Texas · Nonprofit
FAMILY PROMISE OF LAKE HOUSTON
FAMILY PROMISE OF LAKE HOUSTON (Texas) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $533,440 to it, the largest being FAMILY PROMISE INC ($111,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $667k
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $533k
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Family Promise of Lake Houston does
Mission
Family Promise of Lake Houston provides a caring and positive environment for homeless children and their families while they design and execute a plan to break the cycle of homelessness in their lives
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
FPLH utilizes more than 2800 volunteers in a wide range of roles and together have an 86% rate of success in the measure of stability and self-sufficiency. In addition to training programs provided to shelter individuals, FLPH provided all of the same services and support to the outreach program participants. Less the overnight shelter component.
$146,842 spent33% of program spendingFPLH has served over 1250 families, including more than 700 children. In 2024, FLPH has served a total of 176 individuals, 108 of them being children. The individuals were provided full access wrap around case management, shelter or resources for shelter, financial literacy or financial assistance, day center use, and much more for the stabilization and growth of their families.
$146,841 spent33% of program spendingFPLH assesses and refers more than 5200 families per year and operates at less than half the cost of a traditional shelter. FPLH also provided various life skills training to clients, including financial literacy classes, family budgeting classes, relationship skills, career coaching, educational coaching, household management, parenting skills, affordable housing support, and personal growth coaching.
$146,841 spent33% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $440,524.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2022 to 2023, from $1.1M to $1.6M (+36%).
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: 2020 23% · 2021 6% · 2023 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of FAMILY PROMISE OF LAKE HOUSTON’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (37% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 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
Tiffany Venekamp
Executive director
Board chair
Russ Senti
Board president
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $26k → $122k.
5 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 FAMILY PROMISE OF LAKE HOUSTON’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 22 of 23 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
FAMILY PROMISE OF LAKE HOUSTON has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% 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 FAMILY PROMISE OF LAKE HOUSTON.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 57% · 2019 51% · 2020 48% · 2021 43% · 2022 60% · 2023 41% — 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
63% of FAMILY PROMISE OF LAKE HOUSTON's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
FAMILY PROMISE OF LAKE HOUSTON draws 52% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $121k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
FAMILY PROMISE OF LAKE HOUSTON runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,828 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,828 housing & shelter nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like FAMILY PROMISE OF LAKE HOUSTON
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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 FAMILY PROMISE OF LAKE HOUSTON: 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 FAMILY PROMISE OF LAKE HOUSTON?
- FAMILY PROMISE OF LAKE HOUSTON (Texas) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $533,440 to it, the largest being FAMILY PROMISE INC ($111,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FAMILY PROMISE OF LAKE HOUSTON have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $533,440 in grants to FAMILY PROMISE OF LAKE HOUSTON, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FAMILY PROMISE OF LAKE HOUSTON?
- FAMILY PROMISE INC is the largest funder on record, with $111,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FAMILY PROMISE OF LAKE HOUSTON 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 23 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