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PAWS HOUSTON

PAWS HOUSTON (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $3,387 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($3,387). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2021
$5k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$3k
Net assets
$4k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 19%
01What it does

What Paws Houston does

Mission

The mission of PAWS Houston is to help sustain relationships between pet owners and their pets through a period of the owner's terminal and/or chronic illness in the hospital, hospice and at home.

As stated on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ.

Program

Due to COVID shutdowns, no personal pet visits to critically ill patients at major medical facilities were allowed in Houston hospitals.

The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.

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 ($24k) Expenses 100 ($23k) Net assets 100 ($6k)2018 Revenue 112 ($27k) Expenses 139 ($32k) Net assets 9 ($591)2019 Revenue 30 ($7k) Expenses 32 ($7k) Net assets 5 ($317)2020 Revenue 31 ($7k) Expenses 24 ($6k) Net assets 36 ($2k)2021 Revenue 20 ($5k) Expenses 13 ($3k) Net assets 63 ($4k)
20172018201920202021
Revenue (20)Expenses (13)Net assets (63)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 2017 to 2018, from $7k to $3k (−58%).

$7k
$3k
$317
$2k
$4k
20172018201920202021
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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of PAWS HOUSTON’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,498 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$523
’17
−$6k
’18
−$274
’19
$2k
’20
$2k
’21
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $395 → $871.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
'23
total
funders
1
1
1
1

1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 PAWS 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.

Where its funders are

100% of PAWS HOUSTON'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

PAWS HOUSTON runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,080 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin37% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−33% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,080 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2021

Organizations like PAWS HOUSTON

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

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 PAWS HOUSTON: 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 PAWS HOUSTON?
PAWS HOUSTON (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $3,387 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($3,387). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does PAWS HOUSTON have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $3,387 in grants to PAWS HOUSTON, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PAWS HOUSTON?
AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,387 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PAWS 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 FY2021 (financials across 2017–2021), and the filings of 1 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