Texas · Nonprofit
HOUSTON BUSINESS COUNCIL INC
HOUSTON BUSINESS COUNCIL INC (Texas) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $669,199 to it, the largest being THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION ($500,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
HOUSTON BUSINESS COUNCIL INC is better cushioned than half of the 976 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 976 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
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.
- The Methodist Hospitalshared fundersportfolio match
- Roth Family Foundationshared funders
- United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Educational Fundportfolio match
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.
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: 2023 76%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
71% of HOUSTON BUSINESS COUNCIL INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $55k → $200k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 BUSINESS COUNCIL 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
HOUSTON BUSINESS COUNCIL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% of grant income and the top three 95%; 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: 2020 64% · 2021 55% · 2022 97% · 2023 60% — 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
75% of HOUSTON BUSINESS COUNCIL INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 50% 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
HOUSTON BUSINESS COUNCIL INC draws 87% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis 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.
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.
- The Methodist Hospitalshared fundersportfolio matchTX · backs 3 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Roth Family Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 2 organizations that share your funders
- United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Educational Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kinder Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Memorial Hermann Health Systemportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- James and Molly Crownover Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Association of Women's Business Centersportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Cullen Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- US Chamber of Commerce Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Women's Business Development Centerportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Alkek and Williams Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 BUSINESS COUNCIL INC
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Nmsdc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HOUSTON BUSINESS COUNCIL 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds HOUSTON BUSINESS COUNCIL INC?
- HOUSTON BUSINESS COUNCIL INC (Texas) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $669,199 to it, the largest being THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION ($500,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HOUSTON BUSINESS COUNCIL INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $669,199 in grants to HOUSTON BUSINESS COUNCIL INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOUSTON BUSINESS COUNCIL INC?
- THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOUSTON BUSINESS COUNCIL 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 8funders 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