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Montgomery County Community Foundation

The mission of the Montgomery County Community Foundation (MCCF) is to provide leadership in Montgomery County by directing sustainable financial resources that strengthen our community and improve the quality of life for current and future generations.

$389k
Granted FY2024still arriving
27
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$23k
Largest
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 FY20172024.

Human Services$507kHealth$205kFood & Nutrition$203kEducation$87kHousing & Shelter$73kArts & Culture$63kAnimals$63kReligion$55kOther$0
02FY2024 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 27 grants below total $272,545 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $388,900 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $116,355 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

  • Under $10k16 grants · $112k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $161k
$9,533
Median grant
1
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Montgomery County WC$23,000
Family Houston$20,000
Love Fosters Hope$20,000
Emerging Grace Ministries Inc$15,000
Assistance League of Mo Co$14,620
Montgomery County Food Bank$14,500
Interfaith of the Woodlands$12,300
CASA - Child Adv of MoCo$11,000
The Rose$10,300
Montgomery County Habitat for$10,000
Kids Meals$10,000
Lifestyle Christian School$9,534
Covenant Christian School$9,533
The Woodlands Christian Acade$9,533
The Woodlands Dog Park Club$8,600
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 (FY17–24, $396k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 4% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%Love Fosters Hope: $13k → 9%LOVE FOSTERS HOPE: $12k → 9%Kids Meals: $10k → 9%Love Fosters Hope: $8k → 9%LOVE FOSTERS HOPE: $5k → 9%LOVE FOSTERS HOPE: $5k → 9%HOUSTON FURNITURE BANK: $2k → 16%Kids' Meals: $10k → 16%KID'S MEALS: $5k → 16%COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE CENTER: $37k → 9%Crisis Assistance Center: $20k → 9%GOD'S GARAGE: $19k → 9%Assistance League of Mo Co: $15k → 9%Assistance League of Montgomery County: $11k → 9%ANGEL REACH: $11k → 9%Assistance League of Mo Co: $10k → 9%ANGEL REACH: $10k → 9%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF MC: $10k → 9%National Assistance League: $10k → 9%COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE CENTER: $8k → 9%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF MO CO: $7k → 9%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF MO CO: $7k → 9%Gods Garage: $7k → 9%Montgomery County Youth Services: $6k → 9%Community Assistance Center: $5k → 9%COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE CENTER: $5k → 9%GOD'S GARAGE: $2k → 9%COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE CENTER (FORMERLY MC EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE): $1k → 9%Love Fosters Hope: $20k → 9%Society of Samaritans Inc: $25k → 9%Society of Samaritans: $10k → 9%SOCIETY OF SAMARITANS: $10k → 9%SOCIETY OF SAMARITANS: $8k → 9%SOCIETY OF SAMARITANS: $8k → 9%INSPIRATION RANCH (FORMERLY PANTHER CREEK INSPIRATION RANCH): $6k → 9%Inspiration Ran: $6k → 9%INSPIRATION RANCH (FORMERLY PANTHER CREEK INSPIRATION RANCH): $4k → 9%Angel Reach: $10k → 9%GOD'S GARAGE: $6k → 9%Family Promise of Mont County: $5k → 9%New Danville: $8k → 9%HOPE'S BRIDGE RESOURCE CENTER: $500 → 9%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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 7% of Montgomery County Community Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in TX; read by stated purpose it is 93% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Montgomery County Community Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.2M · 40 repeat orgs$225k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.

40 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
34

Total granted

$1.2M
$157k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+2%

Still filing today

85%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationHousing & ShelterAnimalsReligionOther

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

  • MC
    MONTGOMERY COUNTY WOMENS CENTER
    7× · 2017–2024 · $112k · revenue +20%
  • MC
    MONTGOMERY COUNTY FOOD BANK INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $96k · revenue +104%
  • CA
    Crisis Assistance Center Inc dba Community Assistance Center
    6× · 2017–2024 · $77k · revenue +48%

Funded once

  • LH
    LOVE HEALS YOUTHgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $13k · revenue ×22
  • PW
    PINEY WOODS ELEMENTARY PTO
    one grant, 2019 · $12k
  • TA
    THE ARK FAMILY CHURCH
    one grant, 2020 · $10k

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
Texas Community Counseling

When care is within reach, lives change. Texas Community Counseling is a faith-based nonprofit committed to bringing hope and healing through mental health care to the communities that need it the most. We empower individuals to heal,…

Human Services
2
Montgomery County Childrens Advocacy Center Inc

Serves abused children through a comprehensive approach to services for abused children and their families.

Crime & Legal
3
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.

4
Central Texas Children's Home

To provide family services and to provide residential child care for dependent children where there is a need to assist children and families disrupted by problems.

Human Services
5
Katy Christian Ministries

See Schedule O.Katy Christian Ministries (KCM) is a social service non-profit that serves the Katy/West Houston area. KCM's Social Service Department offers emergency financial assistance, a Food Pantry, a Crisis Center that houses the…

Human Services
6
Memorial Assistance Ministries

MAM partners with hardworking Houstonians to build stable lives and hope-filled futures. Through education, training, and community connection, we enhance economic mobility and holistic health across the region.

Human Services
7
Lake Travis Crisis Ministries

Meet the short-term needs of people in crisis situations by providing immediate help in the form of food & financial assistance. Long-term assistance may also be provided.

Human Services
8
Family Promise of Collin County

Family promise is part of a national organization that provides food, shelter, and support services during resettlement of homeless families in church facilities and temporary housing. we also provide cars for our guests to drive to work…

Human Services
9
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Milam County
10
Texas Non-Profit Hospice Alliance

The Texas Nonprofit Hospice Alliance (TNPHA) is a group of nonprofit hospices dedicated to sharing best practices and providing quality care for individuals with life-limiting illnesses.

Human Services
11
Castle Care Community Ministries

Our mission is to end Veteran homelessness in Texas and throughout America by providing shelter, transitional living, counseling, case management, job training and job placement.

Housing & Shelter
12
The Women's Resource of Greater Houston

See Schedule OThe Women's Resource of Greater Houston helps women and girls make choices toward becoming independent, productive, and financially stable. We fulfill our mission by recruiting volunteer instructors to deliver our programs in…

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montgomery County Youth Services and the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyChristian Evangelical Minis…High School Activity Booste…Professional & Trade Associ…Dog and Cat RescueYouth Sports Leagues
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number30%3%<5yr17%16%5–10yr21%23%10–20yr17%26%20–35yr8%25%35–55yr8%7%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value30%8%<5yr17%6%5–10yr21%24%10–20yr17%17%20–35yr8%42%35–55yr8%3%55yr+

The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 3% lost their exemption, against 18% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%2/80
the rest of the field
18%
4,254/23,231

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.

05the grantee network

69 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 20172026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 69 of the 81 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)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/69
Grantees still filing
50/69
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MONTGOMERY COUNTY WOMENS CENTER — $112,100 · OtherMONTGOMERY COUNTY WOMENS CENTERMONTGOMERY COUNTY FOOD BANK INC — $96,181 · OtherMONTGOMERY COUNTY FOOD BANK INCTHE ROSE — $40,500 · OtherTHE ROSEMEALS ON WHEELS MONTGOMERY COUNTY — $37,500 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELS MONTGOMERY COUNTYBridgewood Farms Inc — $23,675 · OtherOSCAR JOHNSON JR COMMUNITY CENTER VOLUNTEERS INC — $20,900 · OtherMONTGOMERY BAND BOOSTERS INC — $20,400 · OtherConroe Live Inc — $21,500 · OtherWOODLANDS RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY INC — $23,500 · Other+32 more — $209,925 · Other+32 moreCrisis Assistance Center Inc dba Community Assistance Center — $77,030 · Human ServicesCrisis Assistance Center Inc dba Commun…Society of Samaritans Inc — $73,500 · Human ServicesSociety of Samaritans IncAssistance League of Montgomery County — $69,646 · Human ServicesAssistance League of Montgomery CountyLove Fosters Hope — $62,248 · Human ServicesLove Fosters HopeGods Garage Inc — $33,968 · Human ServicesGods Garage IncANGEL REACH — $30,700 · Human ServicesANGEL REACHTEXAS NEW COMMUNITY ALLIANCE — $27,574 · Human ServicesTEXAS NEW COMMUNITY ALLIANCEINSPIRATION RANCH INC — $26,831 · Human ServicesINSPIRATION RANCH INCKIDS' MEALS INC — $24,600 · Human ServicesFamily Service Center of Houston and Harris County — $20,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY — $19,590 · Human Services+4 more — $20,774 · Human ServicesAll Ears Listening and Language Center — $36,680 · EducationMONTGOMERY INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $30,000 · EducationCovenant Christian School — $9,533 · Education+2 more — $3,100 · EducationTHE WOODLANDS DOG PARK CLUB — $28,400 · AnimalsHenrys Home Horse and Human Sanctuary — $15,000 · AnimalsABANDONED ANIMAL RESCUE — $7,500 · AnimalsOPERATION PETS ALIVE — $7,000 · AnimalsHOUSTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $3,000 · AnimalsJOURNEY HOME INC — $17,582 · Housing & ShelterMONTGOMERY COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $15,500 · Housing & ShelterPregnancy Assistance Center North — $15,000 · Housing & ShelterCoalition for the Homeless of Houston Harris County — $6,790 · Housing & ShelterSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC — $6,000 · Housing & ShelterLONE STAR COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER — $24,000 · HealthTOMAGWA MINISTRIES INC DBA TOMAGWA HEALTHCARE MINISTRIES — $10,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc — $7,500 · HealthMosaics of Mercy Inc — $7,100 · HealthTrinity Reins Ministry Inc — $3,000 · HealthLIFE GIVING LIFE THE RECOVERY PROJECT — $2,042 · Health+1 more — $900 · HealthEmerging Grace Ministries Inc — $30,000 · ReligionEAGLES NEST MINISTRIES OF CONROE — $13,200 · ReligionForever Faithful Ministries — $5,950 · Religion
Other$606,181Human Services$486,461Education$79,313Animals$60,900Housing & Shelter$60,872Health$54,542Religion$49,150

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMONTGOMERY COUNTY WOMENS CENTER — $112,100 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetMONTGOMERY COUNTY FOOD BANK INC — $96,181 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCrisis Assistance Center Inc dba Community Assistance Center — $77,030 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetSociety of Samaritans Inc — $73,500 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetAssistance League of Montgomery County — $69,646 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetLove Fosters Hope — $62,248 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetTHE ROSE — $40,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS MONTGOMERY COUNTY — $37,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetAll Ears Listening and Language Center — $36,680 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetGods Garage Inc — $33,968 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetANGEL REACH — $30,700 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetEmerging Grace Ministries Inc — $30,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetMONTGOMERY INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 4y, 8.7% of budgetTHE WOODLANDS DOG PARK CLUB — $28,400 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetTEXAS NEW COMMUNITY ALLIANCE — $27,574 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetINSPIRATION RANCH INC — $26,831 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetKIDS' MEALS INC — $24,600 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLONE STAR COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER — $24,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBridgewood Farms Inc — $23,675 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetWOODLANDS RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY INC — $23,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFamily Service Center of Houston and Harris County — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY — $19,590 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetJOURNEY HOME INC — $17,582 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetMONTGOMERY COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $15,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHenrys Home Horse and Human Sanctuary — $15,000 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetPregnancy Assistance Center North — $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetEAGLES NEST MINISTRIES OF CONROE — $13,200 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetCompassion United — $12,800 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCASA Child Advocates of Montgomery County Inc — $12,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNEW CANEY NEW HORIZONS INC — $11,732 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetTOMAGWA MINISTRIES INC DBA TOMAGWA HEALTHCARE MINISTRIES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Woodlands Christian Academy — $9,533 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCovenant Christian School — $9,533 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCONROE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $9,200 over 2y, 13% of budgetHOPE DISASTER RECOVERY LLC — $9,110 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPTSD FOUNDATION OF AMERICA — $7,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetABANDONED ANIMAL RESCUE — $7,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSociety of St Vincent de Paul Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTamina Community Center — $7,400 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetMosaics of Mercy Inc — $7,100 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetOPERATION PETS ALIVE — $7,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCoalition for the Homeless of Houston Harris County — $6,790 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetStoneBridge Food Pantry Inc — $6,561 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMONTGOMERY COUNTY YOUTH SERVICES — $5,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREMIND — $5,250 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetARROW CHILD & FAMILY MINISTRIES (CENTRAL ORGANIZATION) — $5,064 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

The Woodforest Charitable FoundationTX38.4× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Woodforest Charitable Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · United Way of Greater Houston · Junior League of the Woodlands Inc · Apricity Foundation · Montgomery County Food Bank Inc · Waste Not Want Not · The Arena Energy Foundation · Baker Hughes Foundation · Wcn Cares · The Methodist Hospital

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 Montgomery County Community Foundation 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 81 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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