Greater Houston Black Chamber Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 271588576
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2020, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Houston, TX, USA
- Phone
- 6825566592
- Rating
- 54
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Education N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $56,544
- Expenses
- $60,373
- Assets
- $123,335
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
People named in this filing
- Dominique D Calhoun (Board Chair)
- Carmen Herrera (Vice Chair)
- Leonard James (Secretary)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Empowering Minority Business Growth
What it reported doing in 2025
Educational Achievement Awards issued $10,000 in scholarships to 10 graduating high school seniors in the Greater Houston Community.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 18
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 49
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 17.7%; rating input score 18
- Program expense ratio: 16.6%; rating input score 17
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -6.8%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.04; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -6.8% per year; rating input score 0; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.5% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16.8% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 17.7% of revenue deployed · 16.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $10K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 8 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 18/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 17/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 32/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.