Texas · Public charity
Houston in Action Network
To promote civic engagement through education, development, outreach and grant-making.
- $6.3M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 74
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 58
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $6.1M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $66,057
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $750,483
- Organizations funded a year
- 47 to 58
- FY2022 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 8
- Total assets, FY2024
- $9.8M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Houston in Action Network funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 73 | $6.1M | 37% |
| FY2023 | 58 | $2.9M | 33% |
| FY2022 | 47 | $2.5M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Street Recovery | $860,733 | 3 | 28% |
| Organization of Chinese Americans of Greater Houston | $475,395 | 3 | 21% |
| National Korean American Service and Education Consortium Inc | $365,542 | 3 | 3% |
| Movement Strategy Center | $308,727 | 3 | 0% |
| Texas Federation of the People Foundation | $279,820 | 3 | 63% |
| Houston Justice | $278,477 | 3 | n/a |
| Trust Chw | $276,557 | 2 | 97% |
| Gulf Coast Leadership Council Inc | $268,007 | 3 | 13% |
| Pure Justice | $255,557 | 3 | 21% |
| Marla Houston | $255,153 | 3 | n/a |
Show all 93 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Houston in Action Network supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 20 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 69 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Houston Endowment Inc · Houston in Action · Greater Houston Community Foundation · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Texas Organizing Project · United Way of Greater Houston · Rockwell Fund Inc · The Methodist Hospital · Jacob and Terese Hershey Foundation · Windward Fund · Texas Organizing Project Education Fund · Tides Foundation
How this is measured
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About Houston in Action Network
- How much does Houston in Action Network give?
- Houston in Action Network reported 74 itemized grants totaling $6,130,476, out of $6,269,267 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 47 and 58 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2023.
- What does Houston in Action Network fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (26%), Community Improvement (15%), Civil Rights (11%).
- Who are Houston in Action Network's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2024: West Street Recovery ($861k), Organization of Chinese Americans of Greater Houston ($475k), National Korean American Service and Education Consortium Inc ($366k).
- Does Houston in Action Network fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Houston in Action Network?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Houston Endowment Inc, Houston in Action, Greater Houston Community Foundation.
- Where is Houston in Action Network based?
- Houston in Action Network is based in TX.
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