· Public charity
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 9 grants below total $97,788 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $101,788 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $4,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k5 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $66k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAN JACINTO COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| HOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW & RODEO INC | $18,149 |
| WALLER COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION | $12,500 |
| EAST MONTGOMERY COUNTY FAIR | $10,000 |
| BRAZORIA COUNTY FAIR | $7,000 |
| FORT BEND COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION | $7,000 |
| HARRIS COUNTY FAIR | $6,700 |
| COLORADO COUNTY FAIR ASSOC | $5,939 |
| GALVESTON COUNTY FAIR & RODEO | $5,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 83% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +79% since the first grant, against -21% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2022, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
HOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW AND RODEO INC6× · 2017–2022 · $103k · revenue +84%- SJSAN JACINTO COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC6× · 2017–2022 · $100k · revenue +79%
- WCWALLER COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION3× · 2018–2022 · $29k · revenue +54%
Funded once
CANDIDone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -21%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The state fair of texas celebrates all things texan by promoting agriculture, education, and community involvement through quality entertainment in a family-friendly environment. the state fair of texas is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit…
Socorro county fair and rodeo association organizes and maintains the annual county fair which serves the surrounding communities and supports 4-h and ffa programs
The organization shall sponsor, supervise, and support the youth of calhoun county, texas, through 4-h clubs, future farmers of america, future homemakers of america in order to increase their knowledge and experience in the breeding,…
Further the education of Atascosa County youth
Txffa makes a positive difference in the lives of students by developing their potential for premier leadership, personal growth, and career success through agricultural education.
Fair and rodeo to promote the youth of county through ag programs and scholarships and to stimulate economic activity and growth in the surrounding community.
Administration of fond du lac county fair - fond du lac, wisconsin
Scholarships and Premiums paid to exhibitor to encourage the continued education of agriculture in the youth or our community.
A volunteer organization to promote the education and development of youth in agriculture in Live Oak County, Texas and surrounding counties.
To hold a county fair & related activities & events.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Galveston County Fair & Rodeo Inc and the most unlike its peers is San Jacinto Community College Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 10 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds HOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW AND RODEO INC ↗
- Who funds SAN JACINTO COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WALLER COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Montgomery County Fair Association ↗
- Who funds COLORADO COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Fort Bend County Fair Association ↗
- Who funds Brazoria County Fat Stock and Fair Association Inc ↗
- Who funds GALVESTON COUNTY FAIR & RODEO INC ↗
- Who funds CANDID ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community 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 organization Hold'Em & Hit'Em Club 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.
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.