Texas · Nonprofit
Project Back to School
Project Back to School (Texas) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $465,995 to it, the largest being GUINN FOUNDATION INC ($110,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5k
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $466k
- Net assets
- $0
What Project Back to School does
Mission
To improve the educational success of the economically disadvantaged children in the Wichita Falls community by providing items needed for school, building their self-esteem, and improving their well-being.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The Board voluntarily decided to wind up Project Back to School #46-2897760 in September 2023.Effective October 1, 2023, the annual school supply distribution known as Project Back to School became a program operated by the Wichita Falls ISD Foundation, Inc. #75-2144529, a 501(c)(3) corporation, P.O. Box 9850, Wichita Falls, TX 76308.As part of the winding up process, $125,000 was transferred to the Wichita Falls ISD Foundation, Inc.The remaining $299,811.46 was transferred to the Wichita Falls Area Community Foundation - Project Back to School Legacy Fund. The purpose of the fund is to support the operations of Project Back to School serving low-income students of the Wichita Falls ISD and City View ISD.
$0 spent
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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 $423k to $0 (−100%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $14k → $60k.
1 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 Project Back to School’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
Project Back to School has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 49% · 2019 44% · 2020 27% · 2021 31% · 2022 24% · 2023 33% — 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 Project Back to School's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
96% of Project Back to School's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $95 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Organizations like Project Back to School
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.
Public support
95%
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 Project Back to School: 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 Project Back to School?
- Project Back to School (Texas) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $465,995 to it, the largest being GUINN FOUNDATION INC ($110,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Project Back to School have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $465,995 in grants to Project Back to School, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Project Back to School?
- GUINN FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $110,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Project Back to School 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 24 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