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FRIENDS OF BARC INC

FRIENDS OF BARC INC (Texas) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $121,978 to it, the largest being GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($42,100). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$213k
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$122k
Net assets
$300k
7/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 38%
01What it does

What Friends of Barc Inc does

Mission

Prevention of cruelty to animals

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Support of the humane care and treatment of animals at the city of houston's bureau of animal regulation and care ("barc"): friends of barc assists with the provision of nutritious dog and cat food, veterinary supplies and drugs, and other items as needed. The organization also helps supervise and staff off-site adoption sites and the adoption of dogs and cats into permanent homes and underwrites spay/neuter surgery for animals in the adoption program and feral animals.

    $81,115 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $81,115.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($116k) Expenses 100 ($130k) Net assets 100 ($137k)2020 Revenue 131 ($151k) Expenses 114 ($148k) Net assets 103 ($140k)2021 Revenue 60 ($69k) Expenses 51 ($66k) Net assets 108 ($148k)2022 Revenue 77 ($89k) Expenses 53 ($69k) Net assets 122 ($167k)2023 Revenue 73 ($84k) Expenses 44 ($57k) Net assets 142 ($195k)2024 Revenue 184 ($213k) Expenses 83 ($108k) Net assets 219 ($300k)
201920202021202220232024
Revenue (184)Expenses (83)Net assets (219)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $201k to $300k (+49%).

$137k
$140k
$177k
$185k
$201k
$300k
201920202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

72% of FRIENDS OF BARC INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,042 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

−$14k
’19
$3k
’20
$2k
’21
$20k
’22
$27k
’23
$105k
’24
33
months of
reserve
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $7k → $409.

4 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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 FRIENDS OF BARC INC’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

FRIENDS OF BARC INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

92% 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 FRIENDS OF BARC INC.

35%
largest funder
67%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 66% · 2018 74% · 2019 46% · 2020 56% · 2021 65% · 2022 52% · 2023 100% — 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

33% of FRIENDS OF BARC INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

59% of FRIENDS OF BARC 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 $50k that is directly attributable, 72% of it comes from funders outside Texas, across 6 states.

WA
IL
NY
DE
AZ
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $72k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

FRIENDS OF BARC INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,435 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin49% · top quartile
Months of reserve33.2mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)13% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,435 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like FRIENDS OF BARC INC

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

71% of spending goes to programs.

Program 71%Management 29%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

92%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

TX

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Questions and answers

Who funds FRIENDS OF BARC INC?
FRIENDS OF BARC INC (Texas) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $121,978 to it, the largest being GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($42,100). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does FRIENDS OF BARC INC have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $121,978 in grants to FRIENDS OF BARC INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF BARC INC?
GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $42,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FRIENDS OF BARC 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), 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