· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| ARMOR OF HOPE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| REALTORS RELIEF FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| YES TO YOUTH MONTGOMERY COUNTY | $5,000 |
| CHRISTMAS ANGELS INC | $5,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY MCTX | $5,000 |
| ISAIAH 117 HOUSE | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +18% for those 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
How this is measured
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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
How this is measured
16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 Realtors Relief Foundation ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY COUNTY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Wreaths Across America ↗
- 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 ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The CB&A Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The CB&A Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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