Fair Housing Council of South Texas
Legal name: San Antonio Fair Housing Council Inc DBAFair Housing Council of South Texas
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 742795930
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- San Antonio, Texas, USA
- Phone
- (210) 733-3247
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Housing Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $351,551
- Expenses
- $472,584
- Assets
- $198,528
- Liabilities
- $17
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SANDRA TAMEZ (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- JOYCE M WALKER (President)
- Barry Beer (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- SANDRA TAMEZ (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $65,122 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Promote equitable housing opportunities, engage in efforts to address discriminatory housing practices, and advocate for open, accessible, and inclusive communities.
What it reported doing in 2024
The organizations accomplishments include providing assistance with 431 fair housing complaints (of which 288 complaints involved counseling and guidance to consumers with disabilities regarding reasonable accommodation and/or modification requests), providing 1,383 consumers with counseling on discriminatory housing practices, submitting 209 reasonable accommodation or modification requests to housing providers on behalf of consumers, referring 37 administrative housing discrimination complaints to HUD, conducting 21 systemic investigations of housing providers, performing direct educational mailings to 10,050 consumer households, performing education and outreach activities that provided educational information to 536 persons, and received a total of 184,358 views of its online educational posts on its website and social media pages. In addition, the organizations accomplishments include conducting 113 rental test parts, conducting 3 design and construction test parts, conducting 8 real estate sales test parts, and conducting 2 mortgage lending test parts.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 100% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 20
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 88.3%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -34.4%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.42; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 13.8%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.5% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.8% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.5% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 8 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 23 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 88.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $417K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $65K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 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 8/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 21/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 25/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 59/100.