Texas · Nonprofit
LAUNCH PAD THE CENTER
LAUNCH PAD THE CENTER (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $11,000 to it, the largest being CENTRAL TEXAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($11,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $137k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $11k
- Net assets
- $82k
What Launch Pad the Center does
Mission
Igniting hope in disadvantage youth and individuals by reaching, equipping and propelling them to discover and fulfill their highest potential, Launch Pad the Center, mobilizes partnerships with businesses and organizations to emphasize the need for community transformation. The five things done for community transformation are: 1. Connect to strenghten and support the individual and family unit; 2. Serve individual's basic needs; 3. Provide the educational, financial, vocational, and spiritual education to become a productive and well reounded individual; 4. Teach and model integrity and good character; and 5. Create self-sufficiency with providing the tools for people to be successful.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Youth education & empowerment - provides character education teaching students that core value are stepping stones for personal success. It focuses on mentoring and modeling, by teeaching and demonstrating leadership and other essential life skills. Activities include financial literacy, leadership, promoting mental stamina, challenge, competition, technology, mentoring, and life skills. Character education teaches students that core values are stepping-stones for personalsuccess. Financial literacy is a key for empowerment and financial management. Leadership is a quality that will make them stand- out. Life-skills are essential in everything we do. Living a drug-free lifestyle will allow them to accomplish their goals and personal dreams. Mentoring - modeling is a powerful tool to show these students that despite the challenges they face in their environment, making right choices followed by hard work will lead them to achieve success. Launchpad offers the after-school program twice per week on the middle school campus, serving 36 60 students every week. Total served in 2015 was 480 students.
$771 spent1% of program spendingCommunity outreach- is a way to provide support for individuals and groups needing support. Activities include empowering underserved families and helping break the cycle of inter-generational poverty through innovative,education and support for children plus aiding youth and young adults in obtaining high school diploma or ged and help put them on a career track to attend techincal training or post secondary education. During 2020, they also supported meals and activities for first responders and other groups needing assistance during covid.
$35,343 spent45% of program spendingMentoring & scholorships. This program offers mentoring and leadership to young men, some out of a non-traditional high school in round rock, tx, and others through a local juvenile center in williamson county. The mentoring and leadership program supports student growth by learning to navigate their decisions and take action setps needed for improving their lives and future. It also offers through a girls of legacy scholarshp and mentorship program similiar activities. It targets disadvantaged title 1 high school girls, aiding in pursuing college education. Community/business leaders lead monthly mentoring sessions with the students with a goal to aid in the student's education journey, short and long term goals and overall health/wellness for their mind and self-worth/self respect.
$43,164 spent54% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $79,278.
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 2023 to 2024, from $25k to $82k (+225%).
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.
109% of LAUNCH PAD THE CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Rebecca Contreras
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 LAUNCH PAD THE CENTER’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.
Where its funders are
100% of LAUNCH PAD THE CENTER'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
LAUNCH PAD THE CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like LAUNCH PAD THE CENTER
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
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LAUNCH PAD THE CENTER: 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 LAUNCH PAD THE CENTER?
- LAUNCH PAD THE CENTER (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $11,000 to it, the largest being CENTRAL TEXAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($11,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LAUNCH PAD THE CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $11,000 in grants to LAUNCH PAD THE CENTER.
- Who is the largest funder of LAUNCH PAD THE CENTER?
- CENTRAL TEXAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $11,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LAUNCH PAD THE CENTER 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 1 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