Greater Houston Community Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237160400
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Houston, TX, United States
- Phone
- 713-333-2200
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community Foundations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $293,284,617
- Expenses
- $267,752,460
- Assets
- $1,106,618,972
- Liabilities
- $42,815,666
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
37 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- STEPHEN D MAISLIN (PRESIDENT & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- STEPHEN D MAISLIN (PRESIDENT & CEO): $791,256 total reported compensation
- MICHAEL D PAWSON (TREASURER & CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $436,463 total reported compensation
- POOJA AMIN (GENERAL COUNSEL): $315,194 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Greater Houston Community Foundation inspires and creates meaningful and positive change with our donors and for our community. See how Houston’s rich tradition of volunteer effort, natural cohesion, and community leadership inspired the creation of Greater Houston Community Foundation. Learn More Our Mission. The Greater Houston Community Foundation team consists of highly experienced and skilled professionals who work day in and day out to create one community in our workplace and our great city. Guided by the experienced philanthropists on our board and council, we work together to provide superior service to our donors — helping them expand their philanthropic impact across our region. Governing Board Chevron down.
What it reported doing in 2024
Educational: disbursed grants to 799 organizations to support educational programs and curriculums and disbursed awards to 267 educational institutions to support scholarship programs.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 80% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 98% of its reported program spending out as grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 95
- Transparency & Controls: 73
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 75
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 94.7%; rating input score 95
- Program expense ratio: 96.9%; rating input score 97
- Fundraising efficiency: $149.67 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Fail
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 99%; rating input score 99; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 8.7%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.13; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.5%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 94.7% of revenue deployed · 96.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 20 of 20 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 8 filed program accomplishments · $259.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $791K · 37 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $623K reported
- Consistency: 39 of 40 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1739 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1757 filed related-organization links
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 7 of 8 not reported.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.