· Private foundation
To the Least of These Inc
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 $10k8 grants · $7k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE FORGE FOR FAMILIES | $15,000 |
| YOUTH REACH HOUSTON | $2,500 |
| THE GATHERING | $1,200 |
| YOUTH REACH | $1,000 |
| YOUTH REACH COSTA RICA | $600 |
| SHARPEN RECOVERY | $500 |
| EYES ON ME | $500 |
| CROSSWALK CENTER | $500 |
| MAIN STREET MINISTRIY | $500 |
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 (FY22–23, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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 +91% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 4 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- TFTHE FORGE FOR FAMILIES4× · 2017–2024 · $25k · revenue +64%
- YHYOUTH-REACH HOUSTON INC2× · 2017–2024 · $4k · revenue +104%
- CCCROSSWALK CENTER4× · 2021–2024 · $3k · revenue +91%
Funded once
- LOLifeHouse of Houston Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +232%
- MTMISSION TO N AMERICAone grant, 2017 · $5k
- YLYOUNG LIFEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +59%
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.
Provides housing and spiritual development for Christians reintegrating into society upon exiting the criminal justice system.
We aim to assist hurting women that demonstrate the desire for a life change with a helping hand up, not a hand out, through a biblically-based, Christ-centered, mentoring and discipleship program. In order to facilitate life-long change,…
Unbound North Texas exists to support survivors and resource the community to fight human trafficking through Survivor Advocacy, a 24/7 Drop-In Center, and Prevention and Awareness.
Church planting and leadership training.
Christian coaching, counseling, assessment and consulting services to the communities of Tarrant County, Texas.
The church exists to glorify God and make disciples of Jesus Christ
Fireproof Ministries exists to bring people to the Lord as well as train and develop people to meet the unmet needs of the world through culturally relevant programs and ideas.
The organization's purpose is to provide resources for men taking the next steps from recovery to a sustainable lifestyle. Our goal is to create a path to success for men struggling with a broken life pattern by providing a Christ-centered…
Houston Legal Aid Center protects and advances the rights of the poor through the poor through the provision of pro bono or reduced cost legal services while also addressing the underlying spiritual and relational issues affecting…
Our mission is to affirm life through evangelism, education, counseling and practical assistance.
Provide rehabilitation services and guidance to follow Christian principles to restore teens and young adults sufferning from addictions and trauma and ultimately placing them back into society as positive contributors
Faith based organization church
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life and the most unlike its peers is The Get Together Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 34 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
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 THE FORGE FOR FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds LifeHouse of Houston Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds YOUTH-REACH HOUSTON INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSWALK CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE WORKFAITH CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds Childproof America ↗
- Who funds THE GATHERING ↗
- Who funds THE GET TOGETHER INC ↗
- Who funds Mission Pre-Born Inc ↗
- Who funds New Hope Housing Inc ↗
- Who funds Eyes On Me Inc ↗
- Who funds Sharpen Recovery ↗
- Who funds Main Street Ministries Houston ↗
- Who funds TRUTH BE TOLD ↗
- Who funds RESTORING JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Stoller Foundation · Baxter Trust Co Private Foundation Services · Hildebrand Foundation · Marek Family Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · The William Stamps Farish Fund · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Elkins Foundation
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 To the Least of These 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.
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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