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Rainforest Cafe Friends of the Future Foundation

The purpose of the RAINFOREST CAFE FRIENDS OF THE FUTURE FOUNDATION is to collect money deposited into wishing ponds and collection boxes at the related rainforest cafe restaurants by patrons, employees, and visitors and distribute the funds to various charitable organizations.

$127k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$20k
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 2024.

Arts & Culture$86kHuman Services$70kCommunity Improvement$35kHealth$28kCrime & Legal$18kEducation$15kYouth Development$7kPublic Safety & Disaster$4k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $32,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $127,200 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $94,700 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BRCC FUND$20,000
GREATER HOUSTON LGBTQ CHAMBER$12,500
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 (FY22–24, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 71% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%ELEVATE HOPE INC: $50k → 14%BRCC FUND: $20k → 8%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
John P McGovern Museum of Health & Medical Science

The Health Museum is an innovative science center that provides an interactive and entertaining experience for all ages, promotes understanding and appreciation of the human body, mind, and spirit, and inspires a lifelong commitment to…

Arts & Culture
3
Memorial Hermann Medical Group

Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…

Health
4
Trees for Houston

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

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5
Dallas Citizens Council

To lead and serve in the moments that matter the most for the people of dallas.

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6
Texas Business Hall of Fame Foundation

To recognize the accomplishments and contributions of our outstanding Texas business leaders and to perpetuate and inspire the values of entrepreneurial spirit, personal integrity, and community leadership in all generations of Texans.

Community Improvement
7
The Endowment for the Museum of Fine Arts Houston

None

Arts & Culture
8
Texas Association of Business

As the state chamber of commerce, tab is the most influential and dominant voice for public policy issues affecting business in texas. through proven results-oriented advocacy and member services, tab develops a climate in texas which…

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9
Harris County Medical Society

Our mission is to be the leading advocate for our member physicians, their patients and our community, in promoting the highest standards of ethical medical practice, access to quality medical care, medical education, research, and…

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10
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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11
Houston Hispanic Chamber of Commerce

Advocate for the economic and civic interests of the hispanic business community.

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12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Better Business Bureau of Metropolitan Houston Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Museum of Fine Arts Houston. 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

13 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. 13 of the 14 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON: $50,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTONHouston Museum of Natural Science: $36,000 · Arts & CultureHouston Museum of Natural ScienceELEVATE HOPE INC D/B/A RED EYE: $50,000 · Human ServicesELEVATE HOPE INC D/B/A RED EYEBRCC FUND: $20,000 · Human ServicesBRCC FUNDHOUSTON LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER QUEER CHAMBER FOUNDATI: $12,500 · OtherHOUSTON LESBIAN …BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF METROPOLITAN HOUSTON INC: $12,000 · OtherBETTER BUSINESS …Tourette Syndrome Association of Texas: $7,500 · OtherTourette Syndrom…THE TEXAS CAVALIERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $7,200 · OtherTHE TEXAS CAVALI…EVERY MOTHER COUNTS: $10,000 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES GREATER HOUSTON INC: $10,000 · HealthCRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM FOUNDATION: $18,000 · Crime & LegalBARBARA BUSH HOUSTON LITERACY FOUNDATION: $15,000 · PhilanthropyRUSSELL INNOVATION CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURS INC: $10,000 · Community ImprovementWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $4,043 · International
Arts & Culture$86,000Human Services$70,000Other$39,200Health$20,000Crime & Legal$18,000Philanthropy$15,000Community Improvement$10,000International$4,043

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 budgetTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetELEVATE HOPE INC D/B/A RED EYE: $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetHouston Museum of Natural Science: $36,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRCC FUND: $20,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM FOUNDATION: $18,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBARBARA BUSH HOUSTON LITERACY FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF METROPOLITAN HOUSTON INC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRUSSELL INNOVATION CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEVERY MOTHER COUNTS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES GREATER HOUSTON INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTourette Syndrome Association of Texas: $7,500 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetTHE TEXAS CAVALIERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $7,200 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $4,043 over 2y, 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.

National Philanthropi…Natl Christian Charit…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA7.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Rainforest Cafe Friends of the Future Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rainforest Cafe Friends of the Future Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%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
    4report 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 Rainforest Cafe Friends of the Future Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Rainforest Cafe Friends of the Future 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 14 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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