Texas · Nonprofit
Rebuilding Together Houston
Rebuilding Together Houston (Texas) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,668,097 to it, the largest being REBUILDING TOGETHER INC ($3,029,242). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.8M
- Funders on record
- 55
- Grants received
- $16M
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What Rebuilding Together Houston does
Mission
Rebuilding Together Houston is the only organization in Houston and Harris County providing free home repairs to hundreds of families each year. We employ licensed contractors to restore homes to safe, livable conditions, extending each home's life by 20 years or more and protecting families from hazards like leaking roofs, collapsing floors, dangerous electrical systems, no hot water, and lack of heating, or air conditioning. For the cost of building one brand new home, Rebuilding Together Houston can repair up to 12. Over the past 43 years, we have served more than 15,000 neighbors at no cost. Our work enhances the safety and structural integrity of homes passed down through generations, helping preserve Houston's neighborhood character by keeping families in the communities they helped to build.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The Construction Program encompasses work performed under the City of Houston's Master Contractor Agreement. The Housing and Community Development Department selects projects and defines the scope of work, which Rebuilding Together Houston bids for and executes upon winning. This program also provides specialized services for Veterans, ensuring homes are restored to safe, healthy conditions that protect them from future disasters. Homes for Veterans may also undergo significant modifications to enhance living conditions, particularly for service-disabled homeowners.
$1,380,152 spent43% of program spendingThe Community Revitalization program focuses on targeted home restoration within specific neighborhoods. Since 2019, RTH has concentrated efforts in the East End, a historically underserved Hispanic area that includes Second Ward, one of Houston's original neighborhoods established in 1839. Homes are restored to safe and healthy conditions, resilient against future disasters. Contractors handle essential repairs and volunteers often contribute to exterior improvements.
$1,211,382 spent37% of program spendingThe Disaster Relief program returns homes to a safe and healthy condition that protects them against future disasters. Industrial hygienists inspect homes to identify potential mold exposures and occupant risks, and provide recommendations for remediation.
$646,188 spent20% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,237,722.
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 and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $7.6M to $4.2M (−45%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 43% · 2018 14% · 2019 14% · 2020 13% · 2021 22% · 2022 25% · 2023 23% · 2024 25%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of Rebuilding Together Houston’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Chief executive
Christine Holland
CEO & Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 22 funders, grant income fell $2.6M → $1.3M.
12 of 55 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 Rebuilding Together Houston’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 55 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
Rebuilding Together Houston has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
84% 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 Rebuilding Together Houston.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 69% · 2019 43% · 2020 38% · 2021 16% · 2022 28% · 2023 20% — 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
31% of Rebuilding Together Houston's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
Rebuilding Together Houston draws 66% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 15 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
Rebuilding Together Houston's revenue fell 67% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,978 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding Rebuilding Together Houston receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $850k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$850k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Rebuilding Together 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.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
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 Rebuilding Together 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 Rebuilding Together Houston?
- Rebuilding Together Houston (Texas) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,668,097 to it, the largest being REBUILDING TOGETHER INC ($3,029,242). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Rebuilding Together Houston have?
- IRS filings report 55 organizations giving $15,668,097 in grants to Rebuilding Together Houston, 33 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Rebuilding Together Houston?
- REBUILDING TOGETHER INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,029,242 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Rebuilding Together 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.
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 55 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