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SHELTER AGENCIES FOR FAMILIES IN EAST TEXAS

SHELTER AGENCIES FOR FAMILIES IN EAST TEXAS (Texas) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $404,427 to it, the largest being EAST TEXAS COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION ($196,965). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$2.0M
Revenue FY2025
11
Funders on record
$404k
Grants received
$1.4M
Net assets
6/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 9%

Against its field

SHELTER AGENCIES FOR FAMILIES IN EAST TEXAS's revenue grew 40% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−6% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve2.3mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,983 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($1.4M) Expenses 100 ($1.6M) Net assets 100 ($1.4M)2018 Revenue 119 ($1.7M) Expenses 120 ($1.9M) Net assets 84 ($1.2M)2019 Revenue 143 ($2.0M) Expenses 142 ($2.2M) Net assets 70 ($995k)2020 Revenue 156 ($2.2M) Expenses 155 ($2.4M) Net assets 72 ($1.0M)2021 Revenue 209 ($2.9M) Expenses 176 ($2.7M) Net assets 86 ($1.2M)2022 Revenue 130 ($1.8M) Expenses 143 ($2.2M) Net assets 73 ($1.0M)2023 Revenue 119 ($1.7M) Expenses 103 ($1.6M) Net assets 78 ($1.1M)2024 Revenue 102 ($1.4M) Expenses 84 ($1.3M) Net assets 105 ($1.5M)2025 Revenue 140 ($2.0M) Expenses 134 ($2.1M) Net assets 97 ($1.4M)
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Revenue (140)Expenses (134)Net assets (97)Peer revenue range

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.

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2018
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2021
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2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 76% · 2018 74% · 2019 73% · 2020 69% · 2021 72% · 2022 75% · 2023 75% · 2024 77% · 2025 79%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

97% of SHELTER AGENCIES FOR FAMILIES IN EAST TEXAS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,740 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$153k
17
$193k
18
$194k
19
$226k
20
$201k
21
$389k
22
$65k
23
$125k
24
$122k
25
2.3
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $32k → $6k.

2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)49% 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 SHELTER AGENCIES FOR FAMILIES IN EAST TEXAS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 8 of 11 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

SHELTER AGENCIES FOR FAMILIES IN EAST TEXAS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

80% 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 SHELTER AGENCIES FOR FAMILIES IN EAST TEXAS.

49%
largest funder
81%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 70% · 2019 41% · 2020 48% · 2021 55% · 2023 100%growing more concentrated.

“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 SHELTER AGENCIES FOR FAMILIES IN EAST TEXAS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

100% of SHELTER AGENCIES FOR FAMILIES IN EAST TEXAS's grant income comes from Texas funders.

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. $198k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 11 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding SHELTER AGENCIES FOR FAMILIES IN EAST TEXAS receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $681k on record.

Federal$681k
grants $681kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Housing and Urban Development$681k

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 SHELTER AGENCIES FOR FAMILIES IN EAST TEXAS

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Texas

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

69% of spending goes to programs.

Program 69%Management 25%Fundraising 6%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

99%

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 SHELTER AGENCIES FOR FAMILIES IN EAST TEXAS: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds SHELTER AGENCIES FOR FAMILIES IN EAST TEXAS?
SHELTER AGENCIES FOR FAMILIES IN EAST TEXAS (Texas) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $404,427 to it, the largest being EAST TEXAS COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION ($196,965). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SHELTER AGENCIES FOR FAMILIES IN EAST TEXAS have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $404,427 in grants to SHELTER AGENCIES FOR FAMILIES IN EAST TEXAS, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SHELTER AGENCIES FOR FAMILIES IN EAST TEXAS?
EAST TEXAS COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $196,965 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SHELTER AGENCIES FOR FAMILIES IN EAST TEXAS 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 11funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing