· Private foundation
Lift High Foundation Inc
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 10 grants below total $292,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $310,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $18,000 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 · FY2024
- $10k–50k8 grants · $182k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $110k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Lone Star College Foundation | $60,000 |
| Midland College Foundation Inc | $50,000 |
| College of the Mainland Foundation Inc | $36,000 |
| Del Mar College Foundation Inc | $35,000 |
| Construction & Maintenance Ed Foundation | $30,000 |
| Texas A&M Foundation | $25,000 |
| Acc Members Foundation | $16,000 |
| Habitat For Humanity International Inc | $15,000 |
| The Brookwood Community Inc | $15,000 |
| Houston Community College Foundation | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–21, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
4 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 8 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, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $207k 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
- NHNORTH HARRIS MONTGOMERY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT3× · 2020–2024 · $140k · revenue +70%
- TATexas A&M Foundation2× · 2021–2024 · $75k · revenue +116%
- GGGods Garage Inc2× · 2020–2021 · $20k · revenue +16%
Funded once
THE TSTC FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $35k · revenue +86%
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 the south texas college foundation is to garner resources that assist south texas college in acheving educational excellence, servicing the diverse needs of the college through partnerships and fundraising from various…
To ensure that the student body experiences balanced intellectual, psychological, social and spiritual development, aimed at enabling them to become active productive members of society where they live and work.
The western texas college foundation serves western texas college by soliciting, receiving, and administering gifts and grants for student scholarships, educational and cultural activities, and campus facility improvement and development.
Central texas college foundation (foundation) helps central texas college (ctc) grow through the acquisitions of gifts of scholarships, equipment and other donations, in order to help students, to support the facility, to promote programs,…
The foundation's purpose is to receive and administer gifts and grants to enhance educational excellence at northeast texas community college.
The northwest mississippi community college foundation (the foundation), is a non-profit organization located on the northwest mississippi community college's (nwcc) campus. the foundation's purpose is to raise funds to assist nwcc is…
Making education accessible for students through philanthropic support, aligned with Austin Community College (ACC) strategic priorities.
To support and enhance the ability of Galveston College to achieve its mission of advancing people's lives through lifelong learning.
Through the generosity of donors, the foundation invests in student success and supports mid-state technical college's strategic plan.
The mission of the North Central State Foundation is to assist the College in providing life long learning opportunities by securing financial and community support.
The foundation provides academic scholarships and financial support to the college.
The purpose of the foundation is to foster public understanding and support for montgomery community college, and to solicit and promote donations of any kind for the exclusive use of montgomery community college.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Harris Montgomery Community College District and the most unlike its peers is Gods Garage Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 13 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 NORTH HARRIS MONTGOMERY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT ↗
- Who funds Texas A&M Foundation ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF THE MAINLAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE TSTC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DEL MAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Gods Garage Inc ↗
- Who funds The Brookwood Community Inc ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
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: Shell USA Company Foundation · Greater Texas Foundation · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Texas Mutual Insurance Company · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Lift High Foundation Inc 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.
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