Texas · Nonprofit
National Spinal Cord Injury Association Houston
National Spinal Cord Injury Association Houston (Texas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $74,319 to it, the largest being CHRISTOPHER REEVE FOUNDATION ($48,300). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $30k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $74k
- Net assets
- $7k
What National Spinal Cord Injury Association Houston does
Mission
To redefine the disability experience through art, advocacy, and community- building.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Opening Arts and Minds: provides an inclusive arts experience forthe disability community. In-person & virtual instruction, supportfor public art display & social support provided.
$15,000 spent56% of program spendingConversation & Connect: Zoom-based education series focusedon life with a disability. Professional moderated, candidconversation-style sharing & learning. 24/7 support hotline.
$10,000 spent37% of program spendingAdvocacy Alliance: Provides education on local, state, andfederal advocacy concerns affecting the disabilitycommunity.
$2,000 spent7% of program spendingequipment maintenance & acquisition, return-to-home concerns, home modifications, & grief suppport.
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $27,000.
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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $137k to $34k (−75%).
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.
100% of National Spinal Cord Injury Association Houston’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Rafferty Laredo
Executive Director
Board chair
William Larkin
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $3k → $177.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 National Spinal Cord Injury Association Houston’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
National Spinal Cord Injury Association Houston leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 National Spinal Cord Injury Association Houston.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 67% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 99% · 2023 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
National Spinal Cord Injury Association Houston draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
National Spinal Cord Injury Association Houston's revenue fell 66% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,898 health nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like National Spinal Cord Injury Association Houston
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
34%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds National Spinal Cord Injury Association Houston?
- National Spinal Cord Injury Association Houston (Texas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $74,319 to it, the largest being CHRISTOPHER REEVE FOUNDATION ($48,300). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does National Spinal Cord Injury Association Houston have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $74,319 in grants to National Spinal Cord Injury Association Houston, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of National Spinal Cord Injury Association Houston?
- CHRISTOPHER REEVE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $48,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like National Spinal Cord Injury Association Houston 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 5 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