Texas · Nonprofit
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF HOUSTON INC
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF HOUSTON INC (Texas) receives grants from 109 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,743,561 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($13,000,000). 62 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $20M
- Funders on record
- 109
- Grants received
- $32M
- Net assets
- $21M
What Communities in Schools of Houston Inc does
Mission
The mission of cis is to surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. We accomplish this through a school-based student support manager who connects students and families to community resources.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Supportive guidance - cis of houston provided 128,575 hours of individual and supportive counseling.
$6,640,481 spent36% of program spendingHealth and human services - cis of houston provided 68,783 hours of health and human services.
$3,552,419 spent20% of program spendingCultural enrichment - cis of houston provided 69,357 hours of cultural enrichment services.
$3,582,064 spent20% of program spendingParental involvement, academic enhancement, other.
$4,436,095 spent24% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $18,211,059.
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. 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 2021 to 2022, from $8.5M to $23M (+169%).
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: 2018 51% · 2019 63% · 2020 60% · 2021 62% · 2022 37% · 2023 65% · 2024 58% · 2025 51%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF HOUSTON INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (23% 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
Lisa Descant
CEO
Board chair
Omar C Reid
Board president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 30 funders to 43 funders, grant income rose $2.1M → $2.8M.
15 of 109 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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 COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF HOUSTON INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 109 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
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF HOUSTON INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 57%; half comes from just 3 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
65% 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 COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF HOUSTON INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 19% · 2019 39% · 2020 40% · 2021 40% · 2022 84% · 2023 11% — 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
42% of COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF HOUSTON INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
55% of COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF HOUSTON 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 $14M that is directly attributable, 94% of it comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $18M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF HOUSTON INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF HOUSTON 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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF HOUSTON 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 COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF HOUSTON INC?
- COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF HOUSTON INC (Texas) receives grants from 109 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,743,561 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($13,000,000). 62 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF HOUSTON INC have?
- IRS filings report 109 organizations giving $31,743,561 in grants to COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF HOUSTON INC, 62 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF HOUSTON INC?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $13,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF HOUSTON 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 109 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