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PRISON ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM INC

PRISON ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM INC (Texas) receives grants from 104 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,258,124 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,567,100). 54 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$3.8M
Funders on record
104
Grants received
$13M
Net assets
$5.0M
54/104 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 59%
01What it does

What Prison Entrepreneurship Program Inc does

Mission

To unite executives and inmates through entrepreneurial passion and servant leadership to transform lives, restore families and rebuild communities.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Prison entrepreneurship program engages top business and academic talent to constructively redirect inmates' ambitions by equipping them with values based training in entrepreneurship; thus enabling them to productively re- enter society. This includes a five month business plan competition in prison and a range of post-release programs, including housing assistance, work readiness services, continuing education, executive mentoring and business start up assistance. During the current year, 1,581 individuals participated in the program in houston, dallas, cleveland, and venus texas.

    $3,447,052 spent$25,538 earned by the program
    81% of program spending

  2. Operation of houston caleb house, llc, which owns and operates property to be used as reliable housing available to ex-offenders upon their release. During the year, 247 individuals were provided housing.

    $327,738 spent$208,075 earned by the program
    8% of program spending

  3. Operation of entre capital, llc, a private, commercial lender for alumni of prison entrepreneurship program and other returned citizen businesses. During the year, entre originated 16 loans to returned citizen businesses.

    $476,510 spent$54,072 earned by the program
    11% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,251,300.

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 ($2.5M) Expenses 100 ($2.7M) Net assets 100 ($3.0M)2018 Revenue 107 ($2.7M) Expenses 107 ($2.9M) Net assets 93 ($2.8M)2019 Revenue 104 ($2.6M) Expenses 107 ($2.9M) Net assets 84 ($2.5M)2020 Revenue 130 ($3.3M) Expenses 93 ($2.5M) Net assets 108 ($3.2M)2021 Revenue 140 ($3.5M) Expenses 94 ($2.5M) Net assets 140 ($4.2M)2022 Revenue 166 ($4.2M) Expenses 115 ($3.1M) Net assets 176 ($5.2M)2023 Revenue 151 ($3.8M) Expenses 150 ($4.1M) Net assets 169 ($5.0M)2024 Revenue 216 ($5.4M) Expenses 164 ($4.4M) Net assets 203 ($6.1M)2025 Revenue 153 ($3.8M) Expenses 180 ($4.9M) Net assets 167 ($5.0M)
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Revenue (153)Expenses (180)Net assets (167)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 2020 to 2021, from $4.4M to $6.1M (+37%).

$3.7M
$3.5M
$3.4M
$4.4M
$6.1M
$7.2M
$6.7M
$7.9M
$8.3M
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

90% of PRISON ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,814 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$186k
’17
−$190k
’18
−$277k
’19
$736k
’20
$1000k
’21
$1.1M
’22
−$263k
’23
$995k
’24
−$1.0M
’25
4.3
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.

Board chair

Patrick Gotcher

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.

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Listed131312141315151920
Joined·+1+4+2+2+4+0+5+2
No longer listed·15032011
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 28 funders to 45 funders, grant income rose $886k → $2.2M.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
'26*
total
Stand Together Foundationunclassified
$130k
funders
28
22
15
32
36
36
45
30
23
1

27 of 104 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 PRISON ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 104 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

PRISON ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left

72% 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 PRISON ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM INC.

19%
largest funder
42%
top three
~13
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 39% · 2019 38% · 2020 19% · 2021 18% · 2022 35% · 2023 22% — 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

37% of PRISON ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

77% of PRISON ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM INC's grant income comes from Texas funders.

NH
IL
WI
NY
NJ
CA
UT
MO
VA
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GA
TX

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. $6.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 17 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

PRISON ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM INC is better cushioned than half of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−27% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve4.3mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like PRISON ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM 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

Empowering Women Out of Prison Inc80%Urban Progress Corporation79%Opportunity Center for the Homeless79%Trueworks Houston78%Home Place of Texas78%Htx Hope Haven78%Houston Apartment Foundation Inc78%Perpetual Help Home Inc77%

Nationally

Reentry House Plus Inc80%Empowering Women Out of Prison Inc80%Exodus Transitional Community Inc80%Hope for Prisoners Inc80%City Startup Labs Inc80%Gatekeepers Corporation80%Urban Progress Corporation79%Providence House Inc79%
05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 5%Fundraising 8%

Governance

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

Public support

81%

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

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 3 related entities

  • Houston Caleb House LLC · disregarded
  • Entre Capital LLC · disregarded
  • Communitas Ventures Inc · corp_trust

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PRISON ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM 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 PRISON ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM INC?
PRISON ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM INC (Texas) receives grants from 104 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,258,124 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,567,100). 54 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PRISON ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM INC have?
IRS filings report 104 organizations giving $13,258,124 in grants to PRISON ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM INC, 54 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PRISON ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM INC?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,567,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PRISON ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 104 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing