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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.

$5.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$1.5M
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Employment$11MEducation$3.2MArts & Culture$13kCommunity Improvement$10k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 2 grants below total $2,042,741 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $5,408,340 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $3,365,599 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

$1,509,010
Median grant
1
States reached
$49M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TEXAS STATE TECHNICAL COLLEGE$1,509,010
TEXAS STATE TECHNICAL COLLEGE$533,731
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SAN ANGELO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $5k → 13%COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXASINC -EDUCATE TEXAS PROGRAM: $6k → 14%TEXAS STATE TECHNICAL COLLEGE: $8.6M → 16%NATIONAL WASP WWII MUSEUM: $13k → 18%COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXASINC -EDUCATE TEXAS PROGRAM: $5k → 14%TEXAS STATE TECHNICAL COLLEGE: $1.5M → 16%TEXAS STATE TECHNICAL COLLEGE: $1.2M → 16%TEXAS STATE TECHNICAL COLLEGE: $675k → 16%TEXAS STATE TECHNICAL COLLEGE: $534k → 16%TEXAS STATE TECHNICAL COLLEGE: $388k → 16%TEXAS STATE TECHNICAL COLLEGE: $239k → 16%TEXAS STATE TECHNICAL COLLEGE: $192k → 16%TEXAS STATE TECHNICAL COLLEGE: $161k → 16%TEXAS STATE TECHNICAL COLLEGE: $110k → 16%TEXAS STATE TECHNICAL COLLEGE: $67k → 16%TEXAS STATE TECHNICAL COLLEGE: $16k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 6% of The Tstc Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in TX; read by stated purpose it is 95% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

The Tstc Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your field
05the grantee network

4 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 4 of the 5 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
4/4
Grantees still filing
2/4
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TEXAS STATE TECHNICAL COLLEGE — $13,732,322 · OtherTEXAS STATE TECHNICAL COLLEGE+2 more — $10,000 · OtherNATIONAL WASP WWII MUSEUM INC — $12,913 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC — $10,500 · Philanthropy
Other$13,742,322Arts & Culture$12,913Philanthropy$10,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNATIONAL WASP WWII MUSEUM INC — $12,913 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC — $10,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAN ANGELO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAbilene Industrial Foundation — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Tstc Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 5 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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