Texas · Nonprofit
Houston Junior Forum Inc
Houston Junior Forum Inc (Texas) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $62,226 to it, the largest being INTERLINC FAMILY FOUNDATION ($42,410). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $724k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $62k
- Net assets
- $3.0M
What Houston Junior Forum Inc does
Mission
Houston Junior Forum, Inc. (HJF) is a nonprofit women's organization committed to providing charitable services to children, youth, women, and senior adults in the Greater Houston area.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Houston Junior Forum, Inc. (HJF) added Daily Essentials-Everyday Confidence Program which distributes personal hygiene and cleaning products to low-income individuals.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
HJF College Scholarship Program: Houston Junior Forum, Inc. established its college scholarship program in March 1976, benefiting the best-qualified high school graduates who attended pre-school at the HJF Community Houston Preschool. The preschool closed in May of 2009, however, HJF continues to grant college scholarships to graduating former HJF preschool students. Qualified students receive grants up to $4,000 for each academic year to use towards tuition, books, clothing, or living expenses. Continued on Schedule O HJF College Scholarship program members maintain contact with each recipient throughout the year. Since its inception, the program has awarded more than $1,080,000 to students. For the 2024-2025 academic year, 23 students received scholarships. The program also annually distributes supplies, study snacks and gift cards totaling approximately $2,500 per year to provide incentives for scholarship recipients during exam periods, to recognize exceptional performance, and upon graduation.
$93,025 spentof which $93,025 as grants21% of program spendingHJF Resale Shop Program: Houston Junior Forum, Inc. members serve as volunteers operating the Shop 6 days per week. The Shop earnings support HJF programming and charitable outreach. Additionally, the Resale Shop space provides a community gathering place in the neighborhood where classes are offered on a variety of subjects including painting, decorating, gardening, etc.
$172,320 spent$1,540 earned by the program38% of program spendingHJF Community Grants Program: Houston Junior Forum, Inc. awards grants to other Greater Houston area non-profit programs which provide services to populations that HJF supports including senior adults, women, and children. These grants are primarily awarded to other non-profits that are also approved service sites where HJF volunteers may provide service hours.
$158,900 spentof which $157,840 as grants35% of program spendingDaily Essentials-Everyday Confidence Program: Houston Junior Forum, Inc. distributes personal hygiene and cleaning products to identified low-income individuals on a quarterly basis. The products delivered are primarily purchased by HJF but include some donated products.
$26,885 spentof which $7,049 as grants6% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $451,130.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $1.8M to $2.2M (+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.
68% of Houston Junior Forum Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $4k → $580.
2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $552k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Houston Junior Forum Endowment Fund Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Houston Junior Forum Inc raised.
From the IRS filings of Houston Junior Forum 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 Junior Forum Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
94% 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 Junior Forum Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 64% · 2019 63% · 2020 98% · 2021 46% · 2022 89% · 2023 67% — 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
25% of Houston Junior Forum Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
99% of Houston Junior Forum Inc's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Against its field
Houston Junior Forum Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Houston Junior Forum 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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Houston Junior Forum Endowment Fund · exempt
- Houston Junior Forum Membership · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Houston Junior Forum 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 Junior Forum Inc?
- Houston Junior Forum Inc (Texas) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $62,226 to it, the largest being INTERLINC FAMILY FOUNDATION ($42,410). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Houston Junior Forum Inc have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $62,226 in grants to Houston Junior Forum Inc, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Houston Junior Forum Inc?
- INTERLINC FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $42,410 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Houston Junior Forum 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 10 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