Texas · Nonprofit
ELIN PELIN FOUNDATION
ELIN PELIN FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,416 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($7,480). 2 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
- $115k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $8k
- Net assets
- $78k
What Elin Pelin Foundation does
Mission
Elin Pelin Foundation is dedicated to providing the highest quality bulgarian language instruction and cross-cultural experience for both children and adults. The bulgarian school welcomes students of all ages, nationalities and backgrounds from the wide houston areas. Elin Pelin Foundation rents space for the bulgarian school and a small library, which provides free, easy-to-access articles, books and journals written in bulgarian and english languages to those interested to learn about the balkans' culture, history and heritage. Elin Pelin Foundation has a mission to help preserve the bulgarian language, culture and customs, as well as to embrace bulgarian-american artists and popularize bulgarian-american art in all its forms.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Elin Pelin Foundation operate bulgarian language, lessons are offered weekly in 4 hour sessions. In years 2019-2019 Elin Pelin Foundation provided instructions to 33 children divided in five age and skill levels.
Elin Pelin Foundation operate bulgarian language, lessons are offered weekly in 4 hour sessions.
$88,411 spent100% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $88,411.
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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $51k to $78k (+52%).
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.
100% of ELIN PELIN FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $125 → $221.
2 of 2 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 ELIN PELIN 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.
How concentrated its funding is
ELIN PELIN FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 ELIN PELIN FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of ELIN PELIN 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. $8k 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
ELIN PELIN FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ELIN PELIN 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 ELIN PELIN FOUNDATION?
- ELIN PELIN FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,416 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($7,480). 2 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 ELIN PELIN FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $8,416 in grants to ELIN PELIN FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ELIN PELIN FOUNDATION?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $7,480 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ELIN PELIN 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 2 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