How much does Texas Charter Schools Association give?

Texas Charter Schools Association reported 8 itemized grants totaling $520,000, out of $547,983 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Texas Charter Schools Association fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (89%), Youth Development (4%), International (4%).

Who are Texas Charter Schools Association's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Charter Schools Now ($135k), The Beta Foundation ($131k), Wonderland Educational Estate Dba Beatrice Mayes Institute ($120k).

Does Texas Charter Schools Association fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 90% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Texas Charter Schools Association?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Communities Foundation of Texas Inc, Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund, The Brown Foundation Inc.

Where is Texas Charter Schools Association based?

Texas Charter Schools Association is based in TX.

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Texas Charter Schools Association

Texas public charter schools association's (tpcsa) mission is to support and advocate for a policy and regulatory climate that ensures every student in texas has access to ever-improving public school options.

$548k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 8
Itemized grants FY2025: 10
Organizations funded FY2024: 90%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $520k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $60,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $100,000
Organizations funded a year: 1 to 12; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 2
Total assets, FY2025: $16M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 90% of the organizations Texas Charter Schools Association funded were first-time grantees, receiving 93% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 7% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $390k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationYouth DevelopmentInternationalEnvironmentOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	8	$520k	25%
FY2024	10	$420k	90%
FY2023	11	$110k	9%
FY2022	11	$312k	0%
FY2021	11	$504k	0%
FY2020	12	$325k	92%
FY2019	1	$135k	100%
FY2018	2	$18k	100%

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What it funded, over time

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

Education$2.1MYouth Development$105kInternational$96kCivil Rights$69k

Top grantees

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

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Charter Schools Now	$135,000	1	14%
The Beta Foundation	$131,110	4	0%
Wonderland Educational Estate Dba Beatrice Mayes Institute	$120,000	2	1%
Essence Prep Inc	$120,000	2	1%
Education Reform Now Inc	$120,000	2	1%
Student Alternatives Program Incorporated	$120,000	2	0%
Vanguard Academy Inc	$120,000	2	0%
Austin Achieve Public Schools Inc	$114,721	4	0%
Compass Rose Education Inc	$114,721	4	0%
Lifeschool of Dallas	$114,721	4	0%

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All grantees of Texas Charter Schools Association by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Charter Schools Now	$135,000	1	14%
The Beta Foundation	$131,110	4	0%
Wonderland Educational Estate Dba Beatrice Mayes Institute	$120,000	2	1%
Essence Prep Inc	$120,000	2	1%
Education Reform Now Inc	$120,000	2	1%
Student Alternatives Program Incorporated	$120,000	2	0%
Vanguard Academy Inc	$120,000	2	0%
Austin Achieve Public Schools Inc	$114,721	4	0%
Compass Rose Education Inc	$114,721	4	0%
Lifeschool of Dallas	$114,721	4	0%
Cityscape Schools Inc	$104,721	3	0%
Legacy21 Inc	$104,721	3	0%
Tejano Center for Community Concerns Inc	$104,721	3	0%
Choose to Succeed Inc	$100,000	1	n/a
IDEA Public Schools	$95,833	4	0%
International Leadership of Texas - Global	$95,833	4	4%
YES Prep Public Schools Inc	$95,833	4	0%
Tlca Texas Leadership Charter Academy	$90,000	2	0%
Wayside Schools	$85,277	3	0%
Great Hearts America-Texas	$68,888	3	0%
ECAP Enterprises Inc MeyerPark Elementary Charter School	$60,000	1	1%
Responsiveed Texas	$40,000	2	0%
Up Excellence Academy	$20,000	1	n/a
Celebrate Dyslexia Schools	$20,000	1	2%
Heritage Ed	$20,000	1	6%
KIPP Texas Inc	$18,000	2	0%
Harmony Public Schools	$18,000	2	0%

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Texas Charter Schools Association supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 25.

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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.

Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX21.7× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund · The Brown Foundation Inc · Walton Family Foundation Inc · George W Brackenridge Foundation · The Kle Foundation · San Antonio Area Foundation Group Return · Bellwether Education Partners Inc · 50can Inc · Houston Endowment Inc · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Local Initiatives Support Corporation

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.

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About Texas Charter Schools Association

How much does Texas Charter Schools Association give?: Texas Charter Schools Association reported 8 itemized grants totaling $520,000, out of $547,983 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Texas Charter Schools Association fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (89%), Youth Development (4%), International (4%).
Who are Texas Charter Schools Association's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Charter Schools Now ($135k), The Beta Foundation ($131k), Wonderland Educational Estate Dba Beatrice Mayes Institute ($120k).
Does Texas Charter Schools Association fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 90% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Texas Charter Schools Association?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Communities Foundation of Texas Inc, Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund, The Brown Foundation Inc.
Where is Texas Charter Schools Association based?: Texas Charter Schools Association is based in TX.