Texas · Nonprofit
Houston Christian Foundation dba National Christian Foundation Houston
Houston Christian Foundation dba National Christian Foundation Houston (Texas) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,896,332 to it, the largest being Greater Houston Community Foundation ($9,105,991). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly. Houston Christian Foundation dba National Christian Foundation Houston administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
Hosts funds for others
Houston Christian Foundation dba National Christian Foundation Houston administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programHouston Christian Foundation dba National Christian Foundation Houston runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.
Paid out
$80k
Recipients
1
Contributions on record
$21M
Donors on record
19
Payments out are 0.00x the contributions on record, so the balance accumulates rather than passing straight through.
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.
- ESB3 Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Hildebrand Foundationshared funders
- Vertuassets Foundation Incportfolio 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.
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 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $920k → $2.1M.
11 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% 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 Christian Foundation dba National Christian Foundation Houston’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.
Where its funders are
99% of Houston Christian Foundation dba National Christian Foundation Houston's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $273k that is directly attributable, 87% of it comes from funders outside Texas, across 5 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $21M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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. Your 19 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- ESB3 Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchTX · backs 28 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Hildebrand Foundationshared fundersTX · backs 33 organizations that share your funders
- Vertuassets Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Meyer and Ida Gordon Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Richard Stodder Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- J Squared Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Wt & Louise J Moran Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Webber Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The RR Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jfa Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Taub Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The John M O'Quinn 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.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
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 Christian Foundation dba National Christian Foundation Houston: 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 Christian Foundation dba National Christian Foundation Houston?
- Houston Christian Foundation dba National Christian Foundation Houston (Texas) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,896,332 to it, the largest being Greater Houston Community Foundation ($9,105,991). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly. Houston Christian Foundation dba National Christian Foundation Houston administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
- How many funders does Houston Christian Foundation dba National Christian Foundation Houston have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $20,896,332 in grants to Houston Christian Foundation dba National Christian Foundation Houston, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Houston Christian Foundation dba National Christian Foundation Houston?
- Greater Houston Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $9,105,991 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Houston Christian Foundation dba National Christian Foundation Houston 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 19funders 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