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Impact100 Houston Inc

The Impact100 model empowers women to see themselves as philanthropists and overcome the barriers women have historically faced in this arena.

$276k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
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, FY2021 to 2024.

Human Services$300kHousing & Shelter$150kYouth Development$115kEducation$58kArts & Culture$51kRecreation & Sports$47kFood & Nutrition$22kEnvironment$15k
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $76k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
$25,333
Median grant
1
States reached
$484k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BEAR Be A Resource for CPS Kids$100,000
Covenant House Texas$100,000
Small Steps Nuturing Center$25,333
The Ensemble Theatre$25,333
The Woods Project$25,333
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 (FY21–24, $322k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%Covenant House Texas: $100k → 16%RaiseUp Families: $100k → 16%BEAR Be A Resource for CPS Kids: $100k → 16%Kids Meals: $11k → 16%KIDS MEALS: $11k → 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.

20%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$155k · 3 repeat orgs$604k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
8

Total granted

$155k
$328k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+9%

Still filing today

67%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $276k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureRecreation & SportsCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • AH
    ANGELA HOUSE
    2× · 2021–2022 · $100k
  • CP
    CHINQUAPIN PREPARATORY SCHOOL
    2× · 2021–2022 · $33k · revenue -1%
  • KM
    KIDS' MEALS INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $22k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • HR
    HOUSTON REVISION
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue 0%
  • RF
    RAISEUP FAMILIES
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +6%
  • SM
    SANTA MARIA HOSTEL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +52%
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.

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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
2
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
3
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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4
The Awty International School

See Schedule OThe purpose of Awty International School (Awty) is to create an environment where students experience excellence every day to make their mark on the world alongside their community, in a spirit of curiosity, courage and…

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5
Kipp Inc dba Knowledge is Power Program Inc

KIPP, the Knowledge Is Power Program, is committed to developing in underserved students the academic skills, intellectual habits, and qualities of character necessary to succeed at all levels of pre-kindergarten through 12th grade,…

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6
Made Houston

MADE Houston was formed to create a school community focused on nurturing and developing the unique academic and social needs of students with learning differences and to successfully transition students into mainstream schools.

Education
7
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston

CAMH presents extraordinary and thought-provoking arts programming and exhibitions.

Arts & Culture
8
Express Childrens Theatre Express Childrens Theatre

Express Children's Theater is Houston's oldest and largest performing arts and education organization dedicated to children and their families.

Arts & Culture
9
St Stephen's Episcopal School

St. Stephen's Episcopal School - Houston ("St. Stephen's", "the School") nurtures each child's academic, creative, and spiritual potential.

Education
10
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
11
Trees for Houston

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

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12
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Woods Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is Covenant House Texas. 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 16 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
8/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BEAR BE A RESOURCE FOR CPS KIDS: $100,000 · Human ServicesBEAR BE A RESOURCE FOR CPS KIDSCOVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $100,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE TEXASRAISEUP FAMILIES: $100,000 · Human ServicesRAISEUP FAMILIESKIDS' MEALS INC: $22,000 · Human ServicesKIDS' MEALS INCANGELA HOUSE: $100,000 · OtherANGELA HOUSECHINQUAPIN PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $33,000 · OtherCHINQUAPIN PREPARATORY…ART LEAGUE OF HOUSTON: $15,000 · OtherART LEAGUE OF HOUSTONHOUSTON REVISION: $100,000 · Crime & LegalHOUSTON REVISI…SANTA MARIA HOSTEL INC: $50,000 · HealthTHE WOODS PROJECT: $25,333 · Recreation & SportsSPARK: $22,000 · Recreation & SportsSmall Steps Nurturing Center: $25,333 · EducationChildren's Enviromental Literacy Fdn: $15,000 · EducationTHE ENSEMBLE THEATRE: $25,333 · Arts & CultureTheatre Under the Stars Inc: $11,000 · Arts & CultureGirls Incorporated of Greater Houston: $15,000 · Youth Development
Human Services$322,000Other$148,000Crime & Legal$100,000Health$50,000Recreation & Sports$47,333Education$40,333Arts & Culture$36,333Youth Development$15,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHOUSTON REVISION: $100,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetBEAR BE A RESOURCE FOR CPS KIDS: $100,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRAISEUP FAMILIES: $100,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetSANTA MARIA HOSTEL INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCHINQUAPIN PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $33,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSmall Steps Nurturing Center: $25,333 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE ENSEMBLE THEATRE: $25,333 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE WOODS PROJECT: $25,333 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetKIDS' MEALS INC: $22,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSPARK: $22,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetChildren's Enviromental Literacy Fdn: $15,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetART LEAGUE OF HOUSTON: $15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetGirls Incorporated of Greater Houston: $15,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTheatre Under the Stars Inc: $11,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Greater Houston Commu…Shell USA Company Fou…Albert & Ethel Herzst…The Brown Foundation …John P McGovern Found…Houston Endowment IncBaker Hughes Foundati…The Junior League of …Harry S & Isabel C Ca…The Powell FoundationStrake FoundationCenterpoint Energy Fo…
Greater Houston Community FoundationTX27.3× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · John P McGovern Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · Baker Hughes Foundation · The Junior League of Houston Inc · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · The Powell Foundation · Strake Foundation · Centerpoint Energy 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 Impact100 Houston Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Impact100 Houston Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%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
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.
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    How do I get to Impact100 Houston Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Impact100 Houston Inc 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 16 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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