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· Public charity
Montgomery County Food Bank
The mission of Montgomery County Food Bank is uniting the community to fight hunger.
$31M
Granted FY2024
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01What you fund
01beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2023
sorters millmill elementarymagisdporterpatterson elementaryhardy elementaryforest
2024
isdback packsenior distributiondistribution routebvfb'sdedicatedwisd
2025
church vincentisdback packsenior distributiondistribution routebvfb'sresidential
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
02FY2024
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
Grant detail is referenced in an attached schedule not included in the e-file. Total reported in the filing: $31,166,799.
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Median grant
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States reached
$17M
Total assets
02The need
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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.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your 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.
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Htx Hope Haven
We are moving people from crisis to lifelong self-sufficiency. We help the homeless and marginalized people in our community navigate through the services available to become self-supporting contributing members of our community.
Human Services
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Tarrant Area Food Bank
Tarrant area food bank empowers communities to alleviate hunger and improve health.
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Bastrop County Emergency Food Pantry
The mission of the Bastrop County Emergency Food Pantry and Support Center is to serve Bastrop County residents going through periods of transition by providing emergency food assistance, education and support.
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West Texas Food Bank
The Food Bank is a 501c3 nonprofit, hunger relief organization that distributes donated purchased food to children, families, and seniors through a network of over 100 partner agencies in 19 counties in West Texas
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Meals On Wheels of Odessa Inc
Meals on Wheels of Odessa enables people to live with dignity by offering community support and sustenance through coordinated services.
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Texas County Food Pantry Inc
To provide assistance to individuals in need with USDA Community/Senior Box/Community-donated food distribution,homeless prevention (rent, utilities,lodging), transporation, clothing, household and emergency supplies, precriptions, and…
Unclassified
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Food Bank of West Central Texas
To procure and distribute nutritional food to qualified agencies that feed the hungry of West Central Texas.
Food & Nutrition
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Houston Area Community Services
Houston area community services (hacs) is a non-profit enterprise that specializes in addressing health disparities among underserved communities within houston and surrounding counties.
Health
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Memorial Assistance Ministries
MAM transforms families and communities through training, education, and economic empowerment.
Human Services
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Hays County Food Bank
To alleviate hunger by distributing food to families who are food deprived through a network of volunteers and other agencies within Hays County.
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West Street Recovery
To provide essential services to residents of northeast Houston.
Public Safety & Disaster
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Lake Travis Crisis Ministries
Meet the shortterm needs of people in crisis situations by providing immediate help in the form of food financial assistance
Human Services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montgomery County Food Bank and the most unlike its peers is The Houston Food Bank. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 31% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
3%2/68
the rest of the field
13%
375/2,802
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.
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.
Waste Not Want NotTX50.6× affinity21 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Waste Not Want Not · Montgomery County Community Foundation · United Way of Greater Houston · Junior League of the Woodlands Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Woodforest Charitable Foundation · The Houston Food Bank · Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Hillcrest Foundation · The Arena Energy Foundation · Methodist Hospital Group · Memorial Hermann Health System
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.
04Through Plinth
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How do I get to Montgomery County Food Bank?
Find your warmest path to Montgomery County Food Bank through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines