Texas · Nonprofit
FORT BEND REGIONAL COUNCIL ON SUBSTANCE ABUSE
FORT BEND REGIONAL COUNCIL ON SUBSTANCE ABUSE (Texas) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,131,951 to it, the largest being United Way of Greater Houston ($1,186,381). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.5M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $2.1M
- Net assets
- $966k
What Fort Bend Regional Council on Substance Abuse does
Mission
Fort Bend Regional Council on Substance Abuse's mission is providing families and individuals substance abuse prevention, education, and treatment services they need for positive change for themselves and the community. This is accomplished through adult substance use disorder treatment programs and education classes and youth counseling and prevention programs.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Treatment programs:in 2025, fbrc admitted 901 adults to the substance abuse treatment program which included both state funded, medicaid, specialty court and other community participants. These client were seen both in-person and via telehealth.
$2,308,532 spent$1,190 earned by the program58% of program spendingYouth services program:in 2025, fbrc's youth services provided prevention education and skills training to 3,962 youth in their schools. This was done through in-person interaction with students, using the structured evidenced-based youth connection, positive action and the life skills training programs. Fbrc's prevention team involved 67,815 youth and 18,828 adults in 2,085 community presentations and positive alternative activities. Fbrc continued social media outreach through campaigns that included 490 messages related to youth substance use prevention, these included positive messages about behavioral health and linked our community to resources.
$1,086,804 spent$2,815 earned by the program27% of program spendingCommunity programs:fbrc's "fort bend community prevention coalition" began in 2013, its goal is to prevent substance use among youth through environmental strategies. The coalition's 42 adult members attended 18 meetings during 2025. This group planned the 10th annual drug symposium to educate our community about current drug trends and related prevention topics. The symposium was attended by 315 community members. Cumulatively, including community presentations and special events, fbrc's youth program reached 90,920 people in our community.
$592,208 spent$1,247,301 earned by the program15% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,987,544.
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 2022 to 2023, from $941k to $1.5M (+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: 2017 60% · 2018 64% · 2019 63% · 2020 57% · 2021 74% · 2022 72% · 2023 62% · 2024 61%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
71% of FORT BEND REGIONAL COUNCIL ON SUBSTANCE ABUSE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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 Poynor
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $222k → $300k.
2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 REGIONAL COUNCIL ON SUBSTANCE ABUSE’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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 REGIONAL COUNCIL ON SUBSTANCE ABUSE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
57% 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 FORT BEND REGIONAL COUNCIL ON SUBSTANCE ABUSE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2018 94% · 2019 68% · 2020 63% · 2021 42% · 2022 43% · 2023 37% — 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
63% of FORT BEND REGIONAL COUNCIL ON SUBSTANCE ABUSE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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
100% of FORT BEND REGIONAL COUNCIL ON SUBSTANCE ABUSE's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
FORT BEND REGIONAL COUNCIL ON SUBSTANCE ABUSE's funding base is broadening — from 5 funders to 6 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,121 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding FORT BEND REGIONAL COUNCIL ON SUBSTANCE ABUSE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.4M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$4.4M
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 FORT BEND REGIONAL COUNCIL ON SUBSTANCE ABUSE
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
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FORT BEND REGIONAL COUNCIL ON SUBSTANCE ABUSE?
- FORT BEND REGIONAL COUNCIL ON SUBSTANCE ABUSE (Texas) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,131,951 to it, the largest being United Way of Greater Houston ($1,186,381). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FORT BEND REGIONAL COUNCIL ON SUBSTANCE ABUSE have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $2,131,951 in grants to FORT BEND REGIONAL COUNCIL ON SUBSTANCE ABUSE, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FORT BEND REGIONAL COUNCIL ON SUBSTANCE ABUSE?
- United Way of Greater Houston is the largest funder on record, with $1,186,381 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FORT BEND REGIONAL COUNCIL ON SUBSTANCE ABUSE 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 11 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