· Private foundation
The CB&A Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $64k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $51k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS HOUSTON | $51,244 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS | $16,857 |
| CY HOPE | $15,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| REALTORS RELIEF FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ARMOR OF HOPE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| YES TO YOUTH MONTGOMERY COUNTY | $5,000 |
| ISAIAH 117 HOUSE | $5,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY MCTX | $5,000 |
| CHRISTMAS ANGELS INC | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,500 |
| TOMBALL ISD | $4,250 |
| SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY | $3,500 |
| WREATHS ACROSS AMERICA | $3,000 |
| NEW LIFE ADOPTIONS | $2,500 |
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 (FY22–25, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 25% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +30% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k 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
- CICY-HOPE INC5× · 2020–2025 · $75k · revenue +131%
- MCMONTGOMERY COUNTY FOOD BANK INC2× · 2020–2021 · $10k · revenue +30%
- WAWreaths Across America4× · 2021–2025 · $10k · revenue +91%
Funded once
- LRLA Realtor Relief Fundone grant, 2021 · $13k
- EJEdward Jonesone grant, 2021 · $12k
- CFCOLLINS FAMILYone 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.
To provide services to children, youth, and families along with a child-placing agency. to provide therapeutic foster care.
To provide a clean, safe, nurturing environment for children placed by child protective services.
Halo House's mission is to help save the lives of cancer patients battling leukemia, lymphoma, or myeloma by providing them with low-cost, fully furnished temporary housing while undergoing active cancer treatment at the Texas Medical…
Trees of hope transforms lives with fundraising and outreach activities for the exclusive benefit of childrens programs at star of hope, houston's largest mission for the homeless.
As the Houston affiliate of the National Christian Foundation (NCF), our mission is to serve and encourage givers to grow as faithful stewards who give wisely to further the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
A state of texas licensed foster care and adoption agency that identifies and provides approved healing foster homes for children.
The mission of STARR of Hope, in collaboration with the community resources, is to provide prevention, intervention, and advocacy for women and children who experience domestic abuse or violence in Starr, Zapata and Jim Hogg Counties.
To provide shelter to abused families.
To provide emergency assistance to people in Montgomery County, TX who are in an unexpected crisis.
Fostering family dba the riverside project is a 501(c)(3) public charity that on behalf of houston's children and their families, brings together organizations and passionate people working as one to help families heal and children thrive.
To provide housing and training for troubled children.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Star of Hope Mission and the most unlike its peers is Community Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 31% startups (under 5 years old) — 20% of your grantees by number, and just 22% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 18% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
16 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. 16 of the 58 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 CY-HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds ARMOR OF HOPE FOUNDATION OF KATY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY COUNTY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Wreaths Across America ↗
- Who funds Realtors Relief Foundation ↗
- Who funds ISAIAH 117 HOUSE ↗
- Who funds NEW HOPE YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NEW LIFE ADOPTIONS ↗
- Who funds STAR OF HOPE MISSION ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW AND RODEO INC ↗
- Who funds BEAR BE A RESOURCE FOR CPS KIDS ↗
- Who funds Katy Christian Ministries ↗
- Who funds NORTH HARRIS MONTGOMERY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT ↗
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: Shell USA Company Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Baker Hughes Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 organization The CB&A Foundation 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.