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My Connect Community

My Connect Community (Texas) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,576,144 to it, the largest being HOUSTON ENDOWMENT INC ($1,693,500). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$4.7M
Funders on record
53
Grants received
$7.6M
Net assets
$5.2M
29/53 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 80%
01What it does

What My Connect Community does

Mission

My Connect Community ensures that "Every child and adult in Sharpstown/Gulfton will lead a healthy, prosperous life in a safe and vibrant neighborhood where residents choose to live, learn, work, worship, and play."

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Impacting at-risk students - We serve at-risk youth in the Gulfton/Sharpstown area by integrating social and emotional learning (SEL) and behavioral health in schools to enhance the well-being of vulnerable adolescents. Our work focuses on preventing and early intervention of behavioral and mental health disorders through school-wide SEL programs, behavioral health supports, and collaboration. Through grants, we transform classrooms and schools into supportive communities where young people can be confident, compassionate, and empowered to succeed in school and life.

    $650,789 spent$68,016 earned by the program
    47% of program spending
  2. Job Creation - Live and Work in the Gulfton/Sharpstown area. In 2020, Connect launched a program mobilizing the talents of local seamstresses and tailors to make masks to sell to the public during the COVID-19 pandemic. Allowing Gulfton area residents to earn extra income while helping protect all of Houston. Connect now runs a 9-month training program for industrial sewing with ESL, digital literacy, financial literacy, and entrepreneurship. In addition, Connect has HTX Sewn Goods, which is a white-label production arm of Connect, providing prototyping and labor for designers/inventors seeking to have their products fabricated in Houston.

    $240,304 spent$111,975 earned by the program
    17% of program spending
  3. Communities of Care - Through grants, we make efforts to transform the environments where people live, learn, work, play, and pray, bringing a population health approach to support community resilience, mental health, and well-being with a focus on children and youth of color and their families.

    $235,323 spentof which $44,026 as grants
    17% of program spending
  4. Community Health & Well-being: We serve our neighborhood by bringing together the residents, local leaders, and vital components necessary for a holistic, healthy community that includes health, after-school, and recreation program services.

    $182,137 spent
    13% of program spending
  5. Affordable Housing - We strive to create affordable housing within the Gulton/Sharpstown neighborhood so families can remain in the area and new families can migrate to the area.

    $74,695 spentof which $626 as grants
    5% of program spending

The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,383,248.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($912k) Expenses 100 ($580k) Net assets 100 ($394k)2018 Revenue 120 ($1.1M) Expenses 120 ($698k) Net assets 227 ($893k)2019 Revenue 183 ($1.7M) Expenses 131 ($763k) Net assets 456 ($1.8M)2020 Revenue 134 ($1.2M) Expenses 174 ($1.0M) Net assets 510 ($2.0M)2021 Revenue 92 ($840k) Expenses 173 ($1.0M) Net assets 468 ($1.8M)2022 Revenue 149 ($1.4M) Expenses 174 ($1.0M) Net assets 556 ($2.2M)2023 Revenue 203 ($1.9M) Expenses 260 ($1.5M) Net assets 644 ($2.5M)2024 Revenue 511 ($4.7M) Expenses 347 ($2.0M) Net assets 1315 ($5.2M)
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Revenue (511)Expenses (347)Net assets (1315)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 2022 to 2023, from $2.6M to $15M (+466%).

$403k
$897k
$1.8M
$2.1M
$2.2M
$2.6M
$15M
$21M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2019 48% · 2021 9% · 2022 2% · 2023 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

91% of My Connect Community’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,814 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$331k
’17
$395k
’18
$902k
’19
$212k
’20
−$165k
’21
$347k
’22
$347k
’23
$2.6M
’24
28
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.

Chief executive

Anne Whitlock

Executive Director

Board chair

Dr Armando Orduna

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed108131413211417
Joined·+3+6+1+1+14+6+6
No longer listed·51026133
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $115k → $1.3M.

6 of 53 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 My Connect Community’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 53 funders by total. 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

My Connect Community has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

28% 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 My Connect Community.

22%
largest funder
50%
top three
~10
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 16% · 2019 19% · 2020 38% · 2021 15% · 2022 26% · 2023 30% — 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

43% of My Connect Community's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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 FY2023, 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

57% of My Connect Community's grant income comes from Texas funders.

IL
WI
NY
OH
NJ
CA
NC
DC
OK
GA
TX
FL

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

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’23
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $681k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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

My Connect Community runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,274 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin57% · top quartile
Months of reserve27.5mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)26% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,274 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like My Connect Community

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Texas

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

69% of spending goes to programs.

Program 69%Management 16%Fundraising 16%

Governance

16
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

64%

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

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 4 related entities

  • MCC Highstar GL Family LLC · disregarded
  • Connect South GP LLC · partnership
  • Connect South Development LLC · partnership
  • MCC Highstar Family MP LLC · corp_trust

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Questions and answers

Who funds My Connect Community?
My Connect Community (Texas) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,576,144 to it, the largest being HOUSTON ENDOWMENT INC ($1,693,500). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does My Connect Community have?
IRS filings report 53 organizations giving $7,576,144 in grants to My Connect Community, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of My Connect Community?
HOUSTON ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,693,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like My Connect Community 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 53 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing