Texas · Nonprofit
FOUNDATION FOR ADVANCING SECURITY TALENT
FOUNDATION FOR ADVANCING SECURITY TALENT (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $175,000 to it, the largest being ELECTRONIC SECURITY ASSOCIATION ($75,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $157k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $175k
- Net assets
- $136k
What Foundation for Advancing Security Talent does
Mission
The Foundation for Advancing Security Talent (fast) is dedicated to connecting passionate, innovative professionals with new opportunities in the electronic security and life safety industry. Through a partnership of the industry's leading associations, the electronic security association (esa) and the security industry association (sia), fast brings awareness to the career advancement opportunities within the fast-paced technology industry that serves to keep people, places and property safe.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Job boards - fast provides the security and life safety industry's largest jobs board for cybersecurity analysts, sales management, security engineers, technicians, operations managers, hr, project management, it, customer support and executive leadership. These opportunities and more are on the fast jobs board.
$7,379 spent27% of program spendingCompensation study - the methodology and development of a security industry compensation study was initiated in 2022; the survey results were published in 2024. The study provides benchmarking data on industry salary and benefits to recruit and retain top talent.
$20,000 spent73% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $27,379.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $196k to $137k (−30%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Aiden O'Brien Thru 112024
Executive director
Board chair
Kerri Sutherland
Chairman/director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of FOUNDATION FOR ADVANCING SECURITY TALENT’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
FOUNDATION FOR ADVANCING SECURITY TALENT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 FOUNDATION FOR ADVANCING SECURITY TALENT.
“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
FOUNDATION FOR ADVANCING SECURITY TALENT draws 57% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 3 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Organizations like FOUNDATION FOR ADVANCING SECURITY TALENT
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FOUNDATION FOR ADVANCING SECURITY TALENT: 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 FOUNDATION FOR ADVANCING SECURITY TALENT?
- FOUNDATION FOR ADVANCING SECURITY TALENT (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $175,000 to it, the largest being ELECTRONIC SECURITY ASSOCIATION ($75,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FOUNDATION FOR ADVANCING SECURITY TALENT have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $175,000 in grants to FOUNDATION FOR ADVANCING SECURITY TALENT, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOUNDATION FOR ADVANCING SECURITY TALENT?
- ELECTRONIC SECURITY ASSOCIATION is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOUNDATION FOR ADVANCING SECURITY TALENT 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 3 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