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· Public charity
The Houston Food Bank
The mission is to provide food for better lives.
$256M
Granted FY2023
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Largest
01What you fund
01beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
ffcwe thrivelargestend hungercleanfbnh spokeadonai internationalshepherd middle
2020
sponsoringrisk youthyouth vulnerablevulnerable apartmentapartment complexescomplexes campscamps greater
2021
bammel middledeltcysalbert thomassherman elementarywillisacres elementary
2022
williammschastingspecanpilgrim placepark apartmentsstar
2023
independent districtcaney isdisd educationenhance caneyisd studentstudent experienceexperience educational
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
02FY2023
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
Grant detail is referenced in an attached schedule not included in the e-file. Total reported in the filing: $256,342,327.
$0
Median grant
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States reached
$155M
Total assets
02The need
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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.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your 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.
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The Houston Food Bank
The mission is to provide food for better lives. last year we provided 123 million nutritious meals in 18 counties through our 1,600 community partners.
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Hays County Food Bank
To alleviate hunger by distributing food to families who are food deprived through a network of volunteers and other agencies within Hays County.
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Food Bank of West Central Texas
To procure and distribute nutritional food to qualified agencies that feed the hungry of West Central Texas.
Food & Nutrition
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Feeding Texas
To lead a unified effort for a hunger-free texas.
Community Improvement
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South Texas Food Bank
To alleviate hunger in the imediate 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…
Community Improvement
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Htx Hope Haven
We are moving people from crisis to lifelong self-sufficiency. We help the homeless and marginalized people in our community navigate through the services available to become self-supporting contributing members of our community.
Human Services
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Bastrop County Emergency Food Pantry
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.
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Fellowship of Christians United for
A faith based non profit dedicated to helping those in need in Harris County.
Religion
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Houston County Council On Aging Inc
The organization's primary mission is to provide nutritious meals to eligible persons allowing them to maintain their independence.
Human Services
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Houston Habitat for Humanity Inc
Houston Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
Housing & Shelter
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Texas County Food Pantry Inc
To provide assistance to individuals in need with USDA Community/Senior Box/Community-donated food distribution,homeless prevention (rent, utilities,lodging), transporation, clothing, household and emergency supplies, precriptions, and…
Unclassified
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Harvest Texarkana Regional Food Bank Inc
To alleviate hunger in southwest Arkansas and northeast Texas through food distribution and education.
Food & Nutrition
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is We Care Inc 121694 and the most unlike its peers is Second Harvest of. 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 26 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
2%12/601
the rest of the field
16%
4,252/25,995
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.
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.
United Way of Greater HoustonTX77.4× affinity48 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: United Way of Greater Houston · Houston Texans Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation · The Methodist Hospital · Albert & Ethel Herzstein · Charity Guild of Catholic Women of · Barbara Bush Houston Literacy Foundation · Astros Foundation · Hildebrand Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Baxter Trust Co Private Foundation Services · Strake 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.
04Through Plinth
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Find your warmest path to The Houston Food Bank through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The regranting layer
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The DAF merry-go-round
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Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines