Texas · Nonprofit
BIOHOUSTON INC
BIOHOUSTON INC (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $75,275 to it, the largest being TEXAS MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ($40,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $357k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $75k
- Net assets
- $542k
What Biohouston Inc does
Mission
Biohouston Inc is a texas non-profit corporation with the mission of stimulating technology transfer and the commercialization of research, while building a critical mass of life science companies. To accomplish this goal, biohouston established certain programs for life science companies. Biohouston is supported primarily through contributions from its members, associates, the philanthropic community, and revenue from conferences and other events held by the organization.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Support the regional life science industry through educational conferences and networking meetings; biohouston hosts two major annual conferences attracting hundreds, breakfast forums, technology transfer meetings, and other meetings to foster entrepreneurship, education, and networking.
$106,045 spent37% of program spendingFostering entrepreneurship in the life science industry in the region.
$90,358 spent32% of program spendingLeveraging the skills of experts throughout the world to support the development of products and therapies in texas.
$43,936 spent16% of program spendingOther program services
$42,687 spent15% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $283,026.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $386k to $530k (+37%).
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.
16% of BIOHOUSTON INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Ann K Tanabe
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Jeffrey Wade Jd
Chairman of the board
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $22k → $20k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 BIOHOUSTON 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
BIOHOUSTON INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% 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
99% 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 BIOHOUSTON INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 98% · 2020 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
99% of BIOHOUSTON INC's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $35k 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.
Against its field
BIOHOUSTON INC is better cushioned than half of the 13,754 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,754 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like BIOHOUSTON 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
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BIOHOUSTON 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 BIOHOUSTON INC?
- BIOHOUSTON INC (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $75,275 to it, the largest being TEXAS MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ($40,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BIOHOUSTON INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $75,275 in grants to BIOHOUSTON INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BIOHOUSTON INC?
- TEXAS MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $40,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BIOHOUSTON 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 3 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