Texas · Nonprofit
WORKSHOP HOUSTON
WORKSHOP HOUSTON (Texas) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,263,697 to it, the largest being JERRY C DEARING FAMILY FOUNDATION ($320,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $576k
- Funders on record
- 39
- Grants received
- $2.3M
- Net assets
- $945k
What Workshop Houston does
Mission
Workshop Houston's mission is to provide youth with creative, technical and educational resources in the arts. Our vision is to lay the groundwork for a just society by creating a community that provides youth with support expanded opportunities and alternative definitions of success.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Workshop Houston is a youth development agency, based in the Third Ward, that focuses on building positive youth communities through arts participation, restorative justice, cooperative leadership, and job opportunities. Workshop Houston's program model is designed around the prevention and intervention of juvenile justice involvement for disenfranchised youth in our community. Workshop Houston's particular recipe of programs and supports have enabled hundreds of disaffected youth to understand and claim their full humanity, to live richer, fuller lives and to develop the critical learning and life skills they need to become positive contributors to their communities.
$531,127 spent$7,182 earned by the program100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $531,127.
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 2024 to 2025, from $1.2M to $949k (−20%).
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 0% · 2021 0% · 2022 3% · 2023 0% · 2024 1% · 2025 36%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of WORKSHOP HOUSTON’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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
Roderick Tillman
CEO/Executive Director
Board chair
Andrew Davis
Chairman of the Board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 17 funders to 10 funders, grant income fell $493k → $244k.
7 of 39 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.
From the IRS filings of WORKSHOP HOUSTON’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 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
WORKSHOP HOUSTON has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% 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
44% 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 WORKSHOP HOUSTON.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 37% · 2019 34% · 2020 40% · 2021 40% · 2022 26% · 2023 45% — 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
36% of WORKSHOP HOUSTON'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
89% of WORKSHOP HOUSTON's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $525k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
WORKSHOP HOUSTON's revenue grew 29% between 2020 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,482 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding WORKSHOP HOUSTON receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $85k on record.
- Department of Justice$50k
- National Endowment for the Arts$35k
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 WORKSHOP HOUSTON
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
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
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 WORKSHOP HOUSTON: 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 WORKSHOP HOUSTON?
- WORKSHOP HOUSTON (Texas) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,263,697 to it, the largest being JERRY C DEARING FAMILY FOUNDATION ($320,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WORKSHOP HOUSTON have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $2,263,697 in grants to WORKSHOP HOUSTON, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WORKSHOP HOUSTON?
- JERRY C DEARING FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $320,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WORKSHOP HOUSTON 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 39 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing