Texas · Nonprofit
PRELUDE PREPARATORY INC
PRELUDE PREPARATORY INC (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $579,400 to it, the largest being The Ewing Halsell Foundation ($250,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
PRELUDE PREPARATORY INC has grown faster than half of the 9,072 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,072 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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.
- George W Brackenridge Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fundshared fundersportfolio match
- Good Reason Houston Incportfolio match
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.
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: 2022 56% · 2023 31% · 2024 20% · 2025 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
35% of PRELUDE PREPARATORY INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $175k → $95k.
From the IRS filings of PRELUDE PREPARATORY INC’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
PRELUDE PREPARATORY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
57% 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 PRELUDE PREPARATORY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 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
80% of PRELUDE PREPARATORY INC's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
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 3 funders put you under-funded among the 377 organizations that share them.
- George W Brackenridge Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchTX · backs 26 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fundshared fundersportfolio matchCO · backs 70 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Good Reason Houston Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Texas Charter Schools Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Project Lead the Way Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Justin J Watt Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Kle Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Whirlpool Collective Impact Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Action for Healthy Kidsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Silicon Schools Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Warm Springs Foundation Incshared fundersTX · backs 13 organizations that share your funders
- The Texas Cavaliers Charitable Foundationshared funderslocalTX · backs 36 organizations that share your funders · funds 102 organizations near you
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 PRELUDE PREPARATORY INC
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PRELUDE PREPARATORY INC: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds PRELUDE PREPARATORY INC?
- PRELUDE PREPARATORY INC (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $579,400 to it, the largest being The Ewing Halsell Foundation ($250,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PRELUDE PREPARATORY INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $579,400 in grants to PRELUDE PREPARATORY INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PRELUDE PREPARATORY INC?
- The Ewing Halsell Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PRELUDE PREPARATORY INC 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 3funders 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