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Houston Area Alliance of Black School Educators

Houston Area Alliance of Black School Educators (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $54,700 to it, the largest being Houston Endowment Inc ($50,200). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$309k
Revenue FY2023
2
Funders on record
$55k
Grants received
$143k
Net assets
0/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 23%

Against its field

Houston Area Alliance of Black School Educators runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 21,630 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin8% · above the median
Months of reserve6.0mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)16% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,630 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($130k) Expenses 100 ($119k) Net assets 100 ($85k)2018 Revenue 89 ($115k) Expenses 93 ($110k) Net assets 106 ($90k)2019 Revenue 86 ($111k) Expenses 91 ($108k) Net assets 45 ($38k)2020 Revenue 110 ($143k) Expenses 112 ($134k) Net assets 55 ($47k)2021 Revenue 88 ($114k) Expenses 88 ($104k) Net assets 67 ($57k)2022 Revenue 169 ($220k) Expenses 132 ($157k) Net assets 141 ($120k)2023 Revenue 238 ($309k) Expenses 239 ($285k) Net assets 169 ($143k)
2017201820192020202120222023
Revenue (238)Expenses (239)Net assets (169)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of Houston Area Alliance of Black School Educators’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,851 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$11k
17
$5k
18
$3k
19
$9k
20
$10k
21
$63k
22
$24k
23
6.0
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $50k → $5k.

Funder
'22
'23
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of Houston Area Alliance of Black School Educators’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

Houston Area Alliance of Black School Educators leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

92%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 100%broadly stable.

“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.

Where its funders are

100% of Houston Area Alliance of Black School Educators's grant income comes from Texas funders.

TX

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

22
23
Texas out of state home

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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 2 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like Houston Area Alliance of Black School Educators

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Texas

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 15%Fundraising 0%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

100%

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 Houston Area Alliance of Black School Educators: 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 Houston Area Alliance of Black School Educators?
Houston Area Alliance of Black School Educators (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $54,700 to it, the largest being Houston Endowment Inc ($50,200). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Houston Area Alliance of Black School Educators have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $54,700 in grants to Houston Area Alliance of Black School Educators.
Who is the largest funder of Houston Area Alliance of Black School Educators?
Houston Endowment Inc is the largest funder on record, with $50,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Houston Area Alliance of Black School Educators 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing