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Houston Nursing Education 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.

$563k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$563k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of Houston Nursing Education Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Greater Houston Community Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

8
’17
4
’18
5
’19
3
’20
5
’21
6
’22
5
’23
5
’24
0
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What you fund
0190% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.

Philanthropy$3.0MHuman Services$900kHealth$375kEducation$157kCrime & Legal$150kOther$504k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$562,632
Median grant
1
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Greater Houston Community Foundation$562,632
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $850k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%Fort Bend County Women's Center: $50k → 8%Fort Bend County Womens Center: $50k → 8%Jewish Family Service: $50k → 16%Jewish Family Service of Houston: $50k → 16%The Women's Home: $50k → 16%The Women's Home: $50k → 16%The Women's Home: $50k → 16%Healthcare for the Homeless-Houston: $50k → 16%Healthcare for the Homeless-Houston: $50k → 16%Healthcare for the Homeless-Houston: $10k → 16%Chinese Community Center Inc: $50k → 16%Chinese Community Center: $50k → 16%Northwest Assistance Ministries: $50k → 16%Northwest Assistance Ministries: $50k → 16%Northwest Assistance Ministries: $50k → 16%Northwest Assistance Ministries: $50k → 16%Houston Area Women's Center: $50k → 16%DePelchin Children's Center: $40k → 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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.3M · 10 repeat orgs$761k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
22

Total granted

$1.3M
$711k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+17%

Still filing today

90%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationCrime & LegalOther

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

  • EC
    EL CENTRO DE CORAZON
    3× · 2017–2019 · $150k · revenue +27%
  • TW
    THE WOMEN'S HOME
    3× · 2022–2024 · $150k · revenue +16%
  • HF
    HEALTHCARE FOR THE HOMELESS-HOUSTON
    3× · 2018–2023 · $110k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • UO
    University of St Thomasgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $57k · revenue +70%
  • COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF HOUSTON INC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -7%
  • BA
    BAY AREA REHABILITATION CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -10%

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
Central Houston Inc

See schedule ocentral houston champions a thriving downtown by connecting influential leaders through initiatives that advance the future of business and community for all.

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2
Houston Community Health Centers Inc

To make quality healthcare accessible and sustainable to the medically underserved in houston.

Health
3
Harris County Medical Society

Our mission is to be the leading advocate for our member physicians, their patients and our community, in promoting the highest standards of ethical medical practice, access to quality medical care, medical education, research, and…

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4
Family Service Center of Houston and Harris County

The mission of Family Service Center of Houston and Harris County (Family Houston) is to create a stronger community for tomorrow by helping individuals and families meet the challenges they face today. We help others help themselves.

Human Services
5
University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
6
Community Information Now

Community information now (cinow) provides data, tools, analysis, and training to inform decisions to improve texas communities. cinow's vision is improved lives and decreased disparities through democratized data.

Community Improvement
7
The Beacon of Downtown Houston

To provide essential and next-step services to restore hope and help end homelessness in houston.

Health
8
Central Houston Civic Improvement Inc

Central houston civic improvement lnc.'s mission is to ensure the continued vitality and to support development of downtown and the central city that is critical to the continued health and growth of houston.

Community Improvement
9
Healing Hands Ministries Inc

Hmm health provides quality healthcare to all its neighbors with love, compassion, and respect.

Health
10
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
11
Central Maine Healthcare Corporation

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.

Health
12
Houston Area Community Services

Our mission is to provide high quality and caring services to promote healthy people and communities.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Success and Independence Inc and the most unlike its peers is Legacy Community Health Services Inc. 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 42 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number30%10%<5yr17%5%5–10yr21%5%10–20yr18%24%20–35yr8%29%35–55yr8%29%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value30%1%<5yr17%64%5–10yr21%2%10–20yr18%12%20–35yr8%13%35–55yr8%9%55yr+

The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 19% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%
1/24
the rest of the field
19%
3,801/20,417

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

22 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. 22 of the 34 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/22
Grantees still filing
15/22
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $2,956,632 · PhilanthropyGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONNORTHWEST ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES — $200,000 · Human ServicesNORTHWEST ASSISTANCE…THE WOMEN'S HOME — $150,000 · Human ServicesTHE WOMEN'S HOMEHEALTHCARE FOR THE HOMELESS-HOUSTON — $110,000 · Human ServicesHEALTHCARE FOR THE H…FORT BEND COUNTY WOMEN'S CENTER INC SOS/SHELTER-OUTREACH-SOLUTIONS — $100,000 · Human ServicesFORT BEND COUNTY WOM…JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE — $100,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVIC…CHINESE COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $100,000 · Human ServicesCHINESE COMMUNITY CE…Houston Area Women's Center — $50,000 · Human ServicesHouston Area Women's…BakerRipley — $50,000 · Human ServicesBakerRipleyDEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER — $40,000 · Human ServicesREMIND — $90,000 · OtherREMINDSAN JOSE CLINIC — $75,000 · OtherSAN JOSE CL…BAY AREA REHABILITATION CENTER — $50,000 · OtherBAY AREA RE…Communities in Schools — $50,000 · OtherCommunities…ALLIANCE FOR MULTICULTURAL COMMUNITY SERVICES — $50,000 · OtherALLIANCE FO…The Harris Center for Mental Health — $50,000 · OtherThe Harris …Family Service Ctr of Houston Harri — $41,500 · OtherFamily Serv…Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Hou — $40,000 · OtherBoys and Gi…Prairie View AM University — $27,875 · OtherPrairie Vie…+7 more — $29,834 · Other+7 moreThe Montrose Center — $250,000 · HealthTexas Children's Hospital — $50,000 · HealthCENTER FOR SUCCESS AND INDEPENDENCE INC — $50,000 · HealthLEGACY COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INC — $25,000 · HealthUniversity of St Thomas — $56,875 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF HOUSTON INC — $50,000 · EducationBaylor College of Medicine — $50,000 · EducationEL CENTRO DE CORAZON — $150,000 · Crime & Legal
Philanthropy$2,956,632Human Services$900,000Other$504,209Health$375,000Education$156,875Crime & Legal$150,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $2,956,632 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetThe Montrose Center — $250,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetNORTHWEST ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES — $200,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetEL CENTRO DE CORAZON — $150,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S HOME — $150,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetHEALTHCARE FOR THE HOMELESS-HOUSTON — $110,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetFORT BEND COUNTY WOMEN'S CENTER INC SOS/SHELTER-OUTREACH-SOLUTIONS — $100,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE — $100,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCHINESE COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $100,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetREMIND — $90,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetUniversity of St Thomas — $56,875 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF HOUSTON INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBAY AREA REHABILITATION CENTER — $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHouston Area Women's Center — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBakerRipley — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTexas Children's Hospital — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER — $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEGACY COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSTON CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

The Methodist HospitalUnited Way of Greater…The Brown Foundation …Greater Houston Commu…The Simmons FoundationShell USA Company Fou…Rockwell Fund IncMD Anderson FoundationHouston Texans Founda…Harry S & Isabel C Ca…Albert & Ethel Herzst…Houston Endowment Inc
The Methodist HospitalTX24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Methodist Hospital · United Way of Greater Houston · The Brown Foundation Inc · Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Simmons Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Rockwell Fund Inc · MD Anderson Foundation · Houston Texans Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Houston Endowment 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 Nursing Education 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%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Houston Nursing Education Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Houston Nursing Education Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 34 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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