Fisher House Friends of Houston
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 812388755
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2021, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Houston, TX, USA
- Phone
- 2813827220
- Rating
- 94
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Philanthropy, Charity, Voluntarism Promotion
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $11,945
- Expenses
- $70,946
- Assets
- $395,820
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PAMELA MCGEE (PRESIDENT)
- MICHELLE WIER (VICE PRESIDENT)
- GEOFFREY HYATT (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- LIZ WICKER (SECRETARY)
- PAMELA MCGEE (PRESIDENT)
- MICHELLE WIER (VICE PRESIDENT)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Augment goods & services provided to families of veterans and military members lodged in the houston fisher houses.
What it reported doing in 2024
These military families are eligible for lodging while the veterans or active duty service members are receiving treatment in the Texas medical center in houston, tx. These fisher houses are owned by the department of veterans affairs, which is only able to provide limited goods & services to these family member guest. Fisher house friends of houston (fhfoh) works with the managers of these houses to determine the additional goods & services most beneficial to these families, which covers a very broad range and cannot be described in terms of traditional programs with separate descriptions. Essentially, fhfoh has one program - working with the managers to help the guests as much as possible. Fhfoh has provided a variety of goods & services in response to the managers requests. These goods & services benefit virtually all guests of these houses. The guest population fluctuates as the patients are admitted and discharged from these various hospitals. It has been estimated that approximately 150 families per month are lodged in the 3 houston fisher houses, with at least one person and no more than 3 family members per room.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 27
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -493.9%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.58; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 73.3%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 27.3% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.5% per year; rating input score 0; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 22.7% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $71K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2016 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.