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HALO INITIATIVE FOR CATHOLIC EDUCATION INC

HALO INITIATIVE FOR CATHOLIC EDUCATION INC (Texas) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $829,258 to it, the largest being THE MIKE AND MARY TERRY FAMILY FOUNDATION ($405,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$474k
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$829k
Net assets
$0
3/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 23%
01What it does

What Halo Initiative for Catholic Education Inc does

Mission

To work alongside our catholic schools office and the dallas community to strengthen, grow the impact of, and provide broad-based access to our k-8 catholic schools.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The halo initiative is helping families have access to a quality education and to test solutions that can create system sustainability. In addition, halo provides a service for funders who support catholic school students with tuition assistance across the catholic school system.

    $329,007 spentof which $176,715 as grants$223,894 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $329,007.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20232023 Revenue 100 ($664k) Expenses 100 ($728k) Net assets 100 ($10k)2024 Revenue 71 ($474k) Expenses 66 ($483k) Net assets 0 ($0)
20232024
Revenue (71)Expenses (66)Net assets (0)

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 $10k to $0 (−100%).

$10k
$0
20232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

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

−$65k
’23
−$9k
’24
0.2
months of
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.

Chief executive

Jane Koenecke

Executive director

Board chair

Rick Spurr

Director and chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

20232024
Listed810
Joined·+4
No longer listed·2
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $185k → $155k.

4 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 HALO INITIATIVE FOR CATHOLIC EDUCATION 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

HALO INITIATIVE FOR CATHOLIC EDUCATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

33% 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 HALO INITIATIVE FOR CATHOLIC EDUCATION INC.

49%
largest funder
82%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 95% · 2021 39% · 2022 93% · 2023 68% — 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 HALO INITIATIVE FOR CATHOLIC EDUCATION INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 27% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

95% of HALO INITIATIVE FOR CATHOLIC EDUCATION INC's grant income comes from Texas funders.

VA
TX

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

’20
’21
’22
’23
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $234k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like HALO INITIATIVE FOR CATHOLIC EDUCATION INC

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

05Profile & 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 29%Fundraising 3%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

86%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds HALO INITIATIVE FOR CATHOLIC EDUCATION INC?
HALO INITIATIVE FOR CATHOLIC EDUCATION INC (Texas) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $829,258 to it, the largest being THE MIKE AND MARY TERRY FAMILY FOUNDATION ($405,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does HALO INITIATIVE FOR CATHOLIC EDUCATION INC have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $829,258 in grants to HALO INITIATIVE FOR CATHOLIC EDUCATION INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HALO INITIATIVE FOR CATHOLIC EDUCATION INC?
THE MIKE AND MARY TERRY FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $405,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HALO INITIATIVE FOR CATHOLIC EDUCATION 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 2023–2024), and the filings of 11 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