Texas · Nonprofit
FORT BEND FAMILY PROMISE
FORT BEND FAMILY PROMISE (Texas) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,338,954 to it, the largest being THE HENDERSON-WESSENDORFF FOUNDATION ($1,663,010). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 37
- Grants received
- $3.3M
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Fort Bend Family Promise does
Mission
To provide shelter, meals, and comprehensive support to families without homes.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
General operating - Fort Bend Family Promise provides emergency shelter, meals, and case management to families experiencing housing insecurity in fort bend county. Through partnerships with local congregations, community organizations, and volunteers, the program offers a stable environment while parents work toward long-term housing solutions and financial independence. During the reporting year, the program served 163 families, including 408 children, helping 88% transition into permanent housing. Services included transportation, budgeting assistance, employment readiness, and school support for youth.
$296,549 spent$100 earned by the program56% of program spendingProgram management - program management at Fort Bend Family Promise represents the strategic, operational, and administrative backbone that powers every aspect of our mission to stabilize families experiencing housing insecurity. This cost center reflects the leadership, infrastructure, and coordinated service delivery necessary to operate a 24/7 family shelter, multiple static-site apartments, transportation systems, youth programs, and community-supported initiatives across fort bend county. Program management encompasses the work of the executive director (75% allocation), the human resources & finance manager, and related administrative functions that ensure high-quality, compliant, and effective program delivery. Activities include program oversight, fiscal stewardship, staff supervision, volunteer engagement systems, partnership development, compliance with state and federal regulations, outcome tracking, reporting, and the integration of services across housing navigation, shelter coordination, youth empowerment, transportation, and diversion programs. These functions safeguard the continuity, safety, and impact of fbfp's core programs by: leading and managing…
$144,887 spent28% of program spendingYouth empowerment planning - the yep! (youth empowerment planning) programoffers comprehensive enrichment, mentoring, and support services to teens who are residing with their parents and experiencing housing instability. Through this initiative, fbfp partners with schools, community organizations and mentoring volunteers to provide: after-school tutoring, homework support, and recreational activities for 285 youth. Life-skills workshops (budgeting, job readiness, digital literacy) for 285 participants. Annual summer camp sponsorships (e.g., kaa camp) and extracurricular team support (band, sports, cheer) for 20 youth. In the reporting year, yep! Served 162 teens from 163 family-units, of whom 100% advanced to on-time grade promotion and 100% participated in at least three enrichment activities. This program contributes to fbfp's mission of enabling youth to succeed in school and community life while their families move toward housing stability.
$29,088 spent6% of program spendingOther programs which include gas cap, home of my own, family center and shelter coordination.
$55,560 spent11% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $526,084.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.2M to $2.0M (+60%).
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: 2021 7% · 2022 32% · 2023 22% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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
Vera Johnson
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $43k → $688k.
7 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 FORT BEND FAMILY PROMISE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 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
FORT BEND FAMILY PROMISE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 23% · 2018 54% · 2019 50% · 2020 47% · 2021 40% · 2022 41% · 2023 65% — 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
46% of FORT BEND FAMILY PROMISE'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
96% of FORT BEND FAMILY PROMISE's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $222k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 FORT BEND FAMILY PROMISE
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
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
55%
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 FORT BEND FAMILY PROMISE: 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 FORT BEND FAMILY PROMISE?
- FORT BEND FAMILY PROMISE (Texas) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,338,954 to it, the largest being THE HENDERSON-WESSENDORFF FOUNDATION ($1,663,010). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FORT BEND FAMILY PROMISE have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $3,338,954 in grants to FORT BEND FAMILY PROMISE, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FORT BEND FAMILY PROMISE?
- THE HENDERSON-WESSENDORFF FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,663,010 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FORT BEND FAMILY PROMISE 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 37 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