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HOUSTON WOMENS BUSINESS COUNCIL INC DBA WOMENS BUSINESS ENTERPRISE ALLIANCE
HOUSTON WOMENS BUSINESS COUNCIL INC DBA WOMENS BUSINESS ENTERPRISE ALLIANCE (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $826,310 to it, the largest being WOMEN'S BUSINESS ENTERPRISE NATIONAL COUNCIL ($756,310). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $826k
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Houston Womens Business Council Inc Dba Womens Business Enterprise Alliance does
Mission
Women's business enterprise alliance is committed to increasing business opportunities for women owned businesses and corporate members through education, programs and professional networking.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Certify women owned businesses and sponsor events and training to faciliate business opportunities for women owned businesses. During 2024, 193 new businesses were certified and membership totaled 869 at december 31, 2024.
$371,206 spent$736,664 earned by the program52% of program spendingHost houston galveston women's business center (wbc) to provide support to enterpreneurs in education, scholarships, and matchmaking with corporate contracting offices; mainly inspiring and empowering women who want to start or expand their business. During 2024, wbc held 68 trainings with 714 attendees and performed 241 counseling sessions with clients.
$348,184 spent48% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $719,390.
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 $497k to $837k (+69%).
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: 2017 7% · 2018 11% · 2020 30% · 2021 30% · 2022 21% · 2023 14% · 2024 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
39% of HOUSTON WOMENS BUSINESS COUNCIL INC DBA WOMENS BUSINESS ENTERPRISE ALLIANCE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Board chair
Stephanie Linhart
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $84k → $152k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 WOMENS BUSINESS COUNCIL INC DBA WOMENS BUSINESS ENTERPRISE ALLIANCE’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 WOMENS BUSINESS COUNCIL INC DBA WOMENS BUSINESS ENTERPRISE ALLIANCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% 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
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 WOMENS BUSINESS COUNCIL INC DBA WOMENS BUSINESS ENTERPRISE ALLIANCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 90% · 2021 100% · 2022 80% · 2023 87% — 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.
Where its funders are
HOUSTON WOMENS BUSINESS COUNCIL INC DBA WOMENS BUSINESS ENTERPRISE ALLIANCE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 WOMENS BUSINESS COUNCIL INC DBA WOMENS BUSINESS ENTERPRISE ALLIANCE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding HOUSTON WOMENS BUSINESS COUNCIL INC DBA WOMENS BUSINESS ENTERPRISE ALLIANCE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.3M on record.
- Small Business Administration$2.3M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like HOUSTON WOMENS BUSINESS COUNCIL INC DBA WOMENS BUSINESS ENTERPRISE ALLIANCE
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
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
57%
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 WOMENS BUSINESS COUNCIL INC DBA WOMENS BUSINESS ENTERPRISE ALLIANCE?
- HOUSTON WOMENS BUSINESS COUNCIL INC DBA WOMENS BUSINESS ENTERPRISE ALLIANCE (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $826,310 to it, the largest being WOMEN'S BUSINESS ENTERPRISE NATIONAL COUNCIL ($756,310). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HOUSTON WOMENS BUSINESS COUNCIL INC DBA WOMENS BUSINESS ENTERPRISE ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $826,310 in grants to HOUSTON WOMENS BUSINESS COUNCIL INC DBA WOMENS BUSINESS ENTERPRISE ALLIANCE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOUSTON WOMENS BUSINESS COUNCIL INC DBA WOMENS BUSINESS ENTERPRISE ALLIANCE?
- WOMEN'S BUSINESS ENTERPRISE NATIONAL COUNCIL is the largest funder on record, with $756,310 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOUSTON WOMENS BUSINESS COUNCIL INC DBA WOMENS BUSINESS ENTERPRISE ALLIANCE 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 3 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