Texas · Nonprofit
Breakthrough Houston
Breakthrough Houston (Texas) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,807,054 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,105,250). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 60
- Grants received
- $6.8M
- Net assets
- $4.4M
What Breakthrough Houston does
Mission
The mission of Breakthrough Houston (BTH) is to work with highly motivated students to achieve post-secondary success and empower aspiring leaders to become the next generation of educational advocates.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Middle School Program offers comprehensive support to rising seventh, eighth, and ninth grade students throughout the summer and school year. During the summer, students participate in an immersive six week summer camp that includes a rigorous academic curriculum. In addition, students are engaged in leadership lessons to support the development of essential professional skills. Throughout the school year students convene on twelve Saturday mornings between September and April to continue building on the academic and social progress developed during the summer. The School Year Program leverages a Project Based Learning (PBL) curriculum, a unique teaching method in which students learn by actively engaging in real-world and personally meaningful projects.
$951,781 spent56% of program spendingThe College Bound Program provides holistic support for BTH high school students to thrive in high school and confidently navigate the college admissions process. Established in 2008, the program offers a unique grade level-based approach to support students in the challenges impacting students each year throughout high school. The ninth grade program begins with a Freshman Seminar, which promotes essential and transferable skills to support students during this major change to high school. The tenth grade students begin investigating their personal interests through experiential learning opportunities including career shadowing, college exploration, and summer internships. Continued on Schedule OThe eleventh grade students start the college search process in earnest by building their college list, engaging in free SAT/ACT test preparation, and developing their personal statements for college admissions. The twelfth grade students focus on the final steps in their college admissions process, including polishing their short answers, submitting financial aid applications, weighing decisions, and making a transition plan.
$409,765 spent24% of program spendingTo prepare new teachers for a career in education or education advocacy, college students serve as our summer teachers, or Teaching Fellows (TFs) in our Middle School Program. Veteran Instructors serve as coaches during the summer and provide a two week training program for TFs which provides space to learn and apply research-based, effective teaching strategies for lesson planning, classroom management, and relationship building. Throughout the summer, TFs will receive over 50 hours of solo teaching experience, 30 hours of coaching, and 5 hours of targeted professional development.
$180,745 spent11% of program spendingEstablished in 2019, the College Completion Program provides wraparound support to BTH college students as they navigate the varied challenges that often prevent first generation students from completing their degrees. Support for academics, financial support and belongingness often comes in the form of one-on-one advising. In addition, the College Completion Program offers peer-to-peer mentoring through our Uni-T's program which allows BTH upperclassmen to formally mentor to BTH underclassmen.
$162,000 spentof which $18,246 as grants10% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,704,291.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2023 to 2024, from $3.8M to $5.1M (+34%).
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 10% · 2022 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
103% of Breakthrough Houston’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 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.
Board chair
Richard Moore
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 36 funders, grant income rose $33k → $1.5M.
13 of 60 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 Breakthrough Houston’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 60 funders by total. 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
Breakthrough Houston has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
29% 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 Breakthrough Houston.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 77% · 2018 69% · 2019 41% · 2020 49% · 2021 22% · 2022 27% · 2023 14% — 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
72% of Breakthrough Houston's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
92% of Breakthrough Houston's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.
Against its field
Breakthrough Houston's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 36 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Breakthrough 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Breakthrough Houston: 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 Breakthrough Houston?
- Breakthrough Houston (Texas) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,807,054 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,105,250). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Breakthrough Houston have?
- IRS filings report 60 organizations giving $6,807,054 in grants to Breakthrough Houston, 37 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Breakthrough Houston?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,105,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Breakthrough 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 60 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing