Greater Houston Community Foundation

Analysis

Greater Houston Community Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Houston, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 2017, 9 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. The IRS classifies it as a supporting organisation (type i) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Greater Houston Community Foundation reported income of $70k and spending of $138k, spending 196% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $105k to $70k (-33%), an average of -9.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 240%. Over the whole period it spent 110% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Greater Houston Community Foundation sits at the 34th percentile: it is larger than about 34% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 28th percentile, and in the 29th percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Lynchburg Museum Foundation ($70k), Port Arthur Police Blue Santa ($70k) and Bayou Villages Chapter National Charity League Inc ($70k).

At year end it held assets of $2.3m against liabilities of $82k, net assets of $2.2m.