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NRG Retail Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$7k
Granted FY2022
1
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
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 FY2020–2022.

Philanthropy$1.1MCommunity Improvement$130kEnvironment$125kYouth Development$120kAnimals$110kScience & Tech$107kHuman Services$100kArts & Culture$88kOther$0
02FY2022 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$7,498
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Vanguard Charitable Endowment$7,498
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 56% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Corpus Christi Police Foundation: $5k → 17%Project Sweet Peas: $20k → 7%Houston Area Women's Center: $15k → 16%Latin Women's Initiative: $5k → 16%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.

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.

1
Houston Botanic Garden

To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.

Environment
2
Trees for Houston

Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.

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3
Houston Museum of Natural Science

The mission of the Houston Museum of Natural Science shall be to preserve and advance the general knowledge of natural science; to enhance in individuals the knowledge of and delight in natural science and related subjects; and to maintain…

Arts & Culture
4
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
5
Breakthrough Houston

The mission of Breakthrough Houston (BTH) is to work with highly motivated students to achieve post-secondary success and empower aspiring leaders to become the next generation of educational advocates.

Education
6
Houston Local Information Initiative Inc

The Houston Local Information Initiative, Inc. provides public service journalism that reflects the civic needs of the diverse communities comprising Greater Houston.

Arts & Culture
7
Houston's Amazing Place Inc

Amazing Place empowers families facing the challenges of dementia and Alzheimer's and advances brain health for all. The Organization serves adults with mild cognitive impairment and mild to moderate dementia, caregiving families and…

Human Services
8
Houston Freedmen's Town Conservancy Inc

To completely restore Houston Freedmen's Town as a heritage district that provides America with its only Freedmen's Town.

Community Improvement
9
FIRST3YEARS

First3years nurtures early relational and mental health of infants and toddlers in texas. working in deep collaboration with caregivers, parents, and professionals statewide, we cultivate strong early childhood systems, educate our…

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10
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.

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11
Fostering Family

Fostering family dba the riverside project is a 501(c)(3) public charity that on behalf of houston's children and their families, brings together organizations and passionate people working as one to help families heal and children thrive.

Community Improvement
12
The Heritage Society

The Heritage Society (THS) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1954 whose mission is to tell the stories of the diverse history of Houston and Texas through collections, exhibits, the arts, educational programs, film, video, and other…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Houston Area Women's Center and the most unlike its peers is Project Sweet Peas. 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 backsteadyUrban Parks and Waterway St…Youth Career & Leadership D…Child Protection ServicesSupportive Housing & Commun…Performing Arts Organizatio…Industry Trade Associations
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 37 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number27%0%<5yr16%0%5–10yr20%15%10–20yr17%25%20–35yr10%40%35–55yr10%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value27%0%<5yr16%0%5–10yr20%6%10–20yr17%11%20–35yr10%57%35–55yr10%26%55yr+

The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/26
the rest of the field
17%
7,788/46,936

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.

04the grantee network

24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 43 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
17/24
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM — $1,120,000 · PhilanthropyVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAMHouston Department of Health & Human Services Foun — $60,000 · OtherHouston Department of Hea…March Of Dimes - Houston — $50,000 · OtherMarch Of Dimes - HoustonChildren Museum of Houston — $50,000 · OtherChildren Museum of Housto…THE SALVATION ARMY — $25,000 · OtherNorth Houston Frontiers Club — $20,000 · OtherBarbara Bush Houston Literacy — $20,000 · OtherBest Buddies International — $20,000 · OtherBig Brothers Big Sisters — $20,000 · OtherYoung Audiences Art for Learning — $20,000 · OtherDress for Success — $17,500 · OtherRebuilding Together Houston — $30,000 · OtherRebuilding Together Houst…+21 more — $137,915 · Other+21 moreDALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC — $100,000 · EnvironmentEnvironmental Fund For Texas Inc — $25,000 · EnvironmentMANNED SPACE FLIGHT EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $107,000 · Community ImprovementBoys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Inc — $85,000 · Youth DevelopmentPETER'S PLACE — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentDALLAS ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $100,000 · AnimalsProject Sweet Peas — $20,000 · Human ServicesHouston Area Women's Center — $15,000 · Human ServicesLATIN WOMENS INITIATIVE — $5,000 · Human ServicesCORPUS CHRISTI POLICE FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Human Services
Philanthropy$1,120,000Other$470,415Environment$125,000Community Improvement$107,000Youth Development$105,000Animals$100,000Human Services$45,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMANNED SPACE FLIGHT EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $107,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetDALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDALLAS ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $100,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Inc — $85,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetRebuilding Together Houston — $30,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetEnvironmental Fund For Texas Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetProject Sweet Peas — $20,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetHouston Area Women's Center — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMP-U-DOPT INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WARREN CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNewspring — $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetBAYTOWN HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFUZZY FRIENDS RESCUE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEmancipation Park Conservancy — $5,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetCASA DE ESPERANZA DE LOS NINOS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLATIN WOMENS INITIATIVE — $5,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetCORPUS CHRISTI POLICE FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetGIRLSTART — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBo's Place — $2,917 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Shell USA Company Fou…Greater Houston Commu…The Methodist HospitalJpmorgan Chase Founda…Texas Instruments Fou…The Bank of America C…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Vanguard Charitable E…The Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…American Online Givin…National Philanthropi…
Shell USA Company FoundationTX14.5× 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 Houston Community Foundation · The Methodist Hospital · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust

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 NRG Retail Charitable 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%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
    9report 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, FY20–25

    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.

    04Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to NRG Retail Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to NRG Retail Charitable Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 43 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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