Texas · Nonprofit
Houston Fire Fighters Burned Childrens Fund
Houston Fire Fighters Burned Childrens Fund (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,558 to it, the largest being RALPH & GENEVIEVE HORWEEN FOUNDATION ($12,400). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Kbr Charitable Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio match
- Margaret Anne Kostial Foundationshared funders
- Florida Firefighters Charities Trustportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2021: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $7k → $61.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 Houston Fire Fighters Burned Childrens Fund’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
Houston Fire Fighters Burned Childrens Fund leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 51% · 2021 79% — 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.
Where its funders are
99% of Houston Fire Fighters Burned Childrens Fund's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $62 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Kbr Charitable Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio matchTX · backs 2 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Margaret Anne Kostial Foundationshared fundersTX · backs 2 organizations that share your funders
- Florida Firefighters Charities Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wyatt Ranches Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Loh Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Silverbow Resources Charitable Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lonnie & Jay Lischka Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- First Community Cares Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Valor Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Kleimann Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Black Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sky High for Kids Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Houston Fire Fighters Burned Childrens Fund
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Houston Fire Fighters Burned Childrens Fund: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Houston Fire Fighters Burned Childrens Fund?
- Houston Fire Fighters Burned Childrens Fund (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,558 to it, the largest being RALPH & GENEVIEVE HORWEEN FOUNDATION ($12,400). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Houston Fire Fighters Burned Childrens Fund have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $12,558 in grants to Houston Fire Fighters Burned Childrens Fund, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Houston Fire Fighters Burned Childrens Fund?
- RALPH & GENEVIEVE HORWEEN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $12,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Houston Fire Fighters Burned Childrens Fund 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2017 (financials across 2017–2017), and the filings of 3funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing