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Free Indeed Community Works CDC

Free Indeed Community Works CDC (Texas) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,720,471 to it, the largest being GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,840,365). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2022
$135k
Funders on record
14
Grants received
$2.7M
Net assets
$-7872
2/14 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Free Indeed Community Works CDC does

Mission

Develop and implement programs for at risk persons with economic, social or physical barriers in the NE Houston community in particular and in greater houston as needed. Areas of emphasis:counseling job placement supportive services education

As stated on its FY2022 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Educational Service & Assist Instructional

    $2,639 spent
    58% of program spending
  2. Individual Assistance

    $1,330 spent
    29% of program spending
  3. Emergency Financial Assistance Rent/Mortgage

    $600 spent
    13% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,569.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($1.1M) Expenses 100 ($1.1M) Net assets 100 ($72k)2019 Revenue 29 ($326k) Expenses 32 ($358k) Net assets 56 ($40k)2020 Revenue 90 ($1.0M) Expenses 92 ($1.0M) Net assets 60 ($43k)2021 Revenue 31 ($349k) Expenses 28 ($317k) Net assets 105 ($76k)2022 Revenue 12 ($135k) Expenses 19 ($214k) Net assets -11 ($-7872)
20182019202020212022
Revenue (12)Expenses (19)Net assets (-11)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $43k to $585k (+1248%).

$210k
$149k
$43k
$585k
$560k
20182019202020212022
Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 98% · 2019 99% · 2020 99%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

98% of Free Indeed Community Works CDC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,870 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$9k
’18
−$32k
’19
−$13k
’20
$33k
’21
−$79k
’22
0.0
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Board chair

Che McFerrin

Chairman

As listed on its FY2022 Form 990.

20182019202020212022
Listed79978
Joined·+8+0+1+5
No longer listed·6034
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2022: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $1.2M → $58k.

3 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of Free Indeed Community Works CDC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

Free Indeed Community Works CDC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

95% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Free Indeed Community Works CDC.

68%
largest funder
89%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 99% · 2019 86% · 2020 84% · 2021 75% · 2022 66% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

25% of Free Indeed Community Works CDC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 14% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2022, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

71% of Free Indeed Community Works CDC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $800k that is directly attributable, 56% of it comes from Texas funders.

NE
DE
DC
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Free Indeed Community Works CDC's revenue fell 88% between 2018 and 2022.

Operating margin−59% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.0mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−41% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 19,864 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2022

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

2% of spending goes to programs.

Program 2%Management 98%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds Free Indeed Community Works CDC?
Free Indeed Community Works CDC (Texas) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,720,471 to it, the largest being GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,840,365). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Free Indeed Community Works CDC have?
IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $2,720,471 in grants to Free Indeed Community Works CDC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Free Indeed Community Works CDC?
GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,840,365 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Free Indeed Community Works CDC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2022 (financials across 2018–2022), and the filings of 14 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing