· Public charity
Highland Park Isd Education Foundation
The Foundation's mission is to rally our entire community to raise the critical funds necessary for continuing Highland Park ISD's tradition of exemplary education.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 1 grants below total $3,195,726 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,383,476 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $187,750 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HIGHLAND PARK ISD | $3,195,726 |
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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 +588% since the first grant, against +54% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- HPHIGHLAND PARK ISD6× · 2020–2025 · $19M
- HPHIGHLAND PARK ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2019 · $7.9M · revenue +588% · 61% of their budget
- HPHIGHLAND PARK HIGH SCHOOL PTA2× · 2021–2022 · $25k · revenue +181%
Funded once
- RSROBERT S HYER SCHOOL PARENT-TEACHER ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2019 · $741k · revenue -4% · 49% of their budget
- JSJOHN S BRADFIELD SCHOOL PARENT-TEACHER ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $317k · revenue +54% · 25% of their budget
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $242k
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.
Pta texas congress highland park elementary school is a support organization for the students and faculty of highland park elementary school and the austin isd community
To foster the growth and enrichment of the students of the school and their families
Parent teacher support
The mission of Heights High School (HHS) PTO is to promote understanding, cooperation, communication, and support among parents, teachers, administrators, and community members in order to provide the best possible education for all…
The HISD Foundation is dedicated to mobilizing the local community to support innovative priorities in HISD to improve outcomes for all students in the district. Our mission is to fund projects and programs of merit that fall outside of…
Local chamber of commerce
Raises funds for instructional projects and activities that will have a positive impact on the learing experiences of the children in our district
Highland park elementary pta is an organization that helps fundraise money for the students at highland park. the pta works hard to raise funds for our school through various fundraisers from culver's night, carnival night and t-shirt…
The organization is a booster club for the highland park high school athletic programs.
The booster club raises money to provide funding for special equipment, instruments, instruction, & etc., in support of the school music program.
Promote education by involving parents and teachers.
The Highland Park Elementary School (HPES) PTO is an organization of parents and teachers, where stronger parental and family engagement to enhance the learning environment and educational opportunities for our children is a common goal.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Highland Park High School Pta and the most unlike its peers is Scots Baseball Club. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 14 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.
- Who funds HIGHLAND PARK ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROBERT S HYER SCHOOL PARENT-TEACHER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds JOHN S BRADFIELD SCHOOL PARENT-TEACHER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds HIGHLAND PARK HIGH SCHOOL PTA ↗
- Who funds PARK CITIES DADS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds SCOTS BASEBALL CLUB ↗
- Who funds HIGHLAND PARK CHEERLEADING BOOSTER CLUB ↗
- Who funds HP CENTENNIAL EVENT INC ↗
- Who funds HIGHLANDER BAND BOOSTERS INC ↗
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: Texas Instruments Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Highland Park Isd Education Foundation 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.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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.