Fit Houston Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 920331205
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2023
- Location
- Houston, TX, USA
- Phone
- 2812224860
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Recreation& Sports N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $482,270
- Expenses
- $460,202
- Assets
- $280,272
- Liabilities
- $5,897
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Lharissa Jacobs (President, Exec. Dir.)
- JP Ramirez (Sr Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Lharissa Jacobs (President, Exec. Dir.): $110,261 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Fit Houston is a nonprofit that increases physical activity across Houstons communities. The mission is to inspire vibrant minds, bodies, and comunities through physical activity.
What it reported doing in 2025
Healthy City Collaborative: We convene many multi-sector organizations in our Healthy City Collaborative monthly. The purpose of Healthy City is to support individuals and communities in improving their health and well-being through free physical activity. We achieve this through collaborative partnerships to ensure equitable, coordinated access to resources across the region. Our focus areas are: free and low-cost activities; safe, abundant, convenient infrastructure for phycial activity; expanded knowledge of parks and trails; culturally responsive communication to increase reach; community engagement and leadership in physical activity; collaborative partnerships in health and well-being across agencies and entities in Greater Houston; and a centralized reference resource for free or low-cost physical activity oppourtunities across the region.
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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 71
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 63
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 72.8%; rating input score 73
- Program expense ratio: 76.3%; rating input score 76
- Fundraising efficiency: $13.65 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 4.6%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.61; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 24%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 163.6% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 52.5% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 43.6% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 72.8% of revenue deployed · 76.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 1 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $351K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $110K · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 17 of 19 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 45/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule G fundraiser detail did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 46/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 29/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 15/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 34/100.