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TEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIO
The foundation's purpose is to aid in the advancement of texas southern university's objectives and purposes, especially in the areas of research capabilities, supporting community engagements, and student scholarships.
$6.3M
Granted FY2023
12
Grants
4
Communities
$3.2M
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 93% of TEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIO’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02FY2023 · 12 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- $10k–50k10 grants · $325k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $51k
- $250k+1 grant · $3.2M
$40,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$28M
Total assets
Largest grants
- TEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY$3,166,122
- CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY$51,175
- COALITION OF COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION$44,000
- SUNNYSIDE COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT$44,000
- NORTHEAST HOUSTON REDEVELOPMENT COU$44,000
- ACHIEVING COMMUNITY TASKS SUCCESSFU$40,000
- ORGANIZATION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS & DEM$40,000
- COMMUNITY IN-POWER & DEVELOPMENT A$40,000
- TEXAS ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ADVOCAC$40,000
- TEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY NATIONAL$13,338
- PI GAMMA GAMMA$10,000
- CITIZENS FOR CLEAN AIR AND WATER$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 (FY22–23, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.
97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$10M · 5 repeat orgs$368k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +905% since the first grant, against +174% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2023, 1 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
5
4
Total granted
$10M
$120k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+905%
+174%
Still filing today
80%
50%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $249k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationEnvironmentCivil RightsHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalOther
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
- DSDEEP SOUTH CENTER FOR ENV JUSTICE2× · 2021–2022 · $247k · revenue +993%
- ACACHIEVING COMMUNITY TASKS SUCCESSFU2× · 2022–2023 · $69k · revenue +409%
- COCOALITION OF COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION2× · 2022–2023 · $52k · revenue +905%
Funded once
- JSJUSTICE SYSTEM PARTNERgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $92k · revenue +174%
- BPBLACK PUBLIC DEFENDER ASSOCICIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +81%
- HBHONEY BROWN HOPE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $10k
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
Texas New Community Alliance
Training and transportation for disabled adults
Human Services
2
Texas Clean Energy Coalition
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3
Central Valley Partnership
The Central Valley Partnership (CVP) conducts and collaborates in training initiatives, including community organizer training, education on labor history and issues, messaging workshops, etc., aimed at fostering the establishment of new…
Civil Rights
4
California Urban Partnership
The California Urban Partnership builds economic security in communities of color through policy research, education and organizing community action.
Community Improvement
5
Del Norte Neighborhood Development
To create and preserve low income housing and other opportunities for underserved households, including those that are low and moderate income, spanish-speaking and those with special needs. the core values state that all persons, without…
Housing & Shelter
6
Collaborative Earth Institute
We are scientists and engineers, humanists and designers. Working entirely in the open, we conduct scientific research and develop technologies that catalyze ecological regeneration at planetary scale.
Science & Tech
7
Sustainable Claremont
Sustainable Claremont engages people in education and action to create a more sustainable community - envinronmentally, socially, and economically - in Claremont and beyond.
Environment
8
The Global Action Research Center
To facilitate local communities and institutions in developing, sharing and scaling up sustainability solutions--locally and globally-- to eradicate root causes of poverty, environmental degradation and unhealthy living conditions.
Food & Nutrition
9
New Jersey Environmental
New Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance, Inc. Is an alliance of New Jersey Organizations and Individuals committed to creating healthy, sustainable and just communities by eliminating environmental injustices in low income and…
Environment
10
The University of Texas Law School
Provide support to the University of Texas School of Law.
Education
11
Climate First Replacing Oil & Gas
CFROG is a Ventura County-based advocacy and public education organization leading a just energy transition to protect our health, economy, and climate.
Environment
12
Council of Graduate Schools
Dedicated to the improvement and advancement of graduate education.
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Deep South Center for Environmental and the most unlike its peers is Claremont Graduate University. 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, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$9,952,696Environment$287,190Education$183,675Civil Rights$131,719Human Services$64,838Community Improvement$51,950Crime & Legal$10,000
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 DEEP SOUTH CENTER FOR ENV JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE SYSTEM PARTNER ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVING COMMUNITY TASKS SUCCESSFU ↗
- Who funds COALITION OF COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST HOUSTON REDEVELOPMENT COU ↗
- Who funds CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SUNNYSIDE COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds ORGANIZATION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS & DEM ↗
- Who funds TEXAS ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ADVOCAC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY NATIONAL ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS FOR CLEAN AIR AND WATER ↗
- Who funds BLACK PUBLIC DEFENDER ASSOCICIATION ↗
- Who funds PI GAMMA GAMMA ↗
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.
Windward FundDC19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Windward Fund · Resources Legacy Fund · Tides Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 organisation TEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIO 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: PI GAMMA GAMMA.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 300342553 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on PI GAMMA GAMMA, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 22% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Texas Southern University Foundatio?
Find your warmest path to Texas Southern University Foundatio through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines