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Hold'Em & Hit'Em Club

To support youth, education and other charities through participation in junior livestock show and other school fundraisers, contributions of college scholarships and direct donations to other charities.

$111k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
10
Itemized grants FY2025
11
Organizations funded FY2024
9%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$99k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$8,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$18,565
Organizations funded a year
3 to 11
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$396k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 9% of the organizations Hold'Em & Hit'Em Club funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
Recreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther
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 arriving10$99k10%
FY202411$113k9%
FY20238$80k0%
FY20229$98k11%
FY20216$54k50%
FY20205$53k0%
FY20193$40k33%
FY20184$57k50%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Recreation & Sports$196kEducation$113kYouth Development$12kPhilanthropy$10k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of Hold'Em & Hit'Em Club by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Inc$155,80990%
San Jacinto Community College Foundation Inc$140,00091%
Waller County Fair Association$51,41161%
Montgomery County Fair Association$50,07562%
Colorado County Fair Association Inc$38,15161%
Harris County Fair$35,6205n/a
Brazoria County Fat Stock and Fair Association Inc$33,85540%
Candid$33,00040%
Galveston County Fair & Rodeo Inc$32,31840%
Fort Bend County Fair Association$28,39240%
North Harris Montgomery Community College District$15,0001n/a
Texas State University$10,0001n/a

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Hold'Em & Hit'Em Club supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHouston Livestock Show and Rodeo Inc: $155,809 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSan Jacinto Community College Foundation Inc: $140,000 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetWaller County Fair Association: $51,411 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetMontgomery County Fair Association: $50,075 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetColorado County Fair Association Inc: $38,151 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetBrazoria County Fat Stock and Fair Association Inc: $33,855 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCandid: $33,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGalveston County Fair & Rodeo Inc: $32,318 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetFort Bend County Fair Association: $28,392 over 4y, 0.2% 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 9.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Greater Houston Community FoundationTX12.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Hold'Em & Hit'Em Club

How much does Hold'Em & Hit'Em Club give?
Hold'Em & Hit'Em Club reported 10 itemized grants totaling $99,290, out of $110,990 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Hold'Em & Hit'Em Club fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (59%), Education (34%), Youth Development (4%).
Who are Hold'Em & Hit'Em Club's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Inc ($156k), San Jacinto Community College Foundation Inc ($140k), Waller County Fair Association ($51k).
Does Hold'Em & Hit'Em Club fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Hold'Em & Hit'Em Club?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation.
Where is Hold'Em & Hit'Em Club based?
Hold'Em & Hit'Em Club is based in TX.

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 12 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 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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