Texas · Nonprofit
CARNEGIE VANGUARD HIGH SCHOOL PTO
CARNEGIE VANGUARD HIGH SCHOOL PTO (Texas) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,721 to it, the largest being GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($8,774). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2026
- $110k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $19k
- Net assets
- $302k
What Carnegie Vanguard High School PTO does
Mission
The purpose of the organization is to promote and provide social and cultural opportunities for Vanguard students, to improve the school environment, Help Students and teachers with various resources so that best educational experience can be provided
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Support for school sponsored club activities
$20,620 spent32% of program spendingSupport of school wide events, enhancing education and community
$19,417 spent30% of program spendingSupport to teachers classroom supplies, instructional support, dues And Conferences
$25,417 spent39% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $65,454.
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 2021 to 2022, from $171k to $220k (+29%).
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.
94% of CARNEGIE VANGUARD HIGH SCHOOL PTO’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 10 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $6k → $850.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% 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 CARNEGIE VANGUARD HIGH SCHOOL PTO’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 5 of 6 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
CARNEGIE VANGUARD HIGH SCHOOL PTO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
56% 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 CARNEGIE VANGUARD HIGH SCHOOL PTO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 61% · 2021 67% · 2022 95% · 2023 52% — 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.
Where its funders are
56% of CARNEGIE VANGUARD HIGH SCHOOL PTO'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 $8k that is directly attributable, 82% of it comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
CARNEGIE VANGUARD HIGH SCHOOL PTO runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 625 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 625 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026
Organizations like CARNEGIE VANGUARD HIGH SCHOOL PTO
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.
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CARNEGIE VANGUARD HIGH SCHOOL PTO: 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 CARNEGIE VANGUARD HIGH SCHOOL PTO?
- CARNEGIE VANGUARD HIGH SCHOOL PTO (Texas) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,721 to it, the largest being GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($8,774). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CARNEGIE VANGUARD HIGH SCHOOL PTO have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $18,721 in grants to CARNEGIE VANGUARD HIGH SCHOOL PTO, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CARNEGIE VANGUARD HIGH SCHOOL PTO?
- GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $8,774 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CARNEGIE VANGUARD HIGH SCHOOL PTO 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 6 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