Texas · Nonprofit
BREAKTHROUGH
BREAKTHROUGH (Texas) receives grants from 110 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,234,675 to it, the largest being THE ONESTAR NATIONAL SERVICE COMMISSION INC ($7,450,236). 80 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $13M
- Funders on record
- 110
- Grants received
- $32M
- Net assets
- $5.5M
What Breakthrough does
Mission
Breakthrough central texas creates a path to and through college for students who will become the first in their families to earn a college degree or certificate. The program admits students from low-income communities as early as 6th grade and continues intensive advising and programs for up to six years after high school graduation.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
For more than 20 years, Breakthrough central texas has partnered with thousands of middle and high school students who aspire to be the first in their family to graduate college with a degree or certificate. The program makes an intensive, long-term commitment to partner with students, families, and communities for up to 12 years, to and through college, unlocking the power of education and a lifetime of opportunity. Services combine comprehensive, individualized advising with academic learning, career preparation, and leadership development from middle school summer programs to college internships. This includes high-quality postsecondary counseling to guide students to apply to, afford, and persist on their chosen educational pathway after high school, as well as direct financial assistance to overcome non-academic hurdles and support student well-being. In addition to direct support for students, the organization also partners with targeted public high schools in low-income communities to transform them into best-in-class college access institutions and elevates the experiences of students and families to champion local, state, and federal policies that advance educational…
$9,435,075 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $9,435,075.
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 2023 to 2024, from $4.1M to $7.2M (+76%).
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: 2017 15% · 2018 17% · 2019 14% · 2020 15% · 2021 18% · 2022 26% · 2023 33% · 2024 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of BREAKTHROUGH’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Michael Griffith
Executive director
Board chair
Jessica Slade
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 32 funders to 46 funders, grant income rose $1.5M → $5.4M.
18 of 110 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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: $3.0M from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Canfield Family Foundation); $106k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Breakthrough Collaborative). These are real filings, and they are not money BREAKTHROUGH raised.
From the IRS filings of BREAKTHROUGH’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 110 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
BREAKTHROUGH has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
57% 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 BREAKTHROUGH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 19% · 2019 20% · 2020 29% · 2021 37% · 2022 40% · 2023 41% — 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
44% of BREAKTHROUGH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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
93% of BREAKTHROUGH's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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
BREAKTHROUGH has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,065 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,065 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like BREAKTHROUGH
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BREAKTHROUGH: 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 BREAKTHROUGH?
- BREAKTHROUGH (Texas) receives grants from 110 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,234,675 to it, the largest being THE ONESTAR NATIONAL SERVICE COMMISSION INC ($7,450,236). 80 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BREAKTHROUGH have?
- IRS filings report 110 organizations giving $32,234,675 in grants to BREAKTHROUGH, 80 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BREAKTHROUGH?
- THE ONESTAR NATIONAL SERVICE COMMISSION INC is the largest funder on record, with $7,450,236 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BREAKTHROUGH 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 110 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