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The Woodforest Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k175 grants · $458k
- $10k–50k52 grants · $953k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $676k
- $250k+4 grants · $1.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TURNING POINT USA | $1,000,000 |
| MONTGOMERY COUNTY FOOD BANK COMMITMENT | $361,115 |
| CONSERVATIVE PARTNERSHIP INSITUTE | $250,000 |
| THE ARBOR SCHOOL | $250,000 |
| FIRST LIBERTY | $200,000 |
| BOY'S AND GIRL'S COUNTRY | $125,000 |
| MONTGOMERY COUNTY FOOD BANK | $100,000 |
| HOUSTON FOOD BANK | $100,000 |
| REFLECTIVE LIFE MINISTRIES | $51,000 |
| YOUTH REACH HOUSTON | $50,000 |
| THE HAVEN HOME OF HOPE | $50,000 |
| MOCO WOMENS CENTER | $35,000 |
| DAN AND JAN DUNCN NRI TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $35,000 |
| COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE CENTER (MCEA) | $31,000 |
| MONTGOMERY COUNTY YOUTH SERVICES | $30,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 21% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
250 repeat relationships — 198 still active in FY2024, 52 since wound down; 39 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $579k 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
- MCMontgomery County Childrens Advocacy Center Inc6× · 2017–2022 · $3.5M · revenue +219% · 32% of their budget
- TMTHE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION3× · 2019–2023 · $1.7M · revenue +82%
- TATHE ARBOR SCHOOL4× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +158% · 49% of their budget
Funded once
- DADan and Jan Duncan NRI Texas Childrens Hospitalone grant, 2023 · $2.8M
- BFBlexit Foundation - Special Programsone grant, 2022 · $100k
- SPSpecial Program - Cypress Christian Schoolone grant, 2021 · $100k
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.
The Food Bank of Eastern Michigan's mission is to be the Food Source for people in need. Partnering with organizations to feed the hungry, we advocate and build a community solution to a community problem. By leveraging an abundance of…
The food bank of northeast arkansas provides hunger relief to people in need in twelve counties in northeast arkansas by raising awareness, securing resources, and distributing food through a network of non-profit agencies and programs.
The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…
The WTFB exists to collect, purchase, and distribute food to feed the hungry in 19 counties in West Texas in partnership with volunteers and community organizations and to educate these partners and the public at large about the real face…
To procure and distribute nutritional food to qualified agencies that feed the hungry of West Central Texas.
To lead a unified effort for a hunger-free texas.
To eliminate hunger in the heartland by ensuring consistent access to healthy foods through community partnerships.
To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.
The mission of the regional food bank of oklahoma is to lead a network that provides nutritious food and pathways to self-sufficiency for people facing hunger. our vision is an oklahoma where no one goes hungry.
The South Plains Food Bank, Inc. is a humanitarian resource responsible for securing, growing, processing, and distributing food to charitable organizations and persons in need. South Plains Food Bank, Inc. also strives to provide…
The organization operates a food bank which provides food for at risk households.
To provide food to various charitable organizations and needy individuals in northwest indiana.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montgomery County Food Bank Inc and the most unlike its peers is Raising a Hand for Rett. 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 35 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
179 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 179 of the 339 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 Montgomery County Childrens Advocacy Center Inc ↗
- Who funds THE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ARBOR SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds Conservative Partnership Institute ↗
- Who funds FIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds WOODLANDS RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY COUNTY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY COUNTY YOUTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds YOUTH-REACH HOUSTON INC ↗
- Who funds Assistance League of Montgomery County ↗
- Who funds CASA Child Advocates of Montgomery County Inc ↗
- Who funds Crisis Assistance Center Inc dba Community Assistance Center ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST NC INC ↗
- Who funds Reflective Life Ministries ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina Inc ↗
- Who funds ANGEL REACH ↗
- Who funds FEED MORE INC ↗
- Who funds FOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds THE BLEXIT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY ↗
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: Family Promise Inc · Feeding America · Montgomery County Community Foundation · The Kroger Co Zero Hunger Zero Waste Foundation · The Kroger Co Foundation · Marni & Morris Propp II Family Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Houston · Apricity Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Houston Food Bank · The Westfield Insurance Foundation · Northern Illinois Food Bank
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 Woodforest Charitable Foundation 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.
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
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.
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