Texas · Nonprofit
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS INC
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS INC (Texas) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,711,485 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($3,000,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.5M
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $5.7M
- Net assets
- $5.0M
What Communities in Schools of South Central Texas Inc does
Mission
Communities in schools surrounds students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and acheive in life
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Cis-sct serves eight school districts and provided 4,426 students with intensive, individualized, holistic services. In addition,cis-sct provided two or more services to over 38,979 students. Cis-sct accomplished this in collaboration with 1,666 volunteers providing 21,998 hours of services and over 281 community partnerships to meet the needs of students and their families. Through a combination of individual and group services, cis-scts impact on the lives of young people resulted in a 87% improvement in behavior; 77% inprovement in attendance; 93% improvement in academic performance; 99% stayed in school; 99% were promoted to the next grade and 99% of eligible seniors graduated. 91 mentors were matched with students in need of as adult role model; 122 high school students were provided with college and career preparation activities. Cis-sct is committed to addressing the mental health needs of the youth we serve. 43,565 hours of mental health services were provided by site coordinators, and 256 students received 1,628 hours of one on one therapeutic counseling at no cost to them or their families, a value of $216,838.
$4,648,936 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,648,936.
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 $2.2M to $5.3M (+139%).
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 7% · 2018 7% · 2019 19% · 2020 0% · 2021 12% · 2022 15% · 2023 33% · 2024 27% · 2025 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
43% of COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (60% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $325k → $375k.
6 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% 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 COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS INC’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
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% 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
86% 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 COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 87% · 2018 41% · 2019 70% · 2020 37% · 2021 44% · 2022 87% · 2023 32% — 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
50% of COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
58% of COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS INC'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 $2.4M that is directly attributable, 96% of it comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS INC's revenue grew 89% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,299 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $100k on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$100k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS INC
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS INC: 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 COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS INC?
- COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS INC (Texas) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,711,485 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($3,000,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS INC have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $5,711,485 in grants to COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS INC, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS INC?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $3,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS INC 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 22 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