Texas · Nonprofit
HOUSE OF SHINE INC
HOUSE OF SHINE INC (Texas) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,171,326 to it, the largest being M R and Evelyn Hudson Foundation ($992,071). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $367k
What House of Shine Inc does
Mission
House of shine exists to strengthen communities by growing confident, self-aware, and resilient leaders. The organization operates at the intersection of personal growth and community health, grounded in the belief that when individuals understand themselves, they are better equipped to contribute meaningfully to others.through its shine framework, house of shine delivers programs across individuals, students, and teams. Its museum in grapevine serves as a learning laboratory where programming is designed, tested, and refined before being scaled through curriculum, partnerships, and trained facilitators. This model enables both local impact and broader reach across diverse communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
During the report training house of shine continued its mission of strengthening communities by growing confident, self-aware, and resilient leaders. Through its interactive museum of self-discovery, youth leadership programs, community workshops, and organizational trainings, the organization reached approximately 6,743 individuals.house of shine engaged approximately 1,900 volunteers contributing nearly 9,600 hours of service supporting museum operations, leadership programs, community events, and trainings.see schedule o for continuationhouse of shine also operates as a leadership learning laboratory, where programs, curriculum, and leadership tools are continuously developed and refined. Through the shineologist certification program, more than 100 trained shineologists representing educators, youth leaders, nonprofit professionals, and community facilitators apply the shine framework in classrooms, organizations, camps, and community programs.these trained facilitators expand the reach of house of shine beyond the museum and local community by implementing shine-based leadership development experiences in a variety of educational and organizational settings.core program…
$729,610 spent$107,001 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $729,610.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2019 to 2020, from $40k to $556k (+1290%).
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.
88% of HOUSE OF SHINE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Colleen Monroe
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $8k → $292k.
4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 HOUSE OF SHINE 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
HOUSE OF SHINE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 85% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 76% · 2020 87% · 2021 88% · 2022 86% · 2023 86% — 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
80% of HOUSE OF SHINE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% 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
99% of HOUSE OF SHINE 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. $154k 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.
Against its field
HOUSE OF SHINE INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like HOUSE OF SHINE 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
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
34%
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 HOUSE OF SHINE 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 HOUSE OF SHINE INC?
- HOUSE OF SHINE INC (Texas) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,171,326 to it, the largest being M R and Evelyn Hudson Foundation ($992,071). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HOUSE OF SHINE INC have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $1,171,326 in grants to HOUSE OF SHINE INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOUSE OF SHINE INC?
- M R and Evelyn Hudson Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $992,071 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOUSE OF SHINE 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 12 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