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Houston Health Foundation

HOUSTON HEALTH FOUNDATION (hhf) has the mission of creating private/public partnerships for sustainable health and wellness initiatives and programs in our communities.

$388k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$99k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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 FY2018–2025.

Health$2.0MEducation$347kHuman Services$238kEnvironment$112kCrime & Legal$111kReligion$90kPublic Safety & Disaster$60kYouth Development$50kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 2 grants below total $109,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $387,935 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $278,935 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $99k
$99,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL URBAN FELLOWS$99,000
CENTER FOR RECOVERY AND WELLNESS RESOURCES$10,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $353k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SISTAH 2 SISTAH: $50k → 8%BACK TO EDEN FELLOW PROGRAM: $46k → 16%MAGPIES AND PEACOCKS: $49k → 16%HOUSTON AREA WOMEN'S CENTER: $5k → 16%ALLIANCE OF COMMUNITY ASSIST MIN: $20k → 16%ALLIANCE OF COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE MINISTIRES INC: $10k → 16%RESCUE HOUSTON: $10k → 16%HOPE FOR FAMILIES: $6k → 16%THE LANDING: $21k → 16%THE LANDING: $8k → 16%UNITED AGAINST HUMAN TRAFFICKING: $10k → 16%COMMUNITY FAMILY CENTERS: $37k → 16%UNITED AGAINST HUMAN TRAFFICKING: $15k → 16%FE Y JUSTICIA WORKER CENTER: $47k → 16%COMMUNITY FAMILY CENTERS: $12k → 16%UNITED AGAINST HUMAN TRAFFICKING: $10k → 16%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.

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.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.7M · 15 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

15 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
27

Total granted

$1.7M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+49%

Still filing today

60%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 9% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $99k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalHealthArts & CultureOther

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

  • CF
    COMMUNITY FAMILY CENTERS INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $48k · revenue +22%
  • UA
    UNITED AGAINST HUMAN TRAFFICKING
    3× · 2018–2023 · $35k · revenue +87%
  • CA
    Collective Action for Youth
    2× · 2023–2024 · $33k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • WM
    William Marsh Rice University
    one grant, 2024 · $230k · revenue +15%
  • Prevention Institutegraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $82k · revenue +113%
  • BC
    Baylor College of Medicinegraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $58k · revenue +49%

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
Breakthrough Houston

The mission of Breakthrough Houston (BTH) is to work with highly motivated students to achieve post-secondary success and empower aspiring leaders to become the next generation of educational advocates.

Education
2
Urban Research and Resource Center Inc

Research and Community Support

Education
3
Redeeming Justice Network

Houston Legal Aid Center protects and advances the rights of the poor through the poor through the provision of pro bono or reduced cost legal services while also addressing the underlying spiritual and relational issues affecting…

Civil Rights
4
Fort Hood Treatment Court Mentor Group
Health
5
The Women's Resource of Greater Houston

See Schedule OThe Women's Resource of Greater Houston helps women and girls make choices toward becoming independent, productive, and financially stable. We fulfill our mission by recruiting volunteer instructors to deliver our programs in…

Philanthropy
6
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
7
Ufcs

Empower all students to lead choice-filled lives and increase the rate of college completion and viable career obtainment for historically underserved students. To better support students in mitigating and balancing school work and life…

Health
8
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
9
Rebuilding Together Houston

Rebuilding Together Houston is the only organization in Houston and Harris County providing free home repairs to hundreds of families each year. We employ licensed contractors to restore homes to safe, livable conditions, extending each…

Housing & Shelter
10
Houston Access to Urban Sustainability Project

Provide affordable cooperative housing.

Housing & Shelter
11
Elijah Rising

Elijah Rising's mission is to end sex trafficking through prayer, awareness, intervention, and restoration.

Human Services
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Houston Revision and the most unlike its peers is Sunnyside Community Redevelopment. 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 15 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number30%19%<5yr17%19%5–10yr21%22%10–20yr18%19%20–35yr8%11%35–55yr8%11%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value30%24%<5yr17%16%5–10yr21%14%10–20yr18%13%20–35yr8%10%35–55yr8%22%55yr+

The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 19% of your grantees by number, and just 24% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 8% lost their exemption, against 19% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
8%
3/39
the rest of the field
19%
3,799/20,402

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

25 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. 25 of the 43 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/25
Grantees still filing
14/25
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CITY OF HOUSTON- HEALTH DEPARTMENT — $932,208 · OtherCITY OF HOUSTON- HEALTH DEPARTMENTCITY OF HOUSTON — $136,824 · OtherCITY OF HOUSTONTWELVE 11 PARTNERS INC — $99,449 · OtherNATIONAL URBAN FELLOWS INC — $99,000 · Other+20 more — $658,029 · Other+20 moreSOTERIA INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS — $56,884 · Human ServicesSOTERIA INNOV…SISTER 2 SISTAH — $50,000 · Human ServicesSISTER 2 SIST…Magpies and Peacocks Inc — $48,600 · Human ServicesMagpies and P…COMMUNITY FAMILY CENTERS INC — $48,357 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY FAM…BACK TO EDEN FELLOW PROGRAM — $45,555 · Human ServicesBACK TO EDEN …UNITED AGAINST HUMAN TRAFFICKING — $35,000 · Human ServicesUNITED AGAINS…ALLIANCE OF COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES INC — $30,000 · Human ServicesALLIANCE OF C…Sojourn Landing DBA The Landing — $28,094 · Human ServicesSojourn Landi…+2 more — $10,750 · Human ServicesWilliam Marsh Rice University — $230,204 · EducationWilliam Mars…Baylor College of Medicine — $57,980 · EducationBaylor Colle…SUNNYSIDE COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT — $47,781 · EducationSUNNYSIDE CO…CENTER FOR RECOVERY AND WELLNESS RESOURCES — $130,000 · HealthHOUSTON REVISION — $50,000 · Crime & LegalPENITENT'S GRACE INC — $45,559 · Crime & LegalGIRLS ON THE RUN GREATER HOUSTON — $50,004 · Youth DevelopmentCollective Action for Youth — $33,331 · Youth DevelopmentPrevention Institute — $82,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,925,510Human Services$353,240Education$335,965Health$130,000Crime & Legal$95,559Youth Development$83,335Arts & Culture$82,000

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 budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University — $230,204 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL URBAN FELLOWS INC — $99,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetPrevention Institute — $82,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine — $57,980 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOTERIA INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS — $56,884 over 1y, 19% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN GREATER HOUSTON — $50,004 over 1y, 9.5% of budget100 Black Men of Metropolitan Houston — $50,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetHOUSTON REVISION — $50,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetSISTER 2 SISTAH — $50,000 over 1y, 74% of budgetMagpies and Peacocks Inc — $48,600 over 1y, 16% of budgetCOMMUNITY FAMILY CENTERS INC — $48,357 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSUNNYSIDE COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT — $47,781 over 2y, 17% of budgetPENITENT'S GRACE INC — $45,559 over 1y, 40% of budgetBACK TO EDEN FELLOW PROGRAM — $45,555 over 1y, 23% of budgetUNITED AGAINST HUMAN TRAFFICKING — $35,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetCollective Action for Youth — $33,331 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetALLIANCE OF COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHouston Independent School District Foundation — $29,468 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSojourn Landing DBA The Landing — $28,094 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetALLIANCE FOR MULTICULTURAL COMMUNITY SERVICES — $15,400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRupani Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHouston Area Women's Center — $5,250 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Greater Houston Commu…Houston Endowment IncUnited Way of Greater…The Houston Fund for …Shell USA Company Fou…The Methodist HospitalThe Junior League of …Houston Texans Founda…The William Stamps Fa…The Houston Food BankBaker Hughes Foundati…Annie E Casey Foundat…
Greater Houston Community FoundationTX31× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · United Way of Greater Houston · The Houston Fund for Social Justice and Economic Equity · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Methodist Hospital · The Junior League of Houston Inc · Houston Texans Foundation · The William Stamps Farish Fund · The Houston Food Bank · Baker Hughes Foundation · Annie E Casey 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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Houston Health 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%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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.

    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 43 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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