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HSPVA Friends

Public charity · Grantmaker Houston, TX EIN: 74-1997921 Website

To cultivate support for Kinder High School for the Performing and Visual Arts to enhance educational, professional, and artistic opportunities for current and future students of Kinder HSPVA.

HSPVA Friends at a glance

Total assets
$4,662,945
-1.2% vs 2024
Revenue (2025)
$1,381,409
-3.7% vs 2024
Net investment income (2025)
$169,575
+81.1% vs 2024
Expenses (2025)
$1,495,003
-0.6% vs 2024
Latest 990 filing
Form 990, 2025 View filing

Data from IRS Form 990, 2025; updated September 2026.

Who HSPVA Friends funds

How this funder distributes its grants

Grant Size Distribution

3 grants across all recorded years

2<$50K$50–100K1$100–250K$250–500K$500K–1M$1–5M$5M+

The most common grant size was under $50K: 2 grants of 3 (67%).

Geographic Focus

Where this funder awards grants

Grant Distribution by State

1state

States

Cities

Houston

Giving History

Giving Over Time

Total grant dollars and number of grants per year

$0$1M$2M$3M$4M1 grant2019 1 grant2020 Total only2021 1 grant2022 1 grant2023 1 grant2024 0 grants2025

From 2019 to 2024, annual grant giving ranged from $3K (2021) to $3.9M (2019). In 2024 it made 1 grant totaling $49K.

Hatched bars: grants paid as reported on the IRS filing, which lists no individual grants for that year.

Grants by year

Grant recipients and amounts by year

RecipientPurposeAmount
Kinder High School for the Performing and Visual Arts Houston, TXCurriculum enhancement$48,595
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Financial History

Multi-year comparison from IRS filings

Figures from IRS filings, by filing year
Filing yearTotal AssetsRevenueExpensesGrants paidGrantsNet Investment Income
2025$4,662,945$1,381,409$1,495,003——$169,575
2024$4,718,518$1,435,230$1,503,969$48,5951$93,611
2023$4,683,874$1,242,104$1,320,279$115,5551$93,568
2022$4,763,529$1,602,521$1,138,695$21,5661$67,482
2021$4,509,541$738,458$841,431$2,724Total only$53,561
2020$4,458,496$950,743$1,156,693$130,0161$47,193
2019$4,584,577$1,303,009$4,854,225$3,943,1461$165,934

"Total only": grants paid as reported on the IRS filing, which lists no individual grants for that year.

About HSPVA Friends

Based on IRS filings

HSPVA Friends is a public charity, based in Houston, TX. IRS filing data is available from 2019 through 2025. As of 2025, the organization holds $4.7M in total assets. Net investment income was $170K.

Leadership & Key People

Officers and directors from IRS filings

HSPVA Friends is led by Alene Haehl Coggin, Executive Director on every filing since 2019; 1 of 12 officers listed in 2025 is compensated.

Officers on the 2025 filing

  • Alene Haehl Coggin

    Executive Director

    On filings since 2019

    40 hrs/week

    $104K (2019) → $142K (2025)

  • Janis Jarosz

    Chair

    Director → Chair, 2025

    On filings since 2022

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • Frank Angelle

    Director

    Treasurer → Chair, 2022

    Chair → Director, 2025

    On filings since 2019

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • Grant Dorfman

    Director

    Secretary → Treasurer, 2022

    Treasurer → Director, 2025

    On filings since 2019

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • Algenita Scott Davis

    Director

    On filings since 2020

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • Kimberly Hickson Spaw

    Director

    Director → Secretary, 2022

    Secretary → Director, 2025

    On filings since 2021

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • Patricia Pat Bonner

    Director

    On filings since 2021

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • Andrew Andy Edison

    Director

    On filings since 2022

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • Sally Edmundson

    Director

    On filings since 2024

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • Josh Pazda

    Director

    New on the 2025 filing

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • M Kaye DeWalt

    Secretary

    Director → Secretary, 2025

    On filings since 2019

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • Cristina Esquivel

    Treasurer

    Director → Treasurer, 2025

    On filings since 2023

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

Former officers (13)
  • Former: Jo Furr (2019–2023) — Director
  • Former: Frank Staats (2020–2023) — Director
  • Former: Robert M Eury (2022–2023) — Director
  • Former: George C Lancaster (2019–2022) — Director
  • Former: Kathleen Fenninger (2019–2022) — Director
  • Former: Karen Ostrum George (2019–2021) — Chair
  • Former: Susan Workman Elmore (2019–2021) — Director
  • Former: M Jo Furr (2021) — Director
  • Former: S Grant Dorfman (2021) — Secretary
  • Former: Anita Barksdale (2019–2020) — Director
  • Former: Robert L Boblitt Jr. (2019–2020) — Director
  • Former: Kimberly Hickson (2020) — Director
  • Former: Frank Hood (2019) — Director

Data from IRS Form 990 filings, 2019–2025. "On filings since" is the earliest filing we hold that lists the person; hours are average hours per week as reported.

Compensation Overview

From 2025 IRS filing

Alene Haehl Coggin — Executive Director: $142KAlene Haehl CogginExecutive Director$142K

The highest reported compensation on the 2025 filing was $142K, to Alene Haehl Coggin (Executive Director).

Frequently asked questions about HSPVA Friends

How large is HSPVA Friends?

HSPVA Friends reported $4.7M in total assets on its 2025 IRS Form 990. Its revenue that year was $1.4M.

Where does HSPVA Friends operate?

HSPVA Friends has awarded grants in Texas.

What is HSPVA Friends's EIN?

HSPVA Friends's EIN (Employer Identification Number) is 74-1997921. IRS Form 990 filing data is available on this page for 2019–2025.

Data last updated September 2026. Sourced from IRS Form 990 filings.

Data update history

(4)

When this profile's IRS filing data changed on Grantable

  1. Added Form 990 for fiscal year 2019 (received by the IRS June 15, 2020)
  2. Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2021 (received by the IRS June 14, 2022)
  3. Added Form 990 for fiscal year 2025 (received by the IRS June 12, 2026)
  4. IRS filings on file for fiscal years 2020–2024

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