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The Enrico & Sandra Di Portanova Charitable Foundation

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.

$395k
Granted FY2024still arriving
27
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$29k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0167% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.

Human Services$450kHealth$339kCrime & Legal$145kEducation$110kPhilanthropy$76kHousing & Shelter$75kCivil Rights$48kEnvironment$48kArts & Culture$45kOther$851k
02FY2024 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $364k
$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EASTER SEALS OF GREATER HOUSTON$29,000
CASA MATEO$27,500
GREATER HOUSTON DISASTER ALLIANCE$25,000
CONNECT COMMUNITY$25,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES$20,000
BAKERRIPLEY$20,000
PROUNITAS INC$20,000
TONY'S PLACE$20,000
KID'S MEALS$20,000
GALVESTON-HOUSTON IMMIGRANT REP PRO$20,000
GATEWAY ACADEMY$20,000
TEEN FAMILY SERVICES$15,000
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE$15,000
NEW HOPE HOUSING INC$15,000
UNDIES FOR EVERYONE$15,000
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 (FY18–24, $390k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%GIRLS EMPOWERMENT NETWORK: $7k → 10%COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $25k → 16%COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $25k → 16%COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $15k → 16%COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $15k → 16%THE WOMEN'S HOME: $10k → 16%THE WOMEN'S HOME: $10k → 16%ARMS WIDE ADOPTION SERVICES: $10k → 16%TARGET HUNGER: $25k → 16%TARGET HUNGER: $5k → 16%HEALTHCARE FOR THE HOMELESS: $5k → 16%TARGET HUNGER: $5k → 16%CENTER FOR PURSUIT: $10k → 16%HOPE RISING: $15k → 16%DEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER: $10k → 16%CASA MATEO: $28k → 16%CASA MATEO: $25k → 16%KID'S MEALS: $20k → 16%KID'S MEALS: $20k → 16%KID'S MEALS: $15k → 16%KID'S MEALS: $15k → 16%KID'S MEALS: $10k → 16%KIDS' MEALS: $10k → 16%CONNECT COMMUNITY: $25k → 16%CONNECT COMMUNITY: $10k → 16%TONY'S PLACE: $20k → 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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.7M · 41 repeat orgs$473k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.

41 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
33

Total granted

$1.7M
$375k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+12%

Still filing today

80%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $98k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthCrime & LegalArts & CulturePhilanthropyAnimalsOther

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

  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC
    5× · 2018–2024 · $115k · revenue +17%
  • ES
    EASTER SEALS OF GREATER HOUSTON INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $99k · revenue +42%
  • KM
    KIDS' MEALS INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $90k · revenue +387%

Funded once

  • G
    GHIRP
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • DM
    DIOCESAN MIGRANT & REFUGEE SERVICES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +50%
  • SF
    SER-JOBS FOR PROGRESS OF THE TEXAS GULF COAST INC
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -81%

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
Family Service Center of Houston and Harris County

The mission of Family Service Center of Houston and Harris County (Family Houston) is to create a stronger community for tomorrow by helping individuals and families meet the challenges they face today. We help others help themselves.

Human Services
2
LifeHouse of Houston Inc

LifeHouse is a Christ-centered ministry ensuring life for unborn children by providing opportunities for housing, help, and hope for young women during their pregnancies and beyond.

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3
Trees for Houston

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

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4
The Women's Resource of Greater Houston

See Schedule OThe Women's Resource of Greater Houston helps women and girls make choices toward becoming independent, productive, and financially stable. We fulfill our mission by recruiting volunteer instructors to deliver our programs in…

Philanthropy
5
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
6
Houston Area Women's Center

The Houston Area Women's Center (HAWC) works to end domestic and sexual violence and supports all in building safe and healthy lives through advocacy, counseling, education, shelter, and support services.

Human Services
7
Houston Local Information Initiative Inc

The Houston Local Information Initiative, Inc. provides public service journalism that reflects the civic needs of the diverse communities comprising Greater Houston.

Arts & Culture
8
Rebuilding Together Houston

Rebuilding Together Houston is the only organization in Houston and Harris County providing free home repairs to hundreds of families each year. We employ licensed contractors to restore homes to safe, livable conditions, extending each…

Housing & Shelter
9
Houston Habitat for Humanity Inc

Seeking to put God's love into action, Houston Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope to provide a world where everyone has a decent place to live.

Housing & Shelter
10
Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Inc

The Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston's mission is to inspire and enable all youth, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens.

Youth Development
11
Fostering Family

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.

Community Improvement
12
Houston's Amazing Place Inc

Amazing Place empowers families facing the challenges of dementia and Alzheimer's and advances brain health for all. The Organization serves adults with mild cognitive impairment and mild to moderate dementia, caregiving families and…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Houston Achievement Place and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. 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 backsteadyHouston Community ServicesIndependent K-12 SchoolsVulnerable Populations Supp…Houston Youth Education & E…Professional & Trade Associ…Faith-Based Community Servi…Disability & Recovery Suppo…Youth Education ProgramsAnimal Rescue and Conservat…Healthcare & Medical Educat…
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 35 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number30%2%<5yr17%7%5–10yr21%22%10–20yr18%15%20–35yr8%28%35–55yr8%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value30%3%<5yr17%4%5–10yr21%18%10–20yr18%18%20–35yr8%28%35–55yr8%29%55yr+

The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 19% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/65
the rest of the field
19%
3,802/20,376

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

62 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. 62 of the 84 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
60/62
Grantees still filing
45/62
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC — $115,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES INCEAST HARRIS COUNTY EMPOWERMENT COUN — $60,000 · OtherEAST HARRIS COUNTY EMPOWERMENT COUNThe Houston Food Bank — $54,000 · OtherThe Houston Food BankREVISION — $50,000 · OtherBOYS GIRLS CLUB-GREATER HOUSTON — $45,000 · OtherALLIANCE OF COMMUNITY ASST MINISTRI — $40,000 · OtherCRISTO REY JESUIT — $37,500 · OtherANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $40,000 · Other+37 more — $549,655 · Other+37 moreKIDS' MEALS INC — $90,000 · Human ServicesKIDS' MEALS INCCOVENANT HOUSE TEXAS — $80,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE TEXASBakerRipley — $60,000 · Human ServicesBakerRipleyCASA MATEO — $52,500 · Human ServicesCASA MATEOMy Connect Community — $35,000 · Human ServicesMy Connect CommunityTarget Hunger Inc — $35,000 · Human ServicesTarget Hunger IncTHE WOMEN'S HOME — $20,000 · Human ServicesTony's Place — $20,000 · Human ServicesHope Rising dba Hope Rising Ministries — $15,000 · Human Services+5 more — $42,000 · Human Services+5 moreEASTER SEALS OF GREATER HOUSTON INC — $99,000 · HealthEASTER SEALS OF G…HOUSTON COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC — $45,000 · HealthHOUSTON COMMUNITY…RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES GREATER HOUSTON INC — $40,000 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD H…HOUSTON ACHIEVEMENT PLACE — $40,000 · HealthHOUSTON ACHIEVEME…Memorial Hermann Foundation — $30,000 · HealthMemorial Hermann …Albert Schweitzer Fellowship Houston-Galveston — $30,000 · HealthAlbert Schweitzer…BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $20,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNIT…CHILDBUILDERS — $15,000 · Health+4 more — $20,000 · Health+4 moreChildren At Risk — $70,000 · Crime & LegalCHILD ADVOCATES INC — $45,000 · Crime & LegalGalveston-Houston Immigrant Representation Project — $20,000 · Crime & LegalEMPOWERING WOMEN OUT OF PRISON INC — $10,000 · Crime & LegalThe Gateway Academy Inc — $65,000 · EducationTHE CENTER FOR HEARING AND SPEECH — $35,000 · EducationThe Brookwood Community Inc — $10,000 · EducationUndies for Everyone — $30,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $30,000 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of Greater Houston — $12,500 · PhilanthropyPHILANTHROPY SOUTHWEST — $3,000 · PhilanthropyNew Hope Housing Inc — $70,000 · Housing & ShelterSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC — $5,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$991,155Human Services$449,500Health$339,000Crime & Legal$145,000Education$110,000Philanthropy$75,500Housing & Shelter$75,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC — $115,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetEASTER SEALS OF GREATER HOUSTON INC — $99,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetKIDS' MEALS INC — $90,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE TEXAS — $80,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetChildren At Risk — $70,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetNew Hope Housing Inc — $70,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetThe Gateway Academy Inc — $65,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetBakerRipley — $60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank — $54,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCASA MATEO — $52,500 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCHILD ADVOCATES INC — $45,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHOUSTON COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC — $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES GREATER HOUSTON INC — $40,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHOUSTON ACHIEVEMENT PLACE — $40,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR HEARING AND SPEECH — $35,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMy Connect Community — $35,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTarget Hunger Inc — $35,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMemorial Hermann Foundation — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUndies for Everyone — $30,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetAlbert Schweitzer Fellowship Houston-Galveston — $30,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetHouston Botanic Garden — $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPROUNITAS INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHEROES FOR CHILDREN — $30,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetSpringSpirit Inc — $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S HOME — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGalveston-Houston Immigrant Representation Project — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBo's Place — $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSER-JOBS FOR PROGRESS OF THE TEXAS GULF COAST INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCitizens For Animal Protection Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTony's Place — $20,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetJewish Federation of Greater Houston — $17,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUrban Harvest Inc — $17,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPRO-VISION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCamp Allen Camp & Conference Center — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHope Rising dba Hope Rising Ministries — $15,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetHOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDBUILDERS — $15,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Houston — $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAITIE S FOSTER FAM — $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetDEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChildproof America — $10,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetThe Brookwood Community Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEMPOWERING WOMEN OUT OF PRISON INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR PURSUIT — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Albert & Ethel Herzst…Greater Houston Commu…The Brown Foundation …Vivian L Smith Founda…The Powell FoundationStrake FoundationShell USA Company Fou…The Elkins FoundationCenterpoint Energy Fo…Houston Endowment IncHarry S & Isabel C Ca…The Medallion Foundat…
Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable FoundationTX48× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Vivian L Smith Foundation · The Powell Foundation · Strake Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Elkins Foundation · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Houston Endowment Inc · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · The Medallion Foundation Inc

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 Enrico & Sandra Di Portanova Charitable 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%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
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Enrico & Sandra Di Portanova Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Enrico & Sandra Di Portanova Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 84 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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