Texas · Nonprofit
COMPASS ROSE EDUCATION INC
COMPASS ROSE EDUCATION INC (Texas) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,533,939 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,535,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $53M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $-3130582
What Compass Rose Education Inc does
Mission
To ensure every student experiences success in school, at every grade level and in every subject, so they can be academically prepared for college.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Equip and staff an open enrollment, tuition free charter school for grades kindergarten through twelfth.
$58,141,691 spent$135,160 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $58,141,691.
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 2022 to 2023, from $48M to $168M (+251%).
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 33% · 2018 66% · 2019 68% · 2020 65% · 2021 85% · 2022 86% · 2023 88% · 2024 87% · 2025 95%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of COMPASS ROSE EDUCATION INC’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 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.
Chief executive
Paul Morrissey
CEO/superint
Board chair
Arturo Herrera
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $350k → $3.0M.
4 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 COMPASS ROSE EDUCATION 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
COMPASS ROSE EDUCATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
53% 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 COMPASS ROSE EDUCATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 86% · 2018 83% · 2019 40% · 2020 54% · 2021 30% · 2022 51% · 2023 26% — 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
38% of COMPASS ROSE EDUCATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
76% of COMPASS ROSE EDUCATION INC's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
COMPASS ROSE EDUCATION INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like COMPASS ROSE EDUCATION 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
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 COMPASS ROSE EDUCATION 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 COMPASS ROSE EDUCATION INC?
- COMPASS ROSE EDUCATION INC (Texas) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,533,939 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,535,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMPASS ROSE EDUCATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $12,533,939 in grants to COMPASS ROSE EDUCATION INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMPASS ROSE EDUCATION INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,535,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMPASS ROSE EDUCATION 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 19 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