Texas · Public charity
Houston Young Lawyers Foundation
Support and encourage education and programs that promote and aid an improved system for the administration of justice in harris county, texas and assist those in need.
- $88k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 5
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $44k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $8,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $13,044
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 4
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $799k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Houston Young Lawyers Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 5 | $44k | 60% |
| FY2024 | 4 | $32k | 100% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $13k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $31k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 3 | $28k | 100% |
| FY2017 | 1 | $9k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Houston Urban Debate League | $20,406 | 2 | 7% |
| Zoes Toolbox | $15,800 | 2 | n/a |
| Social Motion Skills | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Civic Heart Community Services | $14,045 | 1 | 0% |
| Lone Star Legal Aid | $13,044 | 1 | n/a |
| Montgomery County Youth Services | $10,831 | 2 | 0% |
| The Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc | $10,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Houston Parks Board | $8,615 | 1 | 0% |
| Stage Door Inc Center for the Performing Arts and Education | $8,500 | 1 | n/a |
| The Tahirih Justice Center | $8,211 | 1 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Houston Urban Debate League | $20,406 | 2 | 7% |
| Zoes Toolbox | $15,800 | 2 | n/a |
| Social Motion Skills | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Civic Heart Community Services | $14,045 | 1 | 0% |
| Lone Star Legal Aid | $13,044 | 1 | n/a |
| Montgomery County Youth Services | $10,831 | 2 | 0% |
| The Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc | $10,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Houston Parks Board | $8,615 | 1 | 0% |
| Stage Door Inc Center for the Performing Arts and Education | $8,500 | 1 | n/a |
| The Tahirih Justice Center | $8,211 | 1 | 0% |
| Young Audiences Inc of Houston | $7,200 | 1 | 0% |
| YES Prep Public Schools Inc | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Periwinkle Foundation | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Termite Watkins Charitable Foundation | $5,999 | 1 | n/a |
| Cherish Our Children Inc | $5,975 | 1 | 2% |
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Houston Young Lawyers Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Shell USA Company Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · United Way of Greater Houston · Strake Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · The Elkins Foundation · The William Stamps Farish Fund · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Houston Young Lawyers Foundation
- How much does Houston Young Lawyers Foundation give?
- Houston Young Lawyers Foundation reported 5 itemized grants totaling $43,550, out of $87,881 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 4 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Houston Young Lawyers Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (17%), Youth Development (17%), Human Services (16%).
- Who are Houston Young Lawyers Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Houston Urban Debate League ($20k), Zoes Toolbox ($16k), Social Motion Skills ($15k).
- Does Houston Young Lawyers Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Houston Young Lawyers Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Shell USA Company Foundation, Greater Houston Community Foundation, United Way of Greater Houston.
- Where is Houston Young Lawyers Foundation based?
- Houston Young Lawyers Foundation is based in TX.
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