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BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF METROPOLITAN HOUSTON EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF METROPOLITAN HOUSTON EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $240,000 to it, the largest being Better Business Bureau of Metropolitan Houston Inc ($240,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF METROPOLITAN HOUSTON EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,197 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,197 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Houston Arts Alliancelocal
- The Khourie Family Foundationportfolio match
- Memorial Hermann Health Systemportfolio match
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.
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: 2017 72% · 2018 76% · 2019 70% · 2020 77% · 2021 80% · 2022 104% · 2023 93% · 2024 90%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF METROPOLITAN HOUSTON EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2020: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $60k.
From the IRS filings of BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF METROPOLITAN HOUSTON EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
Where its funders are
100% of BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF METROPOLITAN HOUSTON EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Houston Arts AlliancelocalTX · funds 276 organizations near you
- The Khourie Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Memorial Hermann Health Systemportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hobby Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Garver Black Hilyard Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Robert and Janice McNair Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- University of Maryland Medical System Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Thompson & Knight Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Felvis Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Leland Fikes Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Robert & Kathey Anderson Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Health Choice Texas Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF METROPOLITAN HOUSTON EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Better Business Bureau of Metropolitan Houston Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF METROPOLITAN HOUSTON EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF METROPOLITAN HOUSTON EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION?
- BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF METROPOLITAN HOUSTON EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $240,000 to it, the largest being Better Business Bureau of Metropolitan Houston Inc ($240,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF METROPOLITAN HOUSTON EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $240,000 in grants to BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF METROPOLITAN HOUSTON EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF METROPOLITAN HOUSTON EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION?
- Better Business Bureau of Metropolitan Houston Inc is the largest funder on record, with $240,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF METROPOLITAN HOUSTON EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1funders 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing