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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.
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.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (FY17–24, $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.
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.
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.
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.
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 +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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k 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
- MCMONTGOMERY COUNTY WOMENS CENTER7× · 2017–2024 · $112k · revenue +20%
- MCMONTGOMERY COUNTY FOOD BANK INC7× · 2018–2024 · $96k · revenue +104%
- CACrisis Assistance Center Inc dba Community Assistance Center6× · 2017–2024 · $77k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- LHLOVE HEALS YOUTHgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $13k · revenue ×22
- PWPINEY WOODS ELEMENTARY PTOone grant, 2019 · $12k
- TATHE ARK FAMILY CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $10k
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.
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,…
Serves abused children through a comprehensive approach to services for abused children and their families.
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.
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.
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…
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.
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.
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…
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.
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.
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…
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.
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 field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 18% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
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 2017–2026, 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.
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 MONTGOMERY COUNTY WOMENS CENTER ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY COUNTY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Crisis Assistance Center Inc dba Community Assistance Center ↗
- Who funds Society of Samaritans Inc ↗
- Who funds Assistance League of Montgomery County ↗
- Who funds Love Fosters Hope ↗
- Who funds THE ROSE ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS MONTGOMERY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds All Ears Listening and Language Center ↗
- Who funds Gods Garage Inc ↗
- Who funds ANGEL REACH ↗
- Who funds Emerging Grace Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE WOODLANDS DOG PARK CLUB ↗
- Who funds TEXAS NEW COMMUNITY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds INSPIRATION RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS' MEALS INC ↗
- Who funds LONE STAR COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds Bridgewood Farms Inc ↗
- Who funds WOODLANDS RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds Conroe Live Inc ↗
- Who funds Family Service Center of Houston and Harris County ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds JOURNEY HOME INC ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds Henrys Home Horse and Human Sanctuary ↗
- Who funds Pregnancy Assistance Center North ↗
- Who funds EAGLES NEST MINISTRIES OF CONROE ↗
- Who funds Compassion United ↗
- Who funds LOVE HEALS YOUTH ↗
- Who funds CASA Child Advocates of Montgomery County Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW CANEY NEW HORIZONS INC ↗
- Who funds TOMAGWA MINISTRIES INC DBA TOMAGWA HEALTHCARE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds The Woodlands Christian 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: 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.
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.