· Public charity
Houston Police Officers Union Inc
The mission of the HOUSTON POLICE OFFICERS UNION INC (hpou) is to provide benefits and services to our members, most importantly legal services and support for those involved in critical incidents in the course and scope of their duties.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 9 grants below total $158,798 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $343,290 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $184,492 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $74k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $62k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ASSIST THE OFFICER | $62,377 |
| THE HOUSTON BLUE HOUSE | $20,000 |
| HOUSTON POLICE FOUNDATION | $18,800 |
| Individual grant recipient | $13,200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,000 |
| GREATER HOUSTON COPS | $10,000 |
| HOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW AND RODEO EDUCATIONAL FUND | $8,921 |
| PROJECT ZERO ALLIANCE | $7,500 |
| AFRO-AMERICAN POLICE OFFICERS LEAGUE (AAPOL) | $6,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $548k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
14 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- PZPROJECT ZERO ALLIANCE3× · 2020–2024 · $21k · revenue +44%
- TMTEXAS MUNICIPAL POLICE ASSOCIATION2× · 2019–2023 · $20k · revenue +28%
- AAAfrican American Police Officers League3× · 2022–2024 · $20k · revenue +176%
Funded once
- DPDallas Police Associationone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +24%
- HPHOUSTON POLICE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $15k
- GHGREATER HOUSTON COPSone grant, 2021 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To provide financial support and programs for fallen officer families. To raise awareness and advocate for national issues impacting officers.
The texas police games are competitive events that enable commissioned police officers the opportunity to compete with fellow police officers from the state of texas as well as on a nationwide level.
The support and management of any charitable, education or literary undertakings and in furtherance of any such undertakings, to receive and maintain a fund of funds of real or personal property, or both. the corporation will not conduct…
Provide education and support to texas law enforcement officers and agencies
Provide education to members and general public on police related issues. negotiate work contracts for police officers with the city of austin.
The FOP exists to strive for betterment of the law enforcement profession for the individual officer and the collective membership. By improving working conditions, wages, and benefits, and by monitoring and proposing effective…
The mission of the association is to improve and enhance the lives, careers, benefits, and conditions of the members and to improve the efficiency of all commissioned officers of law enforcement in general.
We provide financial assistance to security officers during injury, disaster, or illness and to the families of fallen security secrity officers.
Support the dallas police department, officers and families of officers killed or wounded in the line of duty, and to provide college scholarships for children of such officers.
The texas department of public safety foundation is a community-focused nonprofit organization that develops innovative projects to support dps officers and employees through community connections, educational advancement, service…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Educational Fund and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 37 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Assist the Officer Inc ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ZERO ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Dallas Police Association ↗
- Who funds TEXAS MUNICIPAL POLICE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds African American Police Officers League ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds Undies for Everyone ↗
- Who funds Travis Manion Foundation ↗
- Who funds Crime Stoppers of Houston Inc ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW AND RODEO INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW AND RODEO EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds TEXAS ASSOCIATION OF FIRST RESPONDERS ↗
- Who funds KAILEE MILLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BE AN ANGEL FUND INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Shell USA Company Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Halliburton Charitable Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Police Officers Union Inc 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.
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.