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Houston Texans Foundation

The HOUSTON TEXANS FOUNDATION is committed to encouraging and enabling all youth and families in harris county to reach their full potential and to achieve success.

$1.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
40
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Youth Development$4.5MHealth$2.2MHuman Services$1.6MFood & Nutrition$1.2MEducation$1.2MRecreation & Sports$952kPublic Safety & Disaster$674kCommunity Improvement$550kOther$0
02FY2024 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 40 grants below total $1,515,471, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,676,676 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $161,205 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 $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k28 grants · $485k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $775k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$20,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
FAMILY SERVICE CENTER OF HOUSTON AND HARRIS COUNTY$50,000
HOUSTON AREA WOMEN'S CENTER$50,000
KIDS' MEALS INC$50,000
COLLABORATIVE FOR CHILDREN INC$50,000
NPOWER INC$50,000
CLOTHED BY FAITH$50,000
HOUSTON INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT$42,500
CHILD ADVOCATES INC$40,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER HOUSTON$27,000
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE$25,000
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 (FY19–24, $2.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%G-UNITY FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%CHANGE HAPPENS: $200k → 16%G-UNITY FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $5k → 14%KIDS TRIATHLON INC: $390 → 14%G-UNITY FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%ANGEL REACH: $25k → 9%ZOEY'S ANGELS INC: $5k → 8%ZOEY'S ANGELS INC: $3k → 8%FORT BEND COUNTY WOMENS CENTER INC: $8k → 8%WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 16%LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF FORT BEND COUNTY INC: $20k → 8%YMCA OF GREATER HOUSTON: $118k → 16%YMCA OF GREATER HOUSTON: $70k → 16%AFTER MILITARY SERVICE: $20k → 16%COOLXDAD INC: $10k → 16%HOUSTON AREA WOMEN'S CENTER: $20k → 16%HOUSTON AREA WOMEN'S CENTER: $10k → 16%HOUSTON AREA WOMEN'S CENTER: $10k → 16%HOUSTON AREA WOMEN'S CENTER: $10k → 16%HOUSTON AREA WOMEN'S CENTER: $5k → 16%HOUSTON AREA WOMENS CENTER: $5k → 16%EPIPHANY COMMUNITY HEALTH OUTREACH SERVICES: $25k → 16%COLLABORATIVE FOR CHILDREN INC: $50k → 16%BREAD OF LIFE INC: $40k → 16%AID TO VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC ABUSE: $35k → 16%JUSTICE FORWARD: $25k → 16%HOUSTON POLICE FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%AVDA INC: $7k → 16%AVDAINC: $5k → 16%AVDA INC: $5k → 16%A MIND TO WORK COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $7k → 16%CHINESE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $10k → 16%WESTSIDE HOMELESS PARTNERSHIP: $20k → 16%DEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER: $242k → 16%DEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER: $210k → 16%DEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER: $210k → 16%DEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER: $208k → 16%DEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER: $200k → 16%HOUSTON AREA WOMEN'S CENTER: $50k → 16%DEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER: $58k → 16%HOUSTON AREA WOMEN'S CENTER: $15k → 16%CLOTHED BY FAITH: $50k → 16%KIDS' MEALS INC: $50k → 16%KIDS' MEAL INC: $45k → 16%BRIDGEYEAR: $25k → 16%ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MEXICAN AMERICANS: $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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
IN
NJ
CT
CA
CO
KY
VA
MD
AR
TN
SC
DC
OK
LA
MS
GA
TX
FL
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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.0M · 51 repeat orgs$2.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

51 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
135

Total granted

$8.0M
$2.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+21%

Still filing today

76%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyHealthRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • The Houston Food Bank
    6× · 2019–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +109%
  • DC
    DEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER
    6× · 2019–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +31%
  • BA
    Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Inc
    6× · 2019–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • TO
    THE ONESTAR FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $400k · revenue -70%
  • CH
    Civic Heart Community Services
    one grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue +25%
  • HF
    HYPE FREEDOM SCHOOL INC
    one grant, 2023 · $55k · revenue +25%
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
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
2
Trees for Houston

Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.

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3
Houston Botanic Garden

To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.

Environment
4
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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5
Rebuilding Together Houston

Rebuilding Together Houston is the only organization in Houston and Harris County providing free home repairs to hundreds of families each year. We employ licensed contractors to restore homes to safe, livable conditions, extending each…

Housing & Shelter
6
Houston Christian University

The mission of houston christian university is to provide a learning experience that instills in students a passion for academic, spiritual, and professional excellence as a result of our central confession, "jesus christ is lord."

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7
American Leadership Forum Houston Gulf Coast Chapter

American Leadership Forum (ALF) brings together, in classes, leaders with diverse perspectives so they can build relationships, learn to dialogue and respectfully differ, and work together for the good of our community.

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8
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
9
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
10
St John's School

See Schedule OSt. John's School is an independent, co-educational day school presenting a 13-year sequence of college preparatory training. A non-profit institution, it was founded in 1946 to provide the community with a school of exacting…

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11
Raise Texas

RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…

Human Services
12
United Way of Brazoria County

To educate, unite and focus our community's resources in order to efficiently address the most critical needs of Brazoria County

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Houston Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Astros Foundation. 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

158 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 158 of the 209 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
155/158
Grantees still filing
112/158
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Houston Food Bank: $1,133,411 · OtherThe Houston Food BankYMCA OF GREATER HOUSTON: $715,736 · OtherYMCA OF GREATER HOUSTONWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $250,000 · OtherWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC+98 more: $2,280,955 · Other+98 moreDEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER: $1,128,000 · Human ServicesDEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CEN…Civic Heart Community Services: $200,000 · Human ServicesCivic Heart Community Se…Young Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area: $187,700 · Human ServicesYoung Men's Christian As…Houston Area Women's Center: $125,000 · Human ServicesKIDS' MEALS INC: $95,000 · Human Services+28 more: $709,000 · Human Services+28 moreTHE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $969,836 · HealthTHE METHODIST…Texas Children's Hospital: $260,000 · HealthTexas Childre…+5 more: $73,225 · Health+5 moreBoys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Inc: $1,029,543 · Youth DevelopmentBoys and Gir…Boy Scouts of America Sam Houston Area Council: $52,500 · Youth DevelopmentGirls Incorporated of Greater Houston: $50,000 · Youth Development+7 more: $141,400 · Youth Development+7 moreUnited Way of Greater Houston: $322,529 · PhilanthropyMORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC: $203,961 · PhilanthropyEL PASO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC: $33,333 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF ORANGE COUNTY INC: $25,000 · Philanthropy+7 more: $67,500 · PhilanthropyTEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIO: $210,000 · EducationHYPE FREEDOM SCHOOL INC: $55,000 · EducationBOOKS BETWEEN KIDS INC: $50,000 · EducationCY-HOPE INC: $41,000 · EducationEMERGE Fellowship: $25,000 · EducationCAREER GEAR HOUSTON: $25,000 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF HOUSTON INC: $25,000 · EducationTOUCHDOWN CLUB HOUSTON INC: $25,000 · EducationYOUNG WOMEN'S PREPARATORY NETWORK: $25,000 · Education+23 more: $193,000 · EducationTHE ONESTAR FOUNDATION: $400,000 · Community ImprovementNPOWER INC: $50,000 · Community ImprovementHouston Freedmen's Town Conservancy Inc: $30,000 · Community Improvement+2 more: $20,000 · Community Improvement
Other$4,380,102Human Services$2,444,700Health$1,303,061Youth Development$1,273,443Philanthropy$702,323Education$674,000Community Improvement$500,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $1,133,411 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetDEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER: $1,128,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Inc: $1,029,543 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetTHE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $969,836 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ONESTAR FOUNDATION: $400,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Houston: $322,529 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTexas Children's Hospital: $260,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIO: $210,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetMORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC: $203,961 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCivic Heart Community Services: $200,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area: $187,700 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHouston Area Women's Center: $125,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetOPERATION FINALLY HOME: $120,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetHOUSTON AREA URBAN LEAGUE INC: $115,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetRESTORING JUSTICE: $113,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetKIDS' MEALS INC: $95,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHouston Zoo Inc: $76,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSHAPE Community Center: $75,000 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetG-UNITY FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetSouthern Smoke Foundation: $70,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTEXAS MUSEUMS & HALLS OF FAME FOUNDATION: $66,500 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetCASA DE ESPERANZA DE LOS NINOS INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE 100 CLUB INC: $60,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetBo's Place: $60,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetHYPE FREEDOM SCHOOL INC: $55,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetBoy Scouts of America Sam Houston Area Council: $52,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAVDA: $52,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCollaborative for Children: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetProject Row Houses: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGirls Incorporated of Greater Houston: $50,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetCLOTHED BY FAITH INC: $50,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetEL PASO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBOOKS BETWEEN KIDS INC: $50,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetFamily Service Center of Houston and Harris County: $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetNPOWER INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSECOND SERVINGS OF HOUSTON: $45,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetCY-HOPE INC: $41,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetCHILD ADVOCATES INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA MARIA HOSTEL INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEmancipation Park Conservancy: $40,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetBREAD OF LIFE INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC: $36,490 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC: $33,333 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSER-JOBS FOR PROGRESS OF THE TEXAS GULF COAST INC: $32,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICA'S VETDOGS THE VETERANS K-9 CORPS INC: $32,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHouston Freedmen's Town Conservancy Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 9.6% 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.

United Way of Greater…Houston Endowment IncGreater Houston Commu…The Brown Foundation …The Methodist HospitalCenterpoint Energy Fo…Albert & Ethel Herzst…Strake FoundationThe William Stamps Fa…The Houston Food BankHarry S & Isabel C Ca…The Houston Fund for …
United Way of Greater HoustonTX79.5× affinity39 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 · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Strake Foundation · The William Stamps Farish Fund · The Houston Food Bank · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · The Houston Fund for Social Justice and Economic Equity

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
  • Connecticut College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
50report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Houston Texans Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Houston Texans 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 209 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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