Texas · Nonprofit
Houston Area Parkinson Society
Houston Area Parkinson Society (Texas) receives grants from 71 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,217,008 to it, the largest being Hamill Foundation ($925,000). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 71
- Grants received
- $3.2M
- Net assets
- $2.3M
What Houston Area Parkinson Society does
Mission
The mission of the Houston Area Parkinson Society is to use a whole-human approach to community building, which reduces the fear and isolation associated with a Parkinson's diagnosis.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Education about Parkinson's disease: The HAPS monthly newsletter, Journey, was sent to more than 6,000 households and email addresses monthly. Twenty-six in-person and virtual education programs were offered throughout the year, including three Summer Lecture Series sessions, five Newly Diagnosed Education Program events, the biennial THRIVE Caregiver Conference, ten Community Partners Presents sessions, a lecture on the History of Parkinson's, Caregiver training workshops, and a balance screening event. HAPS presented nearly 6,000 hours of education in 2024.
$409,259 spent44% of program spendingTherapeutic and Enrichment Programs and Support Services: HAPS offered a diverse range of classes, including speech, exercise, water exercise, tai chi, yoga, dance, ping pong, and boxing, as well as monthly support groups, with a combined attendance of over 1,400 participants per month in 2024. HAPS offers enrichment programs throughout the year that connect individuals with Parkinson's and their family members to others with the disease through social activities. The objective is to find fun and engaging ways to help reduce the isolation that individuals living with chronic illnesses often face.HAPS programs are offered free of charge and totaled over 98,799 service hours in 2024.
$248,345 spent27% of program spendingHAPS social workers handled intake and referral calls, made home visits to assess needs, and conducted consultations to find solutions to address those needs. They also facilitated 19 specialized monthly support groups for people with Parkinson's disease (PD). Groups included the general PD population, caregivers of PD patients, caregivers of people with PD and related dementia, people with atypical PD, newly diagnosed patients, and those grieving the loss of a loved one. HAPS also managed the ongoing needs of individuals and families, provided financial assistance, transportation to medical appointments, home wellness visits, and respite care.
$271,791 spent29% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $929,395.
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 2020 to 2021, from $1.1M to $1.5M (+39%).
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 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Kathleen Crist
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $59k → $573k.
12 of 71 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 Houston Area Parkinson Society’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 71 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
Houston Area Parkinson Society has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 27% · 2019 30% · 2020 36% · 2021 34% · 2022 40% · 2023 35% — 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
38% of Houston Area Parkinson Society's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
95% of Houston Area Parkinson Society's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $562k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.
Organizations like Houston Area Parkinson Society
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
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Houston Area Parkinson Society: 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 Parkinson Society?
- Houston Area Parkinson Society (Texas) receives grants from 71 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,217,008 to it, the largest being Hamill Foundation ($925,000). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Houston Area Parkinson Society have?
- IRS filings report 71 organizations giving $3,217,008 in grants to Houston Area Parkinson Society, 34 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Houston Area Parkinson Society?
- Hamill Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $925,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Houston Area Parkinson Society 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 71 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