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We don’t sell products.
We build plans.

Impact! Partners Financial is an independent, fiduciary firm in Houston. We work with families who saved well and now have to make it last — coordinating income, taxes, growth, and legacy in one written plan instead of four separate opinions.

The checkup is a real conversation with a Houston advisor — not a screening call, not a sales script. You’ll hear which part of your plan needs attention first, and if we’re not the right firm for you, we’ll tell you that on the call.

The Impact! Partners Financial team in Houston, Texas
Structure
Independent RIA · Fiduciary
Headquarters
Houston, TX — near Clear Lake
Offices
Houston, Pearland, Katy, Spring
Who we serve
Retirees & pre-retirees, 55+
Why we exist

Most families don’t have a plan. They have a portfolio.

A portfolio tells you what you own. A plan tells you what happens next — when to claim Social Security, which account to spend first, what your tax bill looks like at 75, and what your children are left holding.

Most people arrive here with the first and not the second. Often they have four professionals: someone managing investments, someone doing taxes, an attorney who drew up a will years ago, and an insurance agent. None of them are talking to each other.

That gap is the whole reason this firm exists. We build the plan, and we coordinate all four parts of it under one roof.

“Do we actually have enough — and what do we do first?”

Every family that walks in asks some version of this. Answering it honestly is the job. Sometimes the answer is yes and the work is protecting it. Sometimes it’s not yet, and there’s time to fix that. Either way, you leave knowing.

Two minutes

Hear it from us directly.

Websites are easy to write. This is the firm in its own words — who we work with, how we plan, and what it actually sounds like to sit across the table from us.

If it sounds like the kind of conversation you want to be having, the next step is fifteen minutes.

Impact! Partners Financial · Houston, TX
How we’re built

Four things that shape every conversation

Not values on a wall. Structural choices about how the firm operates, and what they mean for you.

01
Fiduciary, by obligation
We’re legally required to act in your interest — not a product sponsor’s. There is no house fund, no captive carrier, and nothing we’re required to sell.
02
Taxes, not just returns
A great deal of what we find for clients is in the tax code, not the market. Roth conversions, withdrawal order, IRMAA, the widow’s bracket.
03
Deliberately selective
We take on fewer families than we could. That’s what makes it possible to know your situation without pulling the file first.
04
Written down for your family
Your plan exists on paper, so your spouse and your children inherit answers instead of a folder of questions.
Leadership

Summer A. Roberts

Chief Executive Officer

Summer leads Impact! Partners Financial on a simple premise: Texas families deserve advisors who are fully in their corner. She is a nationally recognized fiduciary advisor, author of Retire with Impact!, and host of The Texas Wealth Report.

A native of Biloxi, Mississippi, she graduated from Southern Methodist University and began her career with an internship under the former White House Director of Public Relations, then built a career in recruiting in New Orleans before following a family legacy of financial advisors into this work.

Forbes’ Top Texas Advisors
Houston’s Top CEOs
Named among Top Women Advisors
Houstonia’s Women on the Move
Published in Kiplinger
Author, Retire with Impact!

Of everything she’s built, she’s proudest of being a mother to three. That’s not incidental — it’s why the planning here starts with the family and works backward to the money.

The advisory team

One advisory team, available at every office.

Whichever location you visit, you work with the same senior advisors — not a rotating cast, and not whoever happens to be free that week. Your plan is built by the people whose names are on it.

Summer A. Roberts, Chief Executive Officer at Impact! Partners Financial
Summer A. Roberts
Chief Executive Officer
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Coby Culpepper, Executive Wealth Advisor at Impact! Partners Financial
Coby Culpepper
Executive Wealth Advisor
Wyatt Broome, Wealth Advisor at Impact! Partners Financial
Wyatt Broome
Wealth Advisor
David Lee, Wealth Advisor at Impact! Partners Financial
David Lee
Wealth Advisor

Our advisors serve clients at every Impact! office — Houston, Pearland, Katy, and Spring.

15-Minute Checkup

The checkup is a real conversation with a Houston advisor — not a screening call, not a sales script. You’ll hear which part of your plan needs attention first, and if we’re not the right firm for you, we’ll tell you that on the call.

How we work

The Family Wealth CircleTM

One circle. Four strategies. A plan your family can actually follow.

The outer ring is what life hands you — Social Security, Medicare, pensions, healthcare, and market risk. You don’t get a vote on those. The four quadrants inside are what we build around them, with you.

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Income
A paycheck that shows up whether the market cooperates or not.
Tax
Brackets, conversions, and withdrawal order, sequenced deliberately.
Growth
A portfolio sized to your plan, not to a benchmark.
Estate
What transfers, to whom, and how cleanly.
Beyond the office

We live here too.

Seminars most months, a weekly television show, and a school board seat in Friendswood. If you’ve been to a retirement dinner or a community day on this side of Houston, there’s a fair chance you’ve already met one of us.

A full room at an Impact! Partners Financial dinner seminar
Seminars, most months
Summer A. Roberts of Impact! Partners Financial
The Texas Wealth Report
Meeting room at the Impact! Partners Financial Houston office
The Houston office
Impact! Partners Financial Ambassador program at the Wealth Summit
The Ambassador program
Impact! Partners Financial advisors meeting with clients
Advisors with clients
Impact! Partners Financial team and families at Legacy Family Day in Houston
Legacy Family Day
We support Make-A-Wish Foundation Anchor Point The Bay Area Alliance Junior Achievement
Before you call

The questions everyone asks first

If yours isn’t here, ask it on the 15-minute call — we’d rather answer it early than late.

Yes. We’re obligated to act in your interest, not a product sponsor’s. We’re not captive to any insurance carrier or fund family, and there’s nothing we’re required to sell you. Advisory services are offered through Foundations Investment Advisors, LLC, an SEC-registered investment adviser (CRD #175083).

Advisory fees, disclosed in writing before you ever become a client. You’ll know exactly what you’d pay and what it covers before you decide anything.

Your accounts stay exactly where they are while we talk. The call is yours to learn something useful, and you decide what happens next on your own timeline. Plenty of people go through the process and decide the timing isn’t right — that’s a legitimate outcome.

Retirees and pre-retirees across the Houston metro, mostly in their late fifties and beyond. Engineers, oil and gas professionals, business owners, women navigating a transition, and families who saved carefully and now have to convert it into thirty years of income.

Our headquarters is at 811 FM 1959, Suite 100, near Clear Lake, staffed daily. We also meet clients in Pearland, Katy, and Spring by appointment. Every advisor serves every office.

Either we schedule a longer conversation, or we point you toward whatever would actually help — even if that isn’t us. No follow-up sequence you didn’t ask for.

Take control of your retirement. Make an Impact!

Fifteen minutes with a fiduciary advisor. By phone, or in person at any of our four Houston-area offices.

15-Minute Checkup Call (281) 549-6515The checkup is a real conversation with a Houston advisor — not a screening call, not a sales script. You’ll hear which part of your plan needs attention first, and if we’re not the right firm for you, we’ll tell you that on the call.