HOUSTON PUBLIC RECORDS · ORIGINAL SOURCES
Houston business records and organization relationships
Investigate businesses and organizations through the records their publishers actually provide: outlet permits, legal-entity registrations, consolidation disclosures and original nonprofit filings.
New outlet permits are one view of business activity
A sales-tax permit issue date does not prove a business opened that day or was newly incorporated. Houston postal addresses do not establish that every outlet is inside the city boundary. These records are not a complete census of Houston businesses.
Read the kind of relationship being reported
Legal-entity consolidation parents and IRS related-organization disclosures have specific meanings. They are not a complete beneficial-ownership or asset inventory. Filing periods and relationship types remain attached to the evidence.
Available evidence and coverage
Counts describe stored source records, which may include repeated report appearances or document pages. They are not counts of unique projects, businesses or incidents.
9,894 STORED RECORDS
Recent Houston sales-tax outlet permits
- Publisher
- Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts
- Record dates
- 2026-01-01 → 2026-09-19
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-23
Coverage and limitations
- Active sales-tax permits only; not a census of businesses or a list of newly incorporated companies. A permit issue date is not proof of opening date.
- Houston is the reported postal city; no exact municipal boundary or street location is asserted.
- Only the configured corporation, LLC and limited-partnership codes are included. Private contact addresses and sole-proprietor records are not collected.
- Business-to-outlet links reflect the taxpayer identifier reported for a permit. They do not establish ownership of real estate, subsidiaries or every business asset.
9,050 STORED RECORDS
Businesses with recent Houston outlet permits
- Publisher
- Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts
- Record dates
- Not established in the catalog
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-23
Coverage and limitations
- Active sales-tax permits only; not a census of businesses or a list of newly incorporated companies. A permit issue date is not proof of opening date.
- Houston is the reported postal city; no exact municipal boundary or street location is asserted.
- Only the configured corporation, LLC and limited-partnership codes are included. Private contact addresses and sole-proprietor records are not collected.
- Business-to-outlet links reflect the taxpayer identifier reported for a permit. They do not establish ownership of real estate, subsidiaries or every business asset.
6,540 STORED RECORDS
Houston legal entities & consolidation parents
- Publisher
- Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation
- Record dates
- Not established in the catalog
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-23
Coverage and limitations
- LEI registration is not a census of Houston businesses. Solely searching for Houston cannot establish exhaustive geographic coverage.
- Direct and ultimate parents are accounting-consolidation disclosures, not a complete beneficial-ownership or company-asset inventory.
- Parent retrieval is bounded to 150 seed entities per run; name matches with lobbying clients remain unconfirmed and are hidden by default.
- Registration and relationship status can be lapsed or historical. See each source record and reported period.
16,026 STORED RECORDS
Nonprofit organizations · IRS registrations and reported finances
- Publisher
- Internal Revenue Service
- Record dates
- 2026-09-08 → 2026-09-08
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-23
Coverage and limitations
- Filing address indicates headquarters and may differ from where the organization operates. No coordinates are inferred.
- Amounts refer to the latest return represented in the extract, with its TAX_PERIOD (YYYYMM), not present-day balances. Empty values and published zero values remain distinct.
- ASSET_AMT is end-of-year book assets; INCOME_AMT is an IRS-computed measure; REVENUE_AMT is the reported Form 990/990-EZ revenue measure. They are not interchangeable.
- This extract does not supply itemized assets, officers, beneficial owners, program narratives or verified city payments. Original Form 990 acquisition remains separate.
- A group exemption and affiliation code describe tax grouping, not ownership or control of a specific subsidiary. Matching organization names across sources remain unconfirmed.
- Mailing street, postal code and correspondence contact are excluded from indexed records. Removal in a later snapshot does not alone prove dissolution or revocation.
2,821 STORED RECORDS
Nonprofit filings · original IRS returns
- Publisher
- Internal Revenue Service
- Record dates
- 2023-12-31 → 2026-07-31
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-23
Coverage and limitations
- Scope is annual indexes 2026 for EINs in the current Houston filing-address registration extract; not every historical Houston organization or return.
- 83 matching indexed filings have unsupported forms and are not represented here.
- Original taxpayer statements are attributed to their filing. Reported roles apply to its tax period and do not establish ownership, current office or identity across name matches.
- Selected missions, program descriptions, Schedule O explanations, officer names/titles and financial totals are extracted. Remaining schedules are available in the preserved original XML.
- Mailing contacts, preparers and personal compensation are excluded from indexed fields; original public filings are preserved.
1,852 STORED RECORDS
Organization relationships · reported IRS Schedule R rows
- Publisher
- Internal Revenue Service
- Record dates
- 2023-12-31 → 2026-05-31
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-23
Coverage and limitations
- Each record is one organization row explicitly reported in Schedule R Parts I–IV, attributed to its filing and period. It is not an independently verified current corporate structure.
- A related organization can be controlled by the filer, control the filer, share control, or have another reportable relationship. Do not assume that the filer owns every listed entity.
- Direct controlling names, section 512(b)(13) flags, partnership roles and any stated ownership interest retain separate source fields. Matching names do not establish identity.
- Financial amounts have the Schedule R column meanings; total entity assets and the filer’s allocated share are different measures. A blank field is not zero.
- Only filings represented in the current Houston registration scope are processed. Listed related organizations can be outside Houston. Mailing contact fields are not indexed.
- Part V transactions, Part VI unrelated partnerships and other schedules are not included in this organization-row dataset.
- Extracted from previously preserved original files. This extraction did not retrieve newer source information; original retrieval dates and reporting periods are unchanged.
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