· Public charity
Latin Womens Initiative
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SMALL PLACES | $50,000 |
| NEW SPRING CENTER | $50,000 |
| AVANCE HOUSTON | $50,000 |
| UNDIES FOR EVERYONE | $50,000 |
| WORK TEXAS AND NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOLS | $50,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $305k) 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +92% since the first grant, against +55% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- HHHomemade Hope for Homeless Children2× · 2017–2022 · $60k · revenue +204%
- TCTEJANO CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CONCERNS INC3× · 2020–2022 · $55k · revenue +111%
- SSSmall Steps Nurturing Center4× · 2017–2021 · $55k · revenue +64%
Funded once
- CFCOMMUNITY FAMILY CENTERS INCone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +22%
- CHCRATE HOUSTONone grant, 2023 · $50k
- TBTHE BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INCone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -11%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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.
Christian pre-school from age 3-months to school-age, and school from
Books from Birth provides free books to impoverished children in Texas's Brazos Valley in order to boost early literacy skills and narrow the opportunity gap for underprivileged children before they enter school.
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.
Bookspring's mission is to build early literacy in children and families through healthcare, education, and the community. Please visit our website at www.bookspring.org for up-to-date information.
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.
St. Stephen's Episcopal School - Houston ("St. Stephen's", "the School") nurtures each child's academic, creative, and spiritual potential.
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.
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…
The mission of Target Hunger is to alleviate hunger and its root causes in the Houston neighborhoods we serve. Target Hunger is on the front lines of hunger every day through its food distribution system that includes multiple food…
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.
Our mission is to inspire, equip, and guide urban youth to live! Our mission is accomplished by providing a free, faith-based, after-school academic program for literacy remediation and character development for low-income students in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Small Steps Nurturing Center and the most unlike its peers is Small Places. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 22 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Undies for Everyone ↗
- Who funds Homemade Hope for Homeless Children ↗
- Who funds TEJANO CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CONCERNS INC ↗
- Who funds Small Steps Nurturing Center ↗
- Who funds LOCAL INFANT FORMULA FOR EMERGENCIES ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FAMILY CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds Neighborhood Schools Inc ↗
- Who funds Small Places ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC ↗
- Who funds Newspring ↗
- Who funds Segundo Barrio Childrens Chorus ↗
- Who funds WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC OF HOUSTON TEXAS ↗
- Who funds BOOKS BETWEEN KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC ↗
- Who funds Memorial Assistance Ministries ↗
- Who funds SpringSpirit Inc ↗
- Who funds San Francisco Nativity Academy ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Houston · Shell USA Company Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · The Houston Food Bank · Barbara Bush Houston Literacy Foundation · The Children's Fund Inc · The Junior League of Houston Inc · Charity Guild of Catholic Women of Harris County Inc · The Methodist Hospital · Baxter Trust Co Private Foundation Services
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 Latin Womens Initiative 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.
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.