How much did THE HOUSTON FUND FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE grant in FY2024?

THE HOUSTON FUND FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE reported 73 grants totaling $2,995,150 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is THE HOUSTON FUND FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE based?

THE HOUSTON FUND FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE is based in TX.

THE HOUSTON FUND FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE

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· Public charity

THE HOUSTON FUND FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE

The mission of THE HOUSTON FUND FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE and economic equity is to enact transformational change through the investment of resources in organizations and initiatives that empower and uplift the black community, communities of color, and other communities that are economically challenged.

$3.0M

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$100k

Largest

01What you fund

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 60% of THE HOUSTON FUND FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath 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

2022

counselingcaringbecomementorshipapprenticeshiptraining

2023

development-youth opencorporationrights actionviolenceagainstservices-ethnic immigranteducation-educational

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 73 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k1 grant · $7k
$10k–50k61 grants · $1.4M
$50k–250k11 grants · $765k

$24,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.7M

Total assets

Largest grants

KC EVENTS & FLORALS LLC$100,000
CAREER GEAR HOUSTON$100,000
THREE KEYS COFFEE LLC$99,750
WILLIAM A LAWSON INSTITUTE FOR PEACE & PROSPERITY$79,000
NEIGHBORHOOD RECOVERY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$71,700
S & R TRUCK DRIVING INSTITUTE$65,000
MY CONNECT COMMUNITY$50,000
KNOWLEDGE-FIRST$50,000
HOPE DISASTER RECOVERY LLC$50,000
CHINESE COMMUNITY CENTER INC$50,000
RUTHERFORD B H YATES MUSEUM INC$50,000
CHRIS MANSON TRANSPORTATION LLC$45,000
CONSTRUCTION MASONRY INC$45,000
CALLE LEMUS 2 INC$41,100
THIS LITTLE CAKE OF MINE LLC$40,000

02The need

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 (FY22–24, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 11%. 94% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

23%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$2.3M · 43 repeat orgs$7.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +55% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.

43 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 42 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

208

Total granted

$2.3M

$6.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%

+26%

Still filing today

51%

36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureHealthYouth DevelopmentOther

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

HF
HOUSTON FREEDMENS TOWN CONSERVANCY INC
2× · 2023–2024 · $110k · revenue +480%
BO
BREAD OF LIFE INC
2× · 2023–2024 · $107k · revenue +126%
K
KNOWLEDGE-FIRST
2× · 2022–2024 · $100k · revenue +25% · 29% of their budget

Funded once

HO
HEART OF HOUSTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
one grant, 2023 · $100k
WS
WEST STREET RECOVERYgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +570%
GS
GARZA STUDIOS INCORPORATED
one grant, 2023 · $100k

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.

Houston Area Community Services

Houston area community services (hacs) is a non-profit enterprise that specializes in addressing health disparities among underserved communities within houston and surrounding counties.

Health

Houston Launch Pad

To help bridge the gap from homelessness, addiction, unemployment, and basic skill development to self empowerment

Health

Northeast Houston Redevelopment Council

Is to act as the platform for engaging collaborative solutions that produce economic development, equitable education and citizen's empowerment solutions that directly benefit the historically underserved communities of Northeast Houston.

Human Services

Launch Point Cdc Inc

Launch Point CDC is a non-profit organization based in Northeast Houston. Our mission is to empower individuals and families in underserved communities to reach their full potential through access to education, job training and community…

Human Services

Asian American Health Coalition of the Greater Houston Area

The organization provides quality health care programs and service to individuals in its community, including primary care and preventative services.

Health

Urban Research and Resource Center Inc

Research and Community Support

Education

Legends and Legacies Houston Inc

The mission of Legend and Legacies Houston is to address the physical, emotional, social and academic needs and issues of our children and their families who are experiencing the trauma of parental incarceration.

Human Services

Project Grad Houston

Improving low-income communities by helping individuals get into and through college/career training.

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Houston Hispanic Forum

Empower and inspire the success of the large and fast-growing hispanic community in the greater houston area thereby strengthening the entire community.

—

Compassionate Houston Inc

Promote compassionate culture in Houston area

Human Services

Breakthrough Houston

Breakthrough Houston works with highly motivated, traditionally underrepresented students to achieve post-secondary success and empowers aspiring leaders to become the next generation of educators and advocates.

Education

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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Generation One Inc and the most unlike its peers is India House 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.

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 11 years old; the field is 11. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.7%2/293

the rest of the field

16%

3,230/20,148

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.

05the grantee network

121 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

111/121

Grantees still filing

79/121

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$6,290,933Human Services$1,615,941Education$730,250Community Improvement$471,999Arts & Culture$371,500Youth Development$243,466Health$204,082

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.

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 HoustonTX57.7× affinity29 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 Endowment Inc · Houston Arts Alliance · Houston Texans Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · The Houston Food Bank · The Methodist Hospital · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Baxter Trust Co Private Foundation Services · Albert & Ethel Herzstein · Houston in Action Network · The Junior League of Houston 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 organisation THE HOUSTON FUND FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: HARVEST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

3 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 830582878 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on HARVEST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 100% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Houston Fund for Social Justice?

Find your warmest path to The Houston Fund for Social Justice 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.

THE HOUSTON FUND FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

121 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Houston Fund for Social Justice?

More from the funding graph

THE HOUSTON FUND FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

121 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Houston Fund for Social Justice?

More from the funding graph