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IDEA Public Schools

IDEA Public Schools transforms education by preparing graduates to succeed in college and life. IDEA Public Schools serves students in grades Pre-Kindergarten through 12.

$880k
Granted FY2022
2
Itemized grants FY2022
2
Organizations funded FY2022
50%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Itemized, FY2022
$20k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2022
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2022
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 5
FY2020 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
1
Total assets, FY2022
$2.3B

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 50% of the organizations IDEA Public Schools funded were first-time grantees, receiving 50% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22
Youth 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20222$20k50%
FY20211$10k100%
FY20205$67kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2022.

Arts & Culture$30kYouth Development$26kEducation$20kHealth$11kInternational$10k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Charro Days Inc$20,00025%
South Texas Symphony Association Inc$20,00012%
Boys Club of Pharr$16,13411%
Utmd Anderson$10,7001n/a
Mexican American Legislative Leadership Foundation$10,0001n/a
District Charter Alliance$10,00013%
University of Texas Rio Grande Valley$10,0001n/a

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About IDEA Public Schools

How much does IDEA Public Schools give?
IDEA Public Schools reported 2 itemized grants totaling $20,000, out of $879,860 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 5 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2022.
What does IDEA Public Schools fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2022, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (31%), Youth Development (27%), Education (21%).
Who are IDEA Public Schools's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2022: Charro Days Inc ($20k), South Texas Symphony Association Inc ($20k), Boys Club of Pharr ($16k).
Does IDEA Public Schools fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is IDEA Public Schools based?
IDEA Public Schools is based in TX.

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 7 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $1.1M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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