· Private foundation
Kcrcw 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, FY2024 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k8 grants · $198k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $664k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Legacy Health | $200,000 |
| Connective | $164,000 |
| Center for Urban Transformation | $150,000 |
| FW Community Redevelopment CRC | $75,000 |
| Small Steps | $75,000 |
| ProUnitas | $45,000 |
| Urban Enrichment Institute | $35,000 |
| Hester House | $25,000 |
| Houston reVision | $25,000 |
| SPARK | $25,000 |
| Bridge Year | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,500 |
| Progressive FW Community Association | $10,000 |
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 (FY24–25, $385k) 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.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 0 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
- TCTHE CENTER FOR URBAN TRANSFORMATION INC2× · 2024–2025 · $350k · revenue +44% · 56% of their budget
- SSSmall Steps Nurturing Center2× · 2024–2025 · $150k · revenue +4%
- PIPROUNITAS INC2× · 2024–2025 · $60k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- WSWest Street Recoveryone grant, 2024 · $500 · revenue 0%
- OAOUR AFRIKAN FAMILYone grant, 2024 · $500
- UHURBAN HEALING HTXone grant, 2024 · $500
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.
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.
Disrupt generational proverty in TX by empowering vulnerable teens & adults-especially 1st generation college students,low-income persons,& those involved with the crimminal justice system-to attain higher ed. degrees of value,secure…
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…
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.
Urban Neighborhood Initiatives, Inc. (UNI) engages in comprehensive action to address human and community development. Individuals and families are enthused as they prosper and become encouraged to invest in their homes and communities.
Provide Charlotte's low-income children and youth with the academic, spiritual, and social development necessary to become Christian leaders determined to restore their communities.
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…
Academy of Visual and Performing Arts (AVPA) provides a safe and challenging learning environment that cultivates students' academic and artistic excellence.
CEC works with diverse stakeholders across Detroit to develop critical resources and system-level solutions that address common challenges faced by Detroit families in accessing quality education.
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…
Christian pre-school from age 3-months to school-age, and school from
The Houston Local Information Initiative, Inc. provides public service journalism that reflects the civic needs of the diverse communities comprising Greater Houston.
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 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.
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.
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: Houston Endowment Inc · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Rockwell Fund Inc · The Powell Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · The William Stamps Farish Fund · United Way of Greater Houston · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Kcrcw Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kcrcw Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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