· Public charity
Foundation for Inspiration and Recognition of Science & Technology in T
FIRST in Texas provides life-changing robotics programs that equip young peple across Texas with skills, confidence, and resilience to build a better world.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 89% of Foundation for Inspiration & Recognition of Scienc’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 38 grants below total $448,600 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $850,766 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $402,166 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k22 grants · $157k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $292k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DALLAS ISD | $48,050 |
| HOUSTON ISD | $34,350 |
| LEANDER ISD | $28,825 |
| LUBBOCK ISD | $21,825 |
| MCALLEN ISD | $21,250 |
| WESTA | $19,350 |
| MISSION CISD | $15,900 |
| HARLINGEN CISD | $15,050 |
| LEWISVILLE ISD | $13,725 |
| CONROE ISD | $11,550 |
| PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD | $11,200 |
| PLANO ISD | $10,475 |
| CORPUS CHRISTI ISD | $10,200 |
| MESQUITE ISD | $10,100 |
| TOMBALL ISD | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–19) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 57% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +75% since the first grant, against +51% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2019, 6 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2019, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $99k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- WEWESTLAKE & EANES SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY ASSOCIATION3× · 2017–2019 · $41k · revenue +21%
- UEUPLIFT EDUCATION2× · 2018–2019 · $24k · revenue +75%
- HPHARMONY PUBLIC SCHOOLS2× · 2018–2019 · $23k · revenue +77%
Funded once
- SSASTEMICone grant, 2017 · $43k · revenue -32%
- URUSOC ROBOTICS CLUBone grant, 2018 · $14k
- LJLA JOYA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2018 · $14k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Our mission is to challenge and nurture young women to thrive in future global markets through personalized STEM advanced academics. Through a supportive small school and single-gender environment, project-based learning, and STEM advanced…
STEM Education Grades K - 12
High school students learning to make robots
BEST of Texas Robotics (BTR) will strive to positively impact education systems across Texas and the United States, encourage students into science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) careers, and return real value to our…
The Organization's primary purpose is to assist and support student members in the design and construction of a robot each year which is built to the specifications of the F.I.R.S.T. Robotics Program. The students then compete with their…
B.E. Academy for Girls empowers young women through a rigorous, culturally responsive STEAM curriculum that centers identity, cultivates leadership and critical thinking, and integrates real-world experiences to prepare them for college,…
The mission of Royal Public Schools is to spark students' natural curiosity and love of learning while providing the knowledge and skills they need to lead successful and fulfilling lives.
Our mission is to inspire and support students in the stem fields by hosting and participating in community events, and providing opportunities for hands-on experience in designing, building, and programming robots. through mentorship,…
To increase student interest and involvement in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (stem) by engaging students in hands-on programs and competitions in robotics, programming, engineering, math, and other stem-related areas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Westlake & Eanes Science & Technology Association and the most unlike its peers is Front Line Youth in Science Engineering and Technology. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 86 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) · Round It Up America Inc · GenYOUTH Incorporated · Project Lead the Way Inc · Project Lead the Way Inc · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The George W Bush Foundation · Share Our Strength · I Car Education Foundation · Undies for Everyone · Justin J Watt Foundation Inc · San Antonio Food Bank
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Foundation for Inspiration and Recognition of Science & Technology in T funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.