Texas · Nonprofit
Crime Stoppers of Houston Inc
Crime Stoppers of Houston Inc (Texas) receives grants from 69 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,302,564 to it, the largest being GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,164,095). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.8M
- Funders on record
- 69
- Grants received
- $5.3M
- Net assets
- $13M
What Crime Stoppers of Houston Inc does
Mission
Crime Stoppers of Houston's mission is to solve and prevent crime in the Greater Houston area in partnership with citizens, media and the criminal justice system.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Safe School Institute: The Crime Stoppers of Houston (CSOH) Safe School Institute (SSI) exists to prevent violence and promote safer learning environments by delivering age-appropriate, evidence-based safety education to students, educators, and school communities across Texas. SSI programs include in-person and digital student safety presentations, educator training, youth engagement initiatives, reporting tools, and statewide prevention campaigns such as Million for Million.Continued on Schedule O.In 2025, SSI expanded safety access and visibility statewide by launching new instructional content on consent, AI awareness, digital literacy, and mental health; producing a new TIPS reporting video; and delivering Spanish-language virtual training series for educators across all 20 Education Service Centers. SSI strengthened partnerships through 12 new MOUs, supported new Safe School programs in additional counties, distributed more than 2,300 backpacks to Title I schools across multiple regions, and engaged over 100 student volunteers while assembling 3,000+ Child ID Kits. During the year, SSI reached 245,892 students with face-to-face education, 17.6 million students via digital…
$1,583,078 spent39% of program spendingTip Line Program: CSOH operates 713-222-TIPS, a telephone tip line. Information about criminal activity is received and transferred to law enforcement for immediate action. Callers are promised anonymity and cash rewards of up to $5,000 in exchange for accurate crime tips. Our organization provides a safe forum for citizens to report crime in their neighborhoods and schools without the fear of retaliation. We are the eyes and ears of law enforcement in the community.Continued on Schedule O.In 2025, the Tip Line received 11,869 tips which assisted law enforcement in solving 359 cases ranging from Capital Murder to Fugitive Warrants that led to 201 suspects being charged and/or arrested. These tips resulted in the seizure of 33 weapons and $526,109.85 in illegal drugs seized plus $712,530 in stolen property/cash recovered. The approved Reward payout to 180 men, women and students totaled $204,150. CSOH received $43,597 of restricted cash from court fines to help pay tipster rewards and three area law enforcement agencies donated services valued at $1,969,000 to process and investigate the anonymous tips.
$1,573,663 spentof which $3,052 as grants39% of program spendingThe Safe Community Institute advances public safety by equipping communities, professionals, and public safety stakeholder with prevention education, victim-centered advocacy, and data-driven insights that strengthen systems and reduce harm. SCI programs include the Safe Community Program, Victim Services, the NEEDS Program, the Glenda Gordy Research Center (GGRC), and The Balanced Voice podcast.Continued on Schedule O.In 2025, SCI achieved significant statewide impact by providing statistics to aid Texas lawmakers writing public safety legislation, launching a redesigned GGRC crime data website, expanding The Balanced Voice with a fully Spanish-language series, and creating the Texas Victims' Rights and Support Hub set to launch in 2026. SCI also delivered new content addressing emerging risks, including a 12-part AI video series and adult mental health resources, hosted its largest volunteer event to date with 400 students assembling Child ID Kits, and established 10 new partnerships. Through digital platforms, research tools, advocacy, and direct services, the Safe Community Institute reached more than 1 million community members in 2025 and contributed to a total…
$907,172 spent22% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,063,913.
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.
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 $16M to $14M (−7%).
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 70% · 2018 4% · 2019 2% · 2020 55% · 2021 49% · 2022 28% · 2023 36% · 2024 28% · 2025 28%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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
Rania Mankarious
CEO
Board chair
Chris Massey
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 27 funders, grant income rose $207k → $974k.
14 of 69 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 Crime Stoppers of Houston Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 69 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
Crime Stoppers of Houston Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
54% 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 Crime Stoppers of Houston Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 17% · 2018 24% · 2019 14% · 2020 35% · 2021 50% · 2022 20% · 2023 39% — growing more concentrated.
“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
44% of Crime Stoppers of Houston Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
97% of Crime Stoppers of Houston 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. $2.4M 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.
Organizations like Crime Stoppers 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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Crime Stoppers 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 Crime Stoppers of Houston Inc?
- Crime Stoppers of Houston Inc (Texas) receives grants from 69 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,302,564 to it, the largest being GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,164,095). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Crime Stoppers of Houston Inc have?
- IRS filings report 69 organizations giving $5,302,564 in grants to Crime Stoppers of Houston Inc, 38 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Crime Stoppers of Houston Inc?
- GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,164,095 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Crime Stoppers 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.
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 69 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