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Houston Community Toolbank Inc
The Houston Community ToolBank is a tool lending program that provides other non-profit organizations with year round access to quality tools for use in volunteer projects and facility grounds maintenance.
$185k
Granted FY2024
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01What you fund
01beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2020
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2021
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2022
disasterrecoverysociallives
2023
counselingsaveanimalsfindchannelview isdlivessocial
2024
foodcrisisrepairing
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
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Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
Grant detail is referenced in an attached schedule not included in the e-file. Total reported in the filing: $185,174.
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Median grant
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States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
02The need
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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.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your 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.
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Houston Habitat for Humanity Inc
Houston Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
Housing & Shelter
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Houston MediaSource
Houston MediaSource provides public access cable television programming for the City of Houston.
Arts & Culture
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Houston Local Information
To strengthen democracy and improve the lives of all Houstonians one story at a time.
Arts & Culture
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TrueWorks Houston
To see well-formed people create well-formed ventures and transform our city.
Religion
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Trees for Houston
Trees For Houston grows, plants and maintains trees throughout the greater Houston area.
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Htx Hope Haven
We are moving people from crisis to lifelong self-sufficiency. We help the homeless and marginalized people in our community navigate through the services available to become self-supporting contributing members of our community.
Human Services
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LifeHouse of Houston Inc
LifeHouse operates an apartment complex for shelter and support for pregnant women and new mothers.
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Houston Christian Foundation dba
Houston Christian Foundation (HCF), an affiliate of the National Christian Foundation (NCF), was created to facilitate Christian giving by offering the convenience and efficiency of donor-advised funds through NCF. HCF provides educational…
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Family Service Center of Houston
To provide a wide range of health & human services for families in the Houston community.
Human Services
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Houston Parks Board
To expand, improve, and protect parks and greenspace in the Houston region.
Philanthropy
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Houston Area Women's Center
To help those affected by domestic and sexual violence to move their lives forward.
Human Services
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Breakthrough Houston
Breakthrough Houston works with highly motivated, traditionally underrepresented students to achieve post-secondary success and empowers aspiring leaders to become the next generation of educators and advocates.
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is West Houston Assistance Ministries Inc and the most unlike its peers is Channelview Isd Education 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.
Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
4%1/27
the rest of the field
16%
3,230/20,414
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.
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.
United Way of Greater HoustonTX28.6× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: United Way of Greater Houston · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Houston Food Bank · Baxter Trust Co Private Foundation Services · The Methodist Hospital · Texas Instruments Foundation · Isla Carroll Turner Friendship Trust · Astros Foundation · Episcopal Health Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · Centerpoint Energy 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.
04Through Plinth
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Find your warmest path to Houston Community Toolbank Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
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