Texas · Nonprofit
The Montrose Center
The Montrose Center (Texas) receives grants from 85 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,963,656 to it, the largest being LEGACY COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INC ($5,835,678). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 85
- Grants received
- $17M
- Net assets
- $10M
What The Montrose Center does
Mission
The Montrose Center (TMC) empowers our community, primarily gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender individuals and their families, to enjoy healthier and more fulfilling lives by providing culturally affirming and affordable behavioral health and prevention services.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Case management provided services to clients and outreach participants to promote continuity of care, enabling clients to function independently using government, private, and community resources. To support this intention, we provide services to help clients address challenges to living a healthy life, including access to mental and psychosocial services in a timely and coordinated manner. These services include assistance with completing and submitting government forms, as well as locating transportation, housing, and other resources. In addition to case management services for those living with HIV disease, specialized case management services are available to deaf/hard of hearing and survivors of sexual assault, domestic violence, or a bias/hate crime.
$4,674,457 spentof which $2,830,429 as grants$243,894 earned by the program50% of program spendingThe Montrose Center's counseling services are part of the Living Insightfully for Empowerment (LIFE) program, a psychotherapy and counseling program designed to empower clients' self-sufficiency in recovery without fear of encountering prejudice, ignorance, homophobia, or heterosexism in an LGBT-affirming environment. LIFE serves special populations of the LGBT community through Anti-Violence, HIV/AIDS, and Chemical Dependency programming. Anti-Violence staff provide counseling services to address issues related to domestic violence, sexual assault, hate crimes, and childhood sexual abuse. HIV/AIDS staff provide individual and group counseling to people affected by or infected with HIV or AIDS.See Schedule OChemical Dependency counselors offer a combination of education, therapy, and counseling as a state-licensed outpatient treatment program designed primarily for the LGBT community. All programs above are LGBT affirming to provide the best service and outcomes for the target population. All phases of the program offer services to family members and others significant in the lives of clients participating in the program. Counseling services were provided in-kind by student…
$3,425,474 spent$736,392 earned by the program37% of program spendingThe senior program provides counseling, case management services, social and recreational activities, and health wellness education to LGBT people 60 and over. The Youth program provides adolescents and young adults who identify as LGBTQ with outreach, counseling, role models, and peer support to help prevent homelessness among youth. The Women's program supports lesbian women, breaking down barriers that lesbians face when accessing health and social services through advocacy, professional and community education, and case management. The program also hosts an annual celebration dance in support of women and their friends.
$658,092 spent7% of program spendingThe Montrose Center's education programs provide current and accessible information on HIV, sexually transmitted infections, chemical dependency, hepatitis, and tuberculosis by offering seminars on homophobia, heterosexism, and cultural sensitivity. The Montrose Center also provides anti-violence education that includes violence dynamics in the LGBT community. Educational services offer information and training not only to LGBT people but to the greater Houston metropolitan area as a whole to create LGBT cultural sensitivity. Seminars and outreach conversations are provided in prisons, halfway houses, inpatient and outpatient recovery centers, schools, social organizations, businesses and corporations, community and neighborhood groups, health care and legal professionals, churches, and families.
$626,586 spent$107,796 earned by the program7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $9,384,609.
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. 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 2020 to 2021, from $33M to $14M (−57%).
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: 2020 36% · 2021 53% · 2022 61% · 2023 58% · 2024 63%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of The Montrose Center’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (7% for the typical peer).
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 22 funders to 31 funders, grant income rose $1.9M → $2.4M.
14 of 85 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 The Montrose Center’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 85 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 Montrose Center leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 58%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
83% 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 Montrose Center.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 63% · 2019 60% · 2020 42% · 2021 25% · 2022 35% · 2023 31% — 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 The Montrose Center's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% 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
94% of The Montrose Center's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M 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
The Montrose Center's funding base is broadening — from 22 funders to 31 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,580 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding The Montrose Center receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $11.2M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$8.8M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$2.4M
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 The Montrose Center
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
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- 2222 Cleburne GP LLC · disregarded
- Montrose Counseling Center Permanent Endowment Inc · exempt
- Lesbian Health Initiative of Houston Texas · exempt
- 2222 Cleburne LP · partnership
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Questions and answers
- Who funds The Montrose Center?
- The Montrose Center (Texas) receives grants from 85 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,963,656 to it, the largest being LEGACY COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INC ($5,835,678). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Montrose Center have?
- IRS filings report 85 organizations giving $16,963,656 in grants to The Montrose Center, 42 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Montrose Center?
- LEGACY COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,835,678 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Montrose Center 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 85 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