Texas · Nonprofit
CHISHOLM TRAIL EDUCATION FOUNDATION
CHISHOLM TRAIL EDUCATION FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $128 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($128). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $66k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $128
- Net assets
- $68k
What Chisholm Trail Education Foundation does
Mission
We are a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that was created to provide a source of funding to the educators and students of Crowley Independent School District (CISD) for projects and activities that go beyond the normal classroom experience. The Foundation consists of a volunteer Board of Directors made up of business, community and educational leaders. The Foundation will achieve its mission by supporting the following goals: * Encourage and motivate students to work at their highest potential * Support Educators for creative efforts * Recognize educators for exemplary teaching * Build strong community awareness for the Education Foundation * Inspire parents and community to participate with the school district in enriching education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Battle of the Books - Literacy program that encourages reading in grades 3rd-8th. It promotes reading, collaboration and discussions of book selections in order to win a trophy.
$0 spentof which $7,615 as grantsScholarship for Hayden Sharp attending UT Arlington.
$0 spentof which $500 as grantsLearn to Love to Read Project is a grant to enhance literacy through an enjoyable student choice reading experience and to create a reading culture on CISD campuses that increases student engagement with reading and builds lasting reading habits. To create awareness of the Learn to Love to Read initiative and to create excitement around literacy, CTEF purchased $25,000 of Scholastic books to give for free to all students attending various District events, such as PreK Saturday registration and campus STEM programs. CTEF also provided 5 CISD after-school programs with free library bundles. CTEF gifted two elementary PreK-5 campuses with an Inchy Book Vending Machine. Each campus created criteria for students to receive a gold coin to use in the vending machine. The novelty of visiting the vending machine is combined with a free book of their choice that they can keep. CTEF has committed to stocking the machines for the 2025-2026 school year.
$0 spentof which $37,674 as grantsCISD Branding and Marketing is a grant given to CISD to enhance their branding and marketing for their schools, educators and students.
$0 spentof which $10,000 as grants
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2024 to 2025, from $59k to $68k (+16%).
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.
95% of CHISHOLM TRAIL EDUCATION FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $8 → $73.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 CHISHOLM TRAIL EDUCATION FOUNDATION’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.
Where its funders are
100% of CHISHOLM TRAIL EDUCATION FOUNDATION'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $128 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
CHISHOLM TRAIL EDUCATION FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like CHISHOLM TRAIL 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.
Public support
50%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHISHOLM TRAIL EDUCATION FOUNDATION: 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 CHISHOLM TRAIL EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
- CHISHOLM TRAIL EDUCATION FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $128 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($128). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CHISHOLM TRAIL EDUCATION FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $128 in grants to CHISHOLM TRAIL EDUCATION FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHISHOLM TRAIL EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $128 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHISHOLM TRAIL 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 1 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