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The Onestar National Service Commission Inc

Onestar strengthens texas communities by creating pathways for individuals and organizations to engage, connect, and accelerate their impact.

$29M
Granted FY2024still arriving
44
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$3.8M
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, FY2021 to 2024.

Education$45MHuman Services$26MYouth Development$6.2MPublic Benefit$3.2MHealth$3.0MEmployment$2.0MArts & Culture$1.5MInternational$1.4MOther$0
02FY2024 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $58k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $775k
  • $250k+34 grants · $28M
$415,809
Median grant
8
States reached
$4.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EQUAL HEART$3,795,003
BREAKTHROUGH$2,602,847
NATIONAL COLLEGE ADVISING CORPS$1,980,939
CITY YEAR - SAN ANTONIO$1,784,925
CITY SQUARE$1,258,759
CITY YEAR - DALLAS$1,225,721
UT AUSTIN CHARLES A DANA CENTER$1,054,304
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS RIO GRANDE VALL$1,050,340
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CENTRAL T$992,732
PROJECT TRANSFORMATION NORTH TEXAS$820,915
LEGACY COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES$790,974
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PHARR$789,691
COLLEGIATE EDU-NATION$770,826
READING PARTNERS$764,689
WEST TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY$670,796
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:

Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $6.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CITY SQUARE: $1.7M → 14%CITY SQUARE: $1.5M → 14%CITY SQUARE: $1.3M → 14%CITY SQUARE: $1.1M → 14%LATCHED SUPPORT INC: $23k → 16%TEXAS NETWORK OF YOUTH SERVICES: $251k → 10%TEXAS NETWORK OF YOUTH SERVICES: $122k → 10%TEXAS NETWORK OF YOUTH SERVICES: $31k → 10%TEXAS NETWORK OF YOUTH SERVICES: $9k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
NY
MA
CT
CA
KY
VA
NC
TX
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$90M · 49 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

49 repeat relationships: 38 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

49
6

Total granted

$90M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+49%

Still filing today

84%
17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $72k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureHealthHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • CITY YEAR INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $10.0M · revenue +4%
  • EH
    EQUAL HEART
    4× · 2021–2024 · $9.1M · revenue +25% · 39% of their budget
  • B
    BREAKTHROUGH
    4× · 2021–2024 · $7.5M · revenue +73%

Funded once

  • TC
    TRAVIS COUNTY DEPT HUMAN SERVICES
    one grant, 2021 · $425k
  • CF
    COLLEGE FORWARD
    one grant, 2021 · $403k · revenue 0%
  • AH
    ACCESS HEALTH
    one grant, 2022 · $81k
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
Austin Partners in Education

Apie provides college and career readiness support through individualized academic and mentoring programs to prepare students for success.

Education
2
Breakthrough Houston

The mission of Breakthrough Houston (BTH) is to work with highly motivated students to achieve post-secondary success and empower aspiring leaders to become the next generation of educational advocates.

Education
3
Communities in Schools of the South Plains Inc

To meet the needs of students in at-risk situations by improving academics, marketable skills, attendance, and behavior through the partnership of school, home, and community so that young people stay in school, learn successfully and…

Youth Development
4
Communities in Schools of the Heart of Texas

To surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.

Human Services
5
Raise Texas

RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…

Human Services
6
Collegespring Inc

In partnership with educators, CollegeSpring helps students impacted by poverty demonstrate their full potential on college and career readiness assessments that unlock better opportunities after high school. Our vision is that every…

Education
7
The Royal School System

The mission of Royal Public Schools is to spark students' natural curiosity and love of learning while providing the knowledge and skills they need to lead successful and fulfilling lives.

Education
8
Good Reason Houston Inc

Good Reason Houston strives to grow and sustain great schools while advocating for families and communities.

Education
9
Citizen Schools Inc

In fiscal year 2025, the agency operated an americorps maker fellowship, placing 7 americorps vista members at 6 different education focused organizations in ca, ma, and ny. americorps members worked on capacity building projects to expand…

Education
10
Center for Public Policy Priorities

At the Every Texan, we believe in a Texas that offers everyone the chance to compete and succeed in life. We envision a Texas where everyone is healthy, well educated, and financially secure. We want the best Texas, a proud state that sets…

Public Benefit
11
Communities in Schools of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Inc

The mission of Communities In Schools is to surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.

Education
12
Leadership Austin

Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Literacy Coalition of Central Texas; the most unlike its peers is African American Mens Health Clinic. 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

48 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 48 of the 60 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/48
Grantees still filing
32/48
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BREAKTHROUGH: $7,450,236 · EducationBREAKTHROUGHNATIONAL COLLEGE ADVISING CORPS INC: $6,492,703 · EducationNATIONAL COLLEGE ADVISING CORPS INCCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $3,646,527 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CENTRAL TEXASREADING PARTNERS: $2,501,704 · EducationREADING PARTNERSTeach for America Inc: $1,978,650 · EducationTeach for America IncCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC: $1,887,055 · EducationCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INCAUSTIN ACHIEVE PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC: $1,566,506 · EducationAMARILLO ISD FOUNDATION: $1,565,491 · EducationLITERACY COALITION OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $1,435,791 · EducationCOLLEGIATE EDU-NATION: $1,339,173 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SAN ANTONIO: $1,313,685 · Education+7 more: $2,061,207 · Education+7 moreCITY YEAR INC: $9,954,860 · OtherCITY YEAR INCUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS: $3,452,272 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXASTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS RIO GRANDE VALLEY FOUNDATION: $3,377,428 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS RIO GRANDE VAL…WEST TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY: $1,963,273 · OtherWEST TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS: $1,624,552 · OtherAMERICAN YOUTHWORKS: $1,540,171 · OtherCHILDFUND INTERNATIONAL USA: $1,371,958 · Other+21 more: $7,540,426 · Other+21 moreEQUAL HEART: $9,074,320 · Food & NutritionEQUAL HEARTCITYSQUARE: $5,635,467 · Human ServicesCITYSQUARESewa International Inc: $1,345,458 · Human ServicesSewa Inter…Communities in Schools of North Texas Inc: $1,272,132 · Human ServicesCommunitie…Texas Network of Youth Services Inc: $413,085 · Human Services+1 more: $22,712 · Human ServicesPROJECT TRANSFORMATION NORTH TEXAS: $2,264,531 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS CLUB OF PHARR: $1,936,395 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS: $1,214,854 · Youth DevelopmentImagine Art: $1,528,272 · Arts & CultureCreative Action: $361,095 · Arts & CultureBIG THOUGHT: $311,274 · Arts & CultureLEGACY COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INC: $1,964,038 · Health+1 more: $25,145 · Health
Education$33,238,728Other$30,824,940Food & Nutrition$9,074,320Human Services$8,688,854Youth Development$5,415,780Arts & Culture$2,200,641Health$1,989,183

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 budgetCITY YEAR INC: $9,954,860 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetEQUAL HEART: $9,074,320 over 4y, 39% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH: $7,450,236 over 4y, 24% of budgetNATIONAL COLLEGE ADVISING CORPS INC: $6,492,703 over 4y, 9.0% of budgetCITYSQUARE: $5,635,467 over 4y, 11% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $3,646,527 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS RIO GRANDE VALLEY FOUNDATION: $3,377,428 over 4y, 52% of budgetREADING PARTNERS: $2,501,704 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetPROJECT TRANSFORMATION NORTH TEXAS: $2,264,531 over 4y, 49% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $1,978,650 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetLEGACY COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INC: $1,964,038 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS CLUB OF PHARR: $1,936,395 over 3y, 23% of budgetCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC: $1,887,055 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetAUSTIN ACHIEVE PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC: $1,566,506 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetAMERICAN YOUTHWORKS: $1,540,171 over 4y, 5.2% of budgetImagine Art: $1,528,272 over 4y, 19% of budgetLITERACY COALITION OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $1,435,791 over 3y, 25% of budgetCHILDFUND INTERNATIONAL USA: $1,371,958 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSewa International Inc: $1,345,458 over 4y, 6.0% of budgetCOLLEGIATE EDU-NATION: $1,339,173 over 3y, 17% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SAN ANTONIO: $1,313,685 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetCommunities in Schools of North Texas Inc: $1,272,132 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS: $1,214,854 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetGENERATION TEACH INC: $884,293 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF EL PASO COUNTY: $799,158 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetInterfaith Ministries for Greater Houston: $781,763 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetRELAY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION: $609,800 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC: $550,720 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetFront Steps Inc: $520,927 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetCLC INC: $455,693 over 3y, 9.6% of budgetTexas Network of Youth Services Inc: $413,085 over 3y, 13% of budgetCOLLEGE FORWARD: $403,212 over 1y, 10.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF GREATER SOUTH TEXAS: $394,622 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetHomeward Bound Inc: $380,723 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetCAMPUS COMPACT: $362,329 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetCreative Action: $361,095 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetBIG THOUGHT: $311,274 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS INC: $275,985 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetBookSpring: $73,500 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetHOUSTON REVISION: $62,973 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetNATIONAL MENTAL HEALTH CORPS INC: $62,390 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetYES Prep Public Schools Inc: $62,269 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAFRICAN AMERICAN MENS HEALTH CLINIC: $25,145 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetLatched Support Inc: $22,712 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCHILD POVERTY ACTION LAB: $10,349 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMidwestern State University Foundation Inc: $6,626 over 1y, 0.1% 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 CITY YEAR INC ↗
  • Who funds EQUAL HEART ↗
  • Who funds BREAKTHROUGH ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL COLLEGE ADVISING CORPS INC ↗
  • Who funds CITYSQUARE ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CENTRAL TEXAS ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS RIO GRANDE VALLEY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds READING PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT TRANSFORMATION NORTH TEXAS ↗
  • Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
  • Who funds LEGACY COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS CLUB OF PHARR ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC ↗
  • Who funds AUSTIN ACHIEVE PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC ↗
  • Who funds AMARILLO ISD FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN YOUTHWORKS ↗
  • Who funds Imagine Art ↗
  • Who funds LITERACY COALITION OF CENTRAL TEXAS ↗
  • Who funds CHILDFUND INTERNATIONAL USA ↗
  • Who funds Sewa International Inc ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGIATE EDU-NATION ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SAN ANTONIO ↗
  • Who funds Communities in Schools of North Texas Inc ↗
  • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS ↗
  • Who funds GENERATION TEACH INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF EL PASO COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston ↗
  • Who funds RELAY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds THE STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Front Steps Inc ↗
  • Who funds CLC INC ↗
  • Who funds Texas Network of Youth Services Inc ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE FORWARD ↗

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.

Austin Community Foun…St David's FoundationUnited Way for Greate…The Moody FoundationThe Webber Family Fou…Meadows Foundation IncCommunities Foundatio…Texas Mutual Insuranc…Michael & Susan Dell …United Way of Metropo…Greater Houston Commu…The Dallas Foundation
Austin Community Foundation IncTX27× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Austin Community Foundation Inc · St David's Foundation · United Way for Greater Austin · The Moody Foundation · The Webber Family Foundation · Meadows Foundation Inc · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Texas Mutual Insurance Company · Michael & Susan Dell Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Dallas Foundation

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 The Onestar National Service Commission Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Onestar National Service Commission Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Generation Teach Inc: 42% of income from government
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
  • National Mental Health Corps Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Campus Compact: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 60 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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