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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
Jewish Family Service of the Desert$150,000
PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL FILM SOCIETY$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
PUEBLO UNIDO CDC$50,000
HANSON HOUSE FOUNDATION INC$50,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its 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%REGIONAL ACCESS PROJECT FOUNDATION INC: $50k → 11%Cove Communities Senior Association: $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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
MI
CA
CO
MO
VA
DC
GA
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
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.

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%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Olive Crest; 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.
04the grantee network

66 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetPUEBLO UNIDO CDC: $100,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetVOICES FOR CHILDREN: $100,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCHP 11-99 FOUNDATION: $95,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetOLIVE CREST: $90,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAnimal Samaritans: $90,000 over 2y, 0.4% 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 budgetALZHEIMERS COACHELLA VALLEY: $50,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetOLD TOWN ARTISAN STUDIO INC: $50,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHELTER FROM THE STORM INC: $50,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetDESERT BEST FRIENDS CLOSET: $45,000 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE DESERT MOUNTAINS: $45,000 over 2y, 2.8% 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 budgetStroke Recovery Center dba Neuro Vitality Center: $30,425 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetAngel View Inc: $30,425 over 3y, 0.0% 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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 tightly interlocked group: 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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Houston Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Houston Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 78 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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