· Public charity
Southeast Texas Regional Advisory Council
To faciliate coordination of trauma providers and emergency preparedness readiness for healthcare providers in the region ensuring efficient, consistent and expeditious care by developing and maintaining integrated quality processes.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 55% of SOUTHEAST TEXAS REGIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 11 grants below total $286,849 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $509,243 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $222,394 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $124k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $131k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRE FIGHTERS FOUNDATION OF HOUSTON | $130,894 |
| MONTGOMERY COUNTY HOSPITAL DISTRICT | $36,742 |
| FORT BEND COUNTY EMS | $29,499 |
| MATAGORDA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $17,449 |
| COLORADO COUNTY EMS | $14,763 |
| HUNTSVILLE-WALKER COUNTY EMS | $14,453 |
| COUNTY OF AUSTIN | $10,602 |
| WALLER COUNTY EMS | $9,382 |
| CITY OF WHARTON EMS | $8,767 |
| CITY OF EL CAMPO EMS | $8,767 |
| SUGAR LAND FIRE DEPARTMENT | $5,531 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% of your 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.
12 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- TFTHE FIRE FIGHTERS FOUNDATION OF HOUSTON4× · 2021–2024 · $671k · revenue +6% · 80% of their budget
- MCMontgomery Co Hospital Distr5× · 2020–2024 · $209k
- FBFORT BEND COUNTY5× · 2020–2024 · $161k
Funded once
- MOMEDILIFE OF HOUSTON INCone grant, 2020 · $107k · revenue -67% · 65% of their budget
- MCMatagorda County EMS LLPone grant, 2020 · $13k
- PHPetroleum Helicopters Incone grant, 2021 · $8k
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.
Provide fire fighting & ambulance service to hankamer, texas and surrounding areas.
Volunteer Fire Department
Firefighter & emergency medical services for the waskom, tx area.
Fire Fighting
Multi-texas city and county fire department and ambulance service
Fire fighting and prevention
Ambulance service for willacy county texas and surrounding area
To provide free fire protection,emergency medical assistance & rescue services
Provide firefighting services for frelsburg, texas area.
Fire and rescue services for the community of hitchcock, texas.
Provide fire, medical and mutual aid services.
Volunteer Fire Department, providing fire, rescue, and medical services to a population of approximately 22,000 residents, 24 hours per day, 365 days per year.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Waller County Volunteer Ems Inc and the most unlike its peers is Atascocita Volunteer Fire Department Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 44 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 THE FIRE FIGHTERS FOUNDATION OF HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds MEDILIFE OF HOUSTON INC ↗
- Who funds MATAGORDA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds WALLER COUNTY VOLUNTEER EMS INC ↗
- Who funds WESTLAKE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds HIGHLANDS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds HARRIS COUNTY EMERGENCY CORPS ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST COMMUNITY HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds North Channel Emergency Medical Services ↗
- Who funds Memorial Hermann Health System ↗
- Who funds CYPRESS CREEK EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CY-FAIR VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds SOUTH LAKE HOUSTON EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES INC ↗
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: Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation Inc · The Onestar Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Southeast Texas Regional Advisory Council 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.