About Houston Junior Forum
A nonprofit women’s organization committed to providing charitable service for children, youth, women, and senior adults in the greater Houston area.
Focus Areas
ChildrenYouthWomenSenior adultsEducationBasic needs/toiletries
Who They Fund
food-insecure K-12 students (HISD, SBISD)pre-kindergarten children (ages 3-5)elementary students participating in summer literacy programschildren and teens with ill or absent parentslow-income children needing back-to-school clothing and underwearvulnerable homebound seniors and assisted living residents
About Houston Junior Forum
Houston Junior Forum Inc. ties its grantmaking to practical services for children, youth, women, and senior adults in the greater Houston area. The clearest pattern in its recent grants is direct support for basic needs and program delivery: meals for food-insecure children, clothing and underwear, literacy materials, senior meal programs, and women’s health services. Several grants point to long-running relationships with Houston organizations, including Kids Meals, which received $30,000 in 2024 for a children’s delivery project serving more than 9,000 meals and $15,000 in 2025 for meals for Houston’s hungriest children. Undies for Everyone also appears multiple times, with $30,000 in 2024 for underwear for children and $10,000 in 2025 for underwear for Houston area children. The forum’s support extends across age groups: it funds pre-kindergarten programming, summer reading help for elementary students, and services for homebound seniors and people affected by dementia. Its giving reads as hands-on, local, and service-oriented, with grants aimed at organizations delivering concrete support rather than broad policy work.
What Houston Junior Forum Funds
A central theme is food assistance for children and seniors. Houston Junior Forum Inc. gave $12,500 in 2025 to Blessing in a Backpack for food for HISD and SBISD food-insecure children, and $12,500 to Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston for meals for vulnerable, homebound seniors. It also supported Kids Meals with $15,000 in 2025 for meals for Houston’s hungriest children. Education support shows up through direct program materials: Bridge Literacy Now received $10,000 in 2024 for reading intervention program supplies, while Making It Better dba Literacy Now received $10,000 in 2025 for reading intervention program supplies and materials. Early learning is another thread, with $10,000 to Nehemiah Center in 2024 for pre-kindergarten program support and $7,500 in 2023 for a high-quality pre-kindergarten program ages 3-5.
How Houston Junior Forum Gives
Typical awards cluster tightly around $10,000: the median grant is $10,000, with p25 at $7,500 and p75 also at $10,000. That suggests a fairly standardized grant size, with a few larger awards at $12,500, $15,000, and $30,000. The recent record also shows repeat recipients across multiple years, including Kids Meals, Undies for Everyone, Bridge Literacy Now, Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston, Houston’s Amazing Place, Nehemiah Center, Christian Community Service Center, and Third Age Learning Center. Houston Junior Forum Inc. operates community grant, scholarship, and in-kind assistance programs, and at least one program accepts unsolicited requests.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$114K
Total Assets
$3.2M
Total Revenue
$724K
Total Expenses
$503K
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $8K and $10K, with a median of $10K.
25th Percentile
$8K
Median
$10K
75th Percentile
$10K
Geographic Reach
Local1 state funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Headquarters
Leadership
Krista Parker
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