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HUGS CAFE INC

HUGS CAFE INC (Texas) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,159,215 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($938,569). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$3.5M
Funders on record
42
Grants received
$2.2M
Net assets
$3.6M
16/42 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 20%
01What it does

What Hugs Cafe Inc does

Mission

The mission of Hugs Cafe Inc is to enhance the lives of adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities through training and employment.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Hugs Cafe Inc. Is composed of four programs. Hugs cafe is our flagship program where we directly employ 23 adults with special needs in a cafe setting. To provide an introductory and social way to interact in the kitchen, we offer cooking classes via our hugs home cooking program.

    $588,155 spent$447,866 earned by the program
    53% of program spending
  2. Hugs greenhouse is our third program that recognizes food service may not be for every person or every ability. We have developed a second social enterprise that trains and educates adults with special needs on gardening, retail sales, and socialization within the community.

    $313,624 spent$408,376 earned by the program
    28% of program spending
  3. Our final addition to the Hugs Cafe Inc family of programs is hugs training academy. This 12 week vocational training program supports adults with disabilities as they learn the basic skills to enter the workforce with an employment partner in the culinary or hospitality industries. All of our programs offer training and educational employment to adults with special needs so they may gain resepct and independence.

    $157,106 spent$129,195 earned by the program
    14% of program spending
  4. Hugs cafe, inc. Also shares their tools and experience with others in the idd vocational industry and these organizations are known as hugs cafe, inc. Affiliates.

    $56,589 spent$196,251 earned by the program
    5% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,115,474.

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 ($419k) Expenses 100 ($401k) Net assets 100 ($170k)2018 Revenue 124 ($520k) Expenses 110 ($443k) Net assets 145 ($247k)2019 Revenue 146 ($610k) Expenses 144 ($577k) Net assets 164 ($280k)2020 Revenue 217 ($909k) Expenses 151 ($606k) Net assets 364 ($618k)2021 Revenue 270 ($1.1M) Expenses 187 ($750k) Net assets 587 ($998k)2022 Revenue 298 ($1.2M) Expenses 236 ($946k) Net assets 765 ($1.3M)2023 Revenue 450 ($1.9M) Expenses 301 ($1.2M) Net assets 1165 ($2.0M)2024 Revenue 837 ($3.5M) Expenses 480 ($1.9M) Net assets 2096 ($3.6M)
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Revenue (837)Expenses (480)Net assets (2096)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 2023 to 2024, from $2.2M to $3.8M (+70%).

$174k
$252k
$284k
$648k
$1.0M
$1.5M
$2.2M
$3.8M
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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

66% of HUGS CAFE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (72% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 636 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$18k
’17
$77k
’18
$32k
’19
$304k
’20
$379k
’21
$303k
’22
$680k
’23
$1.6M
’24
14
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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Listed99111011111414
Joined·+1+5+3+1+1+5+0
No longer listed·1340120
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $60k → $202k.

12 of 42 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 HUGS CAFE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 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

HUGS CAFE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

75% 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 HUGS CAFE INC.

43%
largest funder
62%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 82% · 2018 100% · 2019 29% · 2020 26% · 2021 48% · 2022 39% · 2023 32% — 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

47% of HUGS CAFE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

64% of HUGS CAFE INC'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 $769k that is directly attributable, 62% of it comes from Texas funders.

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

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Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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

HUGS CAFE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 611 unclassified nonprofits its size.

Operating margin45% · top quartile
Months of reserve14.0mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)35% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 611 unclassified 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

58% of spending goes to programs.

Program 58%Management 40%Fundraising 2%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

TX

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds HUGS CAFE INC?
HUGS CAFE INC (Texas) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,159,215 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($938,569). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does HUGS CAFE INC have?
IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $2,159,215 in grants to HUGS CAFE INC, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HUGS CAFE INC?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $938,569 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HUGS CAFE INC 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 42 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