Form 990 for tax year 2024

Totals

Total revenue

$2,059,525

Total expenses

$1,757,676

Contributions and grants received

$1,595,136

Grants paid

$0

Program service revenue

$434,519

Investment income

$18,863

Other revenue

$11,007

Total assets, end of year

$986,804

Total liabilities, end of year

$275,352

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$711,452

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$1,128,684

Management and general expenses

$425,918

Fundraising expenses

$203,074

Program service expenses (Part III)

$1,128,684

Program services were 64.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2024

• Program One: Strategic Initiatives (Planning, Research and Action) Center for Houston's Future looks over the horizon at global, national, and local trends that will shape our future, and brings business, government, and community stakeholders together to engage in fact-based strategic planning, collaboration, consensus building and action on issues of great importance to the future of the Houston region. In 2024, the Center worked as follows: Energy Transition Leadership: Our energy transition work focused on ensuring Houston remains the world's energy capital as the world moves toward a low-carbon future. Based on our research and collaboration with many partners, we identified multiple opportunities to build on Houston's infrastructure base, expertise of energy companies, skilled workforce, universities, and energy innovation ecosystem. For over five years, we've led regional efforts to develop and expand a regional and Gulf Coast clean hydrogen ecosystem. CHF has been a key driver, alongside GTI Energy, University of Texas, and other nonprofits, in creating the strategy and vision for the HyVelocity Hub. HyVelocity, which launched in November 2024 and was designated for a $1.2 billion federal grant. Separately, as part of a collaboration with the Greater Houston Partnership on its Houston Energy Transition Initiative, the Center created and led a Clean Hydrogen Steering Committee focused on ecosystem development. In 2024, we had 45 companies and over 200 individuals participating in various activities, including steering committee meetings, working group sessions, workshops, and trade missions. Our five working groups, in sector development, supply chain creation, international trade, marketplace development, and demand creation, each completed efforts that contributed to the region's clean hydrogen ecosystem. We also held a grid interconnection workshop and co-produced a hydrogen pipeline regulatory whitepaper. We planned and implemented an international trade mission to Japan and Korea. Twenty-five delegates from 21 Gulf Coast companies participated in the clean hydrogen trade mission that included an industry roundtable in Tokyo and participating in a major international conference in Seoul. The Center signed MOUs with the Japan Hydrogen Association and H2Korea. We also built our relationships in Europe, signing an MOU with the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Germany's largest trade association. In 2024, we also continued work with Accenture and the Greater Houston Partnership's UpSkill Houston program on clean hydrogen workforce development, creating a framework and a model to provide jobs and career paths in the hydrogen economy. Public and Media Presence: In 2024, CHF appeared at more than 25 conferences, panels, or events, including a major rollout event for the National Petroleum Council's Hydrogen study. It also had more than 25 hydrogen media mentions. Energy Education: In partnership with Children's Museum Houston and with sponsorship from CenterPoint Energy Foundation and bp, we expanded Driving the Future, our out-of-school enrichment program for students in grades 3-8 to learn about achieving a low-carbon future. In 2024, we offered the program at Galena Park ISD both as part of its summer school enrichment program and an afterschool program at two elementary schools in both spring and fall semesters, directly reaching more than 300 elementary students in 2024. Health Care: Building on the strong foundation established by our three health care reports since 2020, the Center continued to expand its health care and health equity work. In 2024, we broadened our focus to include the intersection of climate change and health; and the transformative potential of artificial intelligence in healthcare. Our ongoing efforts explore opportunities for collaboration among leaders in health care, business, and social services to improve community health and economic well-being in Greater Houston. Our work was bolstered by St. Luke's Health's support of two research papers. Climate Change and Healthcare: In April, we released our Climate Change and Health Care Report, which garnered media attention. The report delved into the escalating health threats posed by climate change, including heat-related illnesses and mosquito-borne diseases, while outlining critical recommendations for healthcare leaders to address these challenges. To further explore the implications of our findings, CHF hosted two expert roundtable discussions that brought together climate health experts from major local health systems, academic institutions, and national organizations. AI in Healthcare: Our focus on technological advancements in healthcare culminated in the publication of our AI and Healthcare report in October. The report generated significant interest and spurred a series of follow-up discussions with leaders from healthcare systems, the Texas Medical Center, the Greater Houston Health Collaborative, academia, and biotech startups. Conference Presentations: CHF's expertise was showcased at two notable conferences: At the Texas Heart Institute Cardiometabolic Disease Conference, we presented "An Employer Perspective on Community Health Initiatives," highlighting the crucial role employers play in promoting community health. At the HCPC Maternal and Child Health Conference, we delivered a presentation on Employer Action to Improve Maternal and Child Health. Vision 2050: We kicked off Vision 2050 in late 2023, as an exciting addition to our ongoing work that builds on the Center's long legacy of using scenarios and visioning exercises to guide our work. Vision 2050 is engaging with the community to create a long-range plan for the region. In 2024, we started to identify key aspirations and areas of concern for the future of the region. Interviews with key Houston leaders in 2024 helped to shape this initiative, and we conducted online and informal surveys to gather priorities and key aspirations, capturing a range of voices from across Houston. Those were among steps we took as we began assessing the landscape to understand what the major issues are, who/what entities are working in the area, to identify gaps, overlaps in current efforts and to build fact bases on several critical areas. We also built out a Vision 2050 framework, including a timeline, processes, and work streams. As 2024 ended, we were along the way in building out our Vision 2050 Steering Committee and a team of volunteer subject matter advisors. Steering Committee members included: Rice University President Reginald DesRoches, Kinder Institute for Uban Research Director Ruth Lopez Turley, Texas Medical Center Bill McKeon, Memorial Park CEO Shellye Arnold, Cart.com Co-founder Remington Tonar and more. Our volunteer advisors included independent consultants, those from Bain Consulting and one person from Arnold Ventures.

  Expenses $732,635 · Revenue $209,942

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  Expenses $290,051 · Revenue $198,450

• Program Three: Community engagement: Community Engagement is the Center's third area of focus. Knowledge is power, and we are empowering Houstonians. 2024 Event Highlights: In 2024, we once again sponsored an energy conference with Greater Houston Partnership, offered a fall version of our Summer Salon programming, and hosted our signature fall Dinner and Conversation. Future of Global Energy: The 2024 Future of Global Energy Conference was cohosted by the Center for Houston's Future, the Greater Houston Partnership, and the Houston Energy Transition Initiative in October. It spanned three days and drew about 800 attendees. Summer Salon - Fall Edition: The Center offered a primer and discussion of Carbon Capture and Storage: A Critical Tool for a Low-Carbon Future. Presented by bp, the discussion featured a short presentation from bp's Chris Walker, followed by a panel discussion with Walker, Ken B. Medlock from Rice University's Baker Institute, Colin Young from DexMat, and John Hall of Houston Advanced Research Center. Signature Event: In November, the Center hosted our most successful Dinner and Conversation. Stan Marek was honored with the Eugene H. Vaughan Civic Leadership Award for his lifetime of service. Award-winning author Steven Harrigan and Texas Tribune CEO Sonal Shah engaged in an exciting conversation, "A Texas Talk, Reflecting on the Past, Envisioning the Future." David E. Harvey, Jr., and Joe Cleary, co-chairs of the board of Harvey/Harvey-Cleary, served as event chairs and more than 300 people attended. Other Energy Events: The Center hosted hydrogen thought-leadership events at major international energy conferences including CERAWeek and Gastech; convened clean hydrogen stakeholders to discuss Texas power grid gaps and opportunities related to hydrogen, with sponsorship by CenterPoint Energy; co-sponsored a hydrogen-workforce event and co-sponsored an event to release a national DOE-requested study on advancing the nation's hydrogen market. Thought Leadership: The Center continued to exhibit thought leadership by appearing at a range of conferences, panels, and events to discuss climate and energy, leadership, and health equity; appearing in videos; and engaging with traditional and social media. All told, Center staff had more than 25 speaking engagements. Communications & Marketing: We continued to garner media attention for our initiatives and build our brand and followership. The Center had almost 30 mentions/interviews in a range of media outlets - local, national, international, trade - mostly on hydrogen and energy transition but also on health, and appeared at more than 25 panels, conferences, and events. We launched our new website in January 2024, which was created to prominently feature our Strategic Initiatives, Leadership Forum, events, research and more. The site drew nearly 90,000 views from more than 15,000 unique users in 2024. The Center's social media following grew by over 35% in 2024. We drew more than 5,000 unique visitors to our LinkedIn page and received more than 118,000 impressions on our posts highlighting our work.

  Expenses $105,998 · Revenue $26,127

As filed on the 2024 return. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.

Listed in Part VII

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2024

Filed

7 October 2025

IRS schema version

2024v5.1

Source object

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