Texas · Nonprofit
Greater Houston Partnership Inc
Greater Houston Partnership Inc (Texas) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,123,585 to it, the largest being HALLIBURTON FOUNDATION INC ($400,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $19M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $5.8M
What Greater Houston Partnership Inc does
Mission
The mission at the greater houston partnership is to make the houston region the world's best place to live, work, and build a business. We do this through our economic development programs, our public policy work, and by collaborating with leaders of the community to help solve the region's most pressing issues.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Through its membership, greater houston partnership represents the interests of the 12 county houston region with members participating in committees, task forces and initiatives. During 2024, over 70 events and webinar series were hosted; enjoyed by over 9,000 participants.
The partnership promotes the houston region across the country and around the globe. In 2024, the greater houston partnership's economic development team and its regional allies assisted in 35 economic development projects, accounting for over $1.1 billion in capital expenditure and over 4,600 new jobs to the region. The partnership's international investment and trade activities in 2024 included hosting 91 inbound delegations from 31 countries to further grow the region's international ties.
In 2024, the Partnership played a vital role in bringing together policymakers and business leaders to ensure that Houston's priorities were heard at the state and federal levels. Through events like Houston Day and the Washington, D.C. Fly-In, we provided platforms for meaningful dialogue and collaboration. In preparation for the 2025 Texas Legislative Session, the Partnership's Board of Directors and Public Policy Steering Committee outlined a strategic legislative agenda aimed at addressing the Houston region's most pressing challenges. These priorities reflect the voice of the business community and serve as a blueprint for our advocacy work, focusing on ensuring Houston's continued growth and competitiveness. Key areas include Public School Accountability & Funding, Workforce Development, and Water Infrastructure.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $0.
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 2021 to 2022, from $23M to $34M (+50%).
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 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Board chair
Eric Mullins
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $200k → $170k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $24M from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Greater Houston Partnership Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money Greater Houston Partnership Inc raised.
From the IRS filings of Greater Houston Partnership 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
Greater Houston Partnership Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
35% 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 Greater Houston Partnership Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 96% · 2019 42% · 2020 74% · 2021 57% · 2022 65% · 2023 59% — 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
17% of Greater Houston Partnership Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
93% of Greater Houston Partnership 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. 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.
Government funding Greater Houston Partnership Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $21k on record.
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration$21k
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 Greater Houston Partnership 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.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Greater Houston Partnership Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Greater Houston Partnership Inc: 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 Greater Houston Partnership Inc?
- Greater Houston Partnership Inc (Texas) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,123,585 to it, the largest being HALLIBURTON FOUNDATION INC ($400,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Greater Houston Partnership Inc have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $1,123,585 in grants to Greater Houston Partnership Inc, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Greater Houston Partnership Inc?
- HALLIBURTON FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $400,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Greater Houston Partnership 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 9 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