Texas · Nonprofit
Sharpen Recovery
Sharpen Recovery (Texas) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,292,651 to it, the largest being STOLLER FOUNDATION ($246,350). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $234k
What Sharpen Recovery does
Mission
Our mission is to provide and expand recovery housing that is highly effective, lovingly delivered, and spiritually supported, enabling lasting sobriety and freedom.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Providing structured recovery housing for hundreds each year, enabling participants to build recovery capital which impacts them economically, spiritually, socially, and physically resulting in lasting sobriety and freedom, while also strengthening other providers and the recovery housing industry as a whole.Sharpen Recovery operates 17 houses across Greater Houston, making it the largest accredited recovery housing organization in Texas. Led by an experienced leadership team that combines corporate expertise with lived recovery experience, and overseen by a highly accomplished board of directors, Sharpen Recovery creates a profound impact in the lives of its participants.
$1,167,673 spentof which $99,542 as grants$707,945 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,167,673.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2021 to 2022, from $58k to $294k (+408%).
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. 1 of the last 5 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
Nicholas Long
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 10 funders, grant income rose $38k → $231k.
5 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 Sharpen Recovery’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
Sharpen Recovery 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 61% · 2023 41% — 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.
Where its funders are
95% of Sharpen Recovery's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $195k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 Sharpen Recovery
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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 Sharpen Recovery: 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 Sharpen Recovery?
- Sharpen Recovery (Texas) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,292,651 to it, the largest being STOLLER FOUNDATION ($246,350). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Sharpen Recovery have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $1,292,651 in grants to Sharpen Recovery, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Sharpen Recovery?
- STOLLER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $246,350 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Sharpen Recovery 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 25 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