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Latin Womens Initiative

$250k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$305kEducation$175kArts & Culture$150kPhilanthropy$145kFood & Nutrition$135kCivil Rights$80kYouth Development$60kHealth$55k
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$416k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW SPRING CENTER$50,000
UNDIES FOR EVERYONE$50,000
SMALL PLACES$50,000
WORK TEXAS AND NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOLS$50,000
AVANCE HOUSTON$50,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%WESLEY HOUSE: $40k → 16%HOMEMADE HOPE: $40k → 16%BAYOU CITY BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK: $15k → 16%BAYOU CITY BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK: $15k → 16%HOMEMADE HOPE: $20k → 16%THE BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC: $50k → 16%COMMUNITY FAMILY CENTERS: $50k → 16%LIFE HOUSTON: $15k → 16%MEMORIAL ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES: $20k → 16%LIFE HOUSTON: $20k → 16%LIFE HOUSTON: $20k → 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.

49%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$540k · 8 repeat orgs$565k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +92% since the first grant, against +55% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
10

Total granted

$540k
$365k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+92%
+55%

Still filing today

75%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionArts & CultureOther
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

  • HH
    Homemade Hope for Homeless Children
    2× · 2017–2022 · $60k · revenue +204%
  • TC
    TEJANO CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CONCERNS INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $55k · revenue +111%
  • SS
    Small Steps Nurturing Center
    4× · 2017–2021 · $55k · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • CF
    COMMUNITY FAMILY CENTERS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +22%
  • TB
    THE BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -11%
  • CH
    CRATE HOUSTON
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
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.

1
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
2
The Greatest School in West Houston

Christian pre-school from age 3-months to school-age, and school from

—
3
Books From Birth

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.

Education
4
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.

—
5
BookSpring

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.

Education
6
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
7
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
8
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
9
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
10
Target Hunger Inc

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…

Human Services
11
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
12
Youth Development Center Inc

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…

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Small Steps Nurturing Center; 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.
04the grantee network

17 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. 17 of the 22 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON: $70,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF HOUSTONNAVIGATION AREA BUSINESS ASSOCIATION: $70,000 · OtherNAVIGATION AREA BUSINESS ASSOCIA…AVANCE INC: $50,000 · OtherAVANCE INCCRATE HOUSTON: $50,000 · OtherCRATE HOUSTONNewspring: $50,000 · OtherNewspringKIDS READING ROOM: $30,000 · OtherKIDS READING ROOMHomemade Hope for Homeless Children: $60,000 · Human ServicesHomemade Hope for Homeless Chil…LOCAL INFANT FORMULA FOR EMERGENCIES: $55,000 · Human ServicesLOCAL INFANT FORMULA FOR EMERGE…COMMUNITY FAMILY CENTERS INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY FAMILY CENTERS INCTHE BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesTHE BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS…WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC OF HOUSTON TEXAS: $40,000 · Human ServicesWESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC OF …BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INCMemorial Assistance Ministries: $20,000 · Human ServicesMemorial Assistance MinistriesSmall Steps Nurturing Center: $55,000 · EducationSmall Steps Nurt…Neighborhood Schools Inc: $50,000 · EducationNeighborhood Sch…BOOKS BETWEEN KIDS INC: $40,000 · EducationBOOKS BETWEEN KI…San Francisco Nativity Academy: $15,000 · EducationSan Francisco Na…Undies for Everyone: $145,000 · PhilanthropyUndies for Eve…TEJANO CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CONCERNS INC: $55,000 · Youth DevelopmentSmall Places: $50,000 · Food & NutritionSegundo Barrio Childrens Chorus: $50,000 · Arts & CultureSpringSpirit Inc: $20,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$320,000Human Services$305,000Education$160,000Philanthropy$145,000Youth Development$55,000Food & Nutrition$50,000Arts & Culture$50,000Recreation & Sports$20,000

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 budgetUndies for Everyone: $145,000 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetHomemade Hope for Homeless Children: $60,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetTEJANO CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CONCERNS INC: $55,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSmall Steps Nurturing Center: $55,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetLOCAL INFANT FORMULA FOR EMERGENCIES: $55,000 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetNeighborhood Schools Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY FAMILY CENTERS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSmall Places: $50,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetTHE BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNewspring: $50,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetSegundo Barrio Childrens Chorus: $50,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetWESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC OF HOUSTON TEXAS: $40,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBOOKS BETWEEN KIDS INC: $40,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMemorial Assistance Ministries: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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…Centerpoint Energy Fo…United Way of Greater…Shell USA Company Fou…Harry S & Isabel C Ca…The Houston Food BankBarbara Bush Houston …The Children's Fund I…The Junior League of …Charity Guild of Cath…The Methodist HospitalBaxter Trust Co Priva…
Greater Houston Community FoundationTX29.3× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Latin Womens Initiative funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Latin Womens Initiative. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%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 · 0–40%
    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.

    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 22 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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