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Houston Junior Forum Inc

Houston Junior Forum, Inc.

$258k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$18k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$208kEducation$145kHuman Services$139kHealth$84kPhilanthropy$58kHousing & Shelter$20kRecreation & Sports$18kCrime & Legal$11kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 12 grants below total $113,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $257,914 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $144,414 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $46k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $68k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Kids Meals Inc$18,000
Communities In Schools of Houston$10,000
Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston$10,000
Family Service Center of Houston-Harris County$10,000
Christian Community Service Center$10,000
Bridge Literacy Now$10,000
Third Age Learning Center - All Saints Catholic Church$8,000
Undies for Everyone$8,000
CollegeCommunityCareer Inc$7,500
GENAustin$7,500
Nehemiah Center Inc$7,500
Houston Food Bank$7,000
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 (FY18–25, $320k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%Nehemiah Center: $10k → 16%Nehemiah Center: $8k → 16%Nehemiah Center Inc: $8k → 16%GENAustin: $8k → 16%Nehemiah Center Inc: $8k → 16%NEHEMIAH CENTER: $5k → 16%Houston's Amazing Place Inc: $10k → 16%Houston's Amazing Place Inc: $10k → 16%Christian Community Service Center: $10k → 16%Christian Community Service Center: $10k → 16%Christian Community Service Center: $10k → 16%Houstons Amazing Place Inc: $6k → 16%CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER: $5k → 16%AMAZING PLACE - HOUSTON: $4k → 16%Wonder & Worries Inc: $7k → 16%Catholic Charities of Galveston Houston: $10k → 16%COVENANT HOUSE: $5k → 16%WOMEN'S HOME: $5k → 16%Bel Inizio: $10k → 16%WESTSIDE HOMELESS PREVENTION: $5k → 16%BEL INIZIO: $3k → 16%Blessing in a Backpack: $13k → 16%Harrison's Heroes: $6k → 16%Harrisons Heroes: $6k → 16%FamilyTime Crisis & Counseling Center: $8k → 16%MAKING IT BETTER: $5k → 16%MAKING IT BETTER: $5k → 16%Holly Hall: $8k → 16%Family Service Center of Houston-Harris County: $10k → 16%Holly Hall: $7k → 16%Clothed by Faith: $8k → 16%Making It Better dba Literacy Now: $10k → 16%Kids Meals: $30k → 16%Kids Meals Inc: $18k → 16%Kids Meals Inc: $15k → 16%Kids Meals: $6k → 16%KIDS' MEALS INC: $5k → 16%DRESS FOR SUCCESS: $5k → 16%DRESS FOR SUCCESS: $3k → 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.
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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$532k · 17 repeat orgs$178k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +123% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
24

Total granted

$532k
$143k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+123%
+28%

Still filing today

82%
92%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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 ServicesPhilanthropyEducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentReligionOther
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

  • KM
    KIDS' MEALS INC
    5× · 2018–2025 · $74k · revenue +471%
  • UF
    Undies for Everyone
    5× · 2018–2025 · $58k · revenue +437%
  • IM
    Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston
    7× · 2018–2025 · $56k · revenue +184%

Funded once

  • BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC
    one grant, 2024 · $13k · revenue -5%
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON - HOUSTON
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -7%
  • SJ
    SAN JOSE CLINIC
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
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
LifeHouse of Houston Inc

LifeHouse is a Christ-centered ministry ensuring life for unborn children by providing opportunities for housing, help, and hope for young women during their pregnancies and beyond.

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2
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
3
Target Hunger Inc

The mission of Target Hunger is to alleviate hunger and its root causes in the Houston neighborhoods we serve. Target Hunger is on the front lines of hunger every day through its food distribution system that includes multiple food…

Human Services
4
Houston Area Women's Center

The Houston Area Women's Center (HAWC) works to end domestic and sexual violence and supports all in building safe and healthy lives through advocacy, counseling, education, shelter, and support services.

Human Services
5
Fostering Family

Fostering family dba the riverside project is a 501(c)(3) public charity that on behalf of houston's children and their families, brings together organizations and passionate people working as one to help families heal and children thrive.

Community Improvement
6
Summerhouse Houston

Summerhouse Houston's supports adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), their familites, and our community through employment, volunterism, and partnerships to foster a culture of belonging, choice and respect.

Human Services
7
Crisis Intervention of Houston Incorporated

The mission of Crisis Intervention is to help people in crisis. Crisis Intervention provides 24/7 crisis counseling to persons in mental health trauma or dealing with suicide ideation. In FY 21/22, Crisis Intervention facilitated 33,521…

Human Services
8
Sunny Glen Children's Home Inc

Sunny Glen Childrens Home, Inc. cares for children in need. Our care will be competent, compassionate and professional. We will help every child achieve their greatest potential-physically, emotionally, spiritually and academically.

Human Services
9
Central Texas Children's Home

To provide family services and to provide residential child care for dependent children where there is a need to assist children and families disrupted by problems.

Human Services
10
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
11
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
12
Crisis Assistance Center Inc dba Community Assistance Center

To provide emergency assistance to people in Montgomery County, TX who are in an unexpected crisis.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kids' Meals Inc; the most unlike its peers is Creative Alternatives 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

41 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 41 of the 45 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)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/41
Grantees still filing
30/41
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KIDS' MEALS INC: $73,500 · Human ServicesKIDS' MEALS INCNehemiah Center Inc: $37,500 · Human ServicesNehemiah Center IncChristian Community Service Center Inc: $34,500 · Human ServicesChristian Community Service Center IncHouston's Amazing Place Inc: $30,000 · Human ServicesHouston's Amazing Place IncMaking It Better dba Literacy Now: $20,000 · Human ServicesMaking It Better dba Literacy NowHolly Hall: $14,803 · Human ServicesBEL INIZIO INC: $12,500 · Human ServicesBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $12,500 · Human ServicesHARRISON'S HEROES: $12,000 · Human Services+10 more: $73,000 · Human Services+10 moreInterfaith Ministries for Greater Houston: $55,500 · OtherInterfaith Ministries for Greater HoustonALL SAINTS CATHOLIC CHURCH: $51,000 · OtherALL SAINTS CATHOLIC CHURCHBridge Literacy Now: $45,000 · OtherBridge Literacy NowANGELA HOUSE: $23,000 · OtherANGELA HOUSESECOND SERVINGS OF HOUSTON: $20,000 · OtherSECOND SERVINGS OF HOUSTONSAN JOSE CLINIC: $10,000 · Other+12 more: $59,500 · Other+12 moreUndies for Everyone: $58,000 · PhilanthropyUndies for…HOUSTON HEALTH FOUNDATION: $9,418 · PhilanthropyHOUSTON HE…CollegeCommunityCareer Inc: $18,500 · Youth DevelopmentSpringSpirit Inc: $18,000 · Recreation & SportsCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF HOUSTON INC: $10,000 · EducationSmall Steps Nurturing Center: $5,000 · EducationDa Camera Society of Texas: $3,500 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $3,000 · Arts & Culture
Human Services$320,303Other$264,000Philanthropy$67,418Youth Development$18,500Recreation & Sports$18,000Education$15,000Arts & Culture$6,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKIDS' MEALS INC: $73,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetUndies for Everyone: $58,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetInterfaith Ministries for Greater Houston: $55,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNehemiah Center Inc: $37,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetChristian Community Service Center Inc: $34,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHouston's Amazing Place Inc: $30,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSECOND SERVINGS OF HOUSTON: $20,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetMaking It Better dba Literacy Now: $20,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCollegeCommunityCareer Inc: $18,500 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetSpringSpirit Inc: $18,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHolly Hall: $14,803 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBEL INIZIO INC: $12,500 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHARRISON'S HEROES: $12,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetFamily Service Center of Houston and Harris County: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON - HOUSTON: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF HOUSTON INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOUSTON HEALTH FOUNDATION: $9,418 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS HOUSTON: $8,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCLOTHED BY FAITH INC: $8,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFAMILY TIME CRISIS AND COUNSELING CENTER: $7,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGENAUSTIN: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWonders & Worries Inc: $7,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetARROW CHILD & FAMILY MINISTRIES (CENTRAL ORGANIZATION): $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEMERGENCY AID COALITION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetINTERFAITH CAREPARTNERS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCHILD ADVOCATES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSmall Steps Nurturing Center: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSIRE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGRACEWOOD INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMagnificat Houses Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S HOME: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDa Camera Society of Texas: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Heritage Society: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

Greater Houston Commu…Albert & Ethel Herzst…Charity Guild of Cath…Shell USA Company Fou…Harry S & Isabel C Ca…Strake FoundationBaxter Trust Co Priva…The Children's Fund I…The Elkins FoundationCenterpoint Energy Fo…Hildebrand FoundationUnited Way of Greater…
Greater Houston Community FoundationTX39.6× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Charity Guild of Catholic Women of Harris County Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · Strake Foundation · Baxter Trust Co Private Foundation Services · The Children's Fund Inc · The Elkins Foundation · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Hildebrand Foundation · United Way of Greater Houston

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 Junior Forum Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Houston Junior Forum Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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.

    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 45 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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