How much did HOUSTON TEXANS FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 46% of HOUSTON TEXANS FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

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2019

awardnatural disasterhearthonor rewardreward surroundingsurrounding teachersteachers outstanding

2020

covid reliefsurvivorseveryhonor rewardreward surroundingsurrounding teachersteachers outstanding

2021

mentoringpredominantly low-incomefieldturfdedicatedreliant scholarshipboys

2022

changescholarships student-athletesstudent-athletes exhibitexhibit remarkableremarkable leadershipessentialblack

2023

seed createcreate partnershipspartnerships unlockunlock pathwayspathways socialjustice racialracial equity

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k1 grant · $6k
$10k–50k28 grants · $485k
$50k–250k10 grants · $775k
$250k+1 grant · $250k

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.9M

Total assets

Largest grants

WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC$250,000
DEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER$200,000
THE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$150,000
YMCA OF GREATER HOUSTON$70,100
RESTORING JUSTICE$55,000
NPOWER INC$50,000
KIDS' MEALS INC$50,000
HOUSTON AREA WOMEN'S CENTER$50,000
FAMILY SERVICE CENTER OF HOUSTON AND HARRIS COUNTY$50,000
CLOTHED BY FAITH$50,000
COLLABORATIVE FOR CHILDREN INC$50,000
HOUSTON INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT$42,500
CHILD ADVOCATES INC$40,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER HOUSTON$27,000
SECOND SERVINGS OF HOUSTON$25,000

02The need

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 (FY19–24, $2.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 10%. 97% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$11M · 52 repeat orgs$3.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.

52 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

142

Total granted

$11M

$2.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%

+35%

Still filing today

75%

70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $611k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentHealthRecreation & SportsOther

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

DC
DEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER
6× · 2019–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +30%
BG
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER HOUSTON
6× · 2019–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +161%
TC
TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
5× · 2019–2023 · $260k · revenue +58%

Funded once

TO
THE ONESTAR FOUNDATION
one grant, 2022 · $400k · revenue -94%
MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUSTgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $204k · revenue +426%
CH
CHANGE HAPPENSgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue +74%

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.

Breakthrough Houston

Breakthrough Houston works with highly motivated, traditionally underrepresented students to achieve post-secondary success and empowers aspiring leaders to become the next generation of educators and advocates.

Education

Yes Prep Public Schools Inc

YES Prep is a public charter school system for grades K-12 in Houston's underserved communities.

Education

Trees for Houston

Trees For Houston grows, plants and maintains trees throughout the greater Houston area.

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The McCombs School of Business

To provide support to The University of Texas McCombs School of Business.

Education

Houston Botanic Garden

Enriching life through discovery, education, and conservation of the natural environment.

Environment

Houston MediaSource

Houston MediaSource provides public access cable television programming for the City of Houston.

Arts & Culture

TrueWorks Houston

To see well-formed people create well-formed ventures and transform our city.

Religion

Family Service Center of Houston

To provide a wide range of health & human services for families in the Houston community.

Human Services

Houston Local Information

To strengthen democracy and improve the lives of all Houstonians one story at a time.

Arts & Culture

Target Hunger Inc

Ensure a Houston where no one goes hungry and all can provide food for themselves and families.

Human Services

American Leadership Forum Houston Gulf

American Leadership Forum joins and strengthens diverse leaders to better serve the public good.

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Collaborative for Children

To build resources for early chilhood education in the region.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Association for the Advancement of and the most unlike its peers is Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%5/209

the rest of the field

13%

17,173/136,595

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.

05the grantee network

157 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

154/157

Grantees still filing

112/157

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$7,360,962Human Services$2,445,090Health$1,303,061Youth Development$1,273,443Philanthropy$702,573Education$674,500Community Improvement$500,000

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.

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.

United Way of Greater HoustonTX94.6× affinity46 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Greater Houston · Houston Endowment Inc · Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · The Methodist Hospital · Albert & Ethel Herzstein · Strake Foundation · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · The Houston Food Bank · The Powell Foundation · Baxter Trust Co Private Foundation Services · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron 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 organisation HOUSTON TEXANS 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

5get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: GREATER HOUSTON POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE LLC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~34 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 4 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

4 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 3.1× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 831801515 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on GREATER HOUSTON POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE LLC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 34 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 15% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Houston Texans Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Houston Texans Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

HOUSTON TEXANS FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

157 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Houston Texans Foundation?

More from the funding graph

HOUSTON TEXANS FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

157 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Houston Texans Foundation?

More from the funding graph