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ADVERTISING EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF HOUSTON

ADVERTISING EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF HOUSTON (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,500 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($12,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$34k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$17k
Net assets
$417k
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 20%
01What it does

What Advertising Education Foundation of Houston does

Mission

The Advertising Education Foundation of Houston (aefh) mission is to provide academic scholarships to help build the next generation of talent that continues to make the advertising community even more vibrant.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Launched in 2001, the Advertising Education Foundation of Houston mission is to provide academic scholarships to help build the next generation of talent that continues to make the advertising community even more vibrant. Aefh awards scholarships to college sophomores, juniors, and seniors pursuing undergraduate or post graduate degrees in advertising, communications, interactive marketing, journalism, radio/tv/film, commercial art, public relations, strategic communication or related fields. Students attending colleges and universities located in texas, oklahoma, louisiana and arkansas (the four states in which aaf-district 10 is located) are eligible to apply.

    $70,750 spentof which $70,000 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $70,750.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($72k) Expenses 100 ($75k) Net assets 100 ($375k)2018 Revenue 94 ($68k) Expenses 106 ($79k) Net assets 100 ($376k)2019 Revenue 119 ($86k) Expenses 103 ($77k) Net assets 108 ($404k)2020 Revenue 103 ($74k) Expenses 156 ($116k) Net assets 99 ($371k)2021 Revenue 66 ($48k) Expenses 84 ($63k) Net assets 121 ($456k)2022 Revenue 93 ($67k) Expenses 122 ($91k) Net assets 117 ($438k)2023 Revenue 79 ($57k) Expenses 137 ($102k) Net assets 124 ($465k)2024 Revenue 61 ($44k) Expenses 126 ($94k) Net assets 127 ($478k)2025 Revenue 47 ($34k) Expenses 140 ($104k) Net assets 111 ($417k)
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Revenue (47)Expenses (140)Net assets (111)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $373k to $456k (+22%).

$377k
$376k
$404k
$373k
$456k
$438k
$470k
$478k
$417k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

74% of ADVERTISING EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF HOUSTON’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 26,798 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$3k
’17
−$11k
’18
$9k
’19
−$42k
’20
−$15k
’21
−$24k
’22
−$45k
’23
−$50k
’24
−$71k
’25
1.4
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Board chair

Larry Kelley

Chairman/pre

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed131313131312161612
Joined·+0+2+0+0+0+4+1+5
No longer listed·02001019
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $3k → $10k.

Funder
'18
'19
'21
total
funders
1
1
1

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 76% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of ADVERTISING EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF HOUSTON’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

ADVERTISING EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF HOUSTON leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

76% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ADVERTISING EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF HOUSTON.

76%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2021 100% — broadly stable.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

76% of ADVERTISING EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF HOUSTON's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $4k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Texas funders.

TX

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ADVERTISING EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF HOUSTON's revenue fell 53% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−208% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.4mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−9% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like ADVERTISING EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF HOUSTON

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Texas

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

68% of spending goes to programs.

Program 68%Management 32%Fundraising 0%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

48%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds ADVERTISING EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF HOUSTON?
ADVERTISING EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF HOUSTON (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,500 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($12,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does ADVERTISING EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF HOUSTON have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $16,500 in grants to ADVERTISING EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF HOUSTON, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ADVERTISING EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF HOUSTON?
NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $12,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ADVERTISING EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF HOUSTON find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing