Texas · Nonprofit
Mike Steele Foundation for Communities in Schools
Mike Steele Foundation for Communities in Schools (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being The Robert and Dawn Zuilhof Family Foundation Inc ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $180k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $3.8M
What Mike Steele Foundation for Communities in Schools does
Mission
The foundation is a permanent fund whose primary goal is for the benefit of communities in schools of greater tarrant county, inc. Both today and in the future.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
A contribution was made to communities in schools of greater tarrant county, inc. During the year.
$159,697 spentof which $159,697 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $159,697.
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 $1.4M to $2.4M (+72%).
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.
0% of Mike Steele Foundation for Communities in Schools’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Chief executive
Lindsey Garner
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2018: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $0.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.0M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Communities in Schools of Greater Tarrant County Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Mike Steele Foundation for Communities in Schools raised.
From the IRS filings of Mike Steele Foundation for Communities in Schools’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 1 of 2 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.
Where its funders are
Mike Steele Foundation for Communities in Schools draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 1 state in all.
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.
Against its field
Mike Steele Foundation for Communities in Schools's revenue grew 43% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Mike Steele Foundation for Communities in Schools
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
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Communities in Schools of Greater Tarrant County · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Mike Steele Foundation for Communities in Schools: 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 Mike Steele Foundation for Communities in Schools?
- Mike Steele Foundation for Communities in Schools (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being The Robert and Dawn Zuilhof Family Foundation Inc ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Mike Steele Foundation for Communities in Schools have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $10,000 in grants to Mike Steele Foundation for Communities in Schools.
- Who is the largest funder of Mike Steele Foundation for Communities in Schools?
- The Robert and Dawn Zuilhof Family Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Mike Steele Foundation for Communities in Schools 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 2017–2024), 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