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ESTEAM FOUNDATION INC

ESTEAM FOUNDATION INC (Texas) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,365,326 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,936,350). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$1.1M
Revenue FY2024
11
Funders on record
$4.4M
Grants received
$500k
Net assets
5/11 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year

Against its field

ESTEAM FOUNDATION INC is better cushioned than half of the 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin1% · below the median
Months of reserve6.0mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($888k) Expenses 100 ($676k) Net assets 100 ($441k)2018 Revenue 67 ($599k) Expenses 79 ($537k) Net assets 114 ($503k)2019 Revenue 15 ($130k) Expenses 74 ($499k) Net assets 30 ($134k)2020 Revenue 88 ($779k) Expenses 79 ($536k) Net assets 85 ($376k)2021 Revenue 98 ($874k) Expenses 95 ($645k) Net assets 137 ($605k)2022 Revenue 61 ($540k) Expenses 122 ($823k) Net assets 79 ($347k)2023 Revenue 113 ($1.0M) Expenses 140 ($949k) Net assets 111 ($491k)2024 Revenue 118 ($1.1M) Expenses 154 ($1.0M) Net assets 113 ($500k)
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Revenue (118)Expenses (154)Net assets (113)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 1% · 2021 6% · 2022 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

101% of ESTEAM FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,048 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$212k
17
$62k
18
$369k
19
$242k
20
$228k
21
$284k
22
$52k
23
$8k
24
6.0
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $1.1M → $797k.

3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)45% 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 ESTEAM FOUNDATION 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

ESTEAM FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

45% 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 ESTEAM FOUNDATION INC.

44%
largest funder
98%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2018 98% · 2019 76% · 2020 70% · 2021 69% · 2022 100% · 2023 63%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

17% of ESTEAM FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

ESTEAM FOUNDATION INC draws 79% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 4 states in all.

IL
MI
CA
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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18
19
20
21
23
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 11 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like ESTEAM FOUNDATION INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Texas

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

68% of spending goes to programs.

Program 68%Management 13%Fundraising 19%

Governance

6
board members
67%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

40%

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 ESTEAM FOUNDATION 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 ESTEAM FOUNDATION INC?
ESTEAM FOUNDATION INC (Texas) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,365,326 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,936,350). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ESTEAM FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $4,365,326 in grants to ESTEAM FOUNDATION INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ESTEAM FOUNDATION INC?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,936,350 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ESTEAM FOUNDATION 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 11funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing