Texas · Nonprofit
HOUSTON STRONG CHILDREN SERVICES
HOUSTON STRONG CHILDREN SERVICES (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $257,103 to it, the largest being ACH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES ($150,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $257k
- Net assets
- $133k
What Houston Strong Children Services does
Mission
To provide direct care services to the underserved communities. We aim to provide wraparound support for foster youth & young adults & their families.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Program service expenses
$1,188,739 spent100% of program spendingWorkforce Development and Life Skills Programming: Houston Strong Children Services provides workforce readiness programming for youth ages 1624 to support their transition to independence along with Internships for college students. Services include job readiness training, resume writing, mock interviews, soft skills development, and access to paid internships and career exploration opportunities. Through community and corporate partnerships, participants receive individualized coaching and direct employment referrals.
Foster Care Licensing, Youth Placement & Specialized Supervision: Houston Strong Children Services is a licensed child-placing agency that recruits, trains, and licenses families to foster and adopt youth in care. The organization is responsible for the placement of children and adolescents into safe, stable foster homes that meet their emotional, behavioral, and developmental needs. HSCS licenses homes and facilitates placement and case management for youth, contributing to permanency and placement stability across the region.
Transitional Housing and Specialized Youth Supervision:Houston Strong Children Services also operates a Supervised Independent Living (SIL) program for youth aging out of foster care. These young adults, ages 1824, receive stable housing, life skills training, job readiness coaching, and therapeutic support. Additionally, HSCS provides hospital sitting services to supervise and emotionally support youth who are hospitalized while in state care, ensuring that youth who are hospitalized receive around-the-clock supervision and emotional support from trained staff.
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,188,739.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $56k to $159k (+183%).
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: 2022 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of HOUSTON STRONG CHILDREN SERVICES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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.
Chief executive
Kristal Mtaza
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $47k → $60k.
From the IRS filings of HOUSTON STRONG CHILDREN SERVICES’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 STRONG CHILDREN SERVICES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% 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 STRONG CHILDREN SERVICES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% — broadly stable.
“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 STRONG CHILDREN SERVICES's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 STRONG CHILDREN SERVICES has grown faster than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like HOUSTON STRONG CHILDREN SERVICES
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
92% 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 STRONG CHILDREN SERVICES: 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 STRONG CHILDREN SERVICES?
- HOUSTON STRONG CHILDREN SERVICES (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $257,103 to it, the largest being ACH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES ($150,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HOUSTON STRONG CHILDREN SERVICES have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $257,103 in grants to HOUSTON STRONG CHILDREN SERVICES, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOUSTON STRONG CHILDREN SERVICES?
- ACH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOUSTON STRONG CHILDREN SERVICES 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 2 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