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Tdecu Cares Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$770k
Granted FY2024still arriving
70
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$231k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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 FY2023–2024.

Education$384kYouth Development$138kFood & Nutrition$104kHuman Services$99kPhilanthropy$55kEmployment$29kHealth$20kInternational$13kOther$0
02FY2024 · 70 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k48 grants · $256k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $284k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $231k
$7,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$417k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC$231,000
BRIDGEYEAR$25,000
TRUE TO LIFE MINISTRIES INC$20,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS$20,000
UNITED WAY OF BRAZORIA COUNTY$20,000
BRAZOSPORT ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION$15,000
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF BRAZORIA COUNTY$15,000
GMZ EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER$15,000
BRAZOSPORT ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION$15,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER HOUSTON$13,000
VISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION$12,300
BRAZOSPORT CARES$12,000
EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF HARRIS COUNTY (EFHC)$11,300
HOUSTON FOOD BANK$10,000
COMBINED ARMS$10,000
02The need
03

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 (FY23–24, $125k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FORT BEND COUNTY WOMEN'S CENTER: $7k → 8%OPERATION BBQ RELIEF: $6k → 8%HOMETOWN HEROES INC: $3k → 6%BRAZORIA COUNTY DREAM CENTER: $10k → 10%FAMILY ROOTS FOR LIFE INC: $7k → 8%BRAZORIA COUNTY DREAM CENTER: $8k → 10%TRUE TO LIFE MINISTRIES INC: $20k → 10%BAKER RIPLEY: $8k → 16%THE CENTER FOR PURSUIT: $5k → 16%MAKING IT BETTER DBA LITERACY NOW: $5k → 16%KIDS' MEALS INC: $8k → 16%KIDS' MEALS INC: $8k → 16%KIDS MEALS: $5k → 16%BRIDGEYEAR: $25k → 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 edge
repeat funding

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.

6%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$52k · 3 repeat orgs$795k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 63 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
8

Total granted

$52k
$56k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+19%

Still filing today

100%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 4% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $739k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’23’24
Human ServicesPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentEducationInternationalFood & NutritionOther

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

  • KM
    KIDS' MEALS INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $21k · revenue +17%
  • SF
    SER-JOBS FOR PROGRESS OF THE TEXAS GULF COAST INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $21k · revenue -85%
  • NT
    NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK
    2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • BC
    BRAZOSPORT COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +15%
  • B
    BakerRipley
    one grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +19%
  • AI
    ANGLETON ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +21%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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
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
2
Boys & Girls Clubs of Deep East Texas

To provide a place for children to go where they will have supervised activities, arts, crafts, and recreation.

Youth Development
3
Collaborative for Children

The mission of Collaborative for Children is to meaningfully improve the quality of early childhood education and care for Greater Houston's children through those most influential in their lives.

Human Services
4
Houston Botanic Garden

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

Environment
5
Houston Independent School District Foundation

The HISD Foundation is dedicated to mobilizing the local community to support innovative priorities in HISD to improve outcomes for all students in the district. Our mission is to fund projects and programs of merit that fall outside of…

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6
Trees for Houston

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

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7
Raise Texas

RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…

Human Services
8
Good Reason Houston Inc

Good Reason Houston strives to grow and sustain great schools while advocating for families and communities.

Education
9
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
10
Food Bank of West Central Texas

To procure and distribute nutritional food to qualified agencies that feed the hungry of West Central Texas.

Food & Nutrition
11
West Texas Food Bank

The WTFB exists to collect, purchase, and distribute food to feed the hungry in 19 counties in West Texas in partnership with volunteers and community organizations and to educate these partners and the public at large about the real face…

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12
Opportunity Resource Services Inc

Disrupt generational proverty in TX by empowering vulnerable teens & adults-especially 1st generation college students,low-income persons,& those involved with the crimminal justice system-to attain higher ed. degrees of value,secure…

Youth Development

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Communities in Schools of Brazoria County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Gmz Education and Development Center. 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 backsteadySupportive Housing ProvidersYouth & Community Empowerme…High School Athletic Booste…Healthcare System Support O…Residential Care & Support …South Asian Cultural Organi…Early Childhood Care & Nutr…Gospel-Centered Community M…
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 30 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number31%2%<5yr18%11%5–10yr20%23%10–20yr17%27%20–35yr7%23%35–55yr8%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value31%1%<5yr18%10%5–10yr20%23%10–20yr17%30%20–35yr7%28%35–55yr8%9%55yr+

The field is 31% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 19% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/60
the rest of the field
19%
5,059/26,921

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

56 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. 56 of the 74 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
56/56
Grantees still filing
20/56
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC — $231,000 · OtherSCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INCBRAZOSPORT ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $30,000 · OtherBRAZOSPORT ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATIONSER-JOBS FOR PROGRESS OF THE TEXAS GULF COAST INC — $20,995 · Other+27 more — $188,100 · Other+27 moreBRIDGEYEAR — $25,000 · Human ServicesBRIDGEYEARKIDS' MEALS INC — $21,000 · Human ServicesKIDS' MEALS INCTRUE TO LIFE MINISTRIES INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesTRUE TO LIFE MINI…Brazoria County Dream Center Inc — $18,000 · Human ServicesBrazoria County D…BakerRipley — $8,490 · Human ServicesBakerRipleyFamily Service Center of Houston and Harris County — $8,000 · Human ServicesFamily Service Ce…FORT BEND COUNTY WOMEN'S CENTER INC SOS/SHELTER-OUTREACH-SOLUTIONS — $7,000 · Human ServicesFamily Roots for Life Inc — $6,654 · Human ServicesOPERATION BBQ RELIEF — $6,000 · Human ServicesTHE CENTER FOR PURSUIT — $5,000 · Human ServicesMaking It Better dba Literacy Now — $5,000 · Human Services+1 more — $2,700 · Human ServicesUnited Way of Brazoria County — $20,000 · PhilanthropyUnited Way…THE EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF HARRIS CNTY — $11,300 · PhilanthropyTHE EDUCAT…ALVIN ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $10,000 · PhilanthropyALVIN ISD …Undies for Everyone — $10,000 · PhilanthropyUndies for…The Women's Resource of Greater Houston — $10,000 · PhilanthropyThe Women'…UNITED WAY OF THE CROSSROADS — $10,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY…ANGLETON ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $8,000 · PhilanthropyANGLETON I…+1 more — $2,500 · PhilanthropyBoys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Inc — $13,000 · Youth DevelopmentP4L dba Lemonade Day — $7,500 · Youth DevelopmentCamp For All Foundation — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CUERO INC — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER TARRANT COUNTY INC — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentGirls Incorporated of Greater Houston — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentGirl Scouts of San Jacinto Council — $3,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE SANDERS HAND — $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentBRAZOSPORT COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $10,000 · EducationPASADENA ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $8,000 · EducationEDUCATION FOR TOMORROW ALLIANCE — $8,000 · EducationGathering Outreach Community Services — $7,000 · EducationSweeny ISD Education Foundation — $5,000 · EducationiEDUCATE — $5,000 · EducationUniversity of Houston Foundation — $2,500 · Education+1 more — $300 · EducationJunior Achievement of Southeast Texas Inc — $20,000 · InternationalJunior Achievement of Brazoria County I — $8,000 · InternationalATTACK POVERTY — $6,545 · InternationalOUTREACH INC — $6,365 · InternationalBRAZOSPORT CARES — $12,000 · Food & NutritionTHE COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF VICTORIA DBA FOOD BANK OF THE GOLDEN CRESCENT — $8,000 · Food & NutritionBrighter Bites Inc — $5,000 · Food & NutritionPLANT IT FORWARD — $5,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$470,095Human Services$132,844Philanthropy$81,800Youth Development$46,000Education$45,800International$40,910Food & Nutrition$30,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBRIDGEYEAR — $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetKIDS' MEALS INC — $21,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSER-JOBS FOR PROGRESS OF THE TEXAS GULF COAST INC — $20,995 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetJunior Achievement of Southeast Texas Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUnited Way of Brazoria County — $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTRUE TO LIFE MINISTRIES INC — $20,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetBrazoria County Dream Center Inc — $18,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCommunities in Schools of Brazoria County Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGMZ EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $15,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Inc — $13,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRAZOSPORT CARES — $12,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF HARRIS CNTY — $11,300 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetALVIN ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCombined Arms — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of Brazoria County — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUndies for Everyone — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF VICTORIA IN — $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetThe Women's Resource of Greater Houston — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE CROSSROADS — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRAZOSPORT COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBakerRipley — $8,490 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPASADENA ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $8,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetEDUCATION FOR TOMORROW ALLIANCE — $8,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetANGLETON ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $8,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetJunior Achievement of Brazoria County I — $8,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetFamily Service Center of Houston and Harris County — $8,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF VICTORIA DBA FOOD BANK OF THE GOLDEN CRESCENT — $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetP4L dba Lemonade Day — $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFORT BEND COUNTY WOMEN'S CENTER INC SOS/SHELTER-OUTREACH-SOLUTIONS — $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGathering Outreach Community Services — $7,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetFamily Roots for Life Inc — $6,654 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetATTACK POVERTY — $6,545 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOUTREACH INC — $6,365 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOPERATION BBQ RELIEF — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCamp For All Foundation — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CUERO INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR PURSUIT — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PRESBYTERIAN NIGHT SHELTER OF TARRANT COUNTY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBrighter Bites Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER TARRANT COUNTY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTexas Children's Hospital — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSweeny ISD Education Foundation — $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetiEDUCATE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMaking It Better dba Literacy Now — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGirls Incorporated of Greater Houston — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

Centerpoint Energy Fo…Texas Dow Employees C…Shell USA Company Fou…Greater Houston Commu…Albert & Ethel Herzst…United Way of Greater…Harry S & Isabel C Ca…The William Stamps Fa…Baxter Trust Co Priva…The Houston Food BankUnited Way of Brazori…Vivian L Smith Founda…
Centerpoint Energy Foundation IncTX39.3× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Texas Dow Employees Credit Union · Shell USA Company Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · United Way of Greater Houston · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · The William Stamps Farish Fund · Baxter Trust Co Private Foundation Services · The Houston Food Bank · United Way of Brazoria County · Vivian L Smith 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 Tdecu Cares Foundation Inc 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%5%11%20%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
    18report 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.

    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 74 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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