Houston Harriers

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
741948212
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
Location
Houston, TX, USA
Phone
4129964859
Rating
75
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$73,973
Expenses
$75,049
Assets
$16,429

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Daniel Barron (President)
  • Sarah Cherington (Vice President)
  • Terence Baptiste (Vice President)
  • Nele Lefeldt (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Daniel Barron (President)
  • Sarah Cherington (Vice President)
  • Michael Gujral (Treasurer)

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

The goal of this club is to promote competitive running within the Houston running community therefore, first and foremost, training & competition will be emphasized. The Houston Harriers was re-organized in 2017 with the help of Doug Storey, and the history and traditions of the club will remain as key tenets going forward. In addition to that, the Harriers are working on new events, as well as ideas for the future. One constant will be the development of the athlete, at whatever level that may be.

What it reported doing in 2025

Races and Pre-Race Activities. We put on two competitive races in Houston and hosted several pre-race events.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 69% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 97% 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 filed totals do not add up and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 77
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 31
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 77%; rating input score 77
  • Program expense ratio: 75.9%; rating input score 76

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -1.5%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.22; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 41.2% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -8% per year; rating input score 0; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -6.3% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 77% of revenue deployed · 75.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $57K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 1 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 39/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 19/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.