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WEST STREET RECOVERY

EIN 82-2708194 HOUSTON, TX

Revenue 2024
$2,711,657
Expenses 2024
$2,447,774

Program services were 85.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
M20
Classification
1200
Street
2012 EMANCIPATION AVE

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

West Street Recovery's mission is to connect communities to the resources they need to rebuild after climate disasters such as Hurricane Harvey and build resilient, secure, and stronger communities.

Activities or mission (Part I)

To provide essential services to residents of northeast Houston.

  • WSR's Home Repair program continues to meet and assist homeowners who have not yet fully recovered, despite most agencies in the city having closed their Harvey repair programs. Distinguishing the impact of Harvey from disasters that preceded it (such as Ike and Alison) and that followed it (such as Imelda and Uri) is increasingly complex. All people deserve safe, sanitary, and dignified housing.

    Expenses $861,109

  • The Voter Engagement Program works to notify community members when elections are taking place, to determine if they have plans to vote or need help getting to the polls, to support neighbors in understanding the positions and ballot measures on the ballot, and to spread awareness about how the election process works. Community members are organized and paid to participate in a voter engagement call banking program.

    Expenses $323,352

  • WSR specializes in providing disaster relief resources to at-risk communities. In the event of a disaster, it is of the utmost importance for communities to receive help immediately. This program enables us to serve community members in the days following disasters, before traditional funding and grants become available.

    Expenses $252,622 · Grants $222,273

  • WSR continues to build collective knowledge about flooding, pollution, and infrastructure. Community members' ability to advocate on these issues has greatly increased through public speaking, meeting with officials, strategizing campaigns, and facilitating community conversations.

    Expenses $218,859

  • WSR distributes direct assistance to families in our service area who need help with purchasing groceries, keeping utilities on, paying for funeral costs, supporting medication purchases, and promoting accessibility for individuals with disabilities. WSR has a per-household cap of $300 per year and distributes funds on a first-come, first-served basis.

    Expenses $210,591 · Grants $71,616

  • WSR has equipped local houses as "hub houses" with alternative power sources (formerly generators, now rooftop solar and battery systems), heating and cooling systems, food and water supplies, medical supplies, search and rescue equipment, and home repair tools. Hubs also strengthen social infrastructure. Neighbors know and care for each other through hosting trainings and block events.

    Expenses $170,937

  • WSR's research formalizes community knowledge to impact policy and empower community members to document risk, unequal investment, and injustice in their communities.

    Expenses $55,813

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Doris Brown

    Co-Director

    Total calculated
    $18,783
    From this org
    $18,783
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    30

  • Ben Hirsch

    Co-Director

    Total calculated
    $76,604
    From this org
    $76,604
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Cavanaugh Nweze

    Co-Director

    Total calculated
    $51,464
    From this org
    $51,464
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    25

  • Connie Boulware

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Ben Broadway

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $3,911
    From this org
    $3,911
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Billy Guevara

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Zoe Middleton

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Melanie Ping

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Genesis Sanchez

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,711,657
    Expenses
    $2,447,774
    Contributions
    $2,711,657
    Grants paid
    $293,889
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,451,100
    Expenses
    $1,172,801
    Contributions
    $1,451,100
    Grants paid
    $104,421
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,572,615
    Expenses
    $1,103,993
    Contributions
    $1,572,615
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,572,615
    Expenses
    $1,103,993
    Contributions
    $1,572,615
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $0
    Expenses
    not reported
    Contributions
    not reported
    Grants paid
    not reported

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,043,567
    Expenses
    $946,954
    Assets (EOY)
    $349,626

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $705,013
    Expenses
    $710,785
    Assets (EOY)
    $239,434

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $404,788
    Expenses
    $247,458
    Assets (EOY)
    $194,269

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.