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MISS TRISTAN FOUNDATION

MISS TRISTAN FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $45,255 to it, the largest being HARVEY E NAJIM CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($45,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$336k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$45k
Net assets
$74k
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%
01What it does

What Miss Tristan Foundation does

Mission

Promote drowning awareness, water safety education and teach children to swim

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Promote drowning awareness, water safety education and teach children to swim

    $280,542 spent$188,524 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $280,542.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($25k) Expenses 100 ($5k) Net assets 100 ($20k)2019 Revenue 544 ($135k) Expenses 1647 ($86k) Net assets 386 ($75k)2020 Revenue 433 ($107k) Expenses 3157 ($166k) Net assets 87 ($17k)2021 Revenue 454 ($113k) Expenses 3373 ($177k) Net assets -101 ($-19672)2023 Revenue 1470 ($364k) Expenses 7028 ($369k) Net assets -136 ($-26520)2024 Revenue 1699 ($421k) Expenses 6652 ($349k) Net assets 232 ($45k)2025 Revenue 1357 ($336k) Expenses 5854 ($307k) Net assets 381 ($74k)
2017201920202021202320242025
Revenue (1357)Expenses (5854)Net assets (381)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $31k to $101k (+230%).

$20k
$75k
$87k
$37k
$31k
$101k
$128k
2017201920202021202320242025
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.

2017
2019
2020
2021
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

44% of MISS TRISTAN FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,844 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$20k
’17
$48k
’19
−$58k
’20
−$64k
’21
−$4k
’23
$72k
’24
$29k
’25
4.0
months of
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.

202320242025
Listed994
Joined·+1+1
No longer listed·16
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $255 → $20k.

Funder
'18
'23
'24*
total
funders
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of MISS TRISTAN FOUNDATION’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 TRISTAN FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% 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

99%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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

100% of MISS TRISTAN FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Texas funders.

TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’18
’23
Texas out of state home

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

Against its field

MISS TRISTAN FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,505 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin9% · below the median
Months of reserve4.0mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)39% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,505 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like MISS TRISTAN FOUNDATION

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In Texas

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

91% of spending goes to programs.

Program 91%Management 9%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

17%

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 TRISTAN FOUNDATION?
MISS TRISTAN FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $45,255 to it, the largest being HARVEY E NAJIM CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($45,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MISS TRISTAN FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $45,255 in grants to MISS TRISTAN FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MISS TRISTAN FOUNDATION?
HARVEY E NAJIM CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $45,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MISS TRISTAN FOUNDATION 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 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing