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Plano Isd Education Foundation

Helping all students in Plano School District achieve their full potential by providing financial support to educators and academic programs.

$728k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$656k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$5.8MHealth$464kHuman Services$226kFood & Nutrition$121kHousing & Shelter$29k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $656,086, the rows itemized in this filing. The $727,758 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $71,672 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.
$656,086
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PLANO ISD$656,086
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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Its human-services grants (FY20–21, $82k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CITY HOUSE: $74k → 5%CITY HOUSE: $8k → 5%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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.6M · 7 repeat orgs$11k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
1

Total granted

$6.6M
$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+50%

Still filing today

100%
100%

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
HealthEducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionOther
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

  • PI
    PLANO ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $5.8M · revenue +77% · 87% of their budget
  • LS
    LIFEPATH SYSTEMS FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2023 · $262k · revenue +95% · 88% of their budget
  • CH
    CITY HOUSE INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $82k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • PW
    PLANO WILDCAT QUARTERBACK CLUB INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $11k · revenue +50%
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
Central Texas Food Bank Inc

To increase food access in Central Texas by providing nutritious food, leading hunger and poverty advocacy efforts, and transforming lives through programs, education, and innovative solutions.

Food & Nutrition
2
The Houston Food Bank

Houston food bank's mission is to provide food for better lives. last year we provided access to 136 million nutritious meals in 18 counties in southeast texas through our 1,600 community partners which includes food pantries, soup…

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3
Wi Cook Foundation Inc

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through prevention and treatment of illness, disease, and injury.

Health
4
El Pasoans Fighting Hunger

To combat the hunger crisis in our region by strategically procuring and distributing nutritious food through community partners. because no one should go hungry.

Food & Nutrition
5
Feeding America Texas

Feeding America Texas operates exclusively for charitable purposes by supporting food assistance, hunger relief, and community aid initiatives for individuals and families experiencing food insecurity throughout Texas. The organization…

Food & Nutrition
6
Tarrant Area Food Bank

Tarrant Area Food Bank's (TAFB) mission is empowering our community to alleviate hunger and improve health. We value and embrace a culture of fairness and inclusion as fundamental to our vision of empowering communities where no one has to…

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7
Medina County Food Pantry

Provide emergency food for those in need.

Human Services
8
Texas Briar Club Foundation

To provide support to needy families by providing funds for college tuition and weekend meal programs

Philanthropy
9
Pleasant Grove Food Pantry Inc

Pleasant Grove Food Pantry provides nutritious food to qualified residents of Pleasant Grove in southeast Dallas who are food insecure. Fighting food insecurity is the mission and intent of the organization. Services are provided by…

Food & Nutrition
10
Cook Children's Health Plan

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease, and injury.

Health
11
Cook Children's Physician Network

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease, and injury.

Health
12
Collinsville Food Pantry

To provide, or make available, food products or other items to its patrons, donees, and/or beneficiaries.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Texas Food Bank; the most unlike its peers is Lifepath Systems Foundation. 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

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

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

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PLANO ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5,809,535 · EducationPLANO ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATIONLIFEPATH SYSTEMS FOUNDATION: $262,357 · HealthUT SOUTHWESTERN HEALTH SYSTEMS: $201,452 · HealthASSISTANCE CENTER OF COLLIN COUNTY: $172,620 · OtherNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $60,523 · OtherCITY HOUSE INC: $82,028 · Human ServicesMINNIES FOOD PANTRY INC: $60,523 · Food & NutritionPLANO WILDCAT QUARTERBACK CLUB INC: $10,547 · Youth Development
Education$5,809,535Health$463,809Other$233,143Human Services$82,028Food & Nutrition$60,523Youth Development$10,547

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 budgetPLANO ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5,809,535 over 9y, 87% of budgetLIFEPATH SYSTEMS FOUNDATION: $262,357 over 4y, 88% of budgetUT SOUTHWESTERN HEALTH SYSTEMS: $201,452 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetASSISTANCE CENTER OF COLLIN COUNTY: $172,620 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetCITY HOUSE INC: $82,028 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetMINNIES FOOD PANTRY INC: $60,523 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $60,523 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPLANO WILDCAT QUARTERBACK CLUB INC: $10,547 over 1y, 20% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX13× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Plano Isd Education Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Plano Isd Education Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 8 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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