· Public charity
The Houston Food Bank
Houston food bank's mission is to provide food for better lives.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 866 grants below total $282,576,225 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $300,804,120 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $18,227,895 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k145 grants · $1.0M
- $10k–50k281 grants · $6.6M
- $50k–250k230 grants · $31M
- $250k+210 grants · $244M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MONTGOMERY COUNTY FOOD BANK (FB) | $16,973,681 |
| GALVESTON COUNTY FOOD BANK (FB) | $13,585,920 |
| CRC AT HOUSTON FOOD BANK (EA) | $10,564,819 |
| BETHEL'S HEAVENLY HANDS (FFC) | $7,749,797 |
| BRAZOS VALLEY FOOD BANK (FB) | $5,998,138 |
| ANNAM COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION AT VIETNAMESE AMERICAN CENTER (PS) | $5,582,085 |
| IMPACT HOUSTON RESOURCE CENTER - IMPACT HOUSTON CHURCH OF CHRIST (PS) | $5,578,508 |
| IGLESIA BAUTISTA MELROSE (PS) | $4,651,128 |
| JOSEPH HOUSE COMMUNITY OUTREACH CENTER (PS) | $4,190,012 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,129,616 |
| THE KING'S PALACE - REDEEMED CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF GOD (PS) | $3,917,800 |
| HEARTS AND HANDS OF BAYTOWN (SB) | $3,779,362 |
| ROYALTY CHURCH (PS) | $3,740,498 |
| KATY CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES (PS) | $3,611,042 |
| WEST HOUSTON ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES (WHAM) (SB) | $3,124,163 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY24–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of your 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.
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.
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 procure and distribute nutritional food to qualified agencies that feed the hungry of West Central Texas.
To alleviate hunger in the immediate service area through the distribution of food products donated by the usda, feeding america, area grocery stores, etc. which are distributed to the needy by way of area food banks and other qualified…
To alleviate hunger by distributing food to families who are food deprived through a network of volunteers and other agencies within Hays County.
The mission of the Bastrop County Emergency Food Pantry and Support Center is to serve Bastrop County residents going through periods of transition by providing emergency food assistance, education and support.
The South Plains Food Bank, Inc. is a humanitarian resource responsible for securing, growing, processing, and distributing food to charitable organizations and persons in need. South Plains Food Bank, Inc. also strives to provide…
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The food bank of northeast arkansas provides hunger relief to people in need in twelve counties in northeast arkansas by raising awareness, securing resources, and distributing food through a network of non-profit agencies and programs.
Pleasant Grove Food Pantry provides nutritious food to qualified residents of Pleasant Grove in southeast Dallas who are food insecure. Fighting food insecurity is the mission and intent of the organization. Services are provided by…
The north texas pantry has been serving the people of north texas since 1979, as an outreach of floral heights united methodist church. in 2015, the pantry formed as a separate 501 (c) 3, the floral heights community food pantry. to better…
Feeding America Texas operates exclusively for charitable purposes by supporting food assistance, hunger relief, and community aid initiatives for individuals and families experiencing food insecurity throughout Texas. The organization…
North Dallas Food Pantry (DBA NTX Community Food Pantry) is dedicated to building relationships by sharing resources, hope and faith in a welcoming environment, with love and dignaty.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tomball Emergency Assistance Ministries and the most unlike its peers is Sheldon Independent School District Education Foundation. 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.
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 27 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 19% 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.
256 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. 256 of the 597 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 MONTGOMERY COUNTY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds GALVESTON COUNTY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds BETHELS HEAVENLY HANDS ↗
- Who funds BRAZOS VALLEY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds ANNAM COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORA TION ↗
- Who funds LIVING WATER INTERNATIONAL APOSTOLIC MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Katy Christian Ministries ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area ↗
- Who funds Society of St Vincent de Paul Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston ↗
- Who funds Covenant with Christ International Inc ↗
- Who funds SECOND MILE MISSION CENTER ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON - HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds ROSENBERG RICHMOND HELPING HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN HELPING HANDS 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: United Way of Greater Houston · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · Houston Texans Foundation · Astros Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Baxter Trust Co Private Foundation Services · Charity Guild of Catholic Women of Harris County Inc · Strake Foundation · Hildebrand Foundation · The Methodist Hospital · Feeding America · Houston Endowment 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 Houston Food Bank 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.