· Public charity
Powerhouse Foundation
PHF purpose is to glorify Jesus Christ by positively impacting people in our community by meeting their physical, spiritual, financial, and emotional needs.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 6 grants below total $293,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $401,132 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $107,632 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 · FY2023
- Under $10k2 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $23k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $259k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Freed People | $162,500 |
| The Fountains Counseling Center | $96,000 |
| Communities in Schools Greater Tarrant County | $13,000 |
| Chisholm Trail 100 Club Inc | $10,000 |
| Support our Soldiers | $6,000 |
| Support our Soldiers | $6,000 |
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 (FY20–23, $227k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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 +89% since the first grant, against -51% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2023, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $173k 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
- CICOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF GREATER TARRANT COUNTY INC4× · 2020–2023 · $78k · revenue +89%
- UGUnion Gospel Mission of Tarrant County3× · 2020–2022 · $25k · revenue +74%
- PDParents Defeating Autism Today2× · 2020–2021 · $21k · revenue +465%
Funded once
- ACAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INCone grant, 2022 · $114k · revenue -80%
- FBFirst Baptist Burlesonone grant, 2020 · $100k
- PCPATHWAY CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF BURLESONone grant, 2020 · $100k
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.
To respond to the growing need in our community by providing immediate assistance to residents of Concord, Kannapolis, and Cabarrus County, NC who are experiencing crisis in the areas of food, shelter or finances while providing them…
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.
Seeking to put God's love into action, Houston Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope to provide a world where everyone has a decent place to live.
The mission of Family Service Center of Houston and Harris County (Family Houston) is to create a stronger community for tomorrow by helping individuals and families meet the challenges they face today. We help others help themselves.
Our mission is to provide essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare. We support the health and well-being of seriously ill or injured children receiving treatment in the…
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…
To provide temporary assistance to needy families and individuals in tarrant county
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,…
The coalition for the homeless of houston/harris county acts as a catalyst, uniting partners and maximizing resources to move people experiencing homelessness into permanent housing with supportive services.
to share Jesus with those we minister to regardless of social status by first meeting their physical needs and, through that relationship, meeting their spiritual needs.
The mission of Trauma Support Services is to provide healing and resilience for individuals and communities affected by trauma through accessible mental health therapy and trauma-informed education.
Achieving permanent sanctuary and healing homes for children and families from hard places.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ronald Mcdonald House of Fort Worth Inc and the most unlike its peers is Support Our Soldiers. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 16 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 Freed People ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF GREATER TARRANT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Crowley House of Hope ↗
- Who funds YOUR HARVEST HOUSE ↗
- Who funds SUPPORT OUR SOLDIERS ↗
- Who funds Union Gospel Mission of Tarrant County ↗
- Who funds Parents Defeating Autism Today ↗
- Who funds Chisolm Trail 100 Club ↗
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: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Ken W Davis Foundation · America's Charities · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Powerhouse 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.
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