Texas · Nonprofit
LIFT LITERACY INSTRUCTION FOR TEXAS DBA ASPIRE
LIFT LITERACY INSTRUCTION FOR TEXAS DBA ASPIRE (Texas) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,914,312 to it, the largest being HIRSCH FAMILY FOUNDATION ($2,567,000). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 49
- Grants received
- $8.9M
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Lift Literacy Instruction for Texas Dba Aspire does
Mission
Aspire's mission is to provide targeted educational programs that help students reach specific learning and career goals that enable them to improve their lives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In fy 2025 aspire served 1511 adults in its three largest programs in fy 2025: english as a second language, adult education/ged prep, and workforce training. Fy 2025 programs were held either on-line or at five satellite locations.
$1,203,719 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,203,719.
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 $387k to $1.6M (+315%).
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
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
Paul Dibiase
President & CEO
Board chair
Dominique George
ChairWOMAN
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
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 49 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 49 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 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
59% 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
39% of LIFT LITERACY INSTRUCTION FOR TEXAS DBA ASPIRE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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 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
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· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like LIFT LITERACY INSTRUCTION FOR TEXAS DBA ASPIRE
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
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.
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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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LIFT LITERACY INSTRUCTION FOR TEXAS DBA ASPIRE?
- LIFT LITERACY INSTRUCTION FOR TEXAS DBA ASPIRE (Texas) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,914,312 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 49 organizations giving $8,914,312 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.
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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 49 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