Texas · Nonprofit
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.
- Revenue FY2025
- $975k
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $3.0M
What Pasadena Isd Education Foundation does
Mission
The mission of the Pasadena Isd Education Foundation is to collaborate with the school district and community to reward innovative teaching, promote educational excellence, and provide opportunities to recognize the students and staff of the pasadena independent school district.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Mini-grants were granted to teachers for special extra projects to give to the students a hands-on experience not avaliable in the regular classroom budget.
$456,457 spentof which $447,034 as grants60% of program spendingSpecial grants to schools or projects with funds donated to the foundation specifically for those schools or projects.
$304,305 spentof which $298,023 as grants40% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $760,762.
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 2017 to 2018, from $2.0M to $1.5M (−26%).
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.
110% of PASADENA ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 1 of the last 9 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
Emily Ontiveros
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
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.
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.
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.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $868k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
PASADENA ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like PASADENA ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION
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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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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 19 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