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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.

$3.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
73
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Community Improvement$6.4MHuman Services$889kEducation$491kYouth Development$404kArts & Culture$402kEmployment$368kHealth$224kPublic Safety & Disaster$187kOther$0
02FY2024 · 73 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 73 grants below total $2,187,550, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,995,150 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $807,600 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k61 grants · $1.4M
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $765k
$24,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
MY CONNECT COMMUNITY$50,000
HOPE DISASTER RECOVERY LLC$50,000
KNOWLEDGE-FIRST$50,000
RUTHERFORD B H YATES MUSEUM INC$50,000
CHINESE COMMUNITY CENTER INC$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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HEART OF HOUSTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $100k → 16%NEIGHBORHOOD RECOVERY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $72k → 16%TLC HEALTH & WELLNESS: $50k → 10%SHAPE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $68k → 16%AS ONE FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%GENERATION ONE: $40k → 16%1 ARCHANGEL SERVICES INC: $26k → 8%NEHEMIAH CENTER INC: $30k → 16%HARVEST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $40k → 16%HARVEST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $16k → 16%NEHEMIAH CENTER INC: $8k → 16%HARVEST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $10k → 16%BACK TO EDEN FELLOW PROGRAM: $35k → 16%AFTER MILITARY SERVICE: $25k → 16%COOLXDAD: $40k → 16%MAGPIES & PEACOCKS INC: $25k → 16%FOSTER CARE ADVOCACY CENTER: $18k → 16%EPIPHANY COMMUNITY HEALTH OUTREACH SERVICES: $21k → 16%BOAT PEOPLE SOS INC: $26k → 16%COLLABORATIVE FOR CHILDREN: $25k → 16%FREE INDEED COMMUNITY WORKS CDC: $38k → 16%BLACK UNITED FUND OF TEXAS INC: $35k → 16%URBAN COMMUNITY NETWORK: $10k → 16%INDIA HOUSE INC: $40k → 16%INDIA HOUSE INC: $23k → 16%SMARTIE PANTS ACADEMY CENTER HOUSTON: $30k → 16%INDIA HOUSE INC: $6k → 16%CENTER FOR URBAN TRANSFORMATION: $35k → 16%BREAD OF LIFE INC: $72k → 16%TARGET HUNGER: $31k → 16%BREAD OF LIFE INC: $35k → 16%JOSEPH HOUSE COMMUNITY OUTREACH CENTER: $40k → 16%IMPACT HUB HOUSTON: $35k → 16%A MIND TO WORK COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $25k → 16%RAINBOW OF LOVE ADOPTION AGENCY INC: $10k → 16%CHINESE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $50k → 16%THE FUTURE BEYOND CHARITY INC: $40k → 16%FAMILIES TO FREEDOM INC: $35k → 16%THE LANDING: $20k → 16%INTERNATIONAL SKILLS INC: $10k → 16%IN HIS CARE MINISTRIES: $24k → 16%MY CONNECT COMMUNITY: $50k → 16%MY CONNECT COMMUNITY: $30k → 16%SOUTH UNION COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC: $30k → 16%COMMUNITY FAMILY CENTERS - CENTROS FAMILIARES DE LA COMUNIDAD: $50k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

23%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 43 repeat orgs$7.6M to everyone else

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

43
208

Total granted

$2.3M
$6.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-2%
0%

Still filing today

51%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureHealthYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 Freedmen's Town Conservancy Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $110k · revenue +30%
  • MC
    My Connect Community
    2× · 2022–2024 · $80k · revenue +243%
  • FW
    FIFTH WARD COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $76k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • WS
    West Street Recoverygraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +87%
  • GS
    GARZA STUDIOS INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • HO
    Heart of Houston CDC Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Urban Research and Resource Center Inc

Research and Community Support

Education
2
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
3
Project Grad Houston

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

—
4
Compassionate Houston Inc

Promote compassionate culture in Houston area

Human Services
5
Workshop Houston

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…

Youth Development
6
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
7
Tex-E Inc
Education
8
Journey Home Houston

Journey Home exists to provide stable houing that ministers holissticallyto young women who have aged out of the foster care system

—
9
Green Careers Texas

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…

Environment
10
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.

—
11
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
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Generation One Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

121 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

13
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
113/121
Grantees still filing
55/121
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

+126 more: $5,307,171 · Other+126 moreBREAD OF LIFE INC: $106,600 · Human ServicesBREAD OF LIFE INCHeart of Houston CDC Inc: $100,000 · Human ServicesHeart of Houston CD…My Connect Community: $80,000 · Human ServicesNEIGHBORHOOD RECOVERY COMMUNIT DEVELOPMENT CORP: $71,700 · Human ServicesINDIA HOUSE INC: $69,025 · Human ServicesSHAPE Community Center: $67,925 · Human ServicesHARVEST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $66,000 · Human ServicesPRISON ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM INC: $59,000 · Human Services+27 more: $906,695 · Human Services+27 moreKNOWLEDGE-FIRST: $100,000 · EducationCAREER GEAR HOUSTON: $100,000 · EducationTEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIO: $60,000 · EducationTHE IMANI SCHOOL: $60,000 · EducationRutherford B H Yates Museum Inc: $50,000 · EducationENERGIZED FOR STEM ACADEMY INC: $50,000 · EducationENERGIZED FOR EXCELLENCE ACADEMY INC: $40,000 · EducationSTEPS TO EXCELLENCE INC: $40,000 · EducationUnited Colours Education Center: $38,800 · EducationC-STEM TEACHER AND STUDENT SUPPORT SERVICES: $35,000 · EducationYOUNG AUDIENCES INC OF HOUSTON: $34,000 · EducationTHE URBAN ENRICHMENT INSTITUTE: $30,800 · EducationNTI CAREER INSTITUTE: $25,000 · Education+1 more: $20,750 · EducationHouston Freedmen's Town Conservancy Inc: $110,000 · Community ImprovementWILLIAM A LAWSON INSTITUTE FOR PEACE AND PROSPERITY: $79,000 · Community ImprovementFIFTH WARD COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $75,500 · Community ImprovementEAST HARRIS COUNTY EMPOWERMENT COUNCIL: $55,103 · Community ImprovementTEXAS COALITION OF RURAL LANDOWNERS: $48,300 · Community ImprovementEMANCIPATION ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL: $43,800 · Community ImprovementRow House Community Development Corporation: $35,000 · Community ImprovementArts Connect Houston: $75,000 · Arts & CultureSYSTEM FOR EDUCATION EMPOWERMENT AND SUCCESS: $70,000 · Arts & CultureINSTITUTE OF CHINESE CULTURE: $55,500 · Arts & CultureLegends Do Live: $40,000 · Arts & CultureVIETNAMESE COMMUNITY OF HOUSTON & VICINITY INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureSHABACH ENTERPRISE: $35,000 · Arts & CultureGOSPEL MUSIC HAUS & MUSEUM: $30,000 · Arts & CultureJazz Houston: $26,000 · Arts & CultureCHARACTER CAMP: $54,900 · Youth DevelopmentRSA OF DANCE AND PERFORMING ARTS: $52,853 · Youth DevelopmentKEEP ENRICHING YOUTH SUCCESS: $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentKIDZ KNECT RESOURCE CENTER: $34,013 · Youth DevelopmentCOMMUNITY OF RESOURCES HOUSTON: $31,200 · Youth DevelopmentGirls Incorporated of Greater Houston: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentBunnies on the Bayou Inc: $55,000 · HealthUHPHEALTH INC: $53,582 · HealthCHRISTUS Foundation for HealthCare: $35,000 · HealthUfcs: $27,000 · Health
Other$5,307,171Human Services$1,526,945Education$684,350Community Improvement$446,703Arts & Culture$371,500Youth Development$237,966Health$170,582

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHouston Freedmen's Town Conservancy Inc: $110,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetBREAD OF LIFE INC: $106,600 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetKNOWLEDGE-FIRST: $100,000 over 2y, 29% of budgetWest Street Recovery: $100,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetHeart of Houston CDC Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetCAREER GEAR HOUSTON: $100,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetHOPE DISASTER RECOVERY LLC: $80,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetMy Connect Community: $80,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetWILLIAM A LAWSON INSTITUTE FOR PEACE AND PROSPERITY: $79,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetFIFTH WARD COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $75,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetArts Connect Houston: $75,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD RECOVERY COMMUNIT DEVELOPMENT CORP: $71,700 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetSYSTEM FOR EDUCATION EMPOWERMENT AND SUCCESS: $70,000 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetINDIA HOUSE INC: $69,025 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetSHAPE Community Center: $67,925 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetHARVEST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $66,000 over 3y, 100% of budgetS & R Truck Driving Institute: $65,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetBRENTWOOD ECONOMIC COM DEV CORP: $62,700 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetTEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIO: $60,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE IMANI SCHOOL: $60,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetPRISON ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM INC: $59,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetINSTITUTE OF CHINESE CULTURE: $55,500 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetEAST HARRIS COUNTY EMPOWERMENT COUNCIL: $55,103 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetLINK HOUSTON: $55,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetBunnies on the Bayou Inc: $55,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetCHARACTER CAMP: $54,900 over 1y, 28% of budgetHouston Pets Alive: $54,700 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetUHPHEALTH INC: $53,582 over 3y, 8.5% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $53,296 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetRSA OF DANCE AND PERFORMING ARTS: $52,853 over 3y, 8.9% of budgetRutherford B H Yates Museum Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetCOMMUNITY FAMILY CENTERS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCHINESE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTLC HEALTH & WELLNESS: $50,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetENERGIZED FOR STEM ACADEMY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTEXAS COALITION OF RURAL LANDOWNERS: $48,300 over 2y, 35% of budgetEMANCIPATION ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL: $43,800 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetGENERATION ONE INC: $40,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTHE FUTURE BEYOND CHARITY INC: $40,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetENERGIZED FOR EXCELLENCE ACADEMY INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLegends Do Live: $40,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetCOOLXDAD INC: $40,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetKEEP ENRICHING YOUTH SUCCESS: $40,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetWOMENS RESOURCE CENTER: $40,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetUnited Colours Education Center: $38,800 over 2y, 63% of budgetFree Indeed Community Works CDC: $38,287 over 1y, 28% of budgetNehemiah Center Inc: $38,100 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR URBAN TRANSFORMATION INC: $35,296 over 1y, 5.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

United Way of Greater…Houston Endowment IncHouston Texans Founda…Houston Arts AllianceThe Brown Foundation …The Methodist HospitalCenterpoint Energy Fo…Baxter Trust Co Priva…The Houston Food BankGreater Houston Commu…Albert & Ethel Herzst…The Junior League of …
United Way of Greater HoustonTX57.7× affinity30 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 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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Houston Fund for Social Justice and Economic Equity funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Houston Fund for Social Justice and Economic Equity. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 293 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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