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· Public charity
WASTE NOT WANT NOT
Alleviate hunger and reduce waste by rescuing and redistributing food
$2.5M
Granted FY2024
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01What you fund
01beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2022
foster
2023
iglesia cristianakids mealsfree healthy
2024
kids mealsfree healthyiglesia cristiana
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
02FY2024
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
Grant detail is referenced in an attached schedule not included in the e-file. Total reported in the filing: $2,455,486.
$0
Median grant
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States reached
$126k
Total assets
02The need
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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.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your 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.
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Htx Hope Haven
We are moving people from crisis to lifelong self-sufficiency. We help the homeless and marginalized people in our community navigate through the services available to become self-supporting contributing members of our community.
Human Services
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Texas Reach Out Inc
Provides housing and spiritual development for Christians reintegrating into society upon exiting the criminal justice system.
Health
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Family Promise of Bryan-College Station
To assist homeless families in securing stable housing
Housing & Shelter
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Main Street Ministries Houston
To provide programs and support to prevent homelessness.
Human Services
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Open Door Mission
Open Door operates a recovery care facility for addicted, destitute, homeless, and disabled men.
Human Services
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Central Texas Children's Home
To provide family services and to provide residential child care for dependent children where there is a need to assist children and families disrupted by problems
Human Services
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Adult and Teen Challenge of Texas
Our mission is to provide adults and families with an effective and comprehensive faith based solution to life-controlling drug and alcohol problems in order for them to become productive members of society. By applying biblical…
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Bastrop Hope House
Addiction Support to individuals Promote manage and foster rehab restoration low income housing and employment training
Human Services
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Target Hunger Inc
Ensure a Houston where no one goes hungry and all can provide food for themselves and families.
Human Services
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Family Promise of Collin County
Family promise is part of a national organization that provides food, shelter, and support services during resettlement of homeless families in church facilities and temporary housing. we also provide cars for our guests to drive to work…
Human Services
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Sunny Glen Children's Home Inc
Sunny Glen Childrens Home, Inc. cares for children in need. Our care will be competent, compassionate and professional. We will help every child achieve their greatest potential-physically, emotionally, spiritually and
Human Services
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Entrusted Houston
Entrusted Houston meets the needs of the foster and adopt community to promote restoration for kids, families, and front line workers in Jesus name.
Human Services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of Montgomery County and the most unlike its peers is Adult & Teen Challenge of Western. 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 18 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 31% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
4%
2/46
the rest of the field
13%
375/2,824
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.
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.
Montgomery County Food BankTX50.6× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Montgomery County Food Bank · Montgomery County Community Foundation · United Way of Greater Houston · Junior League of the Woodlands Inc · The Woodforest Charitable Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Houston Food Bank · The Chicago Community Trust · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America
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.
04Through Plinth
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How do I get to Waste Not Want Not?
Find your warmest path to Waste Not Want Not through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines