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HOUSTON GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION
HOUSTON GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $375 to it, the largest being SHELL USA COMPANY FOUNDATION ($375). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $56k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $375
- Net assets
- $615k
What Houston Geological Society Foundation does
Program
The hgs undergraduate fund gives scholarships to students studying for a bachelor's degree in geoscience. Seven universities currently participate in the foundation's scholarship program. These include rice university, the university of houston, texas a&m university, the university of texas, sam houston state university, stephen f. Austin state university, and lamar university. Scholarship recipients are nominated by each university and selected by the foundation's board. Eight scholarships were awarded during the 2023-2024 year.
$30,000 spent
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-PF.
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 $409k to $601k (+47%).
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
Joe Lynch
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $125 → $250.
Left out of every figure on this page: $172k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Houston Geological Society). These are real filings, and they are not money HOUSTON GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of HOUSTON GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION’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
100% of HOUSTON GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Texas funders.
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.
Organizations like HOUSTON GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HOUSTON GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION: 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 GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION?
- HOUSTON GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $375 to it, the largest being SHELL USA COMPANY FOUNDATION ($375). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HOUSTON GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $375 in grants to HOUSTON GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOUSTON GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION?
- SHELL USA COMPANY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $375 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOUSTON GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION 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 1 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