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Lead Texas Forward Inc

Lead Texas Forward Inc (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $212,000 to it, the largest being Reform Austin Inc ($176,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2020
$176k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$212k
Net assets
$9k
0/2 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Lead Texas Forward Inc does

Mission

Engaging Texans who are driving changes in education, workforce training, infrastructure, and healthcare that lead Texas forward.

As stated on its FY2020 Form 990-EZ.

Program

Education of Texas residents regarding the need for improvedleadership in the areas of education,workforce training, infrastructure, and healthcare.

The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($86k) Expenses 100 ($104k) Net assets -206 ($-18194)2020 Revenue 205 ($176k) Expenses 143 ($149k) Net assets 100 ($9k)
20192020
Revenue (205)Expenses (143)Net assets (100)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $64k to $9k (−86%).

$64k
$9k
20192020
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.

2019
2020
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

−$18k
’19
$27k
’20
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'20
total
Reform Austin Incunclassified
$176k
Fair Democracyunclassified
$36k
funders
2

From the IRS filings of Lead Texas Forward 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

Lead Texas Forward Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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 Lead Texas Forward Inc.

83%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

“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

83% of Lead Texas Forward Inc's grant income comes from Texas funders.

DC
TX

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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like Lead Texas Forward 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.

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Lead Texas Forward 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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Questions and answers

Who funds Lead Texas Forward Inc?
Lead Texas Forward Inc (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $212,000 to it, the largest being Reform Austin Inc ($176,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Lead Texas Forward Inc have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $212,000 in grants to Lead Texas Forward Inc.
Who is the largest funder of Lead Texas Forward Inc?
Reform Austin Inc is the largest funder on record, with $176,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Lead Texas Forward 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.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2020 (financials across 2019–2020), and the filings of 2 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