSTON: $850,000 · EmploymentGENESYS WORKS: $365,000 · EducationWORKERS DEFENSE PROJECT: $130,000 · EducationSAFE 4 COMMUNITIES: $60,500 · EducationHOUSTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $44,500 · EducationSPRING BRANCH EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $23,025 · Education+7 more: $52,500 · Education
Other$5,019,975Human Services$1,230,000Philanthropy$1,055,000Civil Rights$1,010,000Crime & Legal$943,000Employment$850,000Education$675,525

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $870,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF HOUSTON: $850,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $785,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetACLU Foundation of Texas Inc: $740,000 over 6y, 9.1% of budgetChildren At Risk: $687,000 over 6y, 5.3% of budgetHouston Area Women's Center: $575,000 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetHope and Healing Center & Institute: $525,000 over 7y, 3.2% of budgetOFICINA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO UNIDO INC: $435,000 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $389,075 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGENESYS WORKS: $365,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetUNITED AGAINST HUMAN TRAFFICKING: $300,000 over 6y, 4.5% of budgetTexas Women's Foundation: $300,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetTexas Children's Hospital: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAvenue Community Development Corporation: $200,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetLONE STAR LEGAL AID: $180,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $155,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetA 2ND CUP: $155,000 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetTHE TAHIRIH JUSTICE CENTER: $150,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetWORKERS DEFENSE PROJECT: $130,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetProject Row Houses: $102,500 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetInterfaith Ministries for Greater Houston: $102,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSHARE ALL OUR BLESSINGS INC: $100,000 over 1y, 38% of budgetTEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT EDUCATION FUND: $90,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $85,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES: $75,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHouston Habitat for Humanity Inc: $75,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $65,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSTON YOUTH SYMPHONY: $65,000 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetSAFE 4 COMMUNITIES: $60,500 over 7y, 3.5% of budgetESPERANZA PEACE AND JUSTICE CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetMemorial Assistance Ministries: $47,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHOUSTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $44,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFE Y JUSTICIA WORKER CENTER: $35,000 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetHouston Botanic Garden: $32,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATIVE PRAIRIES ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS: $32,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area: $32,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Parks Board: $31,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLINK HOUSTON: $30,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetAIR ALLIANCE HOUSTON: $30,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetMental Health America of Greater Houston Inc: $27,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $27,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Zoo Inc: $26,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLiving Hope Wheelchair Association: $25,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR PURSUIT: $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHermann Park Conservancy: $25,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWest Street Recovery: $25,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budget
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.

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.

Houston Endowment IncGreater Houston Commu…Albert & Ethel Herzst…Shell USA Company Fou…United Way of Greater…The Brown Foundation …Harry S & Isabel C Ca…The Elkins FoundationCenterpoint Energy Fo…MD Anderson FoundationStrake FoundationJohn P McGovern Found…
Houston Endowment IncTX56.7× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Houston Endowment Inc · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · United Way of Greater Houston · The Brown Foundation Inc · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · The Elkins Foundation · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · MD Anderson Foundation · Strake Foundation · John P McGovern Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Harvey R Houck Jr and Patricia W Houck Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Harvey R Houck Jr and Patricia W Houck Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 46%
  • World Neighbors Inc: 46% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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