Texas · Nonprofit
BAY AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY - HOUSTON INC
BAY AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY - HOUSTON INC (Texas) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,291,287 to it, the largest being HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC ($982,389). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $2.3M
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Bay Area Habitat for Humanity - Houston Inc does
Mission
Bahfh is an affiliate of habitat for humanity intl, an ecumenical christian non-profit which is committed to eliminating substandard housing & homelessness worldwide. Since 1991, bahfh has been building safe, affordable homes in galveston, se harris and northern brazoria counties
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Built 3 new homes for families in need for the purpose of establishing financial stability, family/social stability and community stability through home ownership. Provided those 3 families interst free mortgage loans for their new homes. Continued to provide mortgage services(through a third party servicer) to almost 100 homeowners for whom bahfh has built homes over the last 25 years.
$746,034 spent$515,364 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $746,034.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $2.8M to $2.2M (−21%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 16% · 2022 5% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Chief executive
Megan Scheffer
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $133k → $303k.
4 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 BAY AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY - HOUSTON INC’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
BAY AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY - HOUSTON INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
89% 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 BAY AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY - HOUSTON INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 64% · 2019 61% · 2020 82% · 2021 100% · 2022 77% · 2023 41% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
27% of BAY AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY - HOUSTON INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
BAY AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY - HOUSTON INC draws 87% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $367k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states 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.
Organizations like BAY AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY - HOUSTON INC
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
67%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BAY AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY - HOUSTON INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BAY AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY - HOUSTON INC?
- BAY AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY - HOUSTON INC (Texas) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,291,287 to it, the largest being HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC ($982,389). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BAY AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY - HOUSTON INC have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $2,291,287 in grants to BAY AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY - HOUSTON INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BAY AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY - HOUSTON INC?
- HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC is the largest funder on record, with $982,389 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BAY AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY - HOUSTON INC 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 20 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