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PASADENA ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION

PASADENA ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,754,947 to it, the largest being The Houston Food Bank ($646,877). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$975k
Revenue FY2025
19
Funders on record
$1.8M
Grants received
$3.0M
Net assets
13/19 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 54%

Against its field

PASADENA ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 15,926 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin14% · above the median
Months of reserve25.6mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−6% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,926 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($1.6M) Expenses 100 ($934k) Net assets 100 ($2.0M)2018 Revenue 49 ($798k) Expenses 140 ($1.3M) Net assets 74 ($1.5M)2019 Revenue 53 ($850k) Expenses 86 ($806k) Net assets 77 ($1.5M)2020 Revenue 50 ($805k) Expenses 67 ($626k) Net assets 86 ($1.7M)2021 Revenue 36 ($585k) Expenses 44 ($408k) Net assets 95 ($1.9M)2022 Revenue 38 ($610k) Expenses 46 ($428k) Net assets 102 ($2.0M)2023 Revenue 59 ($958k) Expenses 56 ($519k) Net assets 124 ($2.5M)2024 Revenue 64 ($1.0M) Expenses 75 ($700k) Net assets 140 ($2.8M)2025 Revenue 60 ($975k) Expenses 89 ($834k) Net assets 150 ($3.0M)
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Revenue (60)Expenses (89)Net assets (150)Peer revenue range

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.

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2018
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2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

110% of PASADENA ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,851 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$680k
17
$505k
18
$44k
19
$178k
20
$177k
21
$182k
22
$439k
23
$337k
24
$140k
25
26
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $43k → $146k.

7 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)49% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $195k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Pasadena Chamber of Commerce). These are real filings, and they are not money PASADENA ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION raised.

From the IRS filings of PASADENA ISD EDUCATION 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

PASADENA ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

87% 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 PASADENA ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION.

37%
largest funder
78%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 93% · 2019 81% · 2020 54% · 2021 89% · 2022 75% · 2023 35%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

50% of PASADENA ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

87% of PASADENA ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Texas funders.

IL
OH
PA
NC
TX

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

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Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $868k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 19 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like PASADENA ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Texas

Nationally

04Profile & 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 8%Fundraising 1%

Governance

54
board members
94%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

97%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PASADENA ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: 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 PASADENA ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
PASADENA ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,754,947 to it, the largest being The Houston Food Bank ($646,877). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PASADENA ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $1,754,947 in grants to PASADENA ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PASADENA ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
The Houston Food Bank is the largest funder on record, with $646,877 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PASADENA ISD EDUCATION 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.

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 19funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing