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The Junior League of Houston Inc

See Schedule OThe Junior League of Houston, Inc.

$864k
Granted FY2025still arriving
37
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$73k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Health$4.3MHuman Services$1.4MFood & Nutrition$622kArts & Culture$450kEducation$377kHousing & Shelter$365kCrime & Legal$272kEmployment$157kOther$0
02FY2025 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 37 grants below total $797,543 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $863,627 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $66,084 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k28 grants · $503k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $259k
$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$25M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Houston Habitat for Humanity Inc$72,500
Kids' Meals$70,199
Ronald McDonald House of Houston Inc$64,934
BEAR-BE A Resource CPS Kids$51,000
Texas Children's Hospital$48,735
Children's Museum of Houston$40,057
Casa de Esperanza de los Ninos$38,172
Star of Hope$32,855
Child Advocates Inc$30,653
Texas Children's Hospital$20,000
Epilepsy Foundation of Texas$20,000
Houston Area Women's Center$19,455
Baylor College of Medicine Teen Health Clinic$19,218
The Westview School Inc$18,477
AIDS Foundation Houston Inc$15,147
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $3.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Free the Captives: $15k → 9%Operation Pathways: $10k → 14%Gift of Adoption Fund Inc: $10k → 14%Blessings in a Backpack Inc: $30k → 15%Counseling Connect for Change: $10k → 10%Nehemiah Center Inc: $20k → 16%BEAR-BE A Resource CPS Kids: $53k → 16%BEAR-BE A Resource CPS Kids: $51k → 16%BEAR-BE A Resource CPS Kids: $47k → 16%BEAR-BE A Resource CPS Kids: $47k → 16%BEAR-BE A Resource CPS Kids: $46k → 16%BEAR-BE A Resource CPS Kids: $28k → 16%Houston Area Women's Center: $25k → 16%Houston Area Women's Center: $22k → 16%Houston Area Women's Center: $19k → 16%Houston Area Women's Center: $15k → 16%Houston Area Womens Center: $13k → 16%Houston Area Womens Center: $12k → 16%Houston Area Womens Center: $11k → 16%ECHOS: $12k → 16%Spaulding for Children: $16k → 16%Collaborative for Children: $15k → 16%Neighborhood Centers Inc: $11k → 16%Epiphany Community Health Outreach Services: $15k → 16%Have Shears Will Travel: $15k → 16%Neighbors in Action Inc: $22k → 16%Neighbors in Action Inc: $13k → 16%The Furniture Bank: $16k → 16%DePelchin Children's Center: $2.0M → 16%Clothed By Faith: $15k → 16%Northwest Assis Ministries: $12k → 16%Kids' Meals: $70k → 16%Kids' Meals: $66k → 16%Kids Meals: $66k → 16%Kids' Meals: $61k → 16%Kids Meals: $59k → 16%Kids Meals: $57k → 16%Kids' Meals: $54k → 16%BEAR-BE A Resource CPS Kids: $51k → 16%BEAR-BE A Resource CPS Kids: $51k → 16%BEAR-BE A Resource CPS Kids: $50k → 16%Kids Meals: $44k → 16%Kids Meals: $39k → 16%Dress for Success Houston: $21k → 16%Dress for Success Houston: $14k → 16%Dress for Success Houston: $10k → 16%Dress for Success Houston: $10k → 16%Dress for Success Houston: $10k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 6% of The Junior League of Houston Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in TX; read by stated purpose it is 93% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

The Junior League of Houston Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$7.2M · 48 repeat orgs$980k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.

48 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
62

Total granted

$7.2M
$788k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+18%

Still filing today

96%
92%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $193k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • DC
    DEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER
    3× · 2017–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +30%
  • TC
    Texas Children's Hospital
    9× · 2017–2025 · $956k · revenue +78%
  • KM
    KIDS' MEALS INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $518k · revenue +579%

Funded once

  • TR
    THE ROSE
    one grant, 2021 · $24k · revenue -7%
  • WH
    WEST HOUSTON ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $22k · revenue +70%
  • CL
    CHILDREN'S LITERACY INITIATIVE
    one grant, 2019 · $21k · revenue -72%

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.

1
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
2
Trees for Houston

Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.

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3
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
4
Fostering Family

Fostering family dba the riverside project is a 501(c)(3) public charity that on behalf of houston's children and their families, brings together organizations and passionate people working as one to help families heal and children thrive.

Community Improvement
5
Houston Local Information Initiative Inc

The Houston Local Information Initiative, Inc. provides public service journalism that reflects the civic needs of the diverse communities comprising Greater Houston.

Arts & Culture
6
Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Inc

The Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston's mission is to inspire and enable all youth, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens.

Youth Development
7
Houston's Amazing Place Inc

Amazing Place empowers families facing the challenges of dementia and Alzheimer's and advances brain health for all. The Organization serves adults with mild cognitive impairment and mild to moderate dementia, caregiving families and…

Human Services
8
Houston Independent School District Foundation

The HISD Foundation is dedicated to mobilizing the local community to support innovative priorities in HISD to improve outcomes for all students in the district. Our mission is to fund projects and programs of merit that fall outside of…

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9
Harris County Medical Society

Our mission is to be the leading advocate for our member physicians, their patients and our community, in promoting the highest standards of ethical medical practice, access to quality medical care, medical education, research, and…

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10
Houston Christian Foundation dba National Christian Foundation Houston

As the Houston affiliate of the National Christian Foundation (NCF), our mission is to serve and encourage givers to grow as faithful stewards who give wisely to further the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

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11
Made Houston

MADE Houston was formed to create a school community focused on nurturing and developing the unique academic and social needs of students with learning differences and to successfully transition students into mainstream schools.

Education
12
Houston Area Parkinson Society

The mission of the Houston Area Parkinson Society is to use a whole-human approach to community building, which reduces the fear and isolation associated with a Parkinson's diagnosis.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Association for the Advancement of Mexican Americans and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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 31 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number30%3%<5yr17%2%5–10yr21%18%10–20yr17%36%20–35yr8%28%35–55yr8%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value30%1%<5yr17%0%5–10yr21%4%10–20yr17%28%20–35yr8%58%35–55yr8%10%55yr+

The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 19% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.8%1/122
the rest of the field
19%
3,802/20,319

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

115 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. 115 of the 120 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
27
Early backer (in before they grew)
113/115
Grantees still filing
81/115
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER — $2,023,618 · Human ServicesDEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTERKIDS' MEALS INC — $518,188 · Human ServicesKIDS' MEALS INCBEAR BE A RESOURCE FOR CPS KIDS — $425,101 · Human ServicesBEAR BE A RESOURCE FOR CPS KIDS+32 more — $742,189 · Human Services+32 moreTexas Children's Hospital — $955,934 · HealthTexas Children's Hospit…RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES GREATER HOUSTON INC — $405,165 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE C…AIDS FOUNDATION HOUSTON INC — $133,512 · HealthAIDS FOUNDATION HOUSTON…+12 more — $221,827 · Health+12 moreCASA DE ESPERANZA DE LOS NINOS INC — $334,727 · OtherCASA DE ESPERAN…The Houston Food Bank — $53,432 · OtherSIRE INC — $45,000 · OtherMISSION OF YAHWEH INC — $44,400 · OtherCHINQUAPIN PREPARATORY SCHOOL — $41,518 · OtherEducational Programs Inspiring Communities Inc — $40,000 · Other+38 more — $589,416 · Other+38 moreBaylor College of Medicine — $281,919 · EducationThe Westview School Inc — $156,106 · EducationSan Francisco Nativity Academy — $34,000 · EducationBOOKS BETWEEN KIDS INC — $22,000 · EducationCHILDREN'S LITERACY INITIATIVE — $21,250 · EducationTHE ARBOR SCHOOL — $20,000 · Education+3 more — $42,000 · EducationCHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC — $333,907 · Arts & CultureBo's Place — $28,713 · Arts & CultureHouston Museum of Natural Science — $19,554 · Arts & Culture+7 more — $76,090 · Arts & CultureSTAR OF HOPE MISSION — $247,236 · Housing & ShelterHouston Habitat for Humanity Inc — $72,500 · Housing & ShelterRebuilding Together Houston — $20,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterCHILD ADVOCATES INC — $241,642 · Crime & LegalChildren's Assessment Center Foundation — $20,000 · Crime & Legal+1 more — $8,000 · Crime & Legal
Human Services$3,709,096Health$1,716,438Other$1,148,493Education$577,275Arts & Culture$458,264Housing & Shelter$349,736Crime & Legal$269,642

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER — $2,023,618 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetTexas Children's Hospital — $955,934 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS' MEALS INC — $518,188 over 9y, 2.4% of budgetBEAR BE A RESOURCE FOR CPS KIDS — $425,101 over 9y, 5.2% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES GREATER HOUSTON INC — $405,165 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetCASA DE ESPERANZA DE LOS NINOS INC — $334,727 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC — $333,907 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine — $281,919 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSTAR OF HOPE MISSION — $247,236 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetCHILD ADVOCATES INC — $241,642 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetThe Westview School Inc — $156,106 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetAIDS FOUNDATION HOUSTON INC — $133,512 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetHouston Area Women's Center — $116,948 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS HOUSTON — $98,136 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank — $53,432 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBakerRipley — $47,022 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSIRE INC — $45,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetMISSION OF YAHWEH INC — $44,400 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association — $43,308 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNeighbors In Action Inc — $43,083 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetCHINQUAPIN PREPARATORY SCHOOL — $41,518 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetEducational Programs Inspiring Communities Inc — $40,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetMemorial Hermann Health System — $36,169 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCamp For All Foundation — $35,312 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSan Francisco Nativity Academy — $34,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTHE WOODS PROJECT — $34,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetBo's Place — $28,713 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetEPIPHANY COMMUNITY HEALTH OUTREACH SERVICES — $26,800 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE FURNITURE BANK — $26,200 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBIG LOVE CANCER CARE SERVICES — $25,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetCLOTHED BY FAITH INC — $25,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetTHE ROSE — $23,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHouston Zoo Inc — $23,140 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHAVE SHEARS WILL TRAVEL — $22,800 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetWEST HOUSTON ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES INC — $22,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBOOKS BETWEEN KIDS INC — $22,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCHILDREN'S LITERACY INITIATIVE — $21,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNehemiah Center Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCHILDBUILDERS — $20,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetTHE ARBOR SCHOOL — $20,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetChildren's Assessment Center Foundation — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCG Jung Educational Center of Houston Texas Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCHANCE FOR HOPE FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetRebuilding Together Houston — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUndies for Everyone — $20,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MEXICAN AMERICANS — $19,800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHouston Museum of Natural Science — $19,554 over 3y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Albert & Ethel Herzst…Harry S & Isabel C Ca…Greater Houston Commu…Charity Guild of Cath…Strake FoundationShell USA Company Fou…The Brown Foundation …The Elkins FoundationMarek Family Foundati…The William Stamps Fa…United Way of Greater…Baxter Trust Co Priva…
Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable FoundationTX104.5× affinity51 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Charity Guild of Catholic Women of Harris County Inc · Strake Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · The Elkins Foundation · Marek Family Foundation · The William Stamps Farish Fund · United Way of Greater Houston · Baxter Trust Co Private Foundation Services

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 Junior League of Houston Inc 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.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    31report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 120 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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