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Texas Business Leadership Council

The Texas Business Leadership Council ("TBLC") was created in 1994 as a non-partisan 501(c)(6) nonprofit corporation that provides public policy research and recommendations to our state's elected leadership. (See Schedule O) As Texas' only statewide CEO-based public policy organization, the Texas Business Leadership Council serves as a…

$42k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
3
Itemized grants FY2025
1
Organizations funded FY2022
100%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Itemized, FY2025
$26k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$7,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$12,500
Organizations funded a year
1 to 2
FY2017 to FY2022
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$439k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 100% of the organizations Texas Business Leadership Council funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’21’22
EducationCommunity Improvement
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
FY2025still arriving3$26k100%
FY20221$10k100%
FY20211$25k100%
FY20181$9k0%
FY20172$30kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Community Improvement$55kEnvironment$19k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Foundation for a Globally Competitive Texas$25,00018%
Texas Association of Business$20,00010%
Texas Water Supply Partners$19,1722n/a
Texas Association of Community Colleges$12,5001n/a
Jobs for Texas$10,00012%
Texas Lyceum Association Inc Dba the Texas Lyceum$7,5001n/a
Texas Water Foundation$6,0001n/a

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About Texas Business Leadership Council

How much does Texas Business Leadership Council give?
Texas Business Leadership Council reported 3 itemized grants totaling $26,000, out of $42,312 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 2 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
What does Texas Business Leadership Council fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (74%), Environment (26%).
Who are Texas Business Leadership Council's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Foundation for a Globally Competitive Texas ($25k), Texas Association of Business ($20k), Texas Water Supply Partners ($19k).
Does Texas Business Leadership Council fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Texas Business Leadership Council based?
Texas Business Leadership Council 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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