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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 students scholarships.
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 12 grants below total $3,542,635 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $6,269,898 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,727,263 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
- $10k–50k10 grants · $325k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $51k
- $250k+1 grant · $3.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY | $3,166,122 |
| CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY | $51,175 |
| SUNNYSIDE COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT | $44,000 |
| COALITION OF COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION | $44,000 |
| NORTHEAST HOUSTON REDEVELOPMENT COU | $44,000 |
| COMMUNITY IN-POWER & DEVELOPMENT A | $40,000 |
| ACHIEVING COMMUNITY TASKS SUCCESSFU | $40,000 |
| TEXAS ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ADVOCAC | $40,000 |
| ORGANIZATION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS & DEM | $40,000 |
| TEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY NATIONAL | $13,338 |
| PI GAMMA GAMMA | $10,000 |
| CITIZENS FOR CLEAN AIR AND WATER | $10,000 |
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 (FY22–23, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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 +169% since the first grant, against +54% 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $249k 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
- DSDEEP SOUTH CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL2× · 2021–2022 · $247k · revenue +55%
- ACAchieving Community Task Successfully2× · 2022–2023 · $69k · revenue +173%
- COCOALITION OF COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS2× · 2022–2023 · $52k · revenue +169%
Funded once
- JSJUSTICE SYSTEM PARTNERSone grant, 2022 · $92k · revenue +23%
- NLNATIONAL LEGAL AID AND DEFENDER ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +54%
- HBHONEY BROWN HOPE FOUNDATION-FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF CULTURAL ARTSone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
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Environmental Justice & Equality
The mission of Neighbors for Environmental Justice is to foster awareness, organize and promote community action on environmental justice to achieve environmental health and just transition by preventing and reducing pollution and building…
The mission of Sowing Justice is to utilize Environmental Justice principles to increase civic engagement with organizing tools and resources for healthy and safe communities. We connect communities with resources and tools that empower…
Charleston Community Research to Action Board (CCRAB) promotes safe, healthy, and just neighborhoods within environmental justice communities in the Lowcountry through community-led research and citizen science. CCRAB's core tenets are…
We are scientists and engineers, humanists and designers. Coming together across disciplinary and cultural boundaries, we form focused teams to discover and co-create pathways to social and ecological regeneration.
Greenaction mobilizes community power to win victories that change govenment and corporate policies and practices to protect health and promote environmental, economic and social justice.
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…
Facilitate local communities and institutions in developing, sharing and scaling up sustainabilitity solutions-- locally and globally--to eradicate root causes of poverty, environmental degradation and unhealthy living conditions. Our…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Deep South Center for Environmental and the most unlike its peers is Sunnyside Community Redevelopment. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 17 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 DEEP SOUTH CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE SYSTEM PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds Achieving Community Task Successfully ↗
- Who funds COALITION OF COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS ↗
- Who funds Northeast Houston Redevelopment Council ↗
- Who funds Claremont Graduate University ↗
- Who funds SUNNYSIDE COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds ORGANIZATION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY ↗
- Who funds TEXAS ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ADVOCACY ↗
- Who funds TEXAS SOUTHERN UNIV NATL ALUMNI ASSN INC ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS FOR CLEAN AIR AND WATER IN BRAZORIA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL LEGAL AID AND DEFENDER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PI GAMMA GAMMA FOUNDATION 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: Windward Fund · Houston Endowment Inc · Resources Legacy Fund · Tides 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 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.
- Justice System Partners — 15% of income from government
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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