Texas · Nonprofit
Target Hunger Inc
Target Hunger Inc (Texas) receives grants from 78 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,469,681 to it, the largest being United Way of Greater Houston ($3,094,046). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $9.0M
- Funders on record
- 78
- Grants received
- $14M
- Net assets
- $8.0M
What Target Hunger Inc does
Mission
The mission of Target Hunger is to alleviate hunger and its root causes in the Houston neighborhoods we serve. Target Hunger is on the front lines of hunger every day through its food distribution system that includes multiple food pantries, educational food fairs, an extensive home delivery program, summer break food programs for children, mobile distribution sites, a growing community partner program, emergency food assistance, and two gardens.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Target Hunger food services include the operation of three pantry sites, drive thru produce distributions twice a week, mobile pantry sites, emergency food assistance, and spring and summer break food programs for children. In 2025, Target Hunger served over 25,000 unique individuals from more than 208 zip codes, reaching nearly 10% more households than the year before.
$4,206,892 spentof which $2,938,293 as grants89% of program spendingThe Navigation Program, staffed by a team of bilingual Community Health Workers, assists clients in a myriad of ways including but not limited to rent and utility help, healthcare enrollment, and job training. These resources, in tandem with our food programs, help stabilize the health, finances, and overall well-being of Target Hunger families.
$370,730 spentof which $32,941 as grants8% of program spendingTarget Hunger staff, volunteers, and community members maintain two edible gardens, the Willie G. & Gladys R. Goffney Community Garden located in Kashmere Gardens and the Shotwell Garden located at our main warehouse, which harvested food is distributed to clients.
$131,028 spent3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,708,650.
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 2023 to 2024, from $5.1M to $8.1M (+59%).
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 1% · 2018 25% · 2019 29% · 2020 36% · 2021 26% · 2022 22% · 2023 18% · 2024 36%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of Target Hunger Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Sandra Wicoff
CEO
Board chair
Nina Hunt
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 33 funders, grant income rose $588k → $1.5M.
15 of 78 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 Target Hunger Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 78 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
Target Hunger Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
58% 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 Target Hunger Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 54% · 2019 42% · 2020 23% · 2021 29% · 2022 21% · 2023 24% — 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
49% of Target Hunger Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
80% of Target Hunger Inc's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.7M 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.
Against its field
Target Hunger Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,274 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,274 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding Target Hunger Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.0M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$4.0M
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 Target Hunger 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
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 Target Hunger 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 Target Hunger Inc?
- Target Hunger Inc (Texas) receives grants from 78 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,469,681 to it, the largest being United Way of Greater Houston ($3,094,046). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Target Hunger Inc have?
- IRS filings report 78 organizations giving $14,469,681 in grants to Target Hunger Inc, 42 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Target Hunger Inc?
- United Way of Greater Houston is the largest funder on record, with $3,094,046 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Target Hunger 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.
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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 2017–2024), and the filings of 78 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