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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 FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2025.

Education$26kYouth Development$26kHuman Services$25kHealth$22kCrime & Legal$21kArts & Culture$16kRecreation & Sports$9kHousing & Shelter$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $43,550, the rows itemized in this filing. The $87,881 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $44,331 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $23k
$8,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$799k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Lone Star Legal Aid$13,044
Houston Urban Debate League$10,406
Stage Door Inc Center for$8,500
YES Prep Public Schools Inc$6,000
Zoes Toolbbox$5,600
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–23, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 56% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%Yes To Youth: $5k → 9%Change Happens: $14k → 16%Yes To Youth: $5k → 9%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.

30%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$47k · 3 repeat orgs$109k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
9

Total granted

$47k
$82k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+3%

Still filing today

100%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHealthInternationalCivil RightsOther
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

  • HU
    HOUSTON URBAN DEBATE LEAGUE
    2× · 2024–2025 · $20k · revenue 0%
  • ZT
    Zoes Toolbox
    2× · 2024–2025 · $16k
  • MC
    MONTGOMERY COUNTY YOUTH SERVICES
    2× · 2022–2023 · $11k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • SM
    Social Motion Skills
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
  • CH
    Civic Heart Community Servicesgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $14k · revenue +74%
  • TB
    THE BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $11k · revenue -10%
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
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
3
Arts Connect Houston

Arts Connect Houston unites with the greater Houston community to ensure access to high-quality arts education in creative writing, dance, music, theater, and the visual arts for every student, beginning with Houston ISD.

Arts & Culture
4
Family Service Center of Houston and Harris County

The mission of Family Service Center of Houston and Harris County (Family Houston) is to create a stronger community for tomorrow by helping individuals and families meet the challenges they face today. We help others help themselves.

Human Services
5
Good Reason Houston Inc

Good Reason Houston strives to grow and sustain great schools while advocating for families and communities.

Education
6
Wonderworks

Wonderworks educates students to become better-qualified college applicants and better equipped to succeed in undergraduate studies by exploring challenging subject matter and techniques in a college setting.

Education
7
The Women's Resource of Greater Houston

See Schedule OThe Women's Resource of Greater Houston helps women and girls make choices toward becoming independent, productive, and financially stable. We fulfill our mission by recruiting volunteer instructors to deliver our programs in…

Philanthropy
8
Workshop Houston

Workshop Houston's mission is to provide youth with creative, technical and educational resources in the arts. Our vision is to lay the groundwork for a just society by creating a community that provides youth with support expanded…

Youth Development
9
Trees for Houston

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

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10
Houston Independent School District Foundation

The HISD Foundation is dedicated to mobilizing the local community to support innovative priorities in HISD to improve outcomes for all students in the district. Our mission is to fund projects and programs of merit that fall outside of…

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11
The Fay School

See Schedule O. The Fay School ("the School") is a nonsectarian, not-for-profit, co-educational school in which children of diverse talents and backgrounds with strong academic abilities are offered a high-quality education in a secure,…

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12
Main Street Theater Houston

To create theater that challenges its audience to think and its artists to grow. We accomplish this by presenting an articulate and compelling product in an intimate setting, creating employment for Houston-based artists, and memorable…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montgomery County Youth Services; the most unlike its peers is Zoes Toolbox. 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

13 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. 13 of the 15 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Civic Heart Community Services: $14,045 · Human ServicesCivic Heart Community Ser…MONTGOMERY COUNTY YOUTH SERVICES: $10,831 · Human ServicesMONTGOMERY COUNTY YOUTH S…THE BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC: $10,500 · Human ServicesTHE BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED …HOUSTON URBAN DEBATE LEAGUE: $20,406 · EducationHOUSTON URBAN DEBATE LEA…YOUNG AUDIENCES INC OF HOUSTON: $7,200 · EducationYOUNG AUDIENCES INC OF H…YES Prep Public Schools Inc: $6,000 · EducationYES Prep Public Schools …Social Motion Skills: $15,000 · OtherSocial Motion SkillsTERMITE WATKINS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $5,999 · OtherTERMITE WATKINS CHARITABL…THE TAHIRIH JUSTICE CENTER: $8,211 · OtherTHE TAHIRIH JUSTICE CENTE…CHERISH OUR CHILDREN INC: $5,975 · OtherCHERISH OUR CHILDREN INCZoes Toolbox: $15,800 · HealthZoes Toolbo…Houston Parks Board: $8,615 · PhilanthropyHouston Pa…The Periwinkle Foundation: $6,000 · PhilanthropyThe Periwi…LONE STAR LEGAL AID: $13,044 · Crime & LegalLONE STAR…STAGE DOOR INC CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS AND EDUCATION: $8,500 · Arts & Culture
Human Services$35,376Education$33,606Other$35,185Health$15,800Philanthropy$14,615Crime & Legal$13,044Arts & Culture$8,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHOUSTON URBAN DEBATE LEAGUE: $20,406 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetCivic Heart Community Services: $14,045 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMONTGOMERY COUNTY YOUTH SERVICES: $10,831 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC: $10,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHouston Parks Board: $8,615 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TAHIRIH JUSTICE CENTER: $8,211 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG AUDIENCES INC OF HOUSTON: $7,200 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetYES Prep Public Schools Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Periwinkle Foundation: $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHERISH OUR CHILDREN INC: $5,975 over 1y, 2.3% 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.

Shell USA Company Fou…Greater Houston Commu…United Way of Greater…Strake FoundationHouston Endowment IncThe Elkins FoundationThe William Stamps Fa…Albert & Ethel Herzst…The Brown Foundation …Charities Aid Foundat…Natl Christian Charit…The Bank of America C…
Shell USA Company FoundationTX18.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report 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.

    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 15 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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