Texas · Nonprofit
Atlas Scholars
Atlas Scholars (Texas) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $433,960 to it, the largest being GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($290,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $477k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $434k
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Atlas Scholars does
Mission
Atlas Scholars prepares high-potential students from underserved communities for success in college and competitive careers through a rigorous, multi-year professional development program. The organization delivers mentorship, career exposure, leadership training, and academic support within an intership-like structure that builds soft skills, workplace readiness, and long-term career preparation. Scholarships are provided as a strategic tool to support college access, which is essential to the programs workforce readiness goals.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Atlas Scholars Summer Institute is a core component of its three-year professional development program. Each summer, selected high school Scholars participate in an intensive, internship-style experience designed to build career readiness, leadership skills, and real-world knowledge. Scholars engage in daily workshops, professional skills training, industry site visits, and mentorship sessions with corporate partners. This immersive experience prepares students for college success and future professional roles. In 2024, the Summer Institute served 33 students.
$378,628 spent$205,632 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $378,628.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $403k to $1.0M (+157%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 6% · 2022 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
68% of Atlas Scholars’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (54% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Kamari Brewer
Executive Director/Secretary
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income fell $50k → $24k.
6 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 95% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Atlas Scholars’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Atlas Scholars leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Atlas Scholars.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 45% · 2022 57% · 2023 49% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
40% of Atlas Scholars's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 40% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
95% of Atlas Scholars's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $23k that is directly attributable, 89% of it comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $411k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Atlas Scholars holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,276 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,276 employment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Atlas Scholars
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
64% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
77%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Atlas Scholars: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Atlas Scholars?
- Atlas Scholars (Texas) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $433,960 to it, the largest being GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($290,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Atlas Scholars have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $433,960 in grants to Atlas Scholars, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Atlas Scholars?
- GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $290,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Atlas Scholars find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 10 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing