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Texas Higher Education Foundation

The mission of the TEXAS HIGHER EDUCATION FOUNDATION is to increase participation and success in higher education for all texans.

$76k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$76k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Public Safety & Disaster$926kEducation$646kPhilanthropy$125k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$76,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TEXAS HIGHER EDUCATION COORDINATING BOARD$76,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 61% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%LEE COLLEGE: $20k → 5%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS: $10k → 8%AUSTIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $30k → 9%SOUTHWESTERN ASSEMBLIES OF GOD UNIVERSITY: $10k → 9%TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY: $20k → 10%COLLEGE OF THE MAINLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $10k → 10%TEXAS HIGHER EDUCATION COORDINATING BOARD: $76k → 10%TARRANT COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%GRAYSON COLLEGE: $15k → 11%NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS COLLEGE: $10k → 13%SCHREINER UNIVERSITY: $10k → 13%TARLETON STATE UNIVERSITY: $17k → 13%TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY-COMMERCE FOUNDATION: $15k → 13%TRINITY VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $15k → 13%JARVIS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE: $10k → 13%ANGELO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 13%BRAZOSPORT COLLEGE: $10k → 14%COLLIN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $30k → 14%PANOLA COLLEGE: $10k → 14%SAN JACINTO COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT: $30k → 14%SUL ROSS STATE UNIVERSITY: $17k → 14%DALLAS COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%SOUTH PLAINS COLLEGE: $20k → 15%VICTORIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $15k → 16%TEXAS STATE TECHNICAL COLLEGE: $27k → 16%KILGORE COLLEGE: $15k → 16%DEL MAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $20k → 17%TEXARKANA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $15k → 19%SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY: $20k → 20%TEXAS A&M INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY: $15k → 21%TEXAS SOUTHMOST COLLEGE: $15k → 23%NAVARRO COLLEGE: $15k → 23%SOUTHWEST TEXAS JUNIOR COLLEGE: $15k → 25%SOUTH TEXAS COLLEGE: $20k → 27%AMARILLO COLLEGE: $20k → 9%BLINN COLLEGE: $30k → 10%TEMPLE COLLEGE: $15k → 14%ALAMO COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT: $25k → 16%MCLENNAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $15k → 16%HOUSTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $25k → 16%LAREDO COLLEGE: $20k → 21%THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS RIO GRANDE VALLEY: $20k → 27%TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY-CORPUS CHRISTI: $20k → 27%TEXAS HIGHER EDUCATION COORDINATING BOARD: $145k → 10%THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO: $20k → 16%TEXAS HIGHER EDUCATION COORDINATING BOARD: $65k → 10%TEXAS HIGHER EDUCATION COORDINATING BOARD: $31k → 10%CISCO COLLEGE: $15k → 10%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.

32%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$546k · 11 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
81

Total granted

$546k
$1.2M

Still filing today

0%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’25
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TH
    Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
    4× · 2017–2025 · $316k
  • LC
    Laredo College
    2× · 2017–2020 · $30k
  • TS
    TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2017–2021 · $30k

Funded once

  • SJ
    SAN JACINTO COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue -86%
  • BC
    BLINN COLLEGE
    one grant, 2021 · $30k
  • CC
    COLLIN COUNTY COMMUNITY
    one grant, 2021 · $30k
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
Texas College

To ensure that the student body experiences balanced intellectual, psychological, social and spiritual development, aimed at enabling them to become active productive members of society where they live and work.

Education
2
South Texas Community College Education Foundation

The mission of the south texas college foundation is to garner resources that assist south texas college in acheving educational excellence, servicing the diverse needs of the college through partnerships and fundraising from various…

Education
3
Western Texas College Foundation

The western texas college foundation serves western texas college by soliciting, receiving, and administering gifts and grants for student scholarships, educational and cultural activities, and campus facility improvement and development.

Education
4
Central Texas College Foundation

Central texas college foundation (foundation) helps central texas college (ctc) grow through the acquisitions of gifts of scholarships, equipment and other donations, in order to help students, to support the facility, to promote programs,…

Education
5
The Foundation for Florida Gateway College Inc

The foundation provides academic scholarships and financial support to the college.

Education
6
The Tstc Foundation

To complement the state of texas' support of the colleges by providing financial support for new and ongoing projects and activities in the areas of research, education and community service.

Education
7
Lamar University Foundation Inc

The Foundation supports the development and promotion of Lamar University, its students, faculty and staff. The Lamar University Foundation supports and enhances Lamar University by encouraging the commitment of personal and financial…

Education
8
Galveston College Foundation

To support and enhance the ability of Galveston College to achieve its mission of advancing people's lives through lifelong learning.

Education
9
Texas a&M-Corpus Christi Foundation

For the benefit of texas a&m university - corpus christi

Education
10
Mid-State Technical College Foundation Inc

Through the generosity of donors, the foundation invests in student success and supports mid-state technical college's strategic plan.

Education
11
Lamar Community College Foundation

To solicit and provide funds for scholarships, program development, capital construction, and other opportunities to serve lamar community college, its communities, and approximately 1,000 on-campus, concurrent enrollment, and online…

Philanthropy
12
Austin Peay State University Foundation

The foundation provides scholarships, awards, and monies for other apsu educational purposes.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Amarillo College Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Clarendon College Foundation Inc. 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

46 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. 46 of the 92 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

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

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/46
Grantees still filing
29/46
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board: $316,342 · OtherTexas Higher Education Coordinating Board+54 more: $874,706 · Other+54 moreAustin Community College Foundation: $30,000 · EducationAustin Community College …EL PASO COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EducationEL PASO COMMUNITY COLLEGE…DALLAS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · EducationDALLAS COLLEGE FOUNDATION…Island University Foundation Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi: $20,000 · EducationTEXARKANA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · EducationMCLENNAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ATTN CHRISTOPHER QUALLS: $15,000 · EducationTHE KILGORE COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EducationGRAYSON COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Education+22 more: $220,823 · Education+22 moreSAN JACINTO COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · PhilanthropyTARRANT COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $25,000 · PhilanthropyDEL MAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropyVICTORIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · PhilanthropyTRINITY VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $15,000 · PhilanthropyNORTHEAST TEXAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyCOASTAL BEND COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Philanthropy
Other$1,191,048Education$380,823Philanthropy$125,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAN JACINTO COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAustin Community College Foundation: $30,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTARRANT COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetEL PASO COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetDALLAS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetIsland University Foundation Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi: $20,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetTHE AMARILLO COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEE COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetDEL MAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVICTORIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTEXARKANA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMCLENNAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ATTN CHRISTOPHER QUALLS: $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE KILGORE COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGRAYSON COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTRINITY VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTexas Southmost College Foundation Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTEXAS WOMANS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $11,242 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMidwestern State University Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTexas A&M San Antonio Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNORTHEAST TEXAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWHARTON CO JR COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetLAMAR STATE COLLEGE - ORANGE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetJarvis Christian University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWEST TEXAS A&M UNIV FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH CENTRAL TEXAS COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCLARENDON COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 46% of budgetHOWARD PAYNE UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGE OF THE MAINLAND FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWiley College: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPaul Quinn College: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSchreiner University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWAYLAND BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPORT ARTHUR HIGHER EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetMCMURRY UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAMAR INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPANOLA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetJacksonville College: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MARY HARDIN-BAYLOR FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetEAST TEXAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUSTON-TILLOTSON UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRAZOSPORT COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetANGELO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOASTAL BEND COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetVERNON COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $10,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetSt Edwards University: $9,581 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds SAN JACINTO COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Austin Community College Foundation ↗
  • Who funds TARRANT COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds EL PASO COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DALLAS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Island University Foundation Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi ↗
  • Who funds THE AMARILLO COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LEE COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DEL MAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds VICTORIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds TEXARKANA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MCLENNAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ATTN CHRISTOPHER QUALLS ↗
  • Who funds THE KILGORE COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GRAYSON COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗

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…Communities Foundatio…Folds of Honor Founda…Greater Texas Foundat…Trellis FoundationTulsa Community Found…American Electric Pow…Greater Houston Commu…Texas Mutual Insuranc…Texas Guaranteed Stud…The Dallas FoundationNational Collegiate A…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Texas Higher Education Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Texas Higher Education Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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 92 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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