Houston Dow Institute Inc

Analysis

Houston Dow Institute Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Houston, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2014, 12 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 publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Houston Dow Institute Inc reported income of $66k and spending of $37k, leaving 44% of income unspent that year. Across the 2 years on record, from December 2022 to December 2023, income grew from $51k to $66k (+30%), an average of +30% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 30%. Over the whole period it spent 67% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Houston Dow Institute Inc sits at the 32nd percentile: it is larger than about 32% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 26th percentile, and in the 27th percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include United Way of Nodaway County ($66k), Dca Inc ($66k) and Bca Foundation ($66k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 1.4% and program service revenue 0.3% of the total. At year end it held assets of $77k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $77k.