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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.

$3.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$3.2M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$28MPhilanthropy$195kRecreation & Sports$35kHuman Services$26kYouth Development$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $3,195,726, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,383,476 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $187,750 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$3,195,726
Median grant
1
States reached
$90M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HIGHLAND PARK ISD$3,195,726
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HIGHLAND PARK ISD: $4.1M → 14%SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDRE: $15k → 13%HIGHLAND PARK ISD: $3.8M → 14%HIGHLAND PARK ISD: $3.3M → 14%HIGHLAND PARK ISD: $3.2M → 14%HIGHLAND PARK ISD: $3.1M → 14%HIGHLAND PARK ISD: $3.0M → 14%HIGHLAND PARK ISD: $2.9M → 14%HIGHLAND PARK ISD: $2.4M → 14%HIGHLAND PARK ISD: $1.5M → 14%John S Bradfield School PTA: $317k → 14%ARMSTRONG ELEMENTARY PTA: $242k → 14%HIGHLAND PARK ISD: $136k → 14%Rebecca Buchanan Brimmage Fou: $26k → 14%HIGHLAND PARK HS PTA: $20k → 14%BRADFORD ELEMENTARY PTA: $20k → 14%HIGHLAND PARK ISD: $18k → 14%HIGHLAND PARK ISD: $12k → 14%HIGHLAND PARK CHEER BOOSTER: $10k → 14%HIGHLANDER BAND BOOSTERS INC: $8k → 14%HIGHLAND PARK HS PTA: $5k → 14%Robert S Hyer School PTA: $741k → 14%Communities Foundation of Tex: $195k → 14%PARK CITIES DADS CLUB INC: $23k → 14%HP SCOTS BASEBALL: $12k → 14%HP CENTENNIAL EVENT INC: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$27M · 3 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +588% since the first grant, against +54% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
10

Total granted

$27M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+588%
+54%

Still filing today

67%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • HP
    HIGHLAND PARK ISD
    6× · 2020–2025 · $19M
  • HP
    HIGHLAND PARK ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2019 · $7.9M · revenue +588% · 61% of their budget
  • HP
    HIGHLAND PARK HIGH SCHOOL PTA
    2× · 2021–2022 · $25k · revenue +181%

Funded once

  • RS
    ROBERT S HYER SCHOOL PARENT-TEACHER ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2019 · $741k · revenue -4% · 49% of their budget
  • JS
    JOHN S BRADFIELD SCHOOL PARENT-TEACHER ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $317k · revenue +54% · 25% of their budget
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $242k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Pta Texas Congress Highland Park Elementary School

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

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2
Hpumc Day School Parents Association

To foster the growth and enrichment of the students of the school and their families

Education
3
Houston Independent School District Foundation

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…

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4
Hp Football Booster Club

The purpose of hp football booster club is to support the highland park high school (highland park independent school district, university park, texas) football program and its various teams, including players, coaching staff, and…

Education
5
Highland Park Chamber of Commerce Inc

Local chamber of commerce

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6
Houston High School Band Boosters

The booster club raises money to provide funding for special equipment, instruments, instruction, & etc., in support of the school music program.

Education
7
Heights High School Parent Teacher Organization

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…

Education
8
Highland Park Educational Foundation

Raises funds for instructional projects and activities that will have a positive impact on the learing experiences of the children in our district

Education
9
Highland Park High School Giants Club

The organization is a booster club for the highland park high school athletic programs.

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10
Highland Yalesville Elementary School Pto

Promote education by involving parents and teachers.

Education
11
University Park School Parent-Teacher Association

This corporation is formed for the benevolent purpose of bringing the parents, teachers, and children into closer relationship with each other so that they may cooperate more intelligently in the education of children; and to that end it…

Education
12
Parent-Teacher Organization of Highland Park Elementary Inc

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Park Cities Dads Club Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HIGHLAND PARK ISD: $19,461,069 · OtherHIGHLAND PARK ISD+3 more: $290,411 · OtherHIGHLAND PARK ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $7,865,006 · EducationHIGHLAND PARK ISD EDUCATION FOUNDAT…ROBERT S HYER SCHOOL PARENT-TEACHER ASSOCIATION: $740,968 · EducationROBERT S HYER SCHOOL PARENT-TEACHER…JOHN S BRADFIELD SCHOOL PARENT-TEACHER ASSOCIATION: $317,350 · Education+3 more: $45,536 · EducationCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC: $195,138 · PhilanthropySHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $14,578 · HealthSCOTS BASEBALL CLUB: $12,190 · Recreation & SportsHIGHLANDER BAND BOOSTERS INC: $7,791 · Youth Development
Other$19,751,480Education$8,968,860Philanthropy$195,138Health$14,578Recreation & Sports$12,190Youth Development$7,791

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHIGHLAND PARK ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $7,865,006 over 3y, 61% of budgetROBERT S HYER SCHOOL PARENT-TEACHER ASSOCIATION: $740,968 over 1y, 49% of budgetJOHN S BRADFIELD SCHOOL PARENT-TEACHER ASSOCIATION: $317,350 over 1y, 25% of budgetCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC: $195,138 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHIGHLAND PARK HIGH SCHOOL PTA: $25,096 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPARK CITIES DADS CLUB INC: $22,752 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $14,578 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCOTS BASEBALL CLUB: $12,190 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetHIGHLAND PARK CHEERLEADING BOOSTER CLUB: $10,440 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetHP CENTENNIAL EVENT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetHIGHLANDER BAND BOOSTERS INC: $7,791 over 1y, 3.5% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Texas Instruments Fou…Communities Foundatio…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Texas Instruments FoundationTX14.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Highland Park Isd Education Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Highland Park Isd Education Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 14 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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