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CHARLES HAMILTON HOUSTON INSTITUTE INC

CHARLES HAMILTON HOUSTON INSTITUTE INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $482,538 to it, the largest being TRUSTAGE FOUNDATION INC ($200,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2022
—
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$483k
Net assets
$0
4/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 71%
01What it does

What Charles Hamilton Houston Institute Inc does

Mission

The charles hamilton houston institute's mission is preparing black and other youth for economic indepdence by focusing on: self esteem, health, goal-setting, academic achievement, study skills, diploma and degree completion, work skills, business opportunities, service to others and citizenship.

As stated on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. This program provided covid-19 vaccine information to the community and promoted vaccination programs in under served communities.

  2. Dear diary- this program prepares young middle school and high school girls for academic and life skills for successful diploma completion.

  3. Stars program- providing our community's youngest scholars with the head start they need to succeed by ensuring they have the basic skills of alphabet, colors and numbers for their age category.

  4. Teacher, recruitment, education and placement project with the school districts to identify candiates who share the dream of being an educator.

The 4 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($526k) Expenses 100 ($101k) Net assets 100 ($432k)2019 Revenue 12 ($66k) Expenses 358 ($364k) Net assets 31 ($134k)2020 Revenue 31 ($164k) Expenses 227 ($230k) Net assets 16 ($68k)2021 Revenue 71 ($372k) Expenses 373 ($379k) Net assets 13 ($58k)2022 Net assets 0 ($0)
20182019202020212022
Revenue (71)Expenses (373)Net assets (0)

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 $432k to $134k (−69%).

$432k
$134k
$68k
$58k
$0
20182019202020212022
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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 59%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$425k
’18
−$298k
’19
−$66k
’20
−$6k
’21
’22
1.8
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.

20182021
Listed84
Joined··
No longer listed··
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $3k → $100k.

1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 CHARLES HAMILTON HOUSTON INSTITUTE 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

CHARLES HAMILTON HOUSTON INSTITUTE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

58% 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 CHARLES HAMILTON HOUSTON INSTITUTE INC.

41%
largest funder
94%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 95% · 2020 91% · 2021 42% · 2022 100% — 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.

Where its funders are

94% of CHARLES HAMILTON HOUSTON INSTITUTE INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.

WI
KS

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
Wisconsin out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $54k 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.

04Its place in the field

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

100%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds CHARLES HAMILTON HOUSTON INSTITUTE INC?
CHARLES HAMILTON HOUSTON INSTITUTE INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $482,538 to it, the largest being TRUSTAGE FOUNDATION INC ($200,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CHARLES HAMILTON HOUSTON INSTITUTE INC have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $482,538 in grants to CHARLES HAMILTON HOUSTON INSTITUTE INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CHARLES HAMILTON HOUSTON INSTITUTE INC?
TRUSTAGE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CHARLES HAMILTON HOUSTON INSTITUTE INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 FY2022 (financials across 2018–2021), and the filings of 5 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