Texas · Nonprofit
Houston Gateway Academy Inc
Houston Gateway Academy Inc (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,169,500 to it, the largest being CHARTER FUND INC D/B/A CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUND ($1,110,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $28M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $116M
What Houston Gateway Academy Inc does
Mission
Develop strong critical thinkers that will graduate from competitive colleges by providing character development and rigorous curriculum.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Develop individualized curriculum for students to minimize or prevent learning disabilities.
$13,666,112 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $13,666,112.
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 2020 to 2021, from $63M to $79M (+25%).
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: 2017 90% · 2018 114% · 2020 99% · 2021 77% · 2022 100% · 2023 99% · 2024 98% · 2025 98%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Houston Gateway Academy Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Michael Medina
Board President
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2019: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $670k → $325k.
From the IRS filings of Houston Gateway Academy 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 Gateway Academy Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% 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
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Houston Gateway Academy Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 86% · 2019 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
Houston Gateway Academy Inc draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
Houston Gateway Academy Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like Houston Gateway Academy 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
64% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Houston Gateway Academy 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 Gateway Academy Inc?
- Houston Gateway Academy Inc (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,169,500 to it, the largest being CHARTER FUND INC D/B/A CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUND ($1,110,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Houston Gateway Academy Inc have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $1,169,500 in grants to Houston Gateway Academy Inc, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Houston Gateway Academy Inc?
- CHARTER FUND INC D/B/A CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,110,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Houston Gateway Academy 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 3 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