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First Community Cares Foundation

Houston, TX · EIN 87-2144290. Reported 26 grants totalling $191,550 to 26 organizations across tax years 2023. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$4,000median grant
$191,550granted, 2023
26organizations funded
$55,686assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. First Community Cares Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $4,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,500 and $10,500; the smallest was $500 and the largest $60,250. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
2 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
13 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
4 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
6 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
1 grant

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Spring Branch Education FoundationHouston, TX$60,250112023
Cy-HopeCypress, TX$15,000112023
Child AdvocatesHouston, TX$14,625112023
Mesa-Outreach IncHouston, TX$12,500112023
YMCA - Langham CreekHouston, TX$12,500112023
Tomagwa Healthcare MinistriesTomball, TX$12,000112023
Lone Star College FoundationThe Woodlands, TX$10,500112023
Alief Isd Education FoundationAlief, TX$9,500112023
Cy-Fair Education FoundationCypress, TX$5,525112023
Rotary Club of HoustonHouston, TX$5,000112023
University of Houston Alumni AssociationHouston, TX$5,000112023
Alief IsdHouston, TX$4,000112023
Helping a HeroHouston, TX$4,000112023
Katy Isd Education FoundationKaty, TX$4,000112023
Bo's PlaceHouston, TX$2,500112023
Child BuildersHouston, TX$2,000112023
Tourette AssociationRichmond, TX$2,000112023
Cy-Fair Chamber of CommerceHouston, TX$1,750112023
Tomball Lions Club CharitiesTomball, TX$1,700112023
Caddies for KidsDallas, TX$1,500112023
Lamar Educational Awards FoundationRosenberg, TX$1,250112023
Tomball Isd Education FoundationTomball, TX$1,250112023
Be a Resource for Cps Kids (bear)Houston, TX$1,200112023
The 189 ClubHouston, TX$1,000112023
Cy-Woods Athletic Booster ClubCypress, TX$500112023
The Friends of Spring Branch Memorial LibraryHouston, TX$500112023
Plus 7 grants to individuals totalling $7,000 -- scholarships, hardship and emergency assistance. We deliberately do not publish the names of people who received them, even though the filings do.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 14 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Education
6 grants
Community Improvement
2 grants
Recreation & Sports
1 grant
Crime & Legal
1 grant
Mental Health
1 grant
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 grant
Youth Development
1 grant
Health Care
1 grant

Where its money goes

Houston, TX
$127K
Cypress, TX
$21K
Tomball, TX
$15K
The Woodlands, TX
$10K
Alief, TX
$10K
Katy, TX
$4K
Richmond, TX
$2K
Dallas, TX
$2K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund8 shared recipientsGreater Houston Community Foundation7 shared recipientsThe Houston Food Bank6 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc6 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust4 shared recipientsAmerican Endowment Foundation4 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $4,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Texas.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from First Community Cares Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 3 returns (tax years 2021-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 15260 Fm 529, Houston, TX, 77095. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 87-2144290 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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