The Houston Seminar

Analysis

The Houston Seminar is a registered charity in United States, based in Houston, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1977, 49 years ago. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending May 2023, The Houston Seminar reported income of $231k and spending of $217k, spending 94% of its income. Across the 3 years on record, from May 2019 to May 2023, income grew from $215k to $231k (+7.6%), an average of +3.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to May 2023, when income rose by 24%. Over the whole period it spent 96% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, The Houston Seminar sits at the 55th percentile: it is larger than about 55% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 57th percentile, and in the 61st percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Guildfield Housing Development Corporation ($231k), Henderson County Food Pantry ($231k) and Western Ohio Japanese Language School ($231k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending May 2023, revenue came from program service revenue 99% of the total. At year end it held assets of $240k against liabilities of $2,700, net assets of $237k.