Texas · Nonprofit
ZOROASTRIAN ASSOCIATION OF HOUSTON
ZOROASTRIAN ASSOCIATION OF HOUSTON (Texas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $172,926 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($89,303). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $173k
- Net assets
- $5.9M
What Zoroastrian Association of Houston does
Mission
Church - Religous & Social Heritage Organization
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2025 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
North American Zarthusti Congress scheduled for end of year 2020.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Youth and Middle Group - To conduct group activities, religous meetings and promote religious knowledge and practice. To seek to improve youth participation in ongoing program activities for future years. To provide scholarships towards academic and religious participation from youth.
$14,222 spent$33,537 earned by the program4% of program spendingTo promote Sunday school, Avesta study groups, the Gatha Study classes and meetings for religious construction within the local organization and associate organizations throughout the United States.
$84,187 spent$981,403 earned by the program22% of program spendingPrograms conducting various religious services, prayer meetings, community prayers, mukhtad prayers, celebrates Navroze, Jashan-e-Sadeh, Ghambars and other religious and cultural festivals throughout the year.
$206,617 spent$131,164 earned by the program54% of program spendingTo promote the continuation of religious services, classes, and meetings, and to ensure the ongoing maintenance and repairs of the religious facility.
$76,667 spent$1,901,004 earned by the program20% of program spendingLibrary group conducts various lecture series on different aspects of the religion, maintains reading groups to promote fellowship in the Zoroastrian community.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $381,693.
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.
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 $5.7M to $6.1M (+7%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 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.
Board chair
Aderbad Tamboli
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $13k → $21k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% 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 ZOROASTRIAN ASSOCIATION OF HOUSTON’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
ZOROASTRIAN ASSOCIATION OF HOUSTON leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
57% 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 ZOROASTRIAN ASSOCIATION OF HOUSTON.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2019 100% · 2020 72% · 2021 72% · 2022 88% · 2023 49% — 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.
Where its funders are
57% of ZOROASTRIAN ASSOCIATION OF HOUSTON's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $75k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $98k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Organizations like ZOROASTRIAN ASSOCIATION OF 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
32% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ZOROASTRIAN ASSOCIATION OF 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 ZOROASTRIAN ASSOCIATION OF HOUSTON?
- ZOROASTRIAN ASSOCIATION OF HOUSTON (Texas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $172,926 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($89,303). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ZOROASTRIAN ASSOCIATION OF HOUSTON have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $172,926 in grants to ZOROASTRIAN ASSOCIATION OF HOUSTON, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ZOROASTRIAN ASSOCIATION OF HOUSTON?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $89,303 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ZOROASTRIAN ASSOCIATION OF 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 7 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