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Lift High Foundation Inc at a glance

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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.

$310k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0182% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$411kHousing & Shelter$45kHuman Services$20kRecreation & Sports$16kHealth$15kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $292,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $310,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $18,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k8 grants · $182k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $110k
$30,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%God's Garage: $10k → 9%GOD'S GARAGE: $10k → 9%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.

52%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$265k · 4 repeat orgs$242k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +70% since the first grant, against +61% for those funded once.

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
1

Total granted

$265k
$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+70%
+61%

Still filing today

75%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $207k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’24
EducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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

  • NH
    NORTH HARRIS MONTGOMERY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT
    3× · 2020–2024 · $140k · revenue +70%
  • TA
    Texas A&M Foundation
    2× · 2021–2024 · $75k · revenue +116%
  • GG
    Gods Garage Inc
    2× · 2020–2021 · $20k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • THE TSTC FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $35k · revenue +61%
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
South Texas Community College Education Foundation

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…

Education
2
Texas College

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.

Education
3
Western Texas College Foundation

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.

Education
4
Central Texas College Foundation

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,…

Education
5
Northeast Texas Community College Foundation Inc

The foundation's purpose is to receive and administer gifts and grants to enhance educational excellence at northeast texas community college.

Philanthropy
6
Northwest Mississippi Community College Foundation

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…

Education
7
Austin Community College Foundation

Making education accessible for students through philanthropic support, aligned with Austin Community College (ACC) strategic priorities.

Education
8
Galveston College Foundation

To support and enhance the ability of Galveston College to achieve its mission of advancing people's lives through lifelong learning.

Education
9
Mid-State Technical College Foundation Inc

Through the generosity of donors, the foundation invests in student success and supports mid-state technical college's strategic plan.

Education
10
North Central State College Foundation

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.

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11
The Foundation for Florida Gateway College Inc

The foundation provides academic scholarships and financial support to the college.

Education
12
Montgomery Community College Foundation Inc

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Harris Montgomery Community College District; 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.
04the grantee network

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 13 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NORTH HARRIS MONTGOMERY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT: $140,000 · EducationNORTH HARRIS MONTGOMERY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICTTexas A&M Foundation: $75,000 · EducationTexas A&M FoundationMIDLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $50,000 · EducationMIDLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATIONCOLLEGE OF THE MAINLAND FOUNDATION: $36,000 · EducationCOLLEGE OF THE MAINLAND FOUNDATIONTHE TSTC FOUNDATION: $35,000 · EducationTHE TSTC FOUNDATIONThe Brookwood Community Inc: $15,000 · Education+1 more: $10,000 · EducationHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $30,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITYConstruction & Maintenance Ed Foundation: $30,000 · OtherConstruction & Maint…Acc Members Foundation: $16,000 · OtherAcc Members Foundati…Habitat For Humanity International Inc: $15,000 · OtherHabitat For Humanity…DEL MAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 · PhilanthropyGods Garage Inc: $20,000 · Human Services
Education$361,000Other$91,000Philanthropy$35,000Human Services$20,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNORTH HARRIS MONTGOMERY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT: $140,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTexas A&M Foundation: $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMIDLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOLLEGE OF THE MAINLAND FOUNDATION: $36,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTHE TSTC FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetDEL MAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetGods Garage Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetThe Brookwood Community Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOUSTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Shell USA Company Fou…Greater Texas Foundat…Centerpoint Energy Fo…Texas Mutual Insuranc…Greater Houston Commu…Communities Foundatio…The Blackbaud Giving …Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…
Shell USA Company FoundationTX16.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Lift High Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lift High Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Lift High Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Lift High Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 13 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $396k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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