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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.

$343k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$62k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$515kPublic Safety & Disaster$204kCrime & Legal$62kPublic Benefit$50kHealth$45kRecreation & Sports$18kPhilanthropy$15kAnimals$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $158,798, the rows itemized in this filing. The $343,290 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $184,492 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 · $22k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $74k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $62k
$12,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%TEXAS ASSOCIATION OF FIRST RESPONDERS - WGCO: $5k → 16%ASSIST THE OFFICER: $164k → 16%ASSIST THE OFFICER: $69k → 16%ASSIST THE OFFICER: $62k → 16%ASSIST THE OFFICER: $48k → 16%ASSIST THE OFFICER: $25k → 16%HOUSTON POLICE FOUNDATION: $22k → 16%HOUSTON POLICE FOUNDATION: $19k → 16%ASSIST THE OFFICER: $17k → 16%HOUSTON POLICE FOUNDATION: $17k → 16%ASSIST THE OFFICER: $8k → 16%ASSIST THE OFFICER: $6k → 16%HOUSTON POLICE FOUNDATION: $40k → 16%HOUSTON POLICE FOUNDATION: $21k → 16%HOUSTON POLICE FOUNDATION: $5k → 16%AFRO-AMERICAN POLICE OFFICERS LEAGUE (AAPOL): $7k → 16%AFRO-AMERICAN POLICE OFFICERS LEAGUE (AAPOL): $7k → 16%AFRO-AMERICAN POLICE OFFICERS LEAGUE (AAPOL): $6k → 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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$995k · 14 repeat orgs$187k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
21

Total granted

$995k
$165k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+64%

Still filing today

64%
24%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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 ServicesHealthPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsPublic Safety & DisasterCrime & LegalOther
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

  • PZ
    PROJECT ZERO ALLIANCE
    3× · 2020–2024 · $21k · revenue +44%
  • TM
    TEXAS MUNICIPAL POLICE ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2019–2023 · $20k · revenue +28%
  • AA
    African American Police Officers League
    3× · 2022–2024 · $20k · revenue +176%

Funded once

  • DP
    Dallas Police Association
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +24%
  • HP
    HOUSTON POLICE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
  • GH
    GREATER HOUSTON COPS
    one grant, 2021 · $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
Dallas Police Helicopter Foundation
Public Safety & Disaster
2
Dallas Fallen Officer Foundation

To provide financial support and programs for fallen officer families. To raise awareness and advocate for national issues impacting officers.

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3
Texas Police Athletic Federation

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.

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4
Texas Municipal Police Association Charities

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…

Employment
5
Texas Police Association

Provide education and support to texas law enforcement officers and agencies

Unclassified
6
Austin Police Association

Provide education to members and general public on police related issues. negotiate work contracts for police officers with the city of austin.

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7
Fraternal Order of Police Texas State Lodge

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…

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8
Texas State Troopers Association

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.

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9
Charitable Organization for Texas Security Officer

We provide financial assistance to security officers during injury, disaster, or illness and to the families of fallen security secrity officers.

Public Safety & Disaster
10
Dallas Blue Foundation

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.

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11
Texas Department of Public Safety Foundation

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…

Education
12
Unite Nationwide for Cops Under Fire Foundation Aka Uncuff the Innocent
Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Educational Fund; 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.
04the grantee network

15 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. 15 of the 37 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
11/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Assist the Officer Inc: $399,226 · Human ServicesAssist the Officer IncHOUSTON POLICE FOUNDATION: $123,150 · Human ServicesHOUSTON POLICE FOUNDATIONAfrican American Police Officers League: $19,855 · Human Services+1 more: $5,293 · Human ServicesIndividual grant recipient: $240,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHOUSTON BLUE HOUSE: $50,000 · OtherHOUSTON BLUE HOUSECONCERNS OF POLICE SURVIVORS: $35,500 · OtherCONCERNS OF POLICE SURVIVORSDallas Police Association: $20,000 · Other+21 more: $175,819 · Other+21 morePROJECT ZERO ALLIANCE: $21,250 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $18,500 · HealthTravis Manion Foundation: $15,000 · PhilanthropyUndies for Everyone: $15,000 · PhilanthropyTEXAS MUNICIPAL POLICE ASSOCIATION: $20,000 · Crime & LegalHOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW AND RODEO INC: $9,220 · Recreation & SportsHOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW AND RODEO EDUCATIONAL FUND: $8,921 · Recreation & SportsKAILEE MILLS FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Human Services$547,524Other$521,319Health$39,750Philanthropy$30,000Crime & Legal$20,000Recreation & Sports$18,141Public Safety & Disaster$5,000

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 budgetAssist the Officer Inc: $399,226 over 8y, 19% of budgetHOUSTON POLICE FOUNDATION: $123,150 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetPROJECT ZERO ALLIANCE: $21,250 over 3y, 9.3% of budgetDallas Police Association: $20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTEXAS MUNICIPAL POLICE ASSOCIATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAfrican American Police Officers League: $19,855 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $18,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTravis Manion Foundation: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUndies for Everyone: $15,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetCrime Stoppers of Houston Inc: $10,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW AND RODEO INC: $9,220 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW AND RODEO EDUCATIONAL FUND: $8,921 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS ASSOCIATION OF FIRST RESPONDERS: $5,293 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetKAILEE MILLS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBE AN ANGEL FUND INC: $5,000 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.

  • 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 Travis Manion Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Undies for Everyone ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Shell USA Company Fou…Greater Houston Commu…Halliburton Charitabl…Albert & Ethel Herzst…Enterprise Holdings F…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Shell USA Company FoundationTX14.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 37 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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