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Caring Friends Inc

Caring Friends Inc (Texas) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $523,541 to it, the largest being GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($265,250). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$15k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$524k
Net assets
$0
6/8 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Caring Friends Inc does

Mission

Caring Friends learns from the underserved, targets hand-up responses to human needs, serves without regard to race, gender, or religious affiliation, and derives its ethos from the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Caring Friends focuses on children at risk, offers awards to refugee youth and their collegiate mentors, promotes in-school and after-school reading initiatives, supports ex-offender re-entry programs, encourages the repair of used medical equipment for use in developing countries, and targets preventive healthcare efforts among Latinos.The Board of Directors of Caring Friends voted to terminate operations and dissolve as of December 31, 2025.

    $92,080 spentof which $79,383 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $92,080.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($207k) Expenses 100 ($182k) Net assets 100 ($157k)2018 Revenue 77 ($160k) Expenses 86 ($157k) Net assets 102 ($160k)2019 Revenue 84 ($174k) Expenses 97 ($176k) Net assets 101 ($158k)2020 Revenue 81 ($167k) Expenses 91 ($165k) Net assets 102 ($161k)2021 Revenue 133 ($274k) Expenses 75 ($137k) Net assets 190 ($299k)2022 Revenue 45 ($93k) Expenses 85 ($155k) Net assets 151 ($237k)2023 Revenue 20 ($41k) Expenses 71 ($128k) Net assets 95 ($150k)2024 Revenue 33 ($68k) Expenses 72 ($131k) Net assets 55 ($87k)2025 Revenue 7 ($15k) Expenses 56 ($101k) Net assets 0 ($0)
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Revenue (7)Expenses (56)Net assets (0)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $161k to $299k (+85%).

$157k
$160k
$158k
$161k
$299k
$237k
$150k
$87k
$0
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of Caring Friends Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,498 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$25k
’17
$3k
’18
−$2k
’19
$3k
’20
$138k
’21
−$62k
’22
−$87k
’23
−$63k
’24
−$87k
’25
26
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

Jeff Springmeyer

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

20172021
Listed44
Joined··
No longer listed··
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 4 funders, grant income fell $86k → $65k.

4 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 85% 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 Caring Friends 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

Caring Friends Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

85% 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 Caring Friends Inc.

51%
largest funder
85%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 68% · 2019 78% · 2020 68% · 2021 44% · 2022 100% · 2023 75% — broadly stable.

“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

80% of Caring Friends Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

85% of Caring Friends Inc's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $81k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Texas funders.

TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $443k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Caring Friends Inc's revenue fell 93% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−592% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−28% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,787 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

76%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds Caring Friends Inc?
Caring Friends Inc (Texas) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $523,541 to it, the largest being GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($265,250). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Caring Friends Inc have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $523,541 in grants to Caring Friends Inc, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Caring Friends Inc?
GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $265,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Caring Friends 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 8 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