· Private foundation
Involve Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ASIA SOCIETY TEXAS CENTER | $3,000 |
| JOINT CHINESE COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF HOUSTON SCHOLARSHIPS INC | $2,000 |
| CHINESE COMMUNITY CENTER | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ASASIA SOCIETY TEXAS CENTER7× · 2019–2025 · $14k · revenue +162%
- TJTHE JOINT CHINESE COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF HOUSTON SCHOLARSHIPS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $12k · revenue +11%
- CCCHINESE COMMUNITY CENTER INC5× · 2021–2025 · $11k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- FBFOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANOgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +55%
- NWNEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECTSone grant, 2018 · $1k
- ANA NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECTone grant, 2020 · $1k · 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.
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.
Asian American Art & Culture Initiative is an organization promotes Asian art, culture and history through various programs, such as exhibition, contemporary art work and history/art workshops.
The Asian Chamber Foundation provides opportunities of educational programming and funding support for the Asian community in economic growth and resiliency. We have a long standing impact since 1995 with scholarships and now expanded to…
Introduce the public to and educate the public on japanese culture
Education
Houston health foundation (hhf) has the mission of creating private/public partnerships for sustainable health and wellness initiatives and programs in our communities.
Save Cantonese is an international movement that sustains and celebrates Cantonese language and culture. We have three Strategic Aims: a) protect and strengthen educational and research infrastructure for the Cantonese language, b) affirm…
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 13 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds ASIA SOCIETY TEXAS CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE JOINT CHINESE COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF HOUSTON SCHOLARSHIPS INC ↗
- Who funds CHINESE COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY ACADEMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Houston A Challenge ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO ↗
- Who funds A NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERU ↗
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 · Houston Endowment Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Involve Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Involve Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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Find your warmest path to Involve 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.
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