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Houston Community Toolbank Inc

Houston toolbank is a capacity builder providing tax exempt organizations with a physical resource inventory for their programs.

$22k
Granted FY2025still arriving
Grants FY2025still arriving
States reached
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2025

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: $22,268.

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Median grant
States reached
$1.3M
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 — 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.

1
Houston Habitat for Humanity Inc

Seeking to put God's love into action, Houston Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope to provide a world where everyone has a decent place to live.

Housing & Shelter
2
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
3
LifeHouse of Houston Inc

LifeHouse is a Christ-centered ministry ensuring life for unborn children by providing opportunities for housing, help, and hope for young women during their pregnancies and beyond.

4
Coalition for the Homeless of Houston Harris County

The coalition for the homeless of houston/harris county acts as a catalyst, uniting partners and maximizing resources to move people experiencing homelessness into permanent housing with supportive services.

Housing & Shelter
5
Family Service Center of Houston and Harris County

The mission of Family Service Center of Houston and Harris County (Family Houston) is to create a stronger community for tomorrow by helping individuals and families meet the challenges they face today. We help others help themselves.

Human Services
6
West Street Recovery

West Street Recovery's mission is to connect communities to the resources they need to rebuild after climate disasters such as Hurricane Harvey and build resilient, secure, and stronger communities.

Public Safety & Disaster
7
South Central Houston Action Council Inc

The organization provides medical services in the form of primary and preventive care to underserved and underinsured residents of harris county.

8
Trees for Houston

Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.

9
Texas Low-Income Housing Information Service

Our mission is to support low-income Texans efforts to achieve the American dream of a decent, affordable home in a quality neighborhood. We believe that Texas critical low-income housing and community development needs can best be solved…

Housing & Shelter
10
Houston Access to Urban Sustainability Project

Provide affordable cooperative housing.

Housing & Shelter
11
Houston Area Urban Community Development Corporation

The mission of the organization is to provide decent affordable housing for workforce and other residents, stimulate investment and improve quality of life in communities

Housing & Shelter
12
Houston Responds

To unite, empower and mobilize churches to multiply collective impact on critical needs in their community.

Public Safety & Disaster

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montgomery County Youth Services and the most unlike its peers is United States Veterans Initiative. 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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number30%9%<5yr17%23%5–10yr21%14%10–20yr18%27%20–35yr8%23%35–55yr8%5%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value30%0%<5yr17%0%5–10yr21%0%10–20yr18%0%20–35yr8%0%35–55yr8%0%55yr+

The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% 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 19% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%1/28
the rest of the field
19%
3,801/20,413

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× 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 · Houston Endowment Inc · The Houston Food Bank · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Baker Hughes Foundation · Astros Foundation · The Methodist Hospital · Baxter Trust Co Private Foundation Services · Jacob and Terese Hershey Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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