Texas · Nonprofit
FYIMS INC
FYIMS INC (Texas) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,440,204 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($233,647). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 39
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $4.7M
What Fyims Inc does
Mission
We save animals' lives. We find creative ways to do it and are passionate about success at it. Animals are our primary clients and everything we do is based on what is in their best interest individually, or as a group.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Friends for life [ffl] is the only no kill, leed-certified shelter in houston and we have created programs that are completely unique within the animal welfare industry. We are thought leaders in the animal welfare community and have a significant and growing list of "firsts and onlys" in the field. We mentor over 40 other shelters in progressive methods of lifesaving. Houstonians (and animal advocates everywhere) are aching to end the killing of animals in shelters. The media coverage is passionate. Yet, until ffl started new and progressive programs, nothing had changed in the way houston animal shelters work since 1924. Even among no kill programs, ffl is unique in our engagement with the community, the way that we organize our leadership and governance, the emphasis we place on a professional animal behavior department, our support of targeted, data-driven trap-neuter-return programs and our commitment to the principles of nonviolent communication. From a programmatic standpoint, rather than exclusively taking animals from city or county agencies, a voluntary constraint many no kill shelters place upon themselves, ffl is a partner to the community as a whole and accepts…
$1,369,262 spent$50,928 earned by the program88% of program spendingFix houston trap-neuter-return community cat initiative:our fix houston initiative has kept 110,000 animals out of our shelter or anyone else's by providing free spay/neuter services to areas of houston that do not have access to basic veterinary care. The fix houston program is the first of its kind in houston, creating a public/ private relationship with the city. According to city intake /euthanasia data at barc, fix houston has had a major impact in the areas where we have focused our efforts. The fix houston initiative has provided more than 5,500 free spay/neuter surgeries since its creation in 2013. This has prevented more than 110,000 births. The fix houston initiative includes a targeted tnr program that has stabilized community cat colonies in the zip code with the highest rates of citizen complaints and turn-ins to animal control, according to city data. To make this work, we systematically "block walk" neighborhoods to identify areas that need spay/neuter help, cat colony management, food assistance, and animal support. In this way, we are building the working relationship that has long been missing between shelters and the community. We serve both - the community cat…
$186,718 spent12% of program spendingThinking outside the shelter program:the goal of our "thinking outside the shelter" program is to keep animals out of shelters. We achieve this in two ways: supporting families through difficult times and enabling them to keep their pets; and by spaying/neutering and returning healthy community cats. Keeping animals (owned, or community) out of the shelter system is a win for everyone. We assist families with low-cost vaccinations, flea and heartworm prevention, and de-wormer. We have provided more than 75 tons of food to low-income community members through our standing pet food bank -the longest running pet food bank in houston. Collars, leashes, crates, puppy pads and other necessities have also been provided to hundreds of people for their pets. When owners are struggling to keep their pet because of challenging behavior, we provided behavior and training support to enable them to keep their pet. We provided free or low-cost boarding on a temporary basis to act as a bridge for pet owners until they could secure housing to allow them to reclaim their pets. Creating a new system to shelter people with pets in disasters:we are connected to the houston community in significant…
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,555,980.
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 2021 to 2022, from $5.8M to $5.3M (−9%).
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 14% · 2022 0% · 2023 11% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
79% of FYIMS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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
Salise Shuttlesworth
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 14 funders, grant income fell $292k → $181k.
11 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 FYIMS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 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
FYIMS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
72% 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 FYIMS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 29% · 2019 41% · 2020 22% · 2021 26% · 2022 17% · 2023 19% — 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
37% of FYIMS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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
53% of FYIMS 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. $663k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
FYIMS INC receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $1.4M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,928 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like FYIMS 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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FYIMS INC?
- FYIMS INC (Texas) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,440,204 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($233,647). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FYIMS INC have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $1,440,204 in grants to FYIMS INC, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FYIMS INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $233,647 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FYIMS 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.
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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 39 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