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Kiwanis Foundation of Houston

Grants and support are provided to other nonprofit organizations to assist those organizations to function

$194k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Human Services$456kHealth$214kYouth Development$123kCrime & Legal$107kEducation$105kHousing & Shelter$61kInternational$38kAnimals$36kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 13 grants below total $137,397 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $193,840 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $56,443 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $108k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE WOMEN'S HOME$15,000
NEHEMIAH CENTER$15,000
BOYS AND GIRLS COUNTRY$12,397
SMALL STEPS$12,000
CHILD ADVOCATES$12,000
CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER$12,000
SIRE$10,000
THE PERIWINKLE FOUNDATION$10,000
ARMS WIDE$10,000
FOTOFEST INC$7,500
TEXAS HEARING INSTITUTE$7,500
CHILDREN'S TRANSPLANT INITIATIVE$7,500
NORTHWEST ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES$6,500
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $362k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%NEHEMIAH CENTER: $15k → 16%STREET GRACE: $5k → 9%NEHEMIAH CENTER: $15k → 16%STREET GRACE: $5k → 9%NEHEMIAH CENTER: $15k → 16%NEHEMIAH CENTER: $15k → 16%NEHEMIAH CENTER: $15k → 16%NEHEMIAH CENTER: $12k → 16%NEHEMIAH CENTER: $11k → 16%NEHEMIAH CENTER: $10k → 16%CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY SER CTR: $9k → 16%THE WOMEN'S HOME: $15k → 16%THE WOMEN'S HOME: $11k → 16%THE WOMEN'S HOME: $10k → 16%THE WOMEN'S HOME: $9k → 16%THE WOMEN'S HOME: $9k → 16%THE WOMEN'S HOME: $7k → 16%ARMS WIDE: $10k → 16%ARMS WIDE: $10k → 16%ARMS WIDE: $10k → 16%ARMS WIDE: $10k → 16%ARMS WIDE: $10k → 16%ARMS WIDE: $7k → 16%ARMS WIDE: $7k → 16%BOYS AND GIRLS COUNTRY: $12k → 16%BOYS AND GIRLS COUNTRY: $10k → 16%BOYS AND GIRLS COUNTRY: $10k → 16%BOYS AND GIRLS COUNTRY: $10k → 16%BOYS AND GIRLS COUNTRY: $10k → 16%BOYS AND GIRLS COUNTRY: $10k → 16%BOYS & GIRLS COUNTRY: $10k → 16%BOYS AND GIRLS COUNTRY: $10k → 16%NEHEMIAH CENTER: $9k → 16%NORTHWEST ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES: $7k → 16%NORTHWEST ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES: $7k → 16%KIDS MEALS: $7k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 21 repeat orgs$116k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
14

Total granted

$1.1M
$101k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+32%

Still filing today

95%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthEducationCrime & LegalPhilanthropyOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • NC
    Nehemiah Center Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $116k · revenue +10%
  • CA
    CHILD ADVOCATES INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $98k · revenue +12%
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS COUNTRY OF HOUSTON INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $82k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • HE
    HOUSTON EAR RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $11k
  • CENIKOR FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +160%
  • The Houston Food Bankgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +36%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Collaborative for Children

The mission of Collaborative for Children is to meaningfully improve the quality of early childhood education and care for Greater Houston's children through those most influential in their lives.

Human Services
2
Childrens House International

Children's house international provides ethical adoption services, child focused recruitment, and family support. we support disadvantaged children with humanitarian aid in countries worldwide.

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3
Fostering Family

Fostering family dba the riverside project is a 501(c)(3) public charity that on behalf of houston's children and their families, brings together organizations and passionate people working as one to help families heal and children thrive.

Community Improvement
4
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
5
FIRST3YEARS

First3years nurtures early relational and mental health of infants and toddlers in texas. working in deep collaboration with caregivers, parents, and professionals statewide, we cultivate strong early childhood systems, educate our…

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6
Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Inc

The Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston's mission is to inspire and enable all youth, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens.

Youth Development
7
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
8
Presbyterian School

Family, School, and Church united in the education and support of each child - this is the founding premise upon which Presbyterian School nurtures and challenges its students. The school provides an educational program of the highest…

Education
9
Trees for Houston

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

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10
Space Family Education Inc

Childcare Provide childcare services to employees of he NASA Johnson Space Center located in Houston TX

Human Services
11
LifeHouse of Houston Inc

LifeHouse is a Christ-centered ministry ensuring life for unborn children by providing opportunities for housing, help, and hope for young women during their pregnancies and beyond.

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12
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Playworks Education Energized and the most unlike its peers is Community of Resources Houston. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number30%3%<5yr17%0%5–10yr21%17%10–20yr18%27%20–35yr8%37%35–55yr8%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value30%1%<5yr17%0%5–10yr21%11%10–20yr18%27%20–35yr8%39%35–55yr8%22%55yr+

The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 19% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
5%
2/37
the rest of the field
19%
3,800/20,404

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

33 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 33 of the 37 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/33
Grantees still filing
22/33
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Nehemiah Center Inc — $116,450 · Human ServicesNehemiah Center IncChristian Community Service Center Inc — $89,500 · Human ServicesChristian Community Service Center IncBOYS AND GIRLS COUNTRY OF HOUSTON INC — $81,897 · Human ServicesBOYS AND GIRLS COUNTRY OF HOUSTON INCSPAULDING FOR CHILDREN — $63,000 · Human ServicesSPAULDING FOR CHILDRENTHE WOMEN'S HOME — $61,000 · Human ServicesTHE WOMEN'S HOME+3 more — $30,440 · Human Services+3 moreCASA DE ESPERANZA DE LOS NINOS INC — $73,000 · OtherCASA DE ESPERANZA DE LO…SIRE INC — $43,500 · OtherSIRE INCGIRLS INC — $28,000 · OtherGIRLS INCHOUSTON EAR RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $10,536 · OtherCENIKOR FOUNDATION — $10,000 · OtherThe Houston Food Bank — $10,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS COUNTRY — $10,000 · OtherPRO-VISION INC — $17,500 · OtherPRO-VISION INC+6 more — $36,662 · Other+6 moreSmall Steps Nurturing Center — $61,500 · EducationSmall Steps …YELLOWSTONE ACADEMY INC DBA YELLOWSTONE SCHOOLS — $37,500 · EducationYELLOWSTONE …THE CENTER FOR HEARING AND SPEECH — $27,500 · EducationTHE CENTER F…The Periwinkle Foundation — $80,000 · PhilanthropyThe Periwi…KIWANIS INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION — $30,703 · PhilanthropyKIWANIS IN…CHILD ADVOCATES INC — $97,500 · Crime & LegalCHILD ADVO…BRIDGES TO LIFE — $9,000 · Crime & LegalBRIDGES TO…P4L dba Lemonade Day — $50,500 · Youth DevelopmentBoy Scouts of America Sam Houston Area Council — $16,855 · Youth DevelopmentPLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED — $7,500 · Youth DevelopmentCOMMUNITY OF RESOURCES HOUSTON — $6,000 · Youth DevelopmentTexas Children's Hospital — $52,980 · HealthEPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF TEXAS — $6,500 · HealthHarris County Hospital District Foundation — $6,500 · HealthDAN'S HOUSE OF HOPE INC — $5,000 · Health
Human Services$442,287Other$239,198Education$126,500Philanthropy$110,703Crime & Legal$106,500Youth Development$80,855Health$70,980

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNehemiah Center Inc — $116,450 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetCHILD ADVOCATES INC — $97,500 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetChristian Community Service Center Inc — $89,500 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS COUNTRY OF HOUSTON INC — $81,897 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetThe Periwinkle Foundation — $80,000 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetCASA DE ESPERANZA DE LOS NINOS INC — $73,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetSPAULDING FOR CHILDREN — $63,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetSmall Steps Nurturing Center — $61,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S HOME — $61,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTexas Children's Hospital — $52,980 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetP4L dba Lemonade Day — $50,500 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetSIRE INC — $43,500 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetYELLOWSTONE ACADEMY INC DBA YELLOWSTONE SCHOOLS — $37,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetKIWANIS INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION — $30,703 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR HEARING AND SPEECH — $27,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPRO-VISION INC — $17,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBoy Scouts of America Sam Houston Area Council — $16,855 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES — $13,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOUSTON EAR RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $10,536 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetCENIKOR FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetStreet Grace Inc — $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRIDGES TO LIFE — $9,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDRENS TRANSPLANT INITIATIVE — $7,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFotofest Inc — $7,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAmigos de las Americas — $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS' MEALS INC — $7,440 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF TEXAS — $6,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHarris County Hospital District Foundation — $6,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY OF RESOURCES HOUSTON — $6,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetDAN'S HOUSE OF HOPE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetARROW CHILD & FAMILY MINISTRIES COMBINED AFFILIATE GROUP — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Albert & Ethel Herzst…Greater Houston Commu…Strake FoundationHarry S & Isabel C Ca…Shell USA Company Fou…Sterling-Turner Found…The Junior League of …Vivian L Smith Founda…The William Stamps Fa…The Brown Foundation …Robert W Knox & Pearl…Jack H & William M Li…
Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable FoundationTX36.1× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Strake Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · Shell USA Company Foundation · Sterling-Turner Foundation · The Junior League of Houston Inc · Vivian L Smith Foundation · The William Stamps Farish Fund · The Brown Foundation Inc · Robert W Knox & Pearl Wallis Knox Charitable · Jack H & William M Light Charitable Trust

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Kiwanis Foundation of Houston funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your 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
    10report 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

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 37 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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