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HOUSTON BAR FOUNDATION

EIN 76-0029594 HOUSTON, TX

Revenue 2024
$2,616,674
Expenses 2024
$2,133,165

Program services were 88.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
I038
Classification
2000
Street
1000 LOUISIANA ST STE 3600

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

The Houston Bar Foundation supports programs that help provide legal representation to the indigent, promote community understanding of our legal system, and foster the administration of justice.

Activities or mission (Part I)

The Houston Bar Foundation is the charitable arm of the Houston Bar Association. The Foundation supports pro bono legal services to the community and promotes community understanding of our legal system.

  • The primary beneficiary of the Houston Bar Foundation is Houston Volunteer Lawyers, the pro bono service arm of the Houston Bar Association. The Houston Bar Foundation also supports the Houston Bar Association's programming, which is consistent with its HBA's mission to serve Houston lawyers and foster the administration of justice.

    Expenses $1,888,467 · Grants $1,864,208

As filed on the 2024 return.

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.

  • Sara Keith

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Benny Agosto Jr

    Chair Elect

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Alistair Dawson

    Vice Chair thru 2/2025

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jennifer Hasley

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Christopher Northcutt

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Richard Whiteley

    Treasurer thru 2/2025

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Linda Hester

    Immediate Past Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Monica Karuturi

    Past Chair thru 2/2025

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sejal Brahmbhatt

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mindy Davidson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Andrew Edelman

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Hon Mike Engelhart

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Holly Chastain Nini

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Stephanie Noble

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 2 related

  • Denise Scofield

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Krisina Zuniga

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Vinh Ho

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $143,024
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $131,777
    Other
    $11,247
    Hours/week
    10 + 40 related

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
    $2,616,674
    Expenses
    $2,133,165
    Contributions
    $1,107,568
    Grants paid
    $1,864,208
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,427,176
    Expenses
    $1,521,836
    Contributions
    $1,675,363
    Grants paid
    $1,227,071
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,113,671
    Expenses
    $1,864,256
    Contributions
    $1,403,515
    Grants paid
    $1,580,421

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
    $1,998,914
    Expenses
    $1,566,705
    Assets (EOY)
    $18,967,094

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,024,601
    Expenses
    $1,735,090
    Assets (EOY)
    $21,838,526

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,743,422
    Expenses
    $1,539,561
    Assets (EOY)
    $17,156,241

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,835,436
    Expenses
    $1,951,921
    Assets (EOY)
    $16,270,683

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,888,707
    Expenses
    $1,406,354
    Assets (EOY)
    $14,911,104

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,658,519
    Expenses
    $1,335,092
    Assets (EOY)
    $13,934,457

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,259,011
    Expenses
    $1,309,913
    Assets (EOY)
    $12,231,704

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,452,555
    Expenses
    $1,192,339
    Assets (EOY)
    $12,700,584

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,074,481
    Expenses
    $1,190,583
    Assets (EOY)
    $12,468,860

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,127,744
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,016,625

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

Declared as related by

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.