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· Public charity

Houston in Action Network

To promote civic engagement through education, development, outreach and grant-making.

$6.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
74
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$750k
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, FY2022 to 2024.

Public Benefit$3.0MCommunity Improvement$1.7MCivil Rights$1.3MCrime & Legal$1.2MArts & Culture$1.0MPublic Safety & Disaster$832kHealth$664kHuman Services$654kOther$0
02FY2024 · 74 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 74 grants below total $6,130,476, the rows itemized in this filing. The $6,269,267 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $138,791 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $613k
  • $50k–250k50 grants · $4.4M
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.1M
$66,057
Median grant
8
States reached
$9.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
West Street Recovery$750,483
Org of Chinese Americans Greater Hstn$375,157
Trust CHW$198,557
Avenue Community Development Corp$187,807
Nat'l Korean American Service & Education Consortium$184,407
Riyaaz Qawwali LLC$180,357
People's Legal Clinic Of Houston$143,136
Pure Justice$129,057
Barbara Jordan Institute$118,557
Houston Area Urban League$115,339
Greenhouse International Church$110,657
Chinese Community Center Inc$100,807
BakerRipley$98,557
Multicultural Education & Counseling Through The Arts$98,557
Houston Justice$94,631
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–24, $909k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Proyecto Juan Diego Inc: $35k → 23%Back To Eden Fellow Program: $80k → 16%Wesley Community Center Inc: $10k → 16%Boat People SOS Inc: $79k → 16%Boat People SOS Inc: $53k → 16%Boat People SOS Inc: $47k → 16%Urban Community Network: $30k → 16%Northeast Houston Redevelopment Council: $30k → 16%Houston NE Community Dev Corp: $10k → 16%Chinese Community Center Inc: $101k → 16%Chinese Community Center Inc: $47k → 16%Chinese Community Center Inc: $43k → 16%BakerRipley: $99k → 16%BakerRipley: $70k → 16%BakerRipley: $43k → 16%BakerRipley: $15k → 16%Level Up Project: $59k → 16%Back To Eden Fellow Program: $59k → 16%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

IL
NY
MA
CA
MO
AZ
NC
DC
TX
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.9M · 51 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +5% since the first grant, against -12% for those funded once.

51 repeat relationships: 46 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
15

Total granted

$9.9M
$556k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
-12%

Still filing today

86%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Civil RightsCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthOther
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

  • WS
    West Street Recovery
    3× · 2022–2024 · $861k · revenue +72% · 28% of their budget
  • NK
    NATIONAL KOREAN AMERICAN SERVICE AND EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $366k · revenue +111%
  • GC
    GULF COAST LEADERSHIP COUNCIL INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $268k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • LL
    LATINO LEARNING CENTER INC
    one grant, 2022 · $90k · revenue -12%
  • EH
    EAST HARRIS COUNTY EMPOWERMENT COUNCIL
    one grant, 2022 · $77k · revenue +16%
  • AA
    AIR ALLIANCE HOUSTON
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -49%
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
Haitian American Professional Coalition Inc

Civic Engagement for the Haitian Community

Religion
2
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
3
Houston in Action Network

To promote civic engagement through education, development, outreach and grant-making.

Civil Rights
4
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
5
Houston Hispanic Forum

Empower and inspire the success of the large and fast-growing hispanic community in the greater houston area thereby strengthening the entire community.

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6
Every Voice Texas dba Asian Texans for Justice

Asian Texans for Justice connects Asian and Pacific Islander Texans with civic action to build personal and political power.

Civil Rights
7
League of Women Voters of the San Antonio Area

The League of Women Voters is a nonpartisan, grassroots organization working to protect and expand voting rights and ensure everyone is represented in our democracy. We empower voters and defend democracy through advocacy, education, and…

Civil Rights
8
United Women of the Horn

United Women of the Horn (UWH) exists to advance the leadership, safety, and civic participation of Black immigrant women, with a focus on East African communities. The organization delivers trauma-informed, culturally grounded programs…

Civil Rights
9
Hispanics in Energy

HIE is a national, community-driven non-profit organization designed to propel Hispanics and Latino inclusion in America's energy industry.

Employment
10
Cair Texas Inc

To enhance the understanding of Islam, protect civil rights, promote justice and empower American Muslims.

Civil Rights
11
Civica Initiatives

Empower people and strengthen democratic institutions

Community Improvement
12
Justice for All Immigrants

The mission of Justice for All Immigrants is to provide low-income individuals and families with affordable, high quality immigration legal services, and to engage in immigration education and advocacy.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mi Familia En Accion; the most unlike its peers is Filipino American National Historical Society Texas Inc. 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

74 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. 74 of the 93 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.

20
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
73/74
Grantees still filing
36/74
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ORGANIZATION OF CHINESE AMERICANS OF GREATER HOUSTON: $475,395 · OtherORGANIZATION OF CHINESE AMERICANS OF GREATER HOUSTO…HOUSTON JUSTICE: $278,477 · OtherGULF COAST LEADERSHIP COUNCIL INC: $268,007 · OtherMARLA HOUSTON: $255,153 · OtherRiyaaz Qawwali LLC: $252,735 · OtherHOUSTON AREA URBAN LEAGUE INC: $197,839 · OtherDISCOVERING U: $189,377 · OtherEngaged Voters: $222,403 · OtherEmgage Foundation Inc: $203,830 · OtherTRUST CHW: $276,557 · OtherPeoples Legal Clinic: $222,136 · OtherAvenue Community Development Corporation: $217,807 · Other+32 more: $2,202,180 · Other+32 moreNATIONAL KOREAN AMERICAN SERVICE AND EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC: $365,542 · Civil RightsNATIONAL KORE…MI FAMILIA EN ACCION: $234,702 · Civil RightsMI FAMILIA EN…JOLT INITIATIVE: $225,162 · Civil RightsJOLT INITIATI…PAKISTANI AMERICAN VOTERS ASSOCIATION: $146,605 · Civil RightsPAKISTANI AME…NEXTGEN EDUCATION FUND: $94,375 · Civil RightsNEXTGEN EDUCA…NORMAL ANOMALY INITIATIVE INC: $83,846 · Civil RightsNORMAL ANOMAL…Houston Voting Initiative: $46,057 · Civil Rights+5 more: $162,114 · Civil Rights+5 moreMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER: $308,727 · Community ImprovementMOVEMENT STR…Pure Justice: $255,557 · Community ImprovementPure JusticeBONDING AGAINST ADVERSITY INC: $178,557 · Community ImprovementBONDING AGAI…VN TEAMWORK: $129,029 · Community ImprovementVN TEAMWORKCULTURE OF HEALTH - ADVANCING TOGETHER: $96,027 · Community ImprovementCULTURE OF H…EAST HARRIS COUNTY EMPOWERMENT COUNCIL: $76,500 · Community ImprovementEAST HARRIS …Acres Homes Community Advocacy Group Corporation: $74,457 · Community ImprovementAcres Homes …SAVE OUR SISTERS UNITED: $63,846 · Community ImprovementHOUSTON DEPARTMENT OF TRANSFORMATION: $48,057 · Community Improvement+2 more: $45,657 · Community ImprovementTHE MAHOGANY PROJECT: $232,403 · Arts & CultureTHE MAHOGA…Multicultural Education and Counseling Through the Arts: $158,557 · Arts & CultureMulticultu…FILIPINO AMERICAN NATIONAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY TEXAS INC: $146,938 · Arts & CultureFILIPINO A…OUR AFRIKAN FAMILY: $138,557 · Arts & CultureOUR AFRIKA…PILIPINO AMERICAN UNITY FOR PROGRESS INC: $126,598 · Arts & CulturePILIPINO A…Mid-America Arts Alliance: $78,557 · Arts & CultureMid-Americ…ART IN THE HEART: $78,557 · Arts & CultureART IN THE…See A Need-Meet A Need: $78,557 · Arts & CultureSee A Need…BakerRipley: $226,890 · Human ServicesCHINESE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $190,935 · Human ServicesBOAT PEOPLE SOS INC: $178,685 · Human ServicesBACK TO EDEN FELLOW PROGRAM: $138,557 · Human ServicesTHE LEVEL UP PROJECT: $58,557 · Human ServicesPROYECTO JUAN DIEGO INC: $35,000 · Human Services+4 more: $80,000 · Human ServicesWest Street Recovery: $860,733 · Public Safety & DisasterTEXAS FEDERATION OF THE PEOPLE FOUNDATION: $279,820 · EducationInstitute for Civic Education in Vietnam: $158,164 · EducationBARBARA JORDAN INSTITUTE: $128,557 · EducationCVPE EDUCATIONAL FORUM INC: $122,457 · EducationLATINO LEARNING CENTER INC: $90,000 · EducationTHE PROVIDENCE ON SOUTHMORE: $71,057 · Education+1 more: $10,000 · Education
Other$5,261,896Civil Rights$1,358,403Community Improvement$1,276,414Arts & Culture$1,038,724Human Services$908,624Public Safety & Disaster$860,733Education$860,055

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 budgetWest Street Recovery: $860,733 over 3y, 28% of budgetORGANIZATION OF CHINESE AMERICANS OF GREATER HOUSTON: $475,395 over 3y, 21% of budgetNATIONAL KOREAN AMERICAN SERVICE AND EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC: $365,542 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER: $308,727 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTEXAS FEDERATION OF THE PEOPLE FOUNDATION: $279,820 over 3y, 63% of budgetTRUST CHW: $276,557 over 2y, 97% of budgetGULF COAST LEADERSHIP COUNCIL INC: $268,007 over 3y, 13% of budgetPure Justice: $255,557 over 3y, 21% of budgetMI FAMILIA EN ACCION: $234,702 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetTHE MAHOGANY PROJECT: $232,403 over 3y, 21% of budgetBakerRipley: $226,890 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJOLT INITIATIVE: $225,162 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetEngaged Voters: $222,403 over 3y, 96% of budgetPeoples Legal Clinic: $222,136 over 3y, 95% of budgetAvenue Community Development Corporation: $217,807 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetEmgage Foundation Inc: $203,830 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetHOUSTON AREA URBAN LEAGUE INC: $197,839 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetCHINESE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $190,935 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetBOAT PEOPLE SOS INC: $178,685 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetBONDING AGAINST ADVERSITY INC: $178,557 over 3y, 10.0% of budgetTEJANO CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CONCERNS INC: $172,557 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLINK HOUSTON: $163,846 over 2y, 32% of budgetGRASSROOTS LEADERSHIP INC: $162,046 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetMulticultural Education and Counseling Through the Arts: $158,557 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetCENTER FOR CIVIC AND PUBLIC POLICY IMPROVEMENT: $158,487 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetInstitute for Civic Education in Vietnam: $158,164 over 3y, 35% of budgetJAPANESE AMERICAN CITIZENS LEAGUE OF HOUSTON: $149,685 over 3y, 67% of budgetFILIPINO AMERICAN NATIONAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY TEXAS INC: $146,938 over 3y, 39% of budgetPAKISTANI AMERICAN VOTERS ASSOCIATION: $146,605 over 3y, 94% of budgetBACK TO EDEN FELLOW PROGRAM: $138,557 over 2y, 80% of budgetBRIDGES TO EMPOWERMENT: $137,929 over 2y, 69% of budgetVN TEAMWORK: $129,029 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetBARBARA JORDAN INSTITUTE: $128,557 over 2y, 40% of budgetCVPE EDUCATIONAL FORUM INC: $122,457 over 2y, 44% of budgetAlianza Americas: $112,527 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetNALEO EDUCATIONAL FUND: $108,557 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCULTURE OF HEALTH - ADVANCING TOGETHER: $96,027 over 2y, 13% of budgetNEXTGEN EDUCATION FUND: $94,375 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLATINO LEARNING CENTER INC: $90,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetNORMAL ANOMALY INITIATIVE INC: $83,846 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN HEALTH COALITION OF THE GREATER HOUSTON AREA: $79,357 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSee A Need-Meet A Need: $78,557 over 2y, 75% of budgetEAST HARRIS COUNTY EMPOWERMENT COUNCIL: $76,500 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetAcres Homes Community Advocacy Group Corporation: $74,457 over 2y, 47% of budgetTHE PROVIDENCE ON SOUTHMORE: $71,057 over 1y, 63% of budgetSAVE OUR SISTERS UNITED: $63,846 over 2y, 30% of budgetTHE LEVEL UP PROJECT: $58,557 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetAIR ALLIANCE HOUSTON: $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% 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.

Houston Endowment IncHouston in ActionGreater Houston Commu…NEO Philanthropy IncTexas Organizing Proj…United Way of Greater…Rockwell Fund IncThe Methodist HospitalJacob and Terese Hers…Windward FundTexas Organizing Proj…Tides Foundation
Houston Endowment IncTX67.1× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 in Action Network funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Houston in Action Network. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%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
    2get no government money at all
    15report 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

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    How do I get to Houston in Action Network?

    Find your warmest path to Houston in Action Network 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 93 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 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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