Texas · Nonprofit
AUSTIN PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION
AUSTIN PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,412,103 to it, the largest being ST DAVID'S FOUNDATION ($6,140,963). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.3M
- Funders on record
- 42
- Grants received
- $9.4M
- Net assets
- $4.5M
What Austin Public Education Foundation does
Mission
Austin ed fund supports austin independent school district by developing and stewarding meaningful public and private partnerships that promote innovation and support opportunities that prepare austin isd students for college, career and life.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Education expense - the austin ed fund builds relationships with funding partners and develops programming and fundraising objectives aligned with austin isd strategic needs and priorities.
$3,220,261 spentof which $474,147 as grants71% of program spendingEarly literacy and numeracy: literacy and numeracy are the cornerstones of long-term academic and life success. Austin ed fund's efforts in the area reach more than 30,000 students k-5 and 2,000 educators across 79 elementary schools. The initiative strengthens instruction by pairing high-quality instructional materials with ongoing professional learning for teachers and school leaders. Principals, assistant principals, and instructional coaches participate in job-embedded coaching and structured learning communities that enhance their ability to guide instruction. Six lighthouse schools serve as demonstration sites, sharing effective practices that are then scaled districtwide. These combined efforts ensure that students are receiving consistent, evidence-based instruction in reading and math, grounded in the science of learning. When these core skills are strong, students are more likely to thrive throughout their academic careers and beyond.
$816,909 spentof which $90,182 as grants18% of program spendingCollege and career readiness (ccr): aims to increase student awareness by expanding college and industry workplace visits across the district. These efforts are designed to position students for post-secondary success. College and industry visits give students exposure to what's possible by helping them imagine themselves in different settings and careers. The summer internship program provides students paid opportunities that help them gain professional experience with local business and non-profits that are aligned to austin isd career and technology education clusters. Over 100 students have participated in this program to date. The post-secondary gap fund launched this summer and provides small emergency grants to austin isd graduates in pursuit of their post-secondary dreams. Our first student to receive funding was able to use the resources to assist in moving and travel expenses required to attend college out-of-state.
$515,248 spentof which $25,302 as grants11% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,552,418.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2023 to 2024, from $6.5M to $7.9M (+22%).
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 93% · 2022 1% · 2023 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of AUSTIN PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 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.
Board chair
Doyle Valdez
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 9 funders, grant income fell $1.1M → $445k.
11 of 42 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $7.4M from 6 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Austin Community Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money AUSTIN PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of AUSTIN PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 funders by total. 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
AUSTIN PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
91% 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 AUSTIN PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 38% · 2019 60% · 2020 93% · 2021 72% · 2022 85% · 2023 55% — 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
32% of AUSTIN PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
85% of AUSTIN PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $685k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
AUSTIN PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,761 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,761 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like AUSTIN PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION
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
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AUSTIN PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
- AUSTIN PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,412,103 to it, the largest being ST DAVID'S FOUNDATION ($6,140,963). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AUSTIN PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $9,412,103 in grants to AUSTIN PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AUSTIN PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
- ST DAVID'S FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $6,140,963 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AUSTIN PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 42 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing