Texas · Nonprofit
HOUSTON SHIFA SERVICES FOUNDATION AHMED
HOUSTON SHIFA SERVICES FOUNDATION AHMED (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,000 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
HOUSTON SHIFA SERVICES FOUNDATION AHMED has grown faster than half of the 9,089 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,089 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
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 Houston Fund for Social Justice and Economic Equitylocalportfolio match
- Houston Arts Alliancelocal
- Chi St Luke's Health Baylor College of Medicine Medical Centerportfolio match
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.
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.
0% of HOUSTON SHIFA SERVICES FOUNDATION AHMED’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 SHIFA SERVICES FOUNDATION AHMED’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 SHIFA SERVICES FOUNDATION AHMED leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 SHIFA SERVICES FOUNDATION AHMED.
“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.
Where its funders are
100% of HOUSTON SHIFA SERVICES FOUNDATION AHMED'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $31k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
- The Houston Fund for Social Justice and Economic Equitylocalportfolio matchTX · funds 246 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Houston Arts AlliancelocalTX · funds 276 organizations near you
- Chi St Luke's Health Baylor College of Medicine Medical Centerportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Texas State Affordable Housing Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Fred and Armour Shin Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mark and Judith Cook Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Keep Austin Fedportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Morris Bank Community Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Lewis and Joan Lowenstein Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Andrews Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Houston Community Toolbank Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tomball Health Coalitionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 SHIFA SERVICES FOUNDATION AHMED
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 SHIFA SERVICES FOUNDATION AHMED: 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 SHIFA SERVICES FOUNDATION AHMED?
- HOUSTON SHIFA SERVICES FOUNDATION AHMED (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,000 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HOUSTON SHIFA SERVICES FOUNDATION AHMED have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $31,000 in grants to HOUSTON SHIFA SERVICES FOUNDATION AHMED.
- Who is the largest funder of HOUSTON SHIFA SERVICES FOUNDATION AHMED?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOUSTON SHIFA SERVICES FOUNDATION AHMED 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 2funders 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