Texas · Nonprofit
Houston Hospice
Houston Hospice (Texas) receives grants from 106 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,841,117 to it, the largest being LESLIE L ALEXANDER FOUNDATION INC ($935,000). 60 of them have funded it in more than one year.
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.
- The Wt & Louise J Moran Foundationshared funderslocal
- Chi St Luke's Health Baylor College of Medicine Medical Centerportfolio match
- Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Educational Fundshared funderslocal
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: 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.
reserve
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.
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; 57% 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
85% of Houston Hospice's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M 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 106 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Wt & Louise J Moran Foundationshared funderslocalTX · backs 54 organizations that share your funders · funds 56 organizations near you
- Chi St Luke's Health Baylor College of Medicine Medical Centerportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Educational Fundshared funderslocalTX · backs 55 organizations that share your funders · funds 72 organizations near you
- Florence and William K McGee Jr Family Foundationshared fundersTX · backs 44 organizations that share your funders
- The John M O'Quinn Foundationshared funderslocalTX · backs 93 organizations that share your funders · funds 93 organizations near you
- The Ellwood Foundationshared fundersTX · backs 40 organizations that share your funders
- The Methodist Hospitalshared funderslocalTX · backs 105 organizations that share your funders · funds 161 organizations near you
- Sterling-Turner Foundationshared fundersTX · backs 101 organizations that share your funders
- Charity Guild of Catholic Women of Harris County Incshared funderslocalTX · backs 73 organizations that share your funders · funds 135 organizations near you
- Hamill Foundationshared fundersTX · backs 55 organizations that share your funders
- Wayne Duddlesten Foundationshared fundersTX · backs 45 organizations that share your funders
- The Lewis and Joan Lowenstein Foundationshared fundersTX · backs 42 organizations that share your funders
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.
Organizations like Houston Hospice
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Houston Hospice: 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 Hospice?
- Houston Hospice (Texas) receives grants from 106 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,841,117 to it, the largest being LESLIE L ALEXANDER FOUNDATION INC ($935,000). 60 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Houston Hospice have?
- IRS filings report 106 organizations giving $8,841,117 in grants to Houston Hospice, 60 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.
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 106funders 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