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.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $669k
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Houston Business Council Inc does
Mission
The mission of HMSDC is to actively involve its members in efforts that will increase and expand business opportunities and business growth for Minority Business Enterprises and to drive excellence in supplier diversity and supplier development.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Certification, information exchange, and networking - hmsdc is responsible for certifying minority ownership and management. In addition, hmsdc maintains a database of certified firms and their capabilities. Events such as expo 2023 business opportunity marketplace, and the quarterly luncheons provide minority business owners with information, insight, and guidance in how to grow their business and relate to an ever changing marketplace. These events provide major corporations direct contact with minority business leaders to increase their sensitivity,understanding, and support. This is essential in overcoming racial biases and stimulating economic development of impoverished communities. In 2023, over 5,000 individuals attended these events.
$852,530 spent50% of program spendingEducation and development - hmsdc provides local and national conferences, seminars, and workshops to educate minority business owners on contemporary business and management skills and to educate major corporations on diversity issues.
$852,530 spent50% of program spendingThe mbe executive scholarship program raises funds, then awards those funds to minority business owners to encourage and faciliate their continued education in areas specific to their next stage of business development.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,705,060.
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.
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 $828k to $1.3M (+56%).
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
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
David Wilson
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
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 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
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
Organizations like HOUSTON BUSINESS COUNCIL 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
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.
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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.
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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 8 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