Texas · Nonprofit
SECOND SERVINGS OF HOUSTON
SECOND SERVINGS OF HOUSTON (Texas) receives grants from 57 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,858,401 to it, the largest being HILTON GLOBAL FOUNDATION ($550,000). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 57
- Grants received
- $3.9M
- Net assets
- $4.2M
What Second Servings of Houston does
Mission
Our mission is to build a healthier houston by providing underserved populations with convenient, affordable access to nutritious food that would otherwise go to waste.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
As houston's leading prepared and perishable food rescue organization, second servings picks up unsold and unserved food from more than 400 food businesses and delivers it directly to 140 local nonprofits. In our first 10 years, we delivered over $110 million worth of food and diverted over 15 million pounds away from the landfill. Our food helps nourish about 200,000 houstonians annually. Using our proven, scalable "same day pickup and delivery" model, which maximizes food freshness and minimizes costs, we have delivered $40 worth of food for every dollar we spent. Food rescue is both an effective and efficient approach to the challenges of food insecurity and food waste. Our president continues to lead the fast-growing organization on a full-time pro bono basis.
$788,385 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $788,385.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $537k to $1.4M (+163%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $16k → $756k.
16 of 57 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 SECOND SERVINGS OF HOUSTON’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 57 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
SECOND SERVINGS OF HOUSTON has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% 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
50% 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 SECOND SERVINGS OF HOUSTON.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 86% · 2018 89% · 2019 19% · 2020 17% · 2021 27% · 2022 26% · 2023 33% — 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
33% of SECOND SERVINGS OF HOUSTON's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
SECOND SERVINGS OF HOUSTON draws 57% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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.
Organizations like SECOND SERVINGS OF 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
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
77%
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 SECOND SERVINGS OF 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 SECOND SERVINGS OF HOUSTON?
- SECOND SERVINGS OF HOUSTON (Texas) receives grants from 57 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,858,401 to it, the largest being HILTON GLOBAL FOUNDATION ($550,000). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SECOND SERVINGS OF HOUSTON have?
- IRS filings report 57 organizations giving $3,858,401 in grants to SECOND SERVINGS OF HOUSTON, 33 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SECOND SERVINGS OF HOUSTON?
- HILTON GLOBAL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $550,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SECOND SERVINGS OF 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 FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 57 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