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HOUSTON PETSET

HOUSTON PETSET (Texas) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,571,208 to it, the largest being GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($5,298,373). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$2.6M
Funders on record
50
Grants received
$8.6M
Net assets
$1.1M
27/50 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 96%
01What it does

What Houston Petset does

Mission

Houston Petset is a nonprofit organization dedicated to ending the homelessness and suffering of companion animals.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. To make a difference in the lives of abandoned, unwanted and abused animals by providing funding and support to those organizations dedicated to helping homeless animals in the city of houston and greater metropolitan area find food, shelter and veterinary treatment, including spay and neuter services, through fundraising efforts. Houston Petset funds emergency cases and provides education for the public on good guardianship of pets. It also provides training for public officials on new laws and ordinances regarding animal welfare.

    $1,064,635 spentof which $530,460 as grants$2,694,402 earned by the program
    44% of program spending
  2. Houston Petset partners with fido fixers to lease their mobile veterinary unit. Houston Petset stations the mobile unit in underserved areas of houston, providing free spay and neuter procedures, basic vaccines, and microchips for owned pets. Additionally, Houston Petset supplies vouchers to owners for spay and neuter services at third party veterninary clinics and also funds one-day spay neuter events. These services are intended to reduce the number of unwanted litters and shelter intakes in areas of houston that experience high rates of animal surrender. The mobile unit served over 4,100 animals in 2024 and the other spay and neuter activities added an additional 3,300 animals for approximately 7,400 total animals spayed or neutered in 2024 through these Houston Petset programs.

    $1,101,168 spent$439,602 earned by the program
    46% of program spending
  3. Houston Petset facilitates monthly transports of shelter and rescue animals to partners in minnesota. Since 2017, Houston Petset has transported more than 10,500 pets to their forever homes. The organization will continue to transport approximately 1,500 animals per year, which simultaneously increases the capacity of local shelters and rescues to take in about 1,500 homeless animals.

    $234,535 spent$7,400 earned by the program
    10% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,400,338.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.6M) Expenses 100 ($1.3M) Net assets 100 ($324k)2018 Revenue 61 ($985k) Expenses 88 ($1.1M) Net assets 84 ($271k)2019 Revenue 91 ($1.5M) Expenses 110 ($1.4M) Net assets 147 ($477k)2020 Revenue 153 ($2.5M) Expenses 144 ($1.8M) Net assets 227 ($734k)2021 Revenue 172 ($2.8M) Expenses 135 ($1.7M) Net assets 559 ($1.8M)2022 Revenue 147 ($2.4M) Expenses 211 ($2.7M) Net assets 470 ($1.5M)2023 Revenue 177 ($2.9M) Expenses 212 ($2.7M) Net assets 528 ($1.7M)2024 Revenue 162 ($2.6M) Expenses 258 ($3.2M) Net assets 334 ($1.1M)
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Revenue (162)Expenses (258)Net assets (334)Peer revenue range

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 $911k to $1.9M (+104%).

$339k
$278k
$481k
$911k
$1.9M
$1.6M
$1.8M
$1.2M
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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

65% of HOUSTON PETSET’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (74% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,665 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$354k
’17
−$120k
’18
$79k
’19
$655k
’20
$1.1M
’21
−$287k
’22
$187k
’23
−$628k
’24
4.1
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.

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Listed1712111111151511
Joined·+4+2+0+0+7+2+1
No longer listed·9300325
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $312k → $1.1M.

13 of 50 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 77% 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 PETSET’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 50 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 PETSET leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

79% 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 PETSET.

62%
largest funder
75%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 89% · 2018 76% · 2019 92% · 2020 67% · 2021 41% · 2022 37% · 2023 59% — 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

54% of HOUSTON PETSET's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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

77% of HOUSTON PETSET's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $2.0M that is directly attributable, 59% of it comes from funders outside Texas, across 10 states.

NY
CA
UT
DE
AZ
TN
NC
HI
TX
FL

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

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’22
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Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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

Against its field

HOUSTON PETSET is better cushioned than half of the 1,559 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−24% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve4.1mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,559 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

74% of spending goes to programs.

Program 74%Management 7%Fundraising 19%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

99%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds HOUSTON PETSET?
HOUSTON PETSET (Texas) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,571,208 to it, the largest being GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($5,298,373). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does HOUSTON PETSET have?
IRS filings report 50 organizations giving $8,571,208 in grants to HOUSTON PETSET, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HOUSTON PETSET?
GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,298,373 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HOUSTON PETSET 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 50 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