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Texas · Public charity

Nightcourt

100% volunteer organization raising funds to support local charitable causes in houston, tx.

$120k
Granted FY2023
7
Grants FY2023
7
Organizations funded FY2023
14%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$12,500
Largest grant, FY2023
$30,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 8
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1
Total assets, FY2023
$19k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 14% of the organizations Nightcourt funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’22’23
RenewedFirst-time
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20237$120k14%
FY20226$70k17%
FY20196$110k0%
FY20188$115kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2023.

Crime & Legal$242kHuman Services$131kHousing & Shelter$43k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
South Texas College of Law Houston Inc$80,50040%
Houston Area Women's Center$72,50030%
Child Advocates Inc$61,00040%
Avda$48,00040%
The Beacon of Downtown Houston$42,50040%
Houston Volunteer Lawyers Program Inc$40,00021%
Lone Star Legal Aid$37,00030%
Children's Assessment Center Foundation$12,50010%
Tahirih Justice Center$11,0001n/a
Family Intervention$10,0001n/a

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Nightcourt supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSouth Texas College of Law Houston Inc: $80,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHouston Area Women's Center: $72,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetChild Advocates Inc: $61,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetAvda: $48,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetThe Beacon of Downtown Houston: $42,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHouston Volunteer Lawyers Program Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetLone Star Legal Aid: $37,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Assessment Center Foundation: $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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.

United Way of Greater…Greater Houston Commu…Shell USA Company Fou…Houston Endowment IncTexas Access to Justi…Texas Bar FoundationNational Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
United Way of Greater HoustonTX17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Greater Houston · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · Texas Access to Justice Foundation · Texas Bar Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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How do I get to Nightcourt?

Find your warmest path to Nightcourt 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.

About Nightcourt

How much does Nightcourt give?
Nightcourt reported 7 grants totaling $120,000 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 8 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Nightcourt fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2023, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (58%), Human Services (31%), Housing & Shelter (10%).
Who are Nightcourt's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2023: South Texas College of Law Houston Inc ($81k), Houston Area Women's Center ($73k), Child Advocates Inc ($61k).
Does Nightcourt fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Nightcourt?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Greater Houston, Greater Houston Community Foundation, Shell USA Company Foundation.
Where is Nightcourt based?
Nightcourt is based in TX.

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 10 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $23k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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