Texas · Nonprofit
MINDS MATTER OF HOUSTON INC
MINDS MATTER OF HOUSTON INC (Texas) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $76,987 to it, the largest being SHELL USA COMPANY FOUNDATION ($25,873). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $137k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $77k
- Net assets
- $119k
What Minds Matter of Houston Inc does
Mission
Mind matter connects driven and determined students from low-income families with the people, preparation and possibilities to succeed in college, create their future, and change the world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Mentoring:the mentoring component consists of pairing our students with professionals who have been through the college application process. These mentors can help the students navigate the steps and requirements. Our mentors act as catalysts for the students, providing them with individual support and guidance, allowing each student to fulfill his or her potential and make the leap to college.test prep:for juniors and seniors, the test prep program takes the form of a full-year program leading up to the sat. Students receive coaching from math and verbal test prep instructors. The curriculum familiarizes students with the sat, provides test-taking strategies, refreshes basic skills, and provides several diagnostic exams to identify student strengths and weaknesses while reinforcing test strategies.writing:the sophomore writing program encourages students to develop basic writing and critical thinking skills such as expanding their vocabulary, understanding essay structure, and producing written works that represent their thoughts on a myriad of topics.summer:students in the summer of their sophomore and junior years have the opportunity to study on prestigious university campuses…
$45,429 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $45,429.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 2024 to 2025, from $38k to $119k (+210%).
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.
97% of MINDS MATTER OF HOUSTON INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Jennifer Yao
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $4k → $25k.
4 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 MINDS MATTER OF HOUSTON INC’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
MINDS MATTER OF HOUSTON INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
41% 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 MINDS MATTER OF HOUSTON INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 99% · 2021 66% · 2022 57% · 2023 39% — 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
50% of MINDS MATTER OF HOUSTON INC's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 56% 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
76% of MINDS MATTER OF HOUSTON INC's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $31k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
MINDS MATTER OF HOUSTON INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,482 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,482 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like MINDS MATTER OF HOUSTON INC
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.
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MINDS MATTER OF HOUSTON INC: 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 MINDS MATTER OF HOUSTON INC?
- MINDS MATTER OF HOUSTON INC (Texas) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $76,987 to it, the largest being SHELL USA COMPANY FOUNDATION ($25,873). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MINDS MATTER OF HOUSTON INC have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $76,987 in grants to MINDS MATTER OF HOUSTON INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MINDS MATTER OF HOUSTON INC?
- SHELL USA COMPANY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $25,873 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MINDS MATTER OF HOUSTON 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 FY2025 (financials across 2024–2025), and the filings of 9 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