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The Robert & Jane Cizik Foundation at a glance

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The Robert & Jane Cizik Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$10k
Granted FY2022
2
Grants FY2022
2
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Arts & Culture$649kEnvironment$50kHuman Services$25kAnimals$21kEducation$14kInternational$9kMembership Benefit$5kHousing & Shelter$5kOther$0
02FY2022 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$9,400
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED HELP UKRAINE$9,400
CITIZENS FOR ANIMAL PROTECTION$500
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 (FY21–21, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%THE WOMEN'S HOME: $5k → 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 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
Houston Pets Alive

Houston Pets Alive!s (HPA!) mission is to save the lives of at-risk companion cats and dogs and find them loving homes.

Animals
2
Laurels House

Laurel's House strengthens the human animal bond improves public health decreases the number of companion animal euthanasia due to overpopulation and diminishes human impact on native wildlife species by providing unprecedented access to…

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3
Humane Society of Harris County

Humane Society of Harris County's mission remains steadfast: to provide high-quality adoption, transport, foster, Trap, neuter, release, and pet food pantry services to our community. Yet, with a fresh perspective and a renewed passion,…

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4
Houston Botanic Garden

To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.

Environment
5
The Houston Audubon Society

To advance the conservation of birds and their habitats in the Greater Houston Gulf Coast region by acquiring and maintaining critical habitat as bird sanctuaries, providing education programs and nature experiences, and advocating policy…

Environment
6
Humane Society for Hamilton County

Humane Society for Hamilton County (HSHC) is saving lives, educating communities and completing families by providing a compassionate and healthy environment for the homeless animals of Hamilton County, Indiana, until they can be placed…

Animals
7
Pippys Pals Rescue

Pippys Pals Rescue is dedicated to saving the lives of dogs facing euthanasia in Houston. Our mission is to provide a second chance to these beloved companions by rescuing them from shelters, providing them with necessary medical care, and…

Animals
8
The Heritage Society

The Heritage Society (THS) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1954 whose mission is to tell the stories of the diverse history of Houston and Texas through collections, exhibits, the arts, educational programs, film, video, and other…

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9
Trees for Houston

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

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10
Houston Zoo Inc

Mission: Connect communities with animals, inspiring action to save wildlife. Vision: Be a leader in the global movement to save wildlife. (Continued on Schedule O) Houston Zoo, Inc. (HZI) strives to be a zoo that practices exemplary…

Animals
11
Houston Museum of Natural Science

The mission of the Houston Museum of Natural Science shall be to preserve and advance the general knowledge of natural science; to enhance in individuals the knowledge of and delight in natural science and related subjects; and to maintain…

Arts & Culture
12
Houston Grand Opera Endowment Inc

This organization accepts, receives, holds, and invests endowment funds for the benefit of Houston Grand Opera Association of Houston, Texas.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Citizens for Animal Protection Inc; the most unlike its peers is United Help Ukraine 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

12 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. 12 of the 14 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE FOUNDATION FOR JONES HALL: $500,000 · OtherTHE FOUNDATION FOR JONES HALLIndividual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+2 more: $19,280 · OtherHouston Grand Opera Association Inc: $130,000 · Arts & CultureHouston Grand Opera …Houston Symphony Society: $19,100 · Arts & CultureHouston Symphony Soc…Hermann Park Conservancy: $50,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS FOR LIFE: $25,000 · HealthGOLDEN BEGINNINGS GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE INC: $10,000 · AnimalsSECOND CHANCE HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $5,000 · AnimalsANIMAL FRIENDS OF WASHINGTON COUNTY: $5,000 · Animals+1 more: $500 · AnimalsUnited Help Ukraine Inc: $9,400 · Human ServicesTHE WOMEN'S HOME: $5,000 · Human Services
Other$569,280Arts & Culture$149,100Environment$50,000Health$25,000Animals$20,500Human Services$14,400

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR JONES HALL: $500,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetHouston Grand Opera Association Inc: $130,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHermann Park Conservancy: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS FOR LIFE: $25,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHouston Symphony Society: $19,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGOLDEN BEGINNINGS GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetUnited Help Ukraine Inc: $9,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND CHANCE HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGLENWOOD CEMETERY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANIMAL FRIENDS OF WASHINGTON COUNTY: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S HOME: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCitizens For Animal Protection Inc: $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.

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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 Robert & Jane Cizik Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Robert & Jane Cizik Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%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 · 0–5%
    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.
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    How do I get to The Robert & Jane Cizik Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Robert & Jane Cizik Foundation 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 14 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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