Texas · Nonprofit
Foundation for Inspiration & Recognition of Scienc
Foundation for Inspiration & Recognition of Scienc (Texas) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,798,382 to it, the largest being For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) ($2,766,098). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.2M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $4.8M
- Net assets
- $366k
What Foundation for Inspiration & Recognition of Scienc does
Mission
FIRST in Texas provides life-changing robotics programs that equip young peple across Texas with skills, confidence, and resilience to build a better world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Served over 23000 students, 2000 teams, 20000 volunteers, and 90000 event volunteer hours. over 300 schoold districts, 1150 youth organizations, 49% from title 1 schools
$2,991,071 spent$1,043,718 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,991,071.
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 2018 to 2019, from $420k to $947k (+125%).
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 51% · 2018 51% · 2019 31% · 2025 66%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
67% of Foundation for Inspiration & Recognition of Scienc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 9 funders, grant income fell $672k → $285k.
8 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 Foundation for Inspiration & Recognition of Scienc’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 Inspiration & Recognition of Scienc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
86% 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 Inspiration & Recognition of Scienc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 41% · 2021 60% · 2022 48% · 2023 22% — 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
33% of Foundation for Inspiration & Recognition of Scienc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
Foundation for Inspiration & Recognition of Scienc draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
Foundation for Inspiration & Recognition of Scienc's revenue grew 58% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Foundation for Inspiration & Recognition of Scienc
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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Foundation for Inspiration & Recognition of Scienc: 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 Inspiration & Recognition of Scienc?
- Foundation for Inspiration & Recognition of Scienc (Texas) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,798,382 to it, the largest being For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) ($2,766,098). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Foundation for Inspiration & Recognition of Scienc have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $4,798,382 in grants to Foundation for Inspiration & Recognition of Scienc, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Foundation for Inspiration & Recognition of Scienc?
- For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) is the largest funder on record, with $2,766,098 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Foundation for Inspiration & Recognition of Scienc 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 23 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