Texas · Nonprofit
Houston Pi Beta Phi Foundation
Houston Pi Beta Phi Foundation (Texas) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $85,950 to it, the largest being JACK H & WILLIAM M LIGHT CHARITABLE TRUST ($55,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $27k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $86k
- Net assets
- $49k
What Houston Pi Beta Phi Foundation does
Mission
The Foundation receives and maintains funds for charitable, literary, scientific, or educational purposes. It operates to support various institutions and programs promoting literacy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The Houston Pi Beta Phi Foundation conducts fundraising events and grants funds to promote literacy to the following organizations:Pi Beta Phi Patient/Family Library at Texas Children's Hospital Medical Center and the Pi Beta Phi Patient/Library at Texas Children's Hospital West Campus; Champions are Readers Program; Bo's Place; Pi Beta Phi Library; Children's Memorial Hermann Pi Beta Phi Half Pint Library; Children's Museum of Houston; Nehemiah Center Pi Beta Phi Library; The Houston Pi Beta Phi Alumnae Club & Foundation Scholarship for the Houston Alumnae Panhellenic Association; University of Texas Charter School Library at DePelchin Children's Center; Yellowstone Academy; Small Steps Nurturing Center' MD Anderson Cancer Center; iWrite; Making it Better dba Literacy Now; Neuhaus Education Center
$78,886 spentof which $77,850 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $78,886.
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.
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 $82k to $215k (+162%).
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.
100% of Houston Pi Beta Phi Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $7k → $250.
2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 Pi Beta Phi 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.
How concentrated its funding is
Houston Pi Beta Phi Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 49% · 2019 62% · 2020 86% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
11% of Houston Pi Beta Phi Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% 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
100% of Houston Pi Beta Phi 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. $12k 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 Pi Beta Phi Foundation's revenue fell 70% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,748 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
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In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Houston Pi Beta Phi 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 Pi Beta Phi Foundation?
- Houston Pi Beta Phi Foundation (Texas) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $85,950 to it, the largest being JACK H & WILLIAM M LIGHT CHARITABLE TRUST ($55,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Houston Pi Beta Phi Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $85,950 in grants to Houston Pi Beta Phi Foundation, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Houston Pi Beta Phi Foundation?
- JACK H & WILLIAM M LIGHT CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $55,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Houston Pi Beta Phi 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.
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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 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