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Houston Hospice

Houston Hospice (Texas) receives grants from 106 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,860,768 to it, the largest being LESLIE L ALEXANDER FOUNDATION INC ($935,000). 61 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$22M
Funders on record
106
Grants received
$8.9M
Net assets
$15M
61/106 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 8%
01What it does

What Houston Hospice does

Mission

Houston Hospice provides uncompromising, compassionate end-of-life care to patients and families in our community. Houston Hospice cares for patients from all races, ethnicities, religious beliefs, and payor classes, including those with no funding source.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Houston Hospice is the oldest and largest not-for-profit, independent hospice provider in Houston and the adjacent thirteen county service area. A coordinated, comprehensive program of hospice and palliative care is provided for terminally ill adults and children and their families by an interdisciplinary team of physicians, nurses, social workers, chaplains, and home health aides supplemented by 143 volunteers. These services are provided to patients in the community from all races, ethnicities, religious beliefs, and payor classes, including those with no funding source. Houston Hospice was the first in Houston and one of the first in the country to provide specialized pediatric hospice care through its Butterfly program, which addresses the unique needs of children from birth to age eighteen. Families also receive bereavement support including a specialized program that addresses the bereavement needs of children. Houston Hospice is accredited by the Community Health Accreditation Partner, Inc. (CHAP) and provides services through its main office and its 37 bed inpatient facility located in the Texas Medical Center and two alternate delivery sites in Northwest Houston and in El…

    $16,338,020 spent$19,508,745 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $16,338,020.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($18M) Expenses 100 ($19M) Net assets 100 ($14M)2018 Revenue 107 ($19M) Expenses 102 ($19M) Net assets 93 ($13M)2019 Revenue 104 ($19M) Expenses 104 ($20M) Net assets 90 ($12M)2020 Revenue 116 ($21M) Expenses 101 ($19M) Net assets 104 ($14M)2021 Revenue 133 ($24M) Expenses 103 ($19M) Net assets 140 ($19M)2022 Revenue 99 ($18M) Expenses 106 ($20M) Net assets 112 ($15M)2023 Revenue 100 ($18M) Expenses 107 ($20M) Net assets 97 ($13M)2024 Revenue 122 ($22M) Expenses 106 ($20M) Net assets 111 ($15M)
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Revenue (122)Expenses (106)Net assets (111)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $15M to $22M (+50%).

$16M
$15M
$15M
$22M
$21M
$18M
$16M
$17M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2019 0% · 2021 14% · 2022 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$1.0M
’17
−$156k
’18
−$1.1M
’19
$1.7M
’20
$4.3M
’21
−$2.3M
’22
−$2.4M
’23
$1.7M
’24
0.6
months of
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

Al W Gatmaitan

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed2222252725272724
Joined·+2+5+6+6+7+4+5
No longer listed·2248548
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 24 funders to 39 funders, grant income rose $878k → $1.3M.

11 of 106 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 Hospice’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 106 funders by total. 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 Hospice has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 11% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left

27% 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 Hospice.

11%
largest funder
29%
top three
~18
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 24% · 2019 16% · 2020 45% · 2021 16% · 2022 21% · 2023 19% — 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

46% of Houston Hospice's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

85% of Houston Hospice's grant income comes from Texas funders.

IL
NY
OH
NJ
CA
DE
NC
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like Houston Hospice

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

78% of spending goes to programs.

Program 78%Management 20%Fundraising 3%

Governance

15
board members
93%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

81%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 3 related entities

  • Hospice at the Texas Medical Center · exempt
  • TMC Medical Associates · exempt
  • Houston Center for Palliative Care · corp_trust

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Questions and answers

Who funds Houston Hospice?
Houston Hospice (Texas) receives grants from 106 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,860,768 to it, the largest being LESLIE L ALEXANDER FOUNDATION INC ($935,000). 61 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Houston Hospice have?
IRS filings report 106 organizations giving $8,860,768 in grants to Houston Hospice, 61 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Houston Hospice?
LESLIE L ALEXANDER FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $935,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Houston Hospice 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 106 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing