Texas Liver Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 851898778
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2020, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Houston, TX, USA
- Phone
- 8323043119
- Rating
- 48
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $125,939
- Expenses
- $120,233
- Assets
- $273,016
- Liabilities
- $911
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- John S Bynon (Vice President and Director)
- Kristen Hanks (President and Director)
- Norman Sussman (Vice President and Director)
- Jenifer Butler (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Shahzad Bashir (Director)
- John S Bynon (Vice President and Director)
- Diana Garcia (Director)
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 Texas Liver Foundation is a nonprofit, independent organization committed to improving the health of liver patients in Texas through: educating patients, advocating for and supporting the liver community, providing accurate and relevant resources for patients. Our stated mission is to inform Texans about liver health and liver disease, and to improve their quality of life and outcomes through education, advocacy and partnership.
What it reported doing in 2025
Public Education & Outreach Educating and supporting Texans about liver health and liver disease is core to our mission. In 2025 we met with hundreds of Texans across the state to share life-saving information about liver health, disease prevention, and early signs to watch for. * We attended 5 health fairs and visited a number of schools. At each health fair, we distributed educational coloring books related to liver health and information on nutrition and liver health. * We participated in a panel discussion with Salud America and UT Health San Antonio on the importance of patient advocacy and living liver donation and launched a virtual support group for living liver donors. We also reinstituted Doc Talks, a virtual panel series, with a session entitled Living Liver Donation 101: What to Expect, What to Ask, and What No One Tells You. * We started a transplant recipient virtual support group and a support group for liver disease caregivers. * Nearly 100 people received free access to liver scans that in some cases identified liver issues to address with their physicians. For these, we partnered with Pinnacle Research, who provided the fibroscans. * We delivered hope, comfort, and practical support to liver patients, adult and pediatric, as well as caregivers, all across Texas through our Bravery Bag program.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 92% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending 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: 4
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 50
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 5.3%; rating input score 5
- Program expense ratio: 2.9%; rating input score 3
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 4.5%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.27; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 63.7%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 28.5% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -16.5% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 18% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 5.3% of revenue deployed · 2.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $3K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 5/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 43/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 43/100.