Houston Jewish Family Foundation

Analysis

Houston Jewish Family Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Houston, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1988, 38 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. The IRS classifies it as a supporting organisation under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Houston Jewish Family Foundation reported income of $11.3m and spending of $868k, leaving 92% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $436k to $11.3m (+2482%), an average of +125% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 320%. Over the whole period it spent 11% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Houston Jewish Family Foundation sits at the 95th percentile: it is larger than about 95% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 95th percentile, and in the 97th percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Woodstock Christian Life Services ($11.2m), Family Service Assoc of Bucks County ($11.3m) and Kids Wish Network Inc ($11.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 97% of the total. At year end it held assets of $28.9m against liabilities of $184k, net assets of $28.7m.