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RAISE YOUR HAND FOR TEXAS EDUCATION FUND

RAISE YOUR HAND FOR TEXAS EDUCATION FUND (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $775,150 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($725,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2021
$19M
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$775k
Net assets
$0
0/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 8%
01What it does

What Raise Your Hand for Texas Education Fund does

Program

Blended learning program - an initiative showcasing blendedlearning strategies for improving student achievement acrossdiverse student demographics and geographic regions intexas, particularly among districts with persistent achievement gaps. Through a statewide competitive application process, twenty school district teams have been selected to receive up to $300,000 to implement a blended learning program. Additionally, the foundation will provide intensive technical assistance over three years to help implement the blended learning plans.

The first program described on its most recent Form 990-PF.

02The 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($56M) Expenses 100 ($4.6M) Net assets 100 ($79M)2018 Revenue 3 ($1.7M) Expenses 1312 ($61M) Net assets 25 ($19M)2019 Revenue 1 ($485k) Expenses 299 ($14M) Net assets 8 ($6.1M)2020 Revenue 16 ($8.9M) Expenses 324 ($15M) Net assets 0 ($167k)2021 Revenue 33 ($19M) Expenses 322 ($15M) Net assets 0 ($0)
20172018201920202021
Revenue (33)Expenses (322)Net assets (0)

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 $81M to $21M (−74%).

$81M
$21M
$7.0M
$883k
$0
20172018201920202021
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

20172018201920202021
Listed34333
Joined·+2+1+0+0
No longer listed·1200
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $150 → $50k.

2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 RAISE YOUR HAND FOR TEXAS EDUCATION FUND’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

RAISE YOUR HAND FOR TEXAS EDUCATION FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

94%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2022 100% — broadly stable.

“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

RAISE YOUR HAND FOR TEXAS EDUCATION FUND draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 1 state in all.

WA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50k 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like RAISE YOUR HAND FOR TEXAS EDUCATION FUND

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RAISE YOUR HAND FOR TEXAS EDUCATION FUND: 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 RAISE YOUR HAND FOR TEXAS EDUCATION FUND?
RAISE YOUR HAND FOR TEXAS EDUCATION FUND (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $775,150 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($725,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does RAISE YOUR HAND FOR TEXAS EDUCATION FUND have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $775,150 in grants to RAISE YOUR HAND FOR TEXAS EDUCATION FUND.
Who is the largest funder of RAISE YOUR HAND FOR TEXAS EDUCATION FUND?
GATES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $725,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like RAISE YOUR HAND FOR TEXAS EDUCATION FUND 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 FY2021 (financials across 2017–2021), and the filings of 3 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