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Houston Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k83 grants · $211k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $304k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MIDDLE WAY HOUSE | $50,000 |
| HOOSIER HILLS FOOD BANK | $30,000 |
| GAIA GLOBAL HEALTH | $30,000 |
| HOLMES PRESBYTERIAN CONFERENCE ASSOC INC | $27,569 |
| COMMUNITY FOODBANK OF NJ | $25,000 |
| PEACE FOR DC | $25,000 |
| BRIDGES TO COMMUNITY | $25,000 |
| NEIGHBORS LINK CORPORATION | $24,506 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF BLOOMINGTON & MONROE COUNTIES | $20,000 |
| EPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT | $20,000 |
| BEDFORD PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $15,000 |
| BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY | $12,215 |
| MPAC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER | $10,000 |
| SPENCER PRIDE | $10,000 |
| MT KISCO INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY (THE PANTRY) | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $240k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 35% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 8% of Houston Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +23% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
103 repeat relationships — 68 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k 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
- HHHOOSIER HILLS FOOD BANK INC7× · 2019–2025 · $190k · revenue +33%
- BTBRIDGES TO COMMUNITY INC7× · 2019–2025 · $183k · revenue +0%
- GAGLOBAL AIDS INTERFAITH ALLIANCE4× · 2019–2022 · $155k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- CCFBMCORGone grant, 2023 · $50k
- HCHOLMES CAMP & RETREAT CTRone grant, 2023 · $25k
- IHISAIAH HOUSE INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +64%
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.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…
World coffee research unites the global coffee industry to drive science-based agricultural solutions to urgently secure a diverse and sustainable supply of quality coffee today and for generations to come. our mission is to grow, protect,…
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
Environment next supports individuals, nonprofits and businesses around the world on solutions to complex climate issues. we provide leadership, outreach and communication support, grants, and investments to empower leaders and their ideas…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Common impact's mission is to strengthen the capacity of social change organizations, enabling them to better run and scale their programs. through its partnership with companies, common impact taps into the business skills and expertise…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mile High United Way Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hudson Chorale Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
107 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. 107 of the 172 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 HOOSIER HILLS FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGES TO COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL AIDS INTERFAITH ALLIANCE (GAIA) ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORS LINK CORP ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF BLOOMINGTON AND MONROE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc ↗
- Who funds Bucknell University ↗
- Who funds MIDDLE WAY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds PEACE FOR DC ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds GREATER NEWARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S AID AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds EPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
- Who funds SPENCER PRIDE ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity of Monroe County ↗
- Who funds BEACON INC ↗
- Who funds WE WANT THE LAND COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds HOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds EmbrellaInc ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Habitat For Humanity Of The Charlotte Region ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Smithville Charitable Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Bloomington and Monroe County Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · United Way of South Central Indiana · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Curry Family Foundation Inc · Baxter International Foundation · The Brave Heart Foundation Inc · For the Girls Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey
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.
- Isaiah House Inc — 21% of income from government
- Children's Aid and Family Services Inc — 1% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Wheaton College — 0% of income from government
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.
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