Texas · Nonprofit
The Junior League of Houston Inc
The Junior League of Houston Inc (Texas) receives grants from 63 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,378,428 to it, the largest being Texas Children's Hospital ($925,000). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
The Junior League of Houston Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 276 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 276 community improvement nonprofits $10M–$100M, 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.
- Cullen Trust For Health Careshared funderslocal
- Marie Roper Foundationportfolio match
- The Ott Family Foundation Fka as Ott Charitable Foundationportfolio match
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.
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: 2021 9% · 2022 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
58% of The Junior League of Houston Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $223k → $316k.
8 of 63 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $9.1M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Junior League of Houston Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money The Junior League of Houston Inc raised.
From the IRS filings of The Junior League of Houston Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 63 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
The Junior League of Houston Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 39% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
65% 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 The Junior League of Houston Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 54% · 2019 50% · 2020 64% · 2021 61% · 2022 45% · 2023 38% — 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
35% of The Junior League of Houston Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% 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
98% of The Junior League of Houston 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. $545k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.
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 63 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Cullen Trust For Health Careshared funderslocalTX · backs 39 organizations that share your funders · funds 49 organizations near you
- Marie Roper Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Ott Family Foundation Fka as Ott Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- William S & Lora Jean Kilroy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- CFP Foundationshared fundersTX · backs 32 organizations that share your funders
- Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Educational Fundshared funderslocalTX · backs 54 organizations that share your funders · funds 71 organizations near you
- Florence and William K McGee Jr Family Foundationshared funderslocalTX · backs 44 organizations that share your funders · funds 42 organizations near you
- John S Dunn Foundationshared fundersTX · backs 48 organizations that share your funders
- The Methodist Hospitalshared funderslocalTX · backs 109 organizations that share your funders · funds 160 organizations near you
- The John M O'Quinn Foundationshared funderslocalTX · backs 92 organizations that share your funders · funds 92 organizations near you
- The Cullen Trust for the Performing Artsshared funderslocalTX · backs 26 organizations that share your funders · funds 41 organizations near you
- Wayne Duddlesten Foundationshared fundersTX · backs 46 organizations that share your funders
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.
Organizations like The Junior League of Houston Inc
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
58%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Junior League of Houston Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Junior League of Houston 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.
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 The Junior League of Houston Inc?
- The Junior League of Houston Inc (Texas) receives grants from 63 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,378,428 to it, the largest being Texas Children's Hospital ($925,000). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Junior League of Houston Inc have?
- IRS filings report 63 organizations giving $2,378,428 in grants to The Junior League of Houston Inc, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Junior League of Houston Inc?
- Texas Children's Hospital is the largest funder on record, with $925,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Junior League of Houston 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.
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 63funders 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