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BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF METROPOLITAN HOUSTON INC

BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF METROPOLITAN HOUSTON INC (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $12,000 to it, the largest being RAINFOREST CAFE FRIENDS OF THE FUTURE FOUNDATION ($12,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$4.6M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$12k
Net assets
$2.1M
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Better Business Bureau of Metropolitan Houston Inc does

Mission

To promote and foster the highest ethical relationship between businesses and the public through self-regulation, customer and business education, and service excellence.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Accreditation: recruits new members that qualify to support the better business bureau.

  2. Business services: provides services to the member companies after approval including: taking their calls, sending out member kits, making updates, and mailing renewal notices.

  3. Information services: the call and information services center for the better business bureau that answers calls from the public, including businesses and consumers. They answer approximately 31,000 calls or live chat sessions per year.

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($6.1M) Expenses 100 ($5.5M) Net assets 100 ($3.1M)2018 Revenue 93 ($5.7M) Expenses 99 ($5.4M) Net assets 107 ($3.3M)2019 Revenue 86 ($5.3M) Expenses 93 ($5.1M) Net assets 112 ($3.4M)2020 Revenue 82 ($5.0M) Expenses 87 ($4.8M) Net assets 66 ($2.0M)2021 Revenue 82 ($5.0M) Expenses 81 ($4.4M) Net assets 83 ($2.6M)2022 Revenue 77 ($4.7M) Expenses 82 ($4.5M) Net assets 86 ($2.6M)2023 Revenue 71 ($4.3M) Expenses 80 ($4.4M) Net assets 68 ($2.1M)2024 Revenue 75 ($4.6M) Expenses 83 ($4.5M) Net assets 68 ($2.1M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Revenue (75)Expenses (83)Net assets (68)

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 $4.7M to $5.8M (+24%).

$3.8M
$4.0M
$4.1M
$4.5M
$4.7M
$4.7M
$5.8M
$5.3M
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$609k
’17
$216k
’18
$141k
’19
$209k
’20
$543k
’21
$185k
’22
−$59k
’23
$24k
’24
11
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

Alvin Gee

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

2017201820192020202120232024
Listed54525053545960
Joined·+9+2+13+3·+5
No longer listed·114102·4
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'23
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF METROPOLITAN 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.

Where its funders are

100% of BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF METROPOLITAN HOUSTON INC's grant income comes from Texas funders.

TX

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

Organizations like BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF METROPOLITAN 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

05Profile & governance

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

Governance

45
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Better Business Bureau of Metropolitan Houston Educational Foundation · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF METROPOLITAN 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 BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF METROPOLITAN HOUSTON INC?
BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF METROPOLITAN HOUSTON INC (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $12,000 to it, the largest being RAINFOREST CAFE FRIENDS OF THE FUTURE FOUNDATION ($12,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF METROPOLITAN HOUSTON INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $12,000 in grants to BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF METROPOLITAN HOUSTON INC.
Who is the largest funder of BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF METROPOLITAN HOUSTON INC?
RAINFOREST CAFE FRIENDS OF THE FUTURE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $12,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF METROPOLITAN 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.

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 1 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