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FORNEY ISD EDUCATION LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC

FORNEY ISD EDUCATION LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC (Texas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $385,985 to it, the largest being Communities Foundation of Texas Inc ($230,421). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$545k
Revenue FY2025
5
Funders on record
$386k
Grants received
$1.1M
Net assets
5/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 20%

Against its field

FORNEY ISD EDUCATION LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 15,926 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin33% · top quartile
Months of reserve35.6mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)21% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,926 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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 ($118k) Expenses 100 ($131k) Net assets 100 ($533k)2018 Revenue 168 ($198k) Expenses 99 ($130k) Net assets 113 ($601k)2021 Revenue 239 ($281k) Expenses 108 ($141k) Net assets 143 ($762k)2022 Revenue 210 ($248k) Expenses 145 ($191k) Net assets 154 ($819k)2023 Revenue 507 ($598k) Expenses 387 ($508k) Net assets 171 ($908k)2024 Revenue 277 ($327k) Expenses 246 ($323k) Net assets 171 ($912k)2025 Revenue 463 ($545k) Expenses 280 ($367k) Net assets 205 ($1.1M)
2017201820212022202320242025
Revenue (463)Expenses (280)Net assets (205)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
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

80% of FORNEY ISD EDUCATION LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,851 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$13k
17
$68k
18
$140k
21
$57k
22
$89k
23
$4k
24
$178k
25
36
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $5k → $92k.

3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)91% 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 FORNEY ISD EDUCATION LEADERSHIP 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

FORNEY ISD EDUCATION LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 96%; 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 FORNEY ISD EDUCATION LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC.

60%
largest funder
96%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 67% · 2020 66% · 2021 76% · 2022 60% · 2023 56%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.

Where its funders are

91% of FORNEY ISD EDUCATION LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION 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 $35k that is directly attributable, 57% of it comes from funders outside Texas, across 2 states.

CA
TX

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

18
19
20
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $351k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

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 FORNEY ISD EDUCATION LEADERSHIP 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

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 15%Fundraising 4%

Governance

20
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

96%

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 FORNEY ISD EDUCATION LEADERSHIP 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds FORNEY ISD EDUCATION LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC?
FORNEY ISD EDUCATION LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC (Texas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $385,985 to it, the largest being Communities Foundation of Texas Inc ($230,421). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does FORNEY ISD EDUCATION LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $385,985 in grants to FORNEY ISD EDUCATION LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FORNEY ISD EDUCATION LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC?
Communities Foundation of Texas Inc is the largest funder on record, with $230,421 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FORNEY ISD EDUCATION LEADERSHIP 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 5funders 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