Texas · Public charity
Texas Higher Education Foundation
The mission of the TEXAS HIGHER EDUCATION FOUNDATION is to increase participation and success in higher education for all texans. The foundation is a support organization for the texas higher education coordinating board. It exists to raise public awareness and private sector funding to support the state's higher education plan.
- $76k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 1
- Grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2021
- 82%
- First-time grantees FY2021
- Median grant, FY2025
- $76,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $76,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 57
- FY2017 to FY2021
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.7M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2021, 82% of the organizations Texas Higher Education Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 83% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $386k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationPhilanthropyOther
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 | 1 | $76k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $467k | 82% |
| FY2020 | 57 | $730k | 91% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $170k | 77% |
| FY2017 | 12 | $254k | n/a |
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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.
Public Safety & Disaster$926kEducation$646kPhilanthropy$125k
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board | $316,342 | 4 | n/a |
| San Jacinto Community College Foundation Inc | $30,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Laredo College | $30,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Texas State University | $30,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Blinn College | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Collin County Community | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Austin Community College Foundation | $30,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Lamar University | $29,581 | 2 | n/a |
| Texas State Technical College | $26,557 | 1 | n/a |
| Midland College | $25,839 | 2 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board | $316,342 | 4 | n/a |
| San Jacinto Community College Foundation Inc | $30,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Laredo College | $30,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Texas State University | $30,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Blinn College | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Collin County Community | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Austin Community College Foundation | $30,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Lamar University | $29,581 | 2 | n/a |
| Texas State Technical College | $26,557 | 1 | n/a |
| Midland College | $25,839 | 2 | n/a |
| Tarrant County College Foundation | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| El Paso Community College Foundation | $25,000 | 1 | 9% |
| Houston Community College Foundation | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Alamo Colleges - San Antonio College Early Childhood Center | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Dallas College Foundation Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| University of Texas at San Antonio | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| South Texas College | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Island University Foundation Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi | $20,000 | 1 | 9% |
| Sam Houston State University | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Amarillo College Foundation | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Lee College Foundation | $20,000 | 1 | 2% |
| University of Texas Rio Grande Valley | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Texas A&M University Kingsville | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| University of N TX at Dallas | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Del Mar College Foundation Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| South Plains College | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Houston | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Alamo Colleges District | $19,124 | 2 | n/a |
| Knct | $19,124 | 2 | n/a |
| Tarleton State University | $16,557 | 1 | n/a |
| Borderlands Research Institute | $16,557 | 1 | n/a |
| McLennan Community College | $15,703 | 2 | n/a |
| Victoria College Foundation Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Texas A&M University-Commerce | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Texarkana College Foundation Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 1% |
| McLennan Community College Foundation Attn Christopher Qualls | $15,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Cisco College | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Kilgore College Foundation | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Grayson County College Foundation | $15,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Temple College | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Trinity Valley Community College Foundation | $15,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Southwest Texas Junior College | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Angelina County Junior College | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Navarro College | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Texas Southmost College Foundation Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Texas A&M International University | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Texas Womans University Foundation Inc | $11,242 | 1 | 0% |
| Texas A&M University-Texarkana | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Midwestern State University Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The University of Texas Permian Basin | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Texas A&M San Antonio Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Northeast Texas Community College Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Wharton Co Jr College Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 10% |
| Lamar State College - Orange Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Jarvis Christian University | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| West Texas A&M Univ Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| North Central Texas College Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Clarendon College Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 46% |
| Howard Payne University | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| College of the Mainland Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Wiley College | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Paul Quinn College | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Schreiner University | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Wayland Baptist University | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Port Arthur Higher Education Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Hill College | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Angelo State University | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Texas A&M University-Central Tx Foundati | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| McMurry University | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| University of Texas at Tyler | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Southwestern Assemblies of God University Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Odessa College | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lamar Institute of Technology Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Panola College Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Jacksonville College | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| University of Texas at El Paso | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Mary Hardin-Baylor Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 24% |
| East Texas Baptist University | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Huston-Tillotson University | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Brazosport College Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Angelo State University Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Coastal Bend College Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Vernon College Foundation Incorporated | $10,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Amarillo Junior College District | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Victoria College | $9,581 | 1 | n/a |
| Univ of Texas at Arlington | $9,581 | 1 | n/a |
| Lee College District | $9,581 | 1 | n/a |
| Stephen F Austin State University | $9,581 | 1 | n/a |
| St Edwards University | $9,581 | 1 | 0% |
| Alvin Community College | $9,125 | 1 | n/a |
| Wharton County Junior College | $9,124 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Texas | $9,091 | 1 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
Texas Higher Education Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 45 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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 45.
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.
San Antonio Livestock Exposition Educational Fund IncTX55.4× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: San Antonio Livestock Exposition Educational Fund Inc · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Folds of Honor Foundation · Greater Texas Foundation · Trellis Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Texas Mutual Insurance Company · Texas Guaranteed Student Loan Corporation · The Dallas Foundation · National Collegiate Athletic Association
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.
About Texas Higher Education Foundation
- How much does Texas Higher Education Foundation give?
- Texas Higher Education Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $76,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 57 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
- What does Texas Higher Education Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Safety & Disaster (55%), Education (38%), Philanthropy (7%).
- Who are Texas Higher Education Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board ($316k), San Jacinto Community College Foundation Inc ($30k), Laredo College ($30k).
- Does Texas Higher Education Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2021, 82% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Texas Higher Education Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include San Antonio Livestock Exposition Educational Fund Inc, Communities Foundation of Texas Inc, Folds of Honor Foundation.
- Where is Texas Higher Education Foundation based?
- Texas Higher Education Foundation is based in TX.
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