Texas · Nonprofit
LIFT LITERACY INSTRUCTION FOR TEXAS DBA ASPIRE
LIFT LITERACY INSTRUCTION FOR TEXAS DBA ASPIRE (Texas) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,858,312 to it, the largest being HIRSCH FAMILY FOUNDATION ($2,567,000). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
LIFT LITERACY INSTRUCTION FOR TEXAS DBA ASPIRE's funding base is broadening — from 8 funders to 21 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,072 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- State Fair of Texaslocalportfolio match
- Junior League of Dallas Incshared funderslocal
- Wish You Well Foundationportfolio match
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.
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: 2021 8% · 2022 10% · 2023 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of LIFT LITERACY INSTRUCTION FOR TEXAS DBA ASPIRE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $735k → $1.7M.
12 of 47 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 LIFT LITERACY INSTRUCTION FOR TEXAS DBA ASPIRE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 47 funders by total. 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
LIFT LITERACY INSTRUCTION FOR TEXAS DBA ASPIRE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
60% 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 LIFT LITERACY INSTRUCTION FOR TEXAS DBA ASPIRE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 52% · 2019 32% · 2020 33% · 2021 39% · 2022 55% · 2023 34% — 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
41% of LIFT LITERACY INSTRUCTION FOR TEXAS DBA ASPIRE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
86% of LIFT LITERACY INSTRUCTION FOR TEXAS DBA ASPIRE's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 47 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- State Fair of Texaslocalportfolio matchTX · funds 108 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Junior League of Dallas Incshared funderslocalTX · backs 38 organizations that share your funders · funds 49 organizations near you
- Wish You Well Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Proliteracy Worldwideportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Miles Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Kahn Education Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Todd a Williams Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Burdine Johnson Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Rees-Jones Foundationshared fundersTX · backs 158 organizations that share your funders
- The Crystal Charity Ballshared funderslocalTX · backs 45 organizations that share your funders · funds 46 organizations near you
- Theodore and Beulah Beasley Foundation Incshared funderslocalTX · backs 90 organizations that share your funders · funds 112 organizations near you
- The Addy Foundationshared funderslocalTX · backs 119 organizations that share your funders · funds 168 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like LIFT LITERACY INSTRUCTION FOR TEXAS DBA ASPIRE
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LIFT LITERACY INSTRUCTION FOR TEXAS DBA ASPIRE: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds LIFT LITERACY INSTRUCTION FOR TEXAS DBA ASPIRE?
- LIFT LITERACY INSTRUCTION FOR TEXAS DBA ASPIRE (Texas) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,858,312 to it, the largest being HIRSCH FAMILY FOUNDATION ($2,567,000). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LIFT LITERACY INSTRUCTION FOR TEXAS DBA ASPIRE have?
- IRS filings report 47 organizations giving $8,858,312 in grants to LIFT LITERACY INSTRUCTION FOR TEXAS DBA ASPIRE, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIFT LITERACY INSTRUCTION FOR TEXAS DBA ASPIRE?
- HIRSCH FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,567,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIFT LITERACY INSTRUCTION FOR TEXAS DBA ASPIRE 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 47funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing