Texas · Nonprofit
MISS FRANS TEACHING GARDEN
MISS FRANS TEACHING GARDEN (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,196 to it, the largest being The Chilton Foundation ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $12k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $28k
- Net assets
- $36k
What Miss Frans Teaching Garden does
Mission
To create unique learning experiences for the students of Tool Elementary by providing the environment and resources to plant nurture and harvest fresh fruits and vegetables in their own edible garden And to experience the rewards of community involvement our student gardeners will share the bounty of each seasons harvest with the Tool Community Food Pantry.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
GROWING YOUR OWN FOOD: In the appx 3600 sq ft of garden space each of the 15 classes appx 22 students in each class has an assigned raised container bin for planting nurturing and harvesting fruits and vegetables. Garden Leaders and currently 16 School District approved volunteers lend their expertise in teaching the children gardening practices while focusing on critical core subjects such as math science and nutrition. This program is unique in that 100% of each seasons harvest is donated to the Community Food Pantry in Tool Texas. Miss Frans Garden donates fresh produce back into its community.
$15,470 spent76% of program spendingSAVE THE MONARCH BUTTERFLY PROJECT: While designing the garden layout the Garden Leaders made space for a combined Pollinator Garden and Water feature to attract pollinators specifically the Monarch as they are now on the Endangered Species list. We applied and were certified to be a Monarch Way Station by meeting their required qualification. Teaching materials such as Caterpillar cages and Monarch eggs were purchased for each class and a Butterfly Release was attended by the entire school of 282 students. With time our purpose is to establish Miss Frans Garden as a stopping point for the Monarchs migration.
$1,949 spent10% of program spendingJUNIOR MASTER GARDNER PROGRAM: This program is designed by A & M Agri-Extension group and chosen by the Garden Leaders for the 4th grade classes appx 50 students to achieve a higher level of understanding of growing your own food. Let by adult Master Gardeners workbooks were purchased for each 4th grader to complete achieve and receive their official Junior Master Gardener certification.
$2,877 spent14% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $20,296.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $45k to $36k (−20%).
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.
100% of MISS FRANS TEACHING GARDEN’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $13k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 MISS FRANS TEACHING GARDEN’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
MISS FRANS TEACHING GARDEN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% 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
29% 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 MISS FRANS TEACHING GARDEN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 62% — 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.
Where its funders are
MISS FRANS TEACHING GARDEN draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8k 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
MISS FRANS TEACHING GARDEN's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
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In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MISS FRANS TEACHING GARDEN?
- MISS FRANS TEACHING GARDEN (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,196 to it, the largest being The Chilton Foundation ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MISS FRANS TEACHING GARDEN have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $28,196 in grants to MISS FRANS TEACHING GARDEN, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MISS FRANS TEACHING GARDEN?
- The Chilton Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MISS FRANS TEACHING GARDEN 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 2022–2025), 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