Making Your Mark

MAKING YOUR MARK 2022

Impact Report

to Our A Message Community

CHRIS WEEKLEY

Governing Board Chair, 2022-2024

STEPHEN D. MAISLIN President & CEO

DEAR COMMUNITY MEMBERS,

2022 was another year filled with creating meaningful and positive change with our donors and for our community. Through our partnerships, we have maximized the positive impact of philanthropy throughout our community. By year-end, over $301 million in grants were distributed throughout the region and beyond. Due to the generosity and commitment of our donors, Greater Houston Community Foundation’s total grant distribution has been more than $2.2 billion over the past 27 years.

In the spring of 2022, we celebrated many milestones in person for the first time since March 2020. Our celebrations included a reception and luncheon to honor over ten years of Next Gen programming through the Center for Family Philanthropy. At the luncheon, we released a national case study funded by our donors, Next Gen Donor Learning: Lessons Learned from Houston and the Field. Later in the spring, we celebrated the 25 years that Greater Houston Community Foundation has provided scholarship funds with our donors. Over the last 25 years, we have helped our donors award over $27.4 million in scholarships.

Throughout the fall, we focused on providing opportunities for donors to attend programs that help to inspire and create meaningful change. We hosted several learning series programs for our Next Gen Alumni Network, including programs that discussed developing giving plans, serving on nonprofit boards, and strategies for giving with family. In a first-of-its-kind partnership, Understanding Houston cohosted an event with Fort Bend County Health and Human Services (HHS) where we shared key trends, revealed the five priority areas arising from a recent Community Health Assessment, and provided residents the opportunity to provide direct input to inform a Fort Bend County HHS strategic

plan to improve outcomes. In addition, through Understanding Houston, we briefed and convened nearly 600 philanthropic, nonprofit, and community leaders on critical community issues, including obstacles in accessing higher education, youth mental health, and ending homelessness, among others.

Looking ahead, Greater Houston Community Foundation is thrilled to launch a new initiative, the Community Impact Fund. The Community Impact Fund will help continue to sharpen our efforts to be a collective force for philanthropic good, support the Foundation’s community leadership initiatives, and fuel new, strategic investments focused on building a more vibrant Houston region for all. We are committed to continuing to show up for the Houston region, growing and evolving with Houston.

We all have different intrinsic motivators for dedicating our time, talent, and treasures to our community. Regardless of what motivates you to help our community make progress, we are grateful to each of you for making your mark in the community. On behalf of Greater Houston Community Foundation, thank you for another year of making a difference. Together, we are making a positive mark on our community.

Sincerely,

CHRIS WEEKLEY Governing Board Chair, 2022-2024

STEPHEN D. MAISLIN President & CEO

By the Numbers

CELEBRATING HOUSTON-BASED GRANT RECIPIENTS, INCLUDING:

$1,500,000+

Hope Media Group

Methodist Hospital Foundation

Rupani Foundation

The Kinkaid School, Inc.

United Way of Greater Houston

$1,000,000 – $1,499,999

Baylor College of Medicine

Covenant House Texas

Etoile Academy, Inc.

First Baptist Church of Houston

Houston Classical Inc.

Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute for Texas

Star of Hope Mission

The Beta Foundation

The Jed Foundation

University of Houston

William Marsh Rice University

Beatrice Mayes Institute dba Wonderland Educational Estate Association

$500,000 – $999,999

Hermann Park Conservancy

Houston Center for Contemporary Craft

Houston Food Bank

Houston Grand Opera Association

Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo, Inc.

Houston Museum of Natural Science

Houston Zoo, Inc.

Houston’s Amazing Place, Inc.

Memorial Assistance Ministries

Memorial Park Conservancy, Inc.

Menil Foundation, Inc.

Nora’s Gift Foundation

St. Martin’s Episcopal Church

Texas Children’s Hospital

The Houston Parks Board

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

*Grantees received grants from at least three different donors, a collaborative fund at Greater Houston Community Foundation, or express permission was received by donor to include.

GRANTS BY PROGRAM AREA

(1/1/2022 – 12/31/2022)

$301,533,609

TOTAL $301,533,609

ASSETS, GIFTS, AND GRANTS

2022 FINANCIAL PROJECTIONS AS OF JANUARY 15, 2023

2022 Highlights

OVER $301 MILLION in grants distributed in 2022 to over 5,900 UNIQUE GRANTEES, making us ONE OF THE LARGEST GRANTMAKERS in Greater Houston

CELEBRATED 10+ YEARS of Next Gen Donor Learning with a NATIONAL CASE STUDY

Launch of HOUSTON YOUTH PHILANTHROPISTS, a youth giving program for high schoolers

Awarded OVER $3.9 MILLION IN SCHOLARSHIPS to over 750 recipients

LAUNCH OF IMPACT IN ACTION, a new magazine

OVER 57,000 UNIQUE WEBSITE USERS visited www.understandinghouston.org

CHAIR

CHRIS WEEKLEY President

David Weekley Homes

WILLIAM H. CAUDILL

Outside General Counsel

Norton Rose Fulbright

GREGORY L. EBEL

President and CEO

Enbridge Inc.

KATE FOWLER

NEXT GEN REPRESENTATIVE

Executive Director

Jerry C. Dearing Family Foundation

CULLEN GEISELMAN, PhD

Chair of the Board

Cullen Trust for Health Care

LACEY FLUOR GOOSSEN

Executive Vice President

Texas Crude Energy, LLC

LAURA R. JARAMILLO

Executive Director

LISC Houston

MANDY KAO

Co-Owner, Titan Management

Community Leader

NANCY MCGREGOR

Retired Attorney

Community Leader

GOVERNING BOARD 2022

IMMEDIATE PAST CHAIR

RON HULME

Chief Executive Officer

Bluescape Energy Partners

KIM A. RUTH

Managing Director

Apex Partners, LLC

CAREN SWEETLAND Attorney Community Leader

TYM TOMBAR

Managing Director

Arcadius Capital Partners

CELESTINE VETTICAL

Managing Partner & Co-Founder

Celestial Holdings LP

RANDA WEINER

Community Leader

RICHARD WILKENS

NEXT GEN REPRESENTATIVE

Founder and Manager

Wilkens Group, PLLC

ENOCH WOODHOUSE

Chief Executive Officer

Smith Family Circle

THOMAS M. WRIGHT

Partner – Private Client Services

RSM US LLP

Always Do Good

The 2022 commencement address for Liberty High School seniors mirrors the iconic moment on The Oprah Winfrey Show when Oprah did a new car giveaway for the entire audience. However, instead of getting cars, these students received a gift with mileage that will outlast any vehicle. At the end of Chau Nguyen’s Class of 2022 commencement speech, she announced that an anonymous donor pledged to cover college tuition and textbooks for Liberty High School’s most recent graduates as they pursue their higher education goals. Greater Houston Community Foundation is pleased to help facilitate this generous and transformative scholarship for these students, and there is much more to this impactful story.

We sat down with this donor, who will remain anonymous to keep the focus on the greater impact, to learn more about their philanthropic approach. It all started with the question, “what could we do to really impact these kids?” Knowing that Liberty High School is one of the only schools in Texas that offers high school programming for newly arrived immigrant students – many of whom balance fulltime work and family responsibilities – this donor wanted to do something that could transform their post-high school trajectories and open educational opportunities they otherwise would not have had. Liberty High School serves students who face daily obstacles in their lives, often balancing full-time work while simultaneously adapting to a new country, city, and school system. Often these students have just reconnected with family they have been separated from or are working to send money back to the family that still lives in their home country. This donor’s primary focus is to remove as many barriers as possible for these students as they pursue career paths and educations that will help them move ahead and create fulfilling futures for themselves and their families in our country.

“Our students typically do not know to what extent they can feasibly continue taking courses after high school. With many of our students being new to the country and not yet having a social security number, they do not qualify for typical financial aid programs like FASFA. Financial support like this [Always Do Good Scholarship] really makes a difference in how our students see a pathway beyond high school. In a typical year, about 80% of our graduating students apply to college, and only about 30% enroll. This year, because of this donation, about 60% of the class of 2022 will enroll in college.”

– MONICO RIVAS, Principal at Liberty High School

PHOTO PROVIDED BY HOUSTON ISD.

2022 ALWAYS DO GOOD FUND IMPACT

IMPACT

The Always Do Good Scholarship awarded over $35,000 to 15 students from Liberty High School and two students from Eight Million Stories in 2022.

AWARD AMOUNTS

The awards cover full tuition, fees, and books or other required equipment.

FREQUENCY

The fund will cover all fees for the first full academic year as long as the student maintains a 2.0. There is a course load requirement of six credit hours, which can include ESL intensive English classes if needed.

MORE TO COME

Additional graduates who were not enrolled in the fall are also eligible to apply for funding for spring 2023.

While embarking on the journey to ignite positive change for the Liberty High students and launching the Always Do Good Scholarship Fund, our donor met another community leader, Marvin Pierre, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Eight Million Stories. Eight Million Stories is a local nonprofit that works to transform the lives of disconnected and vulnerable youth (12-21 years old) through education, skills training, employment, and authentic relationships. The work they do is focused on reducing Houston’s school-to-prison pipeline. Eight Million Stories works with youth who have been pushed out of the school system through zero-tolerance policies and in-school policing. These students lack support, and Eight Million Stories is there to help them re-enter society. For this group of students, similar to those at Liberty, education after high school or a GED is often totally inaccessible. After speaking with Pierre and getting to know more about the aspirations of the students in the program, it became clear that those students would also benefit from being included in the newly launched Always Do Good Scholarship Fund.

“The Always Do Good Scholarship opportunity has reaffirmed for our students that despite experiencing challenging life circumstances, including living in poverty, they can remain optimistic about their futures and still achieve their goals in life. The scholarship has helped shift the mindsets of our students from ‘not for me’ to ‘why not me?’ We are showing how the potential of our most vulnerable young adults can be fulfilled if given a chance.”

– MARVIN PIERRE Executive Director at Eight Million Stories

This brings us to today, where in partnership with the generosity of this donor, Greater Houston Community Foundation manages the Always Do Good Scholarship. The name is straightforward, a joyful reminder to always pay it forward. A reminder that if we listen to understand the needs and aspirations of those around us, we all can find ways to dedicate our time, talents, and treasures to move the needle for the community we love.

IMPACT SPOTLIGHT

Celebrating the Ultimate Boy Mom

After her seventh son was born, Patti Yetter, who always had wanted a daughter, resigned herself to being the ultimate boy mom. She and her husband raised their sons in the North Houston area, where they attended Westfield and Klein High Schools. Patti grew up in El Paso, and she credits her Lebanese parents for shaping her parenting style to be fiercely loving, faith-filled, and protective – always looking out for her children ahead of herself.

While all mothers should be celebrated, in 2022, the Yetter boys wanted to do something extra for their mom. The first shift they made was to celebrate her on Lebanese Mother’s Day in March and American Mother’s Day in May. This was a notable shift in their family as she would not share this celebration with anyone else. It was a unique, memorable day just for her.

In addition, for Lebanese Mother’s Day 2022, Patti’s oldest son Chris wanted to expand on their new Mother’s Day tradition. Instead of relying on Venmo and Thomas, the brother closest to home, to buy flowers and a card for their mom, they wanted to honor Patti by donating to a Houston-based nonprofit. Chris participated in Greater Houston Community Foundation’s Next Gen Donor Institute. Using similar tools that he learned from that class, he and his brothers identified the “motivational values and interests” they had seen their mother prioritize through her prior charitable work and giving. They narrowed the focus areas to a Catholic organization, a charity that supports children, or the foster care system. Eventually, they pooled money to make a generous gift to Casa de Esperanza, a charity Chris had just learned about and visited through the Next Gen Donor Institute and Giving Circle.

Patti was deeply touched when she learned about the donation to Casa de Esperanza in her honor. Her sons knew her so well, but little did they know Casa de Esperanza was one of the many Catholic-sponsored charities she had supported for decades!

We asked Chris Yetter, “captain” of this effort, more about the motivation for this incredible gesture by him and his brothers for their mom. He shared that his parents have modeled charitable behavior since he was four or five years old without explicitly discussing philanthropy or donating. He shared how around

(TOP L-R) MARK, CHRIS, MICHAEL, (BOTTOM L-R) THOMAS, DANIEL, PATTI, ANDREW, AND JOSEPH YETTER.

Thanksgiving each year, his family would go to Sam’s Club and load up large carts with basic needs like blankets, canned goods, Ziploc bags, or water. Then, as a family, they would drop the items off at a Houston-based homeless shelter or food bank.

In addition to this Thanksgiving tradition, Chris shared how his parents have always dedicated a part of their income to the family’s Parish and other charities. This is something that would have been easy to delay or reduce as their family kept growing, but his parents held steadfast in this commitment to the larger community. When Chris got his first job, his Dad encouraged him to do the same, telling him, “Whatever number you set, it is a personal decision. It is your choice. But start now and stick to it.” Chris ran with the advice, and as his career advanced, even a small percentage grew to have a bigger impact.

Realizing that he now could have a larger impact, Chris wanted to develop his own philanthropic strategy. First, in partnership with Greater Houston Community Foundation, he developed the Pi-Squared Scholarship for graduating high school seniors in the Spring, Klein, and Houston school districts planning to pursue a “STEM” major. Recently, he also participated in the Next Gen Donor Institute to learn best practices for starting a philanthropic program for his company based in New York City.

Whether we love it or fight it, our upbringing shapes how we think about our impact on the community around us. The earlier that people are engaged in learning, volunteering, and giving back to the community, the more likely they are to have it ingrained into their everyday lives, just like the Yetter brothers have done.

ABOUT CASA DE ESPERANZA

Casa de Esperanza de los Ninos strives to break the cycle of child abuse and neglect for at-risk infants, children, and their families by providing comprehensive residential and family support programs that transform people and communities.

ANDREW, DANIEL, MARK, JOSEPH, MICHAEL, CHRIS, AND THOMAS YETTER.

Meet Avani Gupta Narang

Avani Gupta Narang is a native Houstonian passionate about social impact work. She currently works as Executive Director at the Indus Cares Foundation (the Foundation) and is the Managing Director of Marketing and Digital Communications at Indus Management Group. Indus Management Group was founded in 2002 by her father, Ajay Gupta, when he purchased his first investment property. Now, 20 years later, Indus Management Group has nearly 40 properties. They are transforming underperforming properties into successful, thriving communities.

Ajay Gupta is an immigrant to the United States and understands the challenges people can face when creating a new life in America. Because of his experience, in 2013, he established the Indus Cares Foundation to support advances in medical care, health and wellness education, and literacy for underserved children. The Foundation is affiliated with Indus Management Group and Indus Communities, and its work is centered on its 37 apartment communities, mainly located in the 77036 and 77081 zip codes of Houston.

“My

whole premise for starting the Foundation was that he saw how powerful education was for his own children after he moved to the United States. Our Foundation’s purpose is to help lift those in our communities who may not have access to resources and give them opportunities they may not have had otherwise. There is the added benefit that we have great, happy residents who share their experiences with friends and family, but honestly, the Foundation was designed to give them more of a chance. Hopefully, our programming will inspire our residents and employees also to pay it forward in their personal lives.”

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– AVANI GUPTA NARANG

RIBBON-CUTTING CEREMONY AT SOCIAL MOTION SKILLS TEC CENTER AT SHARPSTOWN GARDEN APARTMENTS (DECEMBER 2021).

In 2017, Narang joined the family business as Director of Corporate Strategy while enrolled in a Master of Business Administration program at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Coming from a consulting and finance background, Narang knew she needed guidance in this new industry as she helped to enhance the established strategy at Indus Cares Foundation. After doing her due diligence on the Houston philanthropic landscape, she engaged with Greater Houston Community Foundation to establish a Corporate Donor Advised Fund and eventually enrolled in the Next Gen Donor Institute. Narang has consulted with Understanding Houston to learn more about some of the issues the residents of Indus Management may face. More recently, she has overseen the creation of two scholarship funds in partnership with Greater Houston Community Foundation, the Indus Cares High School Scholarship and the Indus Cares College Scholarship.

Our partnership with Greater Houston Community Foundation has helped fine-tune the efforts we already had in place while establishing more structure and procedures. We feel so well

In her role as the Executive Director of Indus Cares Foundation, Narang oversees how they can be action-oriented by bringing services to their residents at no cost. Most Indus properties provide affordable apartments for an underserved and lower-income population throughout Houston. Narang and her team have arranged many services for their residents, including distributing food through organizations like the Houston Food Bank, Second Servings of Houston, and Meals on Wheels, dispensing over 6,000 COVID-19 vaccines in partnership with organizations like Hope Disaster Recovery, partnering with Texas Children’s to help residents with child immunizations, and hosting early childhood and ESL classes for adult residents.

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“It is amazing that at every step when we have wanted to explore a new opportunity, I have reached out to Greater Houston Community Foundation to help give us resources, answers, or direction.

taken care of.”

– AVANI GUPTA NARANG

Realizing that many of her residents struggle with finding adequate daycare options for their children five and younger, Narang’s efforts have focused on bringing enrichment options to the families within their communities. In 2021, she was introduced to the Collab-Lab, an initiative of Collaborative for Children, while participating in the Next Gen Giving Circle at Greater Houston Community Foundation. Collab-Lab is a mobile classroom that brings early childhood education directly to the community at no cost. It connects parents and their youngest children with experts, educators, resources, and proven programs to ensure that kids have the skills essential to learning when they begin kindergarten. Today, you can find the Collab-Lab visiting two Indus Management Group properties and many more in the near future. This partnership between Indus Cares Foundation and Collab-Lab was a perfect fit because Collab-Lab’s curriculum primarily addresses social-emotional development while bolstering positive child outcomes in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). Although Narang and her team are dedicated to exploring more options for their residents in the early childhood development space, this partnership is an impactful shift in the right direction.

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COLLAB-LAB

The Collab-Lab is a mobile classroom that brings critical, future-focused early childhood education directly to the community at no cost. Designed to be convenient for families, it connects parents and their youngest children with experts, educators, resources, and proven programs whose goal is to make sure that kids have the skills essential to learning from the moment they walk into kindergarten for the first time.

“Greater Houston Community Foundation has been an incredible supporter of my development in this space [philanthropy]. The Next Gen Donor Institute helped endow me with the skills to educate others on personal giving plans, donor advised funds, and many additional tools, but also provided me with a peer community where I can discuss and learn from the experience of others. I feel knowledgeable and purposeful about my philanthropy and feel equipped with a healthy lens to vet new organizations or opportunities to contribute. I think the Issue Area learning series is a wonderful avenue to bring donors together to discuss topics that are relevant to our personal or professional philanthropy. I am fortunate that I have these advisors [at Greater Houston Community Foundation] who are prepared to guide me when I am navigating a new area of interest or have a question about my giving plans.”

– AVANI GUPTA NARANG

Narang is action-oriented and is not afraid to seek guidance when she needs to understand more about a particular industry or issue. Narang’s drive has helped provide so many resources to the nearly 45,000 residents she serves, and she is an ideal example of how you can effect change while furthering your family’s legacy. Greater Houston Community Foundation is proud to partner with the Indus Cares Foundation and serves as a resource that inspires and creates meaningful change for our community.

ALKA GUPTA, AVANI NARANG, SAUMIL SHAH, RAJ ADNANI, PETE YUAN, MICHAEL HARGER, MANU GUPTA, CHRIS RIOS.

Houston Charter Seed Fund

We are pleased to recognize the impact the Houston Charter Seed Fund (the Fund) is making across the education landscape in Houston. This Fund was established at Greater Houston Community Foundation in June of 2021, with an advisory committee of education experts who oversee how the funds are allocated. The Fund engages in early-stage philanthropy, focusing on accelerating the impact of emerging charter school networks in Greater Houston. The Fund aims to reignite a community of philanthropic supporters, angel investors, champions, and board members to support the increase of equitable access to capital for promising charter school founders and leaders and help grow the next generation of exceptional charter schools.

The Brown Foundation is the founding donor of the Fund, with Houston Endowment, Inc. following as the second lead funding partner. The advisory committee leadership has extensive knowledge and experience with charter schools, both locally and nationally. The Fund is a community project intentionally called a “seed

2022 CHARTER SCHOOL GRANT RECIPIENTS

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BETA ACADEMY

BOB HOPE SCHOOL

ETOILE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL

HOUSTON CLASSICAL CHARTER SCHOOL

THRIVE CENTER FOR SUCCESS

fund” as its grantmaking philosophy is centered around burgeoning charter schools with longterm aspirations for growth, but who currently have only three or fewer campuses in operation in Houston.

Ann Ziker, Chair of the Fund, shares her perspective on why charter schools are so important, stating, “Charter schools were originally designed to serve the needs of students who fall through the cracks of traditional public schools. They are designed to be innovative. I am a believer and supporter of public schools, and charter schools are one component of our public school system. They are designed to augment the available schools as one size cannot fit all, and different children thrive in different environments.”

PHOTO PROVIDED BY BOB HOPE SCHOOL

FUND LEADERSHIP

The experienced and talented philanthropic and charter school Advisory Committee leaders have driven the Fund’s ambitious mission and rapid impact. Each committee member has proven and lasting experience running high-performing charter schools via management or governance, helping these efforts leverage local and national innovations and success methods.

ANN ZIKER, CHAIR

Executive Director

The Brown Foundation

Ziker served as Executive Vice President at Yes Prep Public Schools for seven years. She is on the board of Thrive with Autism, the first charter school in Texas to serve students with special needs.

CHRIS BARBIC Founder

Yes Prep Public Schools

Barbic was the founding Superintendent of the Achievement School District, leading Tennessee’s efforts to rapidly turn around the bottom 5% of schools in the state. Barbic is a current partner of The City Fund, a national organization that partners with local leaders to create innovative public school systems.

JOE GREENBERG

Founder and CEO

Alta Resources, LLC

Greenberg is the current board chair of Beatrice Mayes Institute. Greenberg is a board member and Chairman Emeritus for YES Prep Public Schools and serves on the Houston Board for Teach For America and the Entrepreneurship Advisory Board for Yale Business School

Charter School Growth Fund

Howell helps lead the early-stage strategy that funds the growth of charter school national networks. Before partnering with the Charter School Growth Fund, Howell provided strategic support for the national KIPP Public School network.

ALEXANDRA ROUSE Program Director of Education

Houston Endowment

Rouse has served as Chief of Staff for New Schools for Baton Rouge and managed various functions at Teach For America in South Louisiana.

HERMAN STUDE Board Member

The Brown Foundation

Stude served as president of The Brown Foundation for more than ten years. Stude has decades’ worth of experience in philanthropy across education in Houston.

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SOENDA HOWELL Partner

The Fund awards three types of grants: start-up, accelerator, or growth. The Fund looks to support charter schools with evidence of providing highquality academic outcomes that outperform a similar school serving a similar population of students. These categories are based on the length the charter school has been open and its growth goals. In addition, charter schools must have sound leadership, financial stability, and strategic clarity to receive a grant.

To date, the Fund has awarded $6,400,000 to ten different Houston charter schools. 2022, year two of this initiative, was the most active year, awarding $4,900,000 to seven charter schools. A majority of schools funded are led by BIPOC

leaders who reflect the demographics of the students they serve. In addition, the Fund intentionally seeks opportunities to streamline or remove barriers for school operators navigating the charter school resource-support network. The Fund’s overall outcome goal is to identify and invest in promising charter schools and networks to create 10,000 new, high-quality seats for Houston students by 2030. There is a strategic emphasis on creating seats in “quality deserts” for students with unique learning needs. As of the 2022 year-end, the Fund has assisted in creating approximately 3,200 new seats in charter schools in Houston with plans to fill another 3,250 seats in 2023.

“The partnership with Greater Houston Community Foundation makes the Houston Charter Seed Fund a true community-focused project with a shared goal for our city’s children. Greater Houston Community Foundation was the perfect place for us to execute this project because their support of our grant operations helps us to be efficient and lean as we are committed to getting most of our dollars out to these charter schools. Our efficiency and effectiveness are due to our partnership with Greater Houston Community Foundation, who have been great thought partners since the start.”

– ANN ZIKER Executive Director of The Brown Foundation

WHAT ARE CHARTER

SCHOOLS?

Charter Schools are an alternative option to public schools, where a student’s unique educational needs are addressed. They operate like independently governed public schools, offering more flexibility in curriculum choice, parent involvement, and hiring practices. Charter schools tend to have smaller class sizes, enabling faculty to tailor lessons to meet the specific needs of their classrooms and learners. Typically, charter schools engage in fundraising efforts to scale their programs to meet the demand. Charter schools are held accountable to the same academic and financial requirements as all public schools.

Community Leadership

Greater Houston Community Foundation is committed to growing with and for our community. We are passionate about keeping Houston a welcoming, diverse, entrepreneurial, and thriving region. Although many of us have a profound sense of gratitude for our hometown, there are pressing challenges facing the Houston region. As Houston’s community foundation, we are committed to bringing people together as a collective force for philanthropic good, which is encompassed in our

Since 1995, Greater Houston Community Foundation has evolved to play a pivotal role in supporting our region to recover from disasters, to offer a broad range of philanthropic solutions, and to engage deeply with our donors and clients to convene resources around critical community issues.

DISASTER RECOVERY & RESILIENCY: STRONGER TOGETHER

As critical leaders, Greater Houston Community Foundation (Foundation) is well-positioned to identify needs and invest in a validated network of nonprofit partners throughout the Greater Houston region to support disaster recovery and crisis response. In the last 17 years, the Foundation has distributed more than $250 million in grants to nonprofit partners supporting the recovery of hundreds of thousands of our neighbors, including two large pandemic funds that served our neighbors when support was needed most. We have strong partnerships with the City of Houston, Harris County, United Way of Greater Houston, nonprofit organizations, and philanthropic leaders that help us respond quickly and effectively to support disaster recovery.

This expertise has allowed us to serve in new ways, including through a collaborative fund established by a leading group of foundations called Your Shot Texas to support equitable vaccine uptake among vulnerable populations across Texas. In February 2021, we announced a strategic partnership with United Way of Greater Houston to coordinate philanthropic disasterrecovery efforts moving forward. We quickly put this new partnership to work alongside Mayor

Turner and Judge Hidalgo to jointly administer an $18 million Winter Storm Relief Fund that supported 29,010 individuals. This partnership will utilize established systems and processes to activate and fundraise quickly in the aftermath of a disaster when a swift response is critical, leveraging deep-rooted relationships within the philanthropic community, including corporations, foundations, and individuals who recognize the importance of a collaborative disaster-recovery approach. In 2022, our partnership continued to deepen, focused on strengthening our preparedness and ability to support our region’s resiliency.

UNDERSTANDING HOUSTON: CELEBRATING THREE YEARS!

In 2019, the Foundation launched Understanding Houston, a tool created to provide donors, community leaders, and residents with access to independent information they can use to effect positive change in their communities.

Understanding Houston has helped the Foundation become an even stronger knowledge resource for all Houstonians. We believe the more our communities learn together, the more we grow together. In partnership with local organizations and leaders, Understanding Houston hosts learning opportunities around critical topics that engage participants, make space for collaboration, and spark the possibility for philanthropic investment to address important community issues.

Understanding Houston would not have achieved its success without the support of our Board, our Founding Partners and funders, Rice University’s Kinder Institute for Urban

Research, many nonprofit partners, and more. In 2022, more than 57,000 unique users visited understandinghouston.org and over 560 people were in attendance at the 20 data briefings and presentations hosted. Despite a pandemic, Understanding Houston engaged with more than 2,600 nonprofit, philanthropic, and community leaders through data briefings over our first three years. Dozens of users have shared how they have leveraged data and information from Understanding Houston to inform philanthropy, shape programming or strategic planning, apply for and receive grant awards, and increase knowledge of the place we call home.

Understanding Houston is determined to inform and drive action as it continues to support the Foundation’s growing community leadership role with its launch of the Community Impact Fund.

“I’ve found the data easy to access and understand. The additional background and explanations are great. I’ve used it primarily to inform my knowledge of Houston and how I might explore different issues to engage in through Boards, volunteering, and giving in areas. I usually give to groups I

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know, but Understanding Houston has opened my eyes to many challenges we face as a community and the need for me to do more.”

– DONOR of Greater Houston Community Foundation

COMMUNITY LEADERS CONVENED TO LEARN KEY INSIGHTS ON FORT BEND COUNTY’S STRENGTHS AND CHALLENGES.

THANK YOU TO OUR FOUNDING PARTNERS

COMMUNITY LEADERS CONVENED TO LEARN MORE ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH CARE IN HOUSTON.

New Data, New Potential

Data and narratives on www.understandinghouston.org were updated in 2022. Below are selected key findings:

CIVIC ENGAGEMENT

Volunteer rates in Harris County fell 14 percentage points between 2020 and 2021 as a result of the pandemic.

Social Connectedness

Voter & Non-Electoral Participation

82% of eligible Black citizens in Greater Houston were registered to vote in 2020, the highest rate among all racial/ethnic groups.

About one out of two residents in the nine-county Houston MSA sometimes or always felt lonely in 2019.

EDUCATION

Early Childhood Education

Pre-K enrollment declined 23% in the first year of the pandemic.

Funding, Enrollment, & Teachers

Texas ranked 44th among all states and D.C. in per-pupil spending in 2019.

Educational Attainment

Nearly one out of two Greater Houston residents gave $25 or more to charitable organizations in 2019.

Academic Outcomes reading proficiency declined 6 percentage points in Harris County one year into the pandemic.

Post-Secondary Education

46% of adults in Fort Bend County have a bachelor’s degree or higher. If Fort Bend County were a state, it would rank second highest in the nation on this measure.

Less than 1 in 4 eighth graders in the region during 2008-09 earned an in-state post-secondary credential by the time they were 25 years old.

Nearly 1.2 million people under the age of 65 in Houston’s three-county do not have health insurance.

Health Risks & Outcomes

1 in 6 adults are food insecure. 1 in 4 adults do not get enough exercise.

1 in 3 adults live with obesity.

ENVIRONMENT

Air & Water Quality

67% of the water streams found in the three-county area are currently impaired due to bacterial contamination and are unsafe for human consumption/exposure.

Climate Change & Renewable Energy

The number of days 95°F or higher has increased 70-90% across all three Houston-area counties between the decade ending in 2010 vs. 2020.

Over 11 out of 1,000 babies born to Black mothers in Harris County die before their first birthday — three times higher than the mortality rate for babies born to white mothers.

1 out of 8 adults in the three-county Houston region reported mental distress for at least half the days in a one-month period in 2019, with the highest rates of distress in Harris and Montgomery counties.

SOURCES

1 Cigna Loneliness Index (2019)

2 U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Survey- Voting and Registration Supplement (2020)

3 U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Survey - Volunteering and Civic Life Supplement (2019)

4 Kinder Houston Area Survey

5Texas Education Agency, PEIMS, Student Enrollment Reports

6 U.S. Census Bureau, 2019 Annual Survey of School System Finances Tables

7 Texas Education Agency, STAAR Aggregate Data (2020-21)

8 Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, 8th Grade Cohorts Tracked through Higher Education (2008-09 cohort)

HOUSING

Housing Affordability & Homeownership

In Harris County, 51% of renters are cost-burdened (spend 30% or more of their income on housing), compared to 23% of homeowners. Housing

Homelessness in the Houston area declined 63% between 2011 and 2022.

9 U.S. Census Bureau, 2019 American Community Survey

10 Houston-Galveston Area Council, by request

11 CDC: National Environmental Public Health Tracking Network

12 U.S. Census Bureau, 2019 Small Area Health Insurance Estimates

13 Feeding America (2021); County Health Rankings 2022; Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 2019; CDC, U.S. Diabetes Surveillance System (2019)

14 CDC Wonder (2018)

15 County Health Rankings (2022)

16 U.S. Census Bureau, 2021 American Community Survey

17 Coalition for the Homeless Houston/Harris County

What’s Next?

COMMUNITY IMPACT FUND LAUNCH

Our Community Leadership work is an extension of how Greater Houston Community Foundation shows up for Houston. As Houston continues to grow and evolve, so will the Foundation. In 2023, we look forward to supporting our Community Leadership initiatives and fueling new strategic investments that build a more vibrant Houston region through a new, collaborative Community Impact Fund.

Guided by the Foundation’s Board of Directors in close partnership with our team, the Community Impact Fund (Fund) will use data to identify

issues, convene stakeholders and experts, and support initiatives to positively impact our community’s greatest needs. Fueled by many donors and supporters, the Fund will be a catalytic force for philanthropic impact – making a significant and meaningful difference in the lives of Houstonians through strategic grantmaking.

We look forward to sharing more with you about the Community Impact Fund.

CRITERIA LIST FOR ISSUE-AREA CONSIDERATION

COMPELLING COMMUNITY NEED

Do we have local data that speaks to the compelling need for action in this area? To what extent is there broad consensus among a variety of stakeholders that there is compelling community need?

MEASURABLE IMPACT AT MEANINGFUL SCALE

Is there potential to make a positive and measurable impact at a meaningful scale (i.e. issue is not too big or intractable and not too small or narrow)?

ABILITY TO ATTRACT RESOURCES

Can we build on existing and/or garner interest from Foundation donors (current and prospective) to use time, treasure, talent, and ties to help make a positive impact? To what extent do we think there is potential to attract other local and/ or national resources?

GOOD FIT

Are we positioned to add unique value and achieve some early success (positive movement within three- five years)? To what extent are Foundation staff enthusiastic and committed to the work?

BUILDS ON ASSETS AND PARTNERSHIPS

Are there sufficient assets, broadly speaking, in place to make a positive impact achievable? To what extent do we have (or are we building) high-value, hightrust working partnerships of strategic importance?

Gen Z is Ready

2022 FAMILY GIVING CIRCLE

The Family Giving Circle is a learning opportunity for families and youth to learn, volunteer, and grant together in the Greater Houston area. The Family Giving Circle is led by the Youth Leadership Team, a peer network of students in seventh through tenth grades interested in learning about the nonprofit landscape and how to be a thoughtful and strategic grantmaker. The Family Giving Circle offers grantmaking opportunities every year, where members of the Youth Leadership Team develop a mission statement and pick a relevant community issue to learn about and give to each year. Since 2017, the Family Giving Circle has granted over $120,000 to over 25 different nonprofits!

SPRING 2022 FAMILY GIVING CIRCLE MISSION STATEMENT:

To support organizations spreading awareness, taking preemptive measures, as well as assisting and supporting survivors of domestic violence with services including, but not limited to, counseling/ mental health support, financial assistance, and housing in the greater Houston community.

YOUTH LEADERSHIP TEAM

BELLA CHRAMOSTA

Tenth Grade Episcopal High School

MOLLY DINERSTEIN

Tenth Grade Kinkaid High School

CHRISTOPHER LAPORTE

Eighth Grade St. John’s School

ELLIE TELLEPSEN

Ninth Grade Memorial High School

GRAYSON WEEKLEY

Tenth Grade Memorial High School

SAWYER WEEKLEY

Seventh Grade Spring Branch Middle School

FALL 2022 FAMILY GIVING CIRCLE MISSION STATEMENT:

To support organizations providing urgent and long-term needs including, but not limited to shelter, housing, nutrition, mental health needs, and educational/mentoring services, to at-risk and homeless youth aged 17 and younger in the greater Houston area.

YOUTH LEADERSHIP TEAM MEETING.

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE 2022 FAMILY GIVING CIRCLE GRANT RECIPIENTS!

Aid to Victims of Domestic Abuse’s mission is to end family violence by advocating for the safety and self-determination of victims, promoting accountability for abusers, and fostering a community response to abuse. AVDA is dedicated to providing multilingual, transformational, life-saving services to survivors of abuse and their families.

Daya empowers South Asian survivors of domestic and sexual violence through culturally specific services and educates the community to end the cycle of abuse.

Houston Area Women’s Center serves thousands of women, children, and families each year to escape domestic violence, sexual assault, or sex trafficking. They help survivors transform their lives, free from violence.

Houston reVision works to break the cycle of isolation among the most profoundly disconnected youth, most of whom are caught up in the juvenile justice system. By connecting one kid at a time to caring adults, positive peers, and a program that works, they offer disconnected youth the opportunity to reVision hopeful pathways.

SEARCH pursues a mission of providing hope, creating opportunity, and transforming lives for thousands of men, women, and children experiencing homelessness in our community. They help clients obtain permanent housing, increase their income, improve their health, develop their children, and regain their stability and self-sufficiency.

Houston Youth Philanthropists

Houston Youth Philanthropists is a program we established in the fall of 2022 for high school juniors and seniors. This program is new to Houston and is offered through a partnership between Greater Houston Community Foundation and Three Pillars Initiative. This unique teen leadership program provides participants with business knowledge and experience, granting money to local nonprofits to learn about the business of philanthropy and community leadership.

We look forward to sharing more about the impact the Founding Youth Philanthropists will have on our community in 2023!

FOUNDING YOUTH PHILANTHROPISTS

ASHTON KAO

Twelfth Grade

Strake Jesuit College Preparatory

ISABELLE PESIKOFF

Eleventh Grade St. John’s High School

KENNA SUTTLE Eleventh Grade Episcopal High School

DIYA VETTICAL Twelfth Grade Lamar High School

HOUSTON YOUTH PHILANTHROPISTS MENTORS

ETHAN KAO Rice University Student Former Leader for the Family Giving Circle

SHAWN REAGAN Assistant Director of Leadership Giving Rice Annual Fund

QUESTIONS ABOUT OUR YOUTH PROGRAMS?

Contact Elizabeth Gonzales Events and Engagement Coordinator

egonzales@ghcf.org | 713.333.4610

Family Philanthropy Day

Thank you to the over 85 volunteers who joined us at the 2022 Family Philanthropy Day to participate in combating food insecurity in Houston. Chelsea Cheung, Senior Data and Learning Analyst from Understanding Houston shared data about food insecurity in Houston. Through our partnership with Kids’ Meals, Generation SERVE, and Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston, attendees now better understand how to support children, families, older adults, and refugees who find themselves having difficulty accessing food.

2022 Next Gen Donor Institute

The Next Gen resources offered by Greater Houston Community Foundation have developed a deeply committed cohort of Houstonians who are and will be future leaders directing philanthropic dollars, growing businesses, and participating in civic initiatives throughout our region. From involvement in the Next Gen Donor Institute to sparking impactful change through our Next Gen Giving Circles, we are here to create meaningful collaborations for the betterment of our community.

OUR NEXT GEN ALUMNI

MACONDA ABINADER

SACHA ABINADER

HOLLY SMITH ALVIS

BRETT ANNUNZIATO

NORA ANNUZIATO

KEVIN BAKER

BRUCE BILGER, JR.

WIRT BLAFFER

ELIZABETH BLANTON

JACK BLANTON, III

BRADLEY BRACEWELL

ADAM BRACKMAN

LAUREN BRACKMAN

ANNA BREWSTER

BEN BROWN

CAROLINE BROWN

WILLIAM RUSSELL BROWN, III

KAYLEN BURKE

KATE BUTLER

STEVE BUTLER

RICHARD CAMPO

LESLIE CARRIGAN

JULIE CHEN

DAVID CHAO

SKYE CHAO

JULIE COTUNO

EMILY BURGUIERES DALICANDRO

MARTHA DANIEL

MORGAN DAVIES

TAYLOR DAVIES

MARGARET ELKINS DAVIS

NINA DELANO

BRAD DINERSTEIN

BRITTANY LAPORTE DOUGLAS

STEVEN DOUGLAS

ANDREW DYRHOOD

BRYNNE WALKER DYRHOOD

BUCK ELKINS

HARRY ELKINS

JAMES ELKINS

JOHN ELKINS

MARGARET ELKINS

MARY ELKINS

NICK ERWIN

JENNY EVERETT

KERBEY FEINSILVER

JOHN FITZPATRICK

PETER FLUOR

KATE FOWLER

KRISTINA FRANKEL

SOFIA FROMMER

ROB GALTNEY

CULLEN GEISELMAN

LACEY FLUOR GOOSSEN

MATT GOOSSEN

JOHN GUILL

CHANDLER GUTTERSEN

KELLY HACKETT

ASHLEY HANNA

MICHAEL HANNA

MICHAEL HANSON

KIMBERLY CAMPO HARTZ

TED HARTZ

BRETT HOGAN

HOLLY LEWIS HUDLEY

MARY ITZ

ANIKA JACKSON

CHRIS JOSEPH

NICOLE KATZ

MADELINE KELLY

SARA KELLY

JACK KEMPNER

SHELDON KRAMER

CLAUDIA KREISLE

KELLY KROHN

MOLLY LAFAUCI

BRENNAN LANG, MD

FARRAH NAJMUDDIN LANG

JENNIFER LAPORTE

CHAZ LEWIS

KAYLA LEWIS

MANDY LEWIS

RICH LEWIS

DARREN LINDAMOOD

JENNA LINDLEY

MATTHEW LINDLEY

KIRBY LIU

STEVEN LOOKE

KATHERINE LORENZ

ALLEN LYONS

MICHAEL MAREK

LESLIE MARGOLIS

KAHLER MARLOW

RYAN MCGRATH

MICHAEL MITZNER

WHITNEY GRAHAM MIXON

SARAH MOHLE

LOGAN MONCRIEF

BRAD MORGAN

KATIE MORGAN

LAUREN MORGAN

PHILIP MORGAN

FROST MURPHY

AVANI NARANG

CAROLINE NEGLEY

EMILY NELSON

KEVIN KNOX NUNNALLY

NANCY O’CONNOR

MEGAN ODEN

TRAVIS ODEN

BARBIE RAWSON PARKER

ANDREA PANEDO

WINNIE SIMMONS PHILLIPS

ASHLEY RANTON

BROOKS RANTON

KIMBERLY RAWSON

BRIAN SCHMULEN

MARK SCHMULEN

FRANCIS SHARPE

WYNNE SHARPE

LINDSEY FONDREN SMITH

NANCY SMITH

ALLEN REID SPRINGMEYER

RYAN SPRINGMEYER

BRITTANY STEITZ

REBECCA STEWART

MATT SUMMERS

CAREN SWEETLAND

ALEXANDRA TENNANT

ANDREW THORINGTON

BEN TUCKER

SAM TUCKER

JACLYN VIVRETT

JUD WALKER

JOHN WEBBER

SARAH CHASE WEBBER

CHRIS WEEKLEY

MICHAEL WEEKLEY

WILLIAM WHITE

MARY LEE WILKENS

RICHARD WILKENS, IV

ALEXANDRA WILL

ARON WILL

DREW WILLEY

JESSICA WILLEY

JARROD WISE

LINDSEY WISE

ANGEL WOOLSEY

CATHERINE WRIGHT

CHRIS YETTER

Next Gen and Future Donor Learning Series

Throughout the fall, Greater Houston Community Foundation hosted Learning Series programs for our Next Gen Alumni Network on various topics, including early childhood giving, serving on nonprofit boards, and evaluating your giving. We are opening these learning series programs to all donors in 2023.

KATY BUTTERWICK, CAREN SWEETLAND.

CAREN SWEETLAND, KATY BUTTERWICK, POOJA AMIN, ANDREA MAYES, KATE FOWLER.

JENNIFER LAPORTE.

CHELSEA CHEUNG.

ANNIE HURWITZ.

Next Gen Giving Circle

CONGRATULATIONS TO CROSSWALK CENTER

Crosswalk Center was selected to receive a $26,000 grant from the 2022 Next Gen Giving Circle. CrossWalk Center bridges critical social services and ministry between prison life and freedom.

In a typical year, the Next Gen Giving Circle grants are $10,000. This year, thanks to two anonymous Next-Gen alum, we distributed a total of $30,000, allowing us to award gifts to the other nonprofit finalists as well. The nonprofit finalists receiving a $1,000 grant from the 2022 Next Gen Giving Circle were:

The mission of Angela House is to successfully transition women into society after incarceration.

The mission of Aspire to Win is to equip men who served many years in prison to build meaningful lives, reconcile families, and make our community safer.

The mission of Center for Urban Transformation is to create opportunities for Fifth Ward families to overcome the adverse effects of racism, poverty, and other inequities by implementing programs that encourage growing prospects for survival and success.

The vision of the Prison Entrepreneurship Program is to expand the community of accountability and encouragement until every inmate who is truly committed to change has the choice and the chance to reboot his life. They strive to empower men to move from being tax consumers to taxpayers; from gang leaders to servant leaders; and from felons to real fathers and even philanthropists.

When Hilcorp Wins, The Community Wins

In 2022 alone, Hilcorp Energy Company (Hilcorp), a Houston-based oil and gas company, and its affiliate Harvest Midstream granted over $22 million. This staggering achievement was made possible through various giving vehicles established in partnership with Greater Houston Community Foundation, especially Hilcorp and Harvest’s Employee Donor Advised Funds and three different Scholarship Funds In addition, Hilcorp and Harvest Midstream both support their employees through Employee Disaster Relief Funds. With a corporate goal of developing lifelong givers in their community, Hilcorp and Harvest are showing us all how when they win, so do the communities in which they operate.

So, what ignited such meaningful giving in 2022? In 2021, Hilcorp and Harvest announced that both companies met their 5-year goals and that every employee would receive a bonus. This bonus included up to $25,000 to each employee’s Donor Advised Fund at Greater Houston Community Foundation The company’s generosity has inspired record-breaking giving, with gifts to organizations that support human services, religion, education, health, and environmental causes being the top issue areas Hilcorp employees support.

TOP

FIVE ISSUE AREAS FOR HILCORP EMPLOYEES

HUMAN SERVICES RELIGION EDUCATIONAL HEALTH

“Your generosity has been a huge help for the past three years. I can’t wait to use my degree for my future profession and to graduate debt-free. Thank you for assisting me in reaching these goals!”

– EMMA WIK Hilcorp Scholarship Recipient

In 2007, Hilcorp established the Hilcorp Giving Program. This unique program establishes a Donor Advised Fund for every new employee with an initial gift of $2,500. Each employee has online access to their Employee Donor Advised Fund through Greater Houston Community Foundation and can make donations to charities anytime at their discretion. Employees are invited to add personal dollars to their charitable funds through payroll deduction, and the company will match an employee’s donations into their fund up to $2,000 a year. Each employee’s fund can last for a lifetime, long after their career at Hilcorp. Nearly 100% of employees participate in the charitable giving program!

“The Greater Houston Community Foundation is proud to administer the Hilcorp and Harvest Employee Giving Programs. The programs’ unique design and scale are impressive, but the autonomy afforded to each employee to give to whatever cause matters most to them is the gold standard in corporate philanthropy. Hilcorp and Harvest are true exemplars in paying it forward. In my 12 years of working at the Foundation, I’ve never seen or heard of an employee giving program that is close in size or scale.”

In addition to the employee charitable funds, since 2010, Hilcorp has awarded over $4 million to 438 students through their two scholarship programs with Greater Houston Community Foundation. The Hilcorp Scholarship is available to children or dependents of Hilcorp employees. The Hilcorp Future Leaders of America Scholarship, a community scholarship, is available to graduating high school seniors from select communities across the United States where Hilcorp operates. Each scholarship program is a four-year renewable scholarship. As of 2022, the Hilcorp Future Leaders of America Scholarship has awarded scholarships to students from 54 schools across nine states. In addition, Harvest Midstream established the Harvest Scholarship Program in 2022, which benefits dependents of Harvest Midstream employees.

“The partnership we have with Greater Houston Community Foundation allows our employees to live out our core values and achieve our mission to unlock energy for the betterment of our employees and our communities. With Greater Houston Community Foundation, we developed the Hilcorp Giving Program with the goal of helping our employees become lifelong givers. They are taking ownership of their giving and delivering tremendous support to our communities.”

– MIKE BREZINA Senior Vice President for HR at Hilcorp

Greater Houston Community Foundation has been a proud philanthropic partner to Hilcorp for over 15 years. Based on 2022 alone, it is evident that Hilcorp and Harvest develop their employees as lifelong givers, igniting positive change in our community.

– STEPHANIE BLAIR Director of Corporate Relations at Greater Houston Community Foundation

The Fall Advisor’s Breakfast

On October 27, 2022, we hosted a room full of Houston’s top professional advisors to help them learn more about innovative charitable strategies using donor advised funds. The program started with a welcome from Jen Strauss, a partner at Ytterberg Deery Knull and a member of the Advisor Outreach Committee at Greater Houston Community Foundation.

Attendees heard from Andrea Mayes, Senior Director of Charitable Solutions at Greater Houston Community Foundation, where she shared some data and reasons for how donor advised funds are among the fastestgrowing forms of giving. Two of Greater Houston Community Foundation’s leadership team members, Rebecca Hove, Managing Director of Strategic Philanthropy, and Jennifer

Touchet, Vice President of Personal and Family Philanthropy shared examples of innovative charitable strategies implemented in partnership with professional advisors for their clients. The program closed with a legislative update from Greater Houston Community Foundation’s General Counsel, Pooja Amin. Amin shared more about the Community Foundation Awareness Initiative and details about the Accelerating Charitable Efforts Act’s (ACE Act) spotlight on donor advised funds.

DONOR CASE STUDIES

The team presented a handful of examples where Greater Houston Community Foundation utilized Donor Advised Funds as innovative charitable solutions for donors:

Sunset of Private Foundation to an Endowed Donor Advised Fund

Philanthropic and Compliance Support for Family Office

Environmental, Social, and Governance Investing with Third Party Management

Charitable and Estate Planning Utilizing Privately Held Business Interests

Multi-generational Stewardship and Family Legacy

POOJA AMIN, JENNIFER TOUCHET, REBECCA HOVE, ANDREA MAYES, JEN STRAUSS.

JAY CHADHA.

TOMMY WRIGHT, BILL CAUDILL.

JULIE BALOGH, EMILY DACE, BOBBY BOSWELL.

Greater Houston Community Foundation has deep experience helping Houston’s top advisors connect their clients with philanthropic services designed to ensure their funds go further and that their unique giving goals are met. A special thanks to our Advisor Outreach Committee and our Emerging Leaders Group for your continued partnership in helping make a greater philanthropic impact in Houston.

Advisor Outreach Committee

CHAIR: KAREN COSTA, RSM

Lauren Doughty, Locke Lord LLP

Nick Erwin, U.S. Capital Advisors

Brandon Holcomb, Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC

Emerging Leaders Group

Bobby Boswell, Avidian Wealth Solutions

Rachel Brown, U.S. Capital Advisors

Julie Cotuno, U.S. Capital Advisors

John Elkins, Ytterberg Deery Knull LLP

Brian Friday, Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC

David Galic, JP Morgan

Courtney Garson, JP Morgan

“My time on the board has

caused me to appreciate the depth of knowledge and expertise we have in residence at Greater Houston Community Foundation. The Foundation has helped to increase my vision and understanding of philanthropy. The other area that I appreciate so much as a tax professional is how caring and helpful the Foundation’s team is to our professionals in the community. The Foundation provides such a needed resource

Jennifer Klein Strauss, Ytterberg Deery Knull LLP

Tama Klosek, Klosek & Associates PLLC

Charlie Schwartzel, J.P. Morgan Private Bank

Kyle Wright, Stardust

Warren Knull, Ytterberg Deery Knull LLP

Olivia Rousseau, Locke Lord

Ryan Staff, RSM

Chayden Tibbitts, JP Morgan

Andrew Wagnon, RSM

Chris Wallace, Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC

to our advisor community, and I encourage our professional advisor community to reach out to the Foundation for advice, input, and assistance with philanthropic planning for clients. Greater Houston Community Foundation can provide so much assistance to the advisor community in terms of problem-solving and sophisticated planning assistance.”

– TOMMY WRIGHT

Private Client Services, RSM US, LLP

Board Member at Greater Houston Community Foundation

WE WELCOME THIRD-PARTY INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT

At the Foundation, you can continue to manage your client’s investments when they open a fund with $500,000 or more. Ready to help your clients make deep impact in our community?

Contact Andrea Mayes

Senior Director of Charitable Solutions amayes@ghcf.org | 713.333.2203

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Community Foundation Council Reception

In early October, Charlene and Tym Tombar hosted a reception at their home for members of our Community Foundation Council. Guests heard from our newly appointed Chair of the Community Foundation Council, Michael Dumas, who shared his previous involvement with the Council and how it eventually led him to serve on the Governing Board of Greater Houston Community Foundation. CEO and President of Greater Houston Community Foundation, Steve Maislin, and Board Chair of Greater Houston Community Foundation, Chris Weekley, also spoke to the group to update them on some of the Foundation’s progress and current initiatives. The brief presentation ended with the host and Governing Board Member, Tym Tombar, who spoke about how this group will help to build momentum around the impact of the Foundation.

We look forward to sharing how this vibrant group will support our work on scaling our community leadership and continuing the work to help philanthropic Houstonians amplify their impact on our community through Greater Houston Community Foundation.

CHARLENE & TYM TOMBAR.

TYM & CHARLENE TOMBAR, CHRIS WEEKLEY, MIKE DUMAS. BRUCE BILGER, RICHARD EVERETT.

LAURA & RICK JARAMILLO.

KATHLEEN & MARTY GOOSSEN. TYM TOMBAR, CHRIS WEEKLEY, STEVE MAISLIN, MIKE DUMAS.

SUE PAYNE, ALLISON LYONS, MIKE DUMAS.

MARTY GOOSSEN, GEORGE MARTINEZ.

OUR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION COUNCIL

MICHAEL DUMAS, CHAIR President & Chief Financial Officer Maritime Holdings, LLC

DOROTHY ABLES

Retired Chief Administrative Officer Spectra Energy Corp.

JOHN SCOTT ARNOLDY Chairman, President, & CEO Triten Corporation

JAMES BAIRD Partner and General Counsel Quantum Energy Partners

BRUCE BILGER, JR. Chairman & Head of Global Energy Longmont Capital

BRUCE BILGER

Retired Managing Director Lazard Freres & Co. L.L.C.

JACK BLANTON, JR. Vice President The Scurlock Foundation

LESLIE BLANTON Community Leader

J. MURRY BOWDEN Founder and Executive Chairman Hanover Company

J. DOWNEY BRIDGWATER President – Houston Market Comerica Bank

SANDY BRYAN Co-owner Just Her Sports

EMILY BURGUIÈRES DALICANDRO

Community Leader

RICHARD CAMPO Chairman & CEO Camden Property Trust

CHIP CARLISLE

Retired President – Southwest Region Wells Fargo

MARTHA CARNES Retired Partner PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

ANN CAZALOT Community Leader

ANTHONY CHASE

Chairman & CEO ChaseSource, LP

DON CHILDRESS, II Founder & Managing Member Childress Capital Advisors

JOSEPH A. CLEARY, JR. President Harvey Cleary Builders

ERNIE COCKRELL Executive Managing Director Pinto Realty Partners

GUS COMISKEY, JR. President Comiskey Kaufman Consulting

MICHAEL CORDÚA Founder & Chief Executive Officer Cord ú a Restaurants

EMILY CROSSWELL

Community Leader

E. TED DAVIS Principal Davis/Chambers & Company, Ltd

PETER DELONGCHAMPS

Senior Vice President Group 1 Automotive, Inc.

STEPHANIE DONAHO

Community Leader

KRISTA DUMAS

Community Leader

ROBERT DUNCAN Chairman Transwestern Investment Group

JOHN EADS

Chief Executive Officer Sierra Resources, LLC

MARY EADS

Community Leader

GARY EDWARDS Retired Senior Executive Vice President ConocoPhillips, Inc.

PEGGY EDWARDS

Community Leader

KRISTI ELSOM

Attorney at Law Fizer Beck Webster Bentley & Scroggins

C. RICHARD EVERETT Principal Everett Interests

ROB GALTNEY President Galtney Capital, LLC

DAN GILBANE Executive Vice President Gilbane Building Company

MARTY GOOSSEN President, Houston Region JP Morgan Private Bank

JILL GRACELY Licensed Clinical Social Worker Baylor College of Medicine

MAUREEN GRAF

Community Leader

BOB GRAHAM

Community Leader

SAUNDRIA CHASE GRAY Senior Counsel Shell Oil Company

MELANIE GRAY

Retired Partner Winston & Strawn LLP

KELLY HACKETT

Attorney, Family Office Managing Director Tectonic Advisors, LLC

MAUREEN HACKETT Community Leader

JOSEPH HAFNER, JR. Retired Chief Executive Officer Riviana Foods Inc.

BERNARD HARRIS, JR. CEO and Managing Partner Vesalius Ventures

ROBERT HARVEY

President & Cheif Executive Officer Greater Houston Partnership

PHILIP HAWK Chairman Evergreen North America

JEFFERY HILDEBRAND

Executive Chairman and Founder Hilcorp Energy Company

LEE HOGAN Co-Chairman

Anglican Health Network

RICK JARAMILLO Regional Executive Bank of America

STEPHEN KAUFMAN Chairman

Comiskey Kaufman Consulting

CARLA KNOBLOCH Partner Owners Advisory LLC

YOLANDA KNULL Partner Ytterberg Deery Knull LLP

TERRI LACY Partner Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP

LEO LINBECK, III President & CEO Aquinas Companies, LLC

JANIECE LONGORIA Vice Chairman The University of Texas System Board of Regents

ALLEN LYONS

Sr. Vice President Cadence Bank

STAN MAREK, JR. Chief Executive Officer The Marek Family of Companies

BARRY MARGOLIS

Retired Founding Partner Margolis, Phipps & Wright PC

LESLIE MARGOLIS Next Gen Representative Community Volunteer

RODNEY MARGOLIS Principal Margolis Interests

GEORGE MARTINEZ Vice Chairman Allegiance Bank Texas

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION COUNCIL

STEVEN MILLER

Chairman & President ALM Discovery Ventures, Inc.

WILLIAM MONTGOMERY Partner

Quantum Energy Partners, LLC

PAUL MURPHY, JR. Executive Vice Chairman Cadence Bancorp LLC

D. KEITH ODEN Executive Vice Chairman of the Board and President Camden

SANDRA ODEN Community Leader

W. JEFFREY PAINE, JR. Vice President Goldman Sachs & Co.

CARRIN PATMAN Chair Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County

SUE PAYNE

Retired Manager Global Geoscience Global Financial Services, LLC

RICARDO PERUSQUIA Managing Director Global Financial Services, LLC

MARY TERE PERUSQUIA

Community Leader

HECTOR PINEDA Associate General Counsel Shell Oil Company

GLORIA PORTELA Senior Counsel

Seyfarth Shaw, LLP

ALEXANDRA PRUNER Senior Advisor Perella Weinberg Partners

DAVID PRUNER Partner

Heidrick & Struggles

BETH ROBERTSON President Cockspur, Inc.

ALI SABERIOON

President/CEO

Sabco Oil & Gas Company

PARK SHAPER

Chief Executive Officer

SEIS Holdings

PETER SHAPER

Founder & Managing Partner Genesis Park

GAVIN SMITH President

GHS Investments

JOEL STAFF

Chief Executive Officer Scipio Interests, LLC

MARY MARTHA STAFF Community Leader

DEBORAH STAVIS

Chief Executive Officer Stavis & Cohen Financial

LETICIA TRAUBER

Community Leader

WALTER LANE WARD Vice Chairman

Amegy Bank of Texas

CAROL WARLEY Partner RSM US LLP

MARK WAWRO Partner

Susman Godfrey L.L.P.

DONALD WOO

President/CEO

Mission Contructors, Inc.

Top Five Most Supported Grantees by Issue Area in 2022

These lists are based on the number of unique individual donors who supported these organizations.

EDUCATIONAL

The Kinkaid School, Inc.

St. John’s School

The University of Texas at Austin

Small Steps Nurturing Center

Episcopal High School*

William Marsh Rice University*

HUMAN SERVICES

Houston Food Bank

Star of Hope Mission

Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston

Covenant House Texas

Doctors Without Borders USA, Inc.

HEALTH

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Methodist Hospital Foundation

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Texas Children’s Hospital

Memorial Hermann Foundation

RELIGION

Congregation Beth Israel

St. Martin’s Episcopal Church

Samaritan’s Purse

St. Luke’s United Methodist Church

Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston

ARTS

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Menil Foundation, Inc.

Houston Public Media Foundation

Houston Museum of Natural Science

Houston Ballet Foundation

PUBLIC BENEFIT

United Way of Greater Houston

Jewish Federation of Greater Houston

Holocaust Museum Houston

Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston

Wounded Warrior Project, Inc.

ENVIRONMENTAL

Memorial Park Conservancy, Inc.

Houston Zoo, Inc.

Hermann Park Conservancy

Buffalo Bayou Partnership

Trees For Houston

OTHER

UNICEF USA

Save the Children Federation, Inc.

International Rescue Committee

Faith in Practice

CARE, Inc.

*Indicates that same number of unique donors gave to the grantee.

NEW FUNDS IN 2022

ALMAAHH Fund

Always Do Good Scholarship

Anonymous (9)

Bieniawski Charitable Fund

Bling Dreams Fund

Carroll Parrott Blue Legacy Fund

David DeVido Charitable Fund

Dr. Mini Vettical Angel Fund

Elizabeth and Stephen LaPorte Family Fund

Farris Family Fund

Faschingbauer Fund

Friends Forever Foundation

Grobmyer Family Fund

Harper-Foronda Family Fund

Harvest Scholarship Program

Indus Cares College Scholarship

Indus Cares High School Scholarship

Joanna Duncan Estate Fund In Support of Women’s Causes

Katie and Philip Morgan Charitable Fund

Liz and Brian Dinerstein Family Foundation

Marjorie Everett and Robert Ward Calvert Fund

Michael Berry Family Foundation

Robert E. Warmack Fund

Sunshine Kids Scholarship

The Chloe Elise Bailard Memorial Fund

The Creedon Charitable Fund

The Jacobs Family Fund

The Lewis Family Giving Fund

The Polnau Family Fund

The Zola W. Cater/William D. Eakes Family Fund

WoodNext Fusion Scholarship Fund

Tailored Solutions for Donors

PROVIDING INNOVATIVE CHARITABLE PHILANTHROPIC VEHICLES

Corporate Donor Advised Funds

Designated & Agency Funds

Donor Advised Funds

Donor Working Groups

Field of Interest Funds

Legacy Funds

Scholarships

Supporting Organizations

FOSTERING STRATEGIC PHILANTHROPY

Center for Family Philanthropy

Corporations – Customized Programs

Family Meetings

Interest-Area Programming and Learning Opportunities

Next Gen Donor Institute

Youth Programming

OFFERING CUSTOMIZED PHILANTHROPIC SERVICES

Community and Corporate

Disaster Relief

Corporate Giving Program Support and Management Services

Customized Consulting

Giving Plans

Grants Management

Landscape and Issue Analysis

Nonprofit Research

Private Foundation Services

Topical Convenings

PARTNERING WITH PROFESSIONAL ADVISORS

Acceptance of Complex Assets

Charitable Advice and Customized Giving Solutions

Third Party Investment Management (starting at $500,000)

Investing in Your Community

DISASTER RECOVERY AND RESILIENCY

As critical leaders, the Foundation is well-positioned to identify needs and invest in a validated network of nonprofit partners throughout the Greater Houston region. In the last 17 years, the Community Foundation has distributed more than $250M in grants to nonprofit partners supporting the recovery of hundreds of thousands of our neighbors. We have strong partnerships with the City of Houston, Harris County, United Way of Greater Houston, nonprofit organizations, and philanthropic leaders that help us respond quickly and efficiently during disaster-response efforts.

UNDERSTANDING HOUSTON

This collaborative regional-indicators initiative empowers people throughout Greater Houston to take informed action — individually and collectively — to build a region that provides everyone the opportunity to reach their full potential. Understandinghouston.org is a community resource making data on quality-of-life issues for Harris, Fort Bend, and Montgomery counties highly accessible to donors and community leaders seeking to understand Houston’s strengths, challenges, and progress over time. Through this initiative, the Community Foundation is connecting donors around a given issue, bringing the funding community together, and creating learning opportunities for our donors and others on critical community issues.

COMMUNITY IMPACT FUND

A new Fund that supports the Foundation’s community leadership initiatives and fuels new, strategic investments focused on building a more vibrant Houston region for all. Overseen by the Foundation’s Board of Directors, the Community Impact Fund will use data to identify issues, convene stakeholders and experts, and lead initiatives to positively impact our community’s greatest needs. The Fund will be a catalytic force for philanthropic impact – making a significant and meaningful difference in the lives of Houstonians through strategic grantmaking focused on pressing community needs.

OUR TEAM

EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP

PRESIDENT & CEO

STEPHEN D. MAISLIN

GENERAL COUNSEL

POOJA AMIN

MANAGING DIRECTOR OF STRATEGIC PHILANTHROPY

REBECCA HOVE

CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

MIKE PAWSON

VICE PRESIDENT OF PERSONAL & FAMILY PHILANTHROPY

JENNIFER TOUCHET

VICE PRESIDENT OF COMMUNITY PHILANTHROPY

DIANA ZARZUELO

SENIOR EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT & OFFICE ADMINISTRATOR

MORGAN STEEN

EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT

NATASHA DECELL

ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT

KELLIE EWASKO

ADVANCEMENT & DONOR RELATIONS

DIRECTOR OF CORPORATE RELATIONS

STEPHANIE BLAIR

INDIVIDUAL AND CORPORATE RELATIONS MANAGER

KOLBY GILBERT

EVENTS & ENGAGEMENT COORDINATOR

ELIZABETH GONZALES

DIRECTOR OF DONOR ENGAGEMENT & LEARNING

ANNIE HURWITZ

MARKETING CREATIVE ASSOCIATE

CAMILLE MANAKER

SENIOR DIRECTOR OF CHARITABLE SOLUTIONS

ANDREA MAYES

SENIOR PHILANTHROPIC ADVISOR

TYLER MURPHY

COMMUNICATIONS SPECIALIST

KAITLIN NECAS

CLIENT MANAGER

LAUREN SPACKMAN

DIRECTOR OF MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS

RACHEL YOUNG

COMMUNITY PHILANTHROPY

SENIOR DATA AND LEARNING ANALYST

CHELSEA CHEUNG

PROGRAM MANAGER OF COMMUNITY PHILANTHROPY

MEGAN MALDONADO

FINANCE & OPERATIONS

DIRECTOR OF DATA & LEARNING

NADIA VALLIANI

FOUNDATION SERVICES ASSOCIATE

LULU ALVAREZ

ACCOUNTANT GABRIELA AGUIRRE

FOUNDATION SERVICES ASSOCIATE

CHANELLE BALWANT

FOUNDATION SERVICES ASSOCIATE

AZAD BARAZI

SYSTEMS ARCHITECT

PRASHANT BASHYAL

SCHOLARSHIPS ASSOCIATE

TINA CLAYTON

SCHOLARSHIPS ASSOCIATE

MARIE CUSHMAN

DONOR SERVICES ASSOCIATE

SHANNON DAVIDSON

INFORMATION SYSTEMS ANALYST

NANKA DODDIPALLI

CONTROLLER

HUNTER EDMONDSON

DIRECTOR OF DONOR SERVICES

KRYSTLE FOLSE

ACCOUNTANT

ANDREI GOLOLOBOV

SCHOLARSHIPS MANAGER

COURTNEY GRYMONPREZ

CONTROLLER

NELSON HERNANDEZ

SENIOR FOUNDATION SERVICES MANAGER

LYDIA HICKEY

DONOR SERVICES ASSOCIATE

STEPHANIE LEBRON

ACCOUNTANT

STEPHANIE LOPEZ

DONOR SERVICES MANAGER

MICHELLE MORRISON

DONOR SERVICES ASSOCIATE

KIMBERLY HIPO

ACCOUNTING MANAGER

JENNIFER HOGLE

FOUNDATION SERVICES ASSOCIATE

LAUREN JONES

ACCOUNTANT

CINDY NEWMAN

DONOR SERVICES ASSISTANT

JOSEPH STEWART

TAX MANAGER

MICHAEL TROUT