Texas · Nonprofit
CITY HOUSE INC
CITY HOUSE INC (Texas) receives grants from 71 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,603,071 to it, the largest being COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC ($796,087). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.0M
- Funders on record
- 71
- Grants received
- $3.6M
- Net assets
- $5.1M
What City House Inc does
Mission
To provide, serve & empower children & young adults experiencing abuse, neglect or homelessness.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
My friend's house is an emergency shelter that provides around-the-clock residential care and services in partnership with child protective services for kids who have been removed from their home due to abuse and/or neglect. Rhy (runaway and homeless youth) are also granted support through my friend's house with an average stay of 21 days, often referred through the juvenile court system, school districts, or word of mouth.my friend's house serves all surrounding counties, and is the only shelter of its kind in collin county that specializes in keeping sibling groups together, and providing services to runaway and homeless youth with a focus on family reunification. My friends house served 54 clients in 2025.city house provides young adults up to 24 years old with financial assistance and services. To prevent further homelessness, young adults are connected with local apartment managers who work with their limited credit and financial history. Services provided include financial training and case management.
$1,274,189 spentof which $352,796 as grants$429,701 earned by the program49% of program spendingOther program services
$741,264 spent28% of program spendingCity house's transitional living program (tlp) is designed to transform the lives of homeless young adults, ages 18 to 21, focusing on helping them grow and learn to live independently. These young adults are aspiring individuals, often coming from a home with unresolved family conflict, having aged out of foster care, or are victims of abuse, neglect, or homelessness.our objective is to provide these young people with the skills and confidence to be self-sufficient, and live independently as contributing members of their community. Tlp served 47 clients in 2025.
$610,623 spent23% of program spendingCity house offers counseling services with licensed, experienced on-staff therapists, focused on prevention of homelessness for at-risk youth and their families. Therapists work with those in the community as well as all city house residential clients focusing on issues such as: threats of running away, at-risk behaviors, family dynamics & relationship conflict, school-based concerns, self-image, and identity issues and acceptance.city house operates a youth resource center for at-risk young adults up to 21 years in a highly accessible location, within walking distance of a dart station and bus stop. The youth resource center offers: food/snacks/clothing/toiletries, transportation assistance, crisis consultation (in person & via phone), access to computers and a resource & reference library, resource referrals & case management, educational assistance, job training & money management, life skills, and counseling.these outreach programs served 99 clients during 2025.
$271 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,626,347.
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 2023 to 2024, from $6.3M to $7.2M (+14%).
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: 2017 34% · 2018 29% · 2019 34% · 2020 34% · 2021 41% · 2022 38% · 2023 37% · 2024 38%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
80% of CITY HOUSE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Sheri Messer
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $213k → $400k.
14 of 71 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 CITY HOUSE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 71 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
CITY HOUSE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
68% 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 CITY HOUSE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 57% · 2019 31% · 2020 23% · 2021 32% · 2022 20% · 2023 18% — 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
39% of CITY HOUSE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
75% of CITY HOUSE 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. $1.5M 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
CITY HOUSE INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding CITY HOUSE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6.3M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$6.3M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CITY HOUSE 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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 CITY HOUSE 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 CITY HOUSE INC?
- CITY HOUSE INC (Texas) receives grants from 71 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,603,071 to it, the largest being COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC ($796,087). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CITY HOUSE INC have?
- IRS filings report 71 organizations giving $3,603,071 in grants to CITY HOUSE INC, 37 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CITY HOUSE INC?
- COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC is the largest funder on record, with $796,087 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CITY HOUSE 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 71 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