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Houston Family Foundation

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.

$2.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
44
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$400k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Arts & Culture$2.8MFood & Nutrition$2.3MHuman Services$2.2MEducation$2.2MHealth$2.0MPhilanthropy$973kYouth Development$495kAnimals$184kOther$0
02FY2024 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $44k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $360k
  • $50k–250k16 grants · $1.3M
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.0M
$35,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$58M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ONEFUTURE COACHELLA VALLEY$400,000
Palm Springs Air Museum Inc$346,000
Friends of Vancouver Foundation$291,700
PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL FILM SOCIETY$150,000
Jewish Family Service of the Desert$150,000
Desert Arc$125,000
Mizell Senior Center of Palm Springs$100,000
Marthas Village and Kitchen Inc$100,000
COACHELLA VALLEY RESCUE MISSION$75,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF$74,500
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CATHEDRAL CITY$70,000
VOICES FOR CHILDREN$60,000
OLIVE CREST$55,000
MAMA'S HOUSE$50,000
ANIMAL SAMARITANS$50,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Marthas Village and Kitchen Inc: $100k → 11%Marthas Village and Kitchen Inc: $100k → 11%Jewish Family Service of the Desert: $200k → 11%Jewish Family Service of the Desert: $150k → 11%Jewish Family Service of the Desert: $75k → 11%PALM SPRINGS YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS FESTIVAL: $3k → 11%OPERATION SAFE HOUSE INC: $115k → 11%OPERATION SAFE HOUSE INC: $40k → 11%ANGEL VIEW INC: $10k → 11%ANGEL VIEW INC: $10k → 11%ANGEL VIEW INC: $10k → 11%FAMILY YMCA OF THE DESERT: $130k → 11%Cove Communities Senior Association: $100k → 11%REGIONAL ACCESS PROJECT FOUNDATION INC: $50k → 11%Cove Communities Senior Association: $50k → 11%REGIONAL ACCESS PROJECT FOUNDATION INC: $50k → 11%FAMILY YMCA OF THE DESERT: $50k → 11%DESERT BEST FRIENDS CLOSET: $25k → 11%REGIONAL ACCESS PROJECT FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 11%DESERT BEST FRIENDS CLOSET: $20k → 11%Cove Communities Senior Association: $15k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
MN
MI
CA
CO
MO
VA
DC
GA

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 edge
repeat funding

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$13M · 53 repeat orgs$483k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

53 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

53
16

Total granted

$13M
$419k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
0%

Still filing today

85%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $64k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationAnimalsArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther

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

  • FI
    FOOD IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION INC
    5× · 2019–2023 · $2.3M · revenue +131%
  • PALM SPRINGS AIR MUSEUM INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +55%
  • OC
    ONEFUTURE COACHELLA VALLEY
    3× · 2022–2024 · $925k · revenue +111%

Funded once

  • CS
    College Success Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $143k · revenue -14%
  • AC
    ALZHEIMERS COACHELLA VALLEYgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +53%
  • SHELTER FROM THE STORM INC
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue 0%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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
Friends of the Palm SpringsAnimal Shelter

We are dedicated to building a community responsible for pet stewardship and humane treatment of animals.

Animals
2
Hospice of the Valleys Sc Inc

We foster reverence for life, relief of suffering, and compassion in loss for the terminally ill residents and their families in the communities we serve.

Human Services
3
The Desert Sanctuary Inc

To provide shelter and counseling for victims of domestic violence in the Barstow area.

Human Services
4
Center for Community Solutions

The mission is to end relationship and sexual violence by being a catalyst for caring communities and social justice. the vision is for all people to live full, free, expressive, and empowered lives in a safe, healthy, vibrant, and…

Health
5
Desert Spring Community Resource Center
Public Benefit
6
Desert View

Desert views mission is to support an individuals healing practice of christian science by providing christian science nursing whenever there is a need.

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7
The Greater Coachella Valley Chamber of Commerce

The Greater Coachella Valley Chamber of Commerce is a regional chamber formed in 2016 to support a diverse business community that spans nearly forty-five miles and serves the needs of nearly 500,000 visitors each year. As a business…

Community Improvement
8
Coachella Valley Journalism Foundation

The mission of the coachella valley journalism foundation is to promote and support excellent, sustainable community journalism in the coachella valley.

Arts & Culture
9
Coachella Valley Foster Kids

In 2019 the juvenile dependency attorneys in indio formed coachella valley foster kids. we represent on average 1200 to 1500 youths in the foster system. these kids have either been permanently removed from their parents, or are in the…

Youth Development
10
Conejo Valley Senior Concerns Inc

Senior concerns' mission is to provide programs and services which support and improve the health, well-being and quality of life for seniors and family caregivers.

Human Services
11
California Veterans Assistance

To provide programs to assist homeless veterans and veterans at risk of becoming homeless with personal skills, training and employment.

Human Services
12
Central Arizona Shelter Services Inc

The Organizations mission is to prevent and end homelessness among individuals and families while advancing compassionate community solutions.

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Olive Crest and the most unlike its peers is Million Kids. 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 36 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%2%<5yr16%10%5–10yr20%19%10–20yr17%19%20–35yr10%34%35–55yr12%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%0%<5yr16%9%5–10yr20%10%10–20yr17%24%20–35yr10%46%35–55yr12%12%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/68
the rest of the field
15%
8,693/58,080

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.

04the grantee network

66 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. 66 of the 78 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
65/66
Grantees still filing
44/66
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FOOD IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION INC — $2,305,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD IN NEED OF DIS…McCallum Theatre — $559,500 · OtherMcCallum TheatreDESERT ARC — $350,000 · OtherDESERT ARCMIZELL CENTER — $227,875 · OtherMIZELL CENTERFRIENDS OF SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY — $223,800 · OtherFRIENDS OF SIMON FRASER UNIV…RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF — $149,000 · OtherPALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL FILM SOCIETY — $450,000 · OtherPALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL F…BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF COACHELLA VALLEY — $280,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF COACHEL…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CATHEDRAL CITY — $135,000 · Other+27 more — $1,083,379 · Other+27 moreONEFUTURE COACHELLA VALLEY — $925,000 · EducationONEFUTURE COACH…UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION — $700,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF W…College Success Foundation — $142,500 · EducationCollege Success…TOOLS FOR TOMORROW INC — $65,000 · Education+5 more — $94,500 · EducationJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF THE DESERT — $425,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY …MAMA'S HOUSE MINISTRIES FKA HEARTBEAT AT 22 — $250,000 · Human ServicesMAMA'S HOUSE M…MARTHA'S VILLAGE AND KITCHEN INC — $200,000 · Human ServicesMARTHA'S VILLA…FAMILY YMCA OF THE DESERT — $180,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY YMCA OF…Cove Communities Senior Association DBA The Joslyn Center — $165,000 · Human ServicesCove Communiti…OPERATION SAFE HOUSE INC — $155,000 · Human ServicesOPERATION SAFE…COACHELLA VALLEY RESCUE MISSION — $140,000 · Human ServicesCOACHELLA VALL…REGIONAL ACCESS PROJECT FOUNDATION — $125,000 · Human ServicesREGIONAL ACCES…+4 more — $85,425 · Human ServicesPALM SPRINGS AIR MUSEUM INC — $1,514,732 · Arts & CulturePALM SPRINGS A…Friends of Florence — $149,700 · Arts & CultureFriends of Flo…+1 more — $50,000 · Arts & CultureEisenhower Medical Center — $668,500 · HealthEisenhower M…DAP Health Inc — $390,000 · HealthDAP Health I…DESERT CANCER FOUNDATION — $130,000 · HealthDESERT CANCE…OLIVE CREST — $90,000 · HealthOLIVE CRESTHanson House Foundation Inc — $77,500 · Health+9 more — $204,925 · Health+9 moreFRIENDS OF VANCOUVER FOUNDATION — $693,800 · PhilanthropyCSUSB PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION — $235,000 · Philanthropy+2 more — $44,100 · Philanthropy
Food & Nutrition$2,305,000Other$3,458,554Education$1,927,000Human Services$1,725,425Arts & Culture$1,714,432Health$1,560,925Philanthropy$972,900

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFOOD IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION INC — $2,305,000 over 5y, 6.3% of budgetPALM SPRINGS AIR MUSEUM INC — $1,514,732 over 6y, 7.8% of budgetONEFUTURE COACHELLA VALLEY — $925,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION — $700,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF VANCOUVER FOUNDATION — $693,800 over 6y, 18% of budgetEisenhower Medical Center — $668,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL FILM SOCIETY — $450,000 over 3y, 8.6% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF THE DESERT — $425,000 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetDAP Health Inc — $390,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetDESERT ARC — $350,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF COACHELLA VALLEY — $280,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetMAMA'S HOUSE MINISTRIES FKA HEARTBEAT AT 22 — $250,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetCSUSB PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION — $235,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetMIZELL CENTER — $227,875 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY — $223,800 over 6y, 27% of budgetMARTHA'S VILLAGE AND KITCHEN INC — $200,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetFAMILY YMCA OF THE DESERT — $180,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCove Communities Senior Association DBA The Joslyn Center — $165,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetOPERATION SAFE HOUSE INC — $155,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetFriends of Florence — $149,700 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetCollege Success Foundation — $142,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOACHELLA VALLEY RESCUE MISSION — $140,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CATHEDRAL CITY — $135,000 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetDESERT CANCER FOUNDATION — $130,000 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetREGIONAL ACCESS PROJECT FOUNDATION — $125,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetVOICES FOR CHILDREN — $100,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetPUEBLO UNIDO CDC — $100,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetCHP 11-99 FOUNDATION — $95,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetAnimal Samaritans — $90,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetOLIVE CREST — $90,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHanson House Foundation Inc — $77,500 over 2y, 11% of budgetTOOLS FOR TOMORROW INC — $65,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC — $65,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMERS COACHELLA VALLEY — $50,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetOLD TOWN ARTISAN STUDIO INC — $50,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetSHELTER FROM THE STORM INC — $50,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE DESERT MOUNTAINS — $45,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetDESERT BEST FRIENDS CLOSET — $45,000 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetACT FOR MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS — $40,425 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetAssistance League Coachella Valley — $40,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetJOHN F KENNEDY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetAMYS PURPOSE INC — $33,425 over 3y, 42% of budgetAngel View Inc — $30,425 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetStroke Recovery Center dba Neuro Vitality Center — $30,425 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetRead With Me Volunteer Programs — $30,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetCoachella Valley Mounted Rangers — $26,029 over 2y, 13% of budgetCoachella Valley Volunteers in Medicine — $25,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budget
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.

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.

Bighorn Golf Club Cha…Inland Empire Communi…The Champions Volunte…The Coeta and Donald …HN and Frances C Berg…The Auen FoundationRegional Access Proje…Anderson Childrens Fo…The Grace Helen Spear…Desert Community Foun…Impact Through Golf F…Charity Works
Bighorn Golf Club Charities IncCA74× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bighorn Golf Club Charities Inc · Inland Empire Community Foundation · The Champions Volunteer Foundation · The Coeta and Donald Barker Foundation · HN and Frances C Berger Foundation · The Auen Foundation · Regional Access Project Foundation · Anderson Childrens Foundation · The Grace Helen Spearman Foundation · Desert Community Foundation · Impact Through Golf Foundation · Charity Works

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 Houston Family Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    24report 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

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Houston Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Houston Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 78 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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