· Public charity
Young Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area
It is the mission of the YMCA of Greater Houston to put Judeo-Christian principles into practice through programs that build a healthy spirit, mind and body for all.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 2 grants below total $26,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $5,632,575 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $5,606,075 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The CYNTHIA W MITCHELL Pavilion | $16,500 |
| PARKS AT BEARING HOMEOWNERS ASSOC | $10,000 |
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, $4.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 98% 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.
5 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- YMYoung Mens Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area Endowment Foun dation5× · 2017–2023 · $3.7M · revenue +63% · 69% of their budget
- YBYMCA BLUE RIDGE ASSEMBLY INC2× · 2020–2024 · $275k · revenue +64%
National Council of YMCAs of the USA3× · 2021–2024 · $85k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- BABoys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Incone grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue +20%
- COCITY OF HOUSTONone grant, 2018 · $76k
- PFPartnership For The Advancement And Immersion Of Refugeesgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $67k · revenue +64%
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.
To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.
Restoring hope, building futures, and strengthening our communities through programs with youth, young adults and families. we support the behavioral health of at-risk and in-crisis youth across the greater south king county area. we take…
We are a grassroots driven and governed organization that advocates and educates on behalf of the YMCAs and its mission, upholding the four core YMCA values of caring, honestly, respect, and responsibility. The Alliance also fosters…
The Chamber's mission is to provide leadership that facilitates the creation of a prosperous regional economy and results in effective advocacy for its members.
The mission of the ymca is to put christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind, and body for all.
YWCA Metropolitan Phoenix is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all.
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…
Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.
The McGaw YMCA cultivates the whole person, strengthens community, and provides equitable access to transformational experiences that uplift the mind, body, and spirit. McGaw YMCA will be a place of belonging for all people at every stage…
The alliance is organized as a business league to promote safe, healthful and enjoyable usage of pools, hot tubs and recreational water facilities and to promote the pool and spa industry generally.
To put christian values into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind, and body for all.
One of the region's largest and most established impact-driven organizations, the YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago is committed to strengthening community by connecting all people to their purpose, potential, and each other. Central to the Y's…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Council of YMCAs of the Usa and the most unlike its peers is National Congress of Black Women Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 14 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 Young Mens Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area Endowment Foun dation ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Inc ↗
- Who funds YMCA BLUE RIDGE ASSEMBLY INC ↗
- Who funds National Council of YMCAs of the USA ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH ↗
- Who funds Partnership For The Advancement And Immersion Of Refugees ↗
- Who funds BakerRipley ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS AT THE WOODLANDS ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON HISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds THE PARK AT GLEN ARBOR HOMEOWNERS ↗
- Who funds National Congress of Black Women Inc ↗
- Who funds The Pacifica Foundation ↗
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 · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Young Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area 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.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% 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.