· Public charity
The Houston Fund for Social Justice and Economic Equity
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 73 grants below total $2,187,550 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,995,150 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $807,600 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 $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k61 grants · $1.4M
- $50k–250k11 grants · $765k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAREER GEAR HOUSTON | $100,000 |
| KC EVENTS & FLORALS LLC | $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 |
| CHINESE COMMUNITY CENTER INC | $50,000 |
| RUTHERFORD B H YATES MUSEUM INC | $50,000 |
| KNOWLEDGE-FIRST | $50,000 |
| HOPE DISASTER RECOVERY LLC | $50,000 |
| MY CONNECT COMMUNITY | $50,000 |
| CHRIS MANSON TRANSPORTATION LLC | $45,000 |
| CONSTRUCTION MASONRY INC | $45,000 |
| CALLE LEMUS 2 INC | $41,100 |
| EARTH'S NECTAR INC | $40,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- HFHouston Freedmen's Town Conservancy Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $110k · revenue +30%
- MCMy Connect Community2× · 2022–2024 · $80k · revenue +243%
- FWFIFTH WARD COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT CORPORATION2× · 2023–2024 · $76k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- HOHeart of Houston CDC Incone grant, 2023 · $100k
- GSGARZA STUDIOS INCORPORATEDone grant, 2023 · $100k
- WSWest Street Recoverygraduatedone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +87%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Research and Community Support
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…
Improving low-income communities by helping individuals get into and through college/career training.
Promote compassionate culture in Houston area
Workshop Houston's mission is to provide youth with creative, technical and educational resources in the arts. Our vision is to lay the groundwork for a just society by creating a community that provides youth with support expanded…
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.
Journey Home exists to provide stable houing that ministers holissticallyto young women who have aged out of the foster care system
Green Careers Texass mission is to disrupt poverty through green career training and employment, in combination with community education.By providing solar PV installation and safety training in the part of Dallas suffering the highest…
Empower and inspire the success of the large and fast-growing hispanic community in the greater houston area thereby strengthening the entire community.
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.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Generation One Inc and the most unlike its peers is 1 Archangel Services 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.
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.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
121 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. 121 of the 293 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 Houston Freedmen's Town Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds BREAD OF LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds Heart of Houston CDC Inc ↗
- Who funds CAREER GEAR HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds KNOWLEDGE-FIRST ↗
- Who funds West Street Recovery ↗
- Who funds HOPE DISASTER RECOVERY LLC ↗
- Who funds My Connect Community ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM A LAWSON INSTITUTE FOR PEACE AND PROSPERITY ↗
- Who funds FIFTH WARD COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Arts Connect Houston ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD RECOVERY COMMUNIT DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds SYSTEM FOR EDUCATION EMPOWERMENT AND SUCCESS ↗
- Who funds INDIA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SHAPE Community Center ↗
- Who funds HARVEST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds S & R Truck Driving Institute ↗
- Who funds BRENTWOOD ECONOMIC COM DEV CORP ↗
- Who funds TEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIO ↗
- Who funds THE IMANI SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PRISON ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE OF CHINESE CULTURE ↗
- Who funds EAST HARRIS COUNTY EMPOWERMENT COUNCIL ↗
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 · Houston Endowment Inc · Houston Texans Foundation · Houston Arts Alliance · The Brown Foundation Inc · The Methodist Hospital · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Baxter Trust Co Private Foundation Services · The Houston Food Bank · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · 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 organization The Houston Fund for Social Justice and Economic Equity 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.