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· Public charity

The Lions Club of Houston Northwest

To empower volunteers to serve the community, meet humanitarian needs, and promote health and well-being.

$78k
Granted FY2026still arriving
9
Grants FY2026still arriving
2
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$86kPublic Benefit$83kFood & Nutrition$82kHousing & Shelter$54kYouth Development$19kRecreation & Sports$10k
02FY2026 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $75,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $77,696 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,696 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 · FY2026

  • Under $10k8 grants · $62k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
$8,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$173k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAMP HOPE$13,000
COVENANT HOUSE HOUSTON$9,000
ELIJAH RISING$9,000
HOUSTON FOOD BANK$8,000
THE MISSION OF YAHWEH$8,000
EPIPHANY COMMUNITY HEALTHOUTREACH SERVICES$8,000
LAZARUS HOUSE$8,000
GIVE US PAWS$6,000
CASA DE ESPERANZA PRO LOS NINOS$6,000
02The need
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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 (FY22–26, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 68% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%LAZARUS HOUSE: $10k → 8%LAZARUS HOUSE: $8k → 8%LAZARUS HOUSE: $6k → 8%ELIJAH RISING: $9k → 16%COVENANT HOUSE HOUSTON: $11k → 16%COVENANT HOUSE HOUSTON: $9k → 16%COVENANT HOUSE HOUSTON: $8k → 16%COVENANANT HOUSE: $7k → 16%EPIPHANY COMMUNITY HEALTHOUTREACH SERVICES: $8k → 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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$366k · 8 repeat orgs$43k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue 0% since the first grant, against -39% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2026, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
2

Total granted

$366k
$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
-39%

Still filing today

100%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
Human ServicesPublic BenefitAnimalsOther
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

  • PF
    PTSD FOUNDATION OF AMERICA
    6× · 2021–2026 · $96k · revenue +21%
  • LH
    LAZARUS HOUSE
    3× · 2024–2026 · $24k · revenue +9%
  • MA
    Memorial Ashford Little League
    2× · 2020–2021 · $10k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • CH
    COVENANANT HOUSE
    one grant, 2021 · $13k
  • CH
    COVENANT HOUSE
    one grant, 2022 · $7k · revenue -39%
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
Covenant House California

Covenant house is dedicated to serving all of god's children with absolute respect and unconditional love to help youth experiencing homelessness and to protect and safeguard all youth in need.

Human Services
2
Covenant House Washington Dc

Covenant house washington, dc ("chw") provides shelter, crisis care, community services, and outreach services to youth in the washington dc area.

Human Services
3
Covenant House Georgia Inc

Covenant house georgia provides shelters, protects and advocates on behalf of homeless, trafficked, runaway and sexually exploited youth.

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4
Covenant House New Orleans

Covenant house new orleans (the organization) is a not-for-profit organization affiliated with 34 similar organizations across five countries, all of which are affiliates of covenant house international (parent affiliate) and share a…

Human Services
5
Ch Pennsylvania Under - 21

Our mission is to serve children and youth facing homelessness and human trafficking, and to protect and safeguard all children. we provide trauma-informed interventions for youth who are in need.covenant house pennsylvania (chpa) remains…

Housing & Shelter
6
Under 21

Since 1972, under 21, d.b.a. covenant house new york (chny) has been working with one of new york city's most vulnerable populations - youth experiencing homelessness, age 16-24, and their dependent children. chny provides young people…

Human Services
7
City Rescue Mission Inc

Our mission is to lead our community by serving people experiencing or at risk of homelessness with help, hope, and healing, in the spirit of excellence, under the call of christ.

Human Services
8
Covenant House Michigan

Covenant house michigan is a sanctuary for homeless and at-risk young people, ages 18-24 who have nowhere to go. it is our mission to serve these children with respect and love.covenant house michigan builds bridges to hope for young…

Human Services
9
Chicago House & Social Service Agency

Provides housing and support services to individuals and families impacted by hiv/aids

Health
10
Covenant House New Jersey Inc

To provide shelter, food, medical and mental health care, legal services, educational and vocational services and an array of housing options, including transitional and permanent housing opportunities, for youth facing homelessness and…

Human Services
11
Shelter House Community Shelter and Transition Services

Through shelter and housing, advocacy and supportive services, our mission is to prevent and end homelessness in our community.

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12
House of Hope

Assisting and housing females in recovery

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is West Houston Assistance Ministries Inc; the most unlike its peers is A Cause to Give Us Paws. 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

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 13 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
3/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Houston Food Bank: $90,000 · OtherThe Houston Food BankCASA DE ESPERANZA DE LOS NINOS INC: $50,500 · OtherCASA DE ESPERANZA DE LOS NINOS INCWEST HOUSTON ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES INC: $41,500 · OtherWEST HOUSTON ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES INCMISSION OF YAHWEH INC: $26,000 · OtherMISSION OF YAHWEH INCCOVENANANT HOUSE: $13,000 · OtherCOVENANANT HOUSEMemorial Ashford Little League: $10,000 · OtherPTSD FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $96,000 · Public BenefitPTSD FOUNDATION OF AMERICACOVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $27,500 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE TEXASLAZARUS HOUSE: $24,000 · Human ServicesLAZARUS HOUSEElijah Rising: $9,000 · Human ServicesElijah RisingEPIPHANY COMMUNITY HEALTH OUTREACH SERVICES: $8,000 · Human ServicesEPIPHANY COMMUNITY H…COVENANT HOUSE: $6,500 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSEA Cause to Give Us Paws: $6,000 · Animals
Other$231,000Public Benefit$96,000Human Services$75,000Animals$6,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPTSD FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $96,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $90,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCASA DE ESPERANZA DE LOS NINOS INC: $50,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetWEST HOUSTON ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES INC: $41,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $27,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMISSION OF YAHWEH INC: $26,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLAZARUS HOUSE: $24,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMemorial Ashford Little League: $10,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetElijah Rising: $9,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $6,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

National Philanthropi…Natl Christian Charit…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA9.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Lions Club of Houston Northwest funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lions Club of Houston Northwest. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Lions Club of Houston Northwest?

    Find your warmest path to The Lions Club of Houston Northwest through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 13 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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