The Junior League of Houston Inc
Houston, TX · EIN 74-1185659. Reported 119 grants totalling $4,523,375 to 70 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For The Junior League of Houston Inc, the IRS classifies it under community improvement rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE S810) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 70 distinct organizations, with 44% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
- How much its list changes. 50% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $15,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $32,200; the smallest was $5,200 and the largest $2,005,990. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
3 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $16,974 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Depelchin Childrens Center | Houston, TX | $2,005,990 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Texas Childrens Hospital | Houston, TX | $245,352 | 7 | 4 | 2023 |
| Ronald Mcdonald House Charities Greater Houston Inc | Houston, TX | $231,451 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Kids Meals Inc | Houston, TX | $221,032 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Bear Be a Resource for Cps Kids | Houston, TX | $205,683 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Childrens Museum Inc | Houston, TX | $156,317 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| CASA De Esperanza De Los Ninos Incorporated | Houston, TX | $150,078 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Baylor College of Medicine | Houston, TX | $147,894 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| Star of Hope Mission | Houston, TX | $124,071 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Child Advocates Incorporated | Houston, TX | $76,311 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Houston Area Womens Center Inc | Houston, TX | $73,945 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| The Westview School Inc | Houston, TX | $67,118 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Dress for Success Houston | Houston, TX | $50,408 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| AIDS Foundation Houston Inc | Houston, TX | $38,692 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Furniture Bank | Houston, TX | $26,200 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Rose | Houston, TX | $23,800 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Chinquapin Preparatory School | Highlands, TX | $22,928 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Neighbors in Action Inc | Houston, TX | $22,083 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Camp Janus | Pearland, TX | $22,007 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Chance for Hope Foundation | Pearland, TX | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Child Builders | Houston, TX | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Childrens Assessment Center Foundation | Houston, TX | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Educational Programs Inspiring Communities Inc | Houston, TX | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Gift of Adoption Fund Inc | Northbrook, IL | $18,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Christus Foundation for Healthcare | Houston, TX | $16,250 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| W Oscar Neuhaus Memorial Foundation | Bellaire, TX | $16,250 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Childrens Transplant Initiative | Spring, TX | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Clothed By Faith Inc | Katy, TX | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Fort Bend Family Promise | Missouri City, TX | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Foundation for Autism Careeducation and Services | Cypress, TX | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Have Shears Will Travel | Houston, TX | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Houston Botanic Garden | Houston, TX | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Lifehouse of Houston Inc | Houston, TX | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Prelude Music Foundation | Houston, TX | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Sire Inc | Houston, TX | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Spring Branch Community Health Center | Katy, TX | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Woods Project Inc | Houston, TX | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Community of Resources Houston | Houston, TX | $14,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Bos Place | Houston, TX | $12,633 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Camp for All Foundation | Houston, TX | $10,192 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Arts Connect Houston | Houston, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Association for the Advancement of Mexican Americans | Houston, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| C G Jung Educational Center of Houston Texas | Houston, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Counseling Connections for Change Inc | Pearland, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Family to Family Network | Houston, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Foster Care Advocacy Center | Spring, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Genaustin | Austin, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Gigis Playhouse Inc | Houston, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Girls Incorporated of Greater Houston | Houston, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Houston Ballet Foundation | Houston, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Houston Center for Contemporary Craft | Houston, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Houston Food Bank | Houston, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Main Street Ministries Houston | Houston, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Making It Better | Houston, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Memorial Assistance Ministries Inc | Houston, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Re Mind | Houston, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| San Francisco Nativity Academy | Houston, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Sleep in Heavenly Peace Inc | Pocatello, ID | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Sojourn Landing | Houston, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| St Bernard Project Inc | New Orleans, LA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Nature Discovery Center Inc | Bellaire, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| The Womens Resource of Greater Houston | Houston, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Wellsprings Village Inc | Houston, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Yes Prep Public Schools Inc | Houston, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Young Audiences Inc of Houston | Houston, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Center for Pursuit | Houston, TX | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| St Agnes Academy | Houston, TX | $6,006 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Gigis Playhouse Inc | Stafford, TX | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Memorial Hermann Foundation | Houston, TX | $5,484 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Center for the Missing | Houston, TX | $5,200 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
19 of 70 (27%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 56 of 70 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 31 | $608,890 | $15,000 |
| 2021 | 27 | $627,220 | $16,010 |
| 2022 | 29 | $2,638,227 | $16,250 |
| 2023 | 32 | $649,038 | $14,467 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
99% of its giving went to organizations in Texas. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $15,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Texas.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from The Junior League of Houston Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 31 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 1811 Briar Oaks Lane, Houston, TX, 77027.
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