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NRG Retail Charitable Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2022.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$7,498
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Vanguard Charitable Endowment$7,498
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Houston Area Women's Center; 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.
04the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
17/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 · OtherYoung Audiences Art for Learning: $20,000 · OtherBest Buddies International: $20,000 · OtherBig Brothers Big Sisters: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetNewspring: $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization NRG Retail Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from NRG Retail Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 43 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 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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