Texas · Nonprofit
PARTNERS FOR EDUCATION AGRICULTURE AND SUSTAINABILITY
PARTNERS FOR EDUCATION AGRICULTURE AND SUSTAINABILITY (Texas) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,245,395 to it, the largest being AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($572,681). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $906k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $307k
What Partners for Education Agriculture and Sustainability does
Mission
To cultivate joyful connections with the natural world through outdoor learning and edible education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Peas outdoor education specialists worked with teachers and over 3500 students at dozens of central texas schools to provide nature-based, standards-aligned lessons and deepen learning in science, math, languages, health and nutrition throughout the school year.
$593,319 spentof which $118,500 as grants$123,353 earned by the program77% of program spendingPeas provided edible education programs through which more than 533 students learned the full soil-to-table cycle and gained an understanding of ecological interconnection and interdependence. Students engaged in sensory delight of preparing and tasting fresh food in lessons that reinforce core academic concepts.
$168,033 spentof which $99,000 as grants$10,300 earned by the program22% of program spendingPeas continued to plant and maintain the community farm and urban orchard in south austin that is designed to foster relationships and promote sustainability and stewardship through experiential education.
$4,676 spent$1,019 earned by the program1% of program spendingPeas provided three fun filled weeks of summer camp in two locations. Camps engaged kids through an array of nature-based games and activities including tending gardens, outdoor adventure explorations, nature art, planting, growing, harvesting, preparing, eating and more!
$2,727 spent$33,227 earned by the program0% of program spendingPeas continued to craft a professional development curriculum and pilot workshops for educators. Peas helped to support and expand outdoor learning opportunities at area schools by providing 855 hours of maintenance at school gardens and outdoor learning areas of local schools.
$595 spent$19,621 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $769,350.
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 2023 to 2024, from $597k to $347k (−42%).
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: 2018 9% · 2020 4% · 2021 29% · 2022 48% · 2023 31% · 2024 33% · 2025 24%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
79% of PARTNERS FOR EDUCATION AGRICULTURE AND SUSTAINABILITY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Board chair
Nona Evans
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $38k → $204k.
2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 PARTNERS FOR EDUCATION AGRICULTURE AND SUSTAINABILITY’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
PARTNERS FOR EDUCATION AGRICULTURE AND SUSTAINABILITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
93% 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 PARTNERS FOR EDUCATION AGRICULTURE AND SUSTAINABILITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 71% · 2020 47% · 2021 64% · 2022 68% · 2023 57% — 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
60% of PARTNERS FOR EDUCATION AGRICULTURE AND SUSTAINABILITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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
PARTNERS FOR EDUCATION AGRICULTURE AND SUSTAINABILITY draws 81% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $573k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
PARTNERS FOR EDUCATION AGRICULTURE AND SUSTAINABILITY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding PARTNERS FOR EDUCATION AGRICULTURE AND SUSTAINABILITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $100k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$100k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like PARTNERS FOR EDUCATION AGRICULTURE AND SUSTAINABILITY
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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PARTNERS FOR EDUCATION AGRICULTURE AND SUSTAINABILITY?
- PARTNERS FOR EDUCATION AGRICULTURE AND SUSTAINABILITY (Texas) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,245,395 to it, the largest being AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($572,681). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PARTNERS FOR EDUCATION AGRICULTURE AND SUSTAINABILITY have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $1,245,395 in grants to PARTNERS FOR EDUCATION AGRICULTURE AND SUSTAINABILITY, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PARTNERS FOR EDUCATION AGRICULTURE AND SUSTAINABILITY?
- AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $572,681 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PARTNERS FOR EDUCATION AGRICULTURE AND SUSTAINABILITY 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 11 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