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SCHOOL DISCOVERY NETWORK FKA SAN ANTONIO CHARTER MOMS

SCHOOL DISCOVERY NETWORK FKA SAN ANTONIO CHARTER MOMS (Texas) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,551,021 to it, the largest being The Ewing Halsell Foundation ($475,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$318k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$1.6M
Net assets
$143k
7/8 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What School Discovery Network Fka San Antonio Charter Moms does

Mission

School discovery network aspires to be the most trusted information source on education in our region.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. School discovery network aspires to be the most trusted information source on education in our region. Program includes blog posts and social outreach.

    $277,643 spent$318,228 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $277,643.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($129k) Expenses 100 ($30k) Net assets 100 ($99k)2019 Revenue 171 ($221k) Expenses 690 ($208k) Net assets 113 ($112k)2020 Revenue 128 ($165k) Expenses 741 ($224k) Net assets 54 ($54k)2021 Revenue 227 ($293k) Expenses 710 ($214k) Net assets 134 ($132k)2022 Revenue 215 ($278k) Expenses 950 ($287k) Net assets 125 ($123k)2023 Revenue 243 ($313k) Expenses 1043 ($315k) Net assets 123 ($122k)2024 Revenue 246 ($318k) Expenses 984 ($297k) Net assets 144 ($143k)
2018201920202021202220232024
Revenue (246)Expenses (984)Net assets (144)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $56k to $134k (+138%).

$100k
$113k
$56k
$134k
$126k
$124k
$145k
2018201920202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of SCHOOL DISCOVERY NETWORK FKA SAN ANTONIO CHARTER MOMS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$99k
’18
$13k
’19
−$59k
’20
$79k
’21
−$9k
’22
−$2k
’23
$21k
’24
5.9
months of
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.

20192021202220232024
Listed44555
Joined··+3+0+0
No longer listed··200
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $25k → $375k.

1 of 8 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 SCHOOL DISCOVERY NETWORK FKA SAN ANTONIO CHARTER MOMS’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

SCHOOL DISCOVERY NETWORK FKA SAN ANTONIO CHARTER MOMS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

32% 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 SCHOOL DISCOVERY NETWORK FKA SAN ANTONIO CHARTER MOMS.

31%
largest funder
73%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 80% · 2019 67% · 2020 80% · 2021 70% · 2022 54% · 2023 40% — 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 SCHOOL DISCOVERY NETWORK FKA SAN ANTONIO CHARTER MOMS's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 88% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

64% of SCHOOL DISCOVERY NETWORK FKA SAN ANTONIO CHARTER MOMS's grant income comes from Texas funders.

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

’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $21 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SCHOOL DISCOVERY NETWORK FKA SAN ANTONIO CHARTER MOMS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin7% · above the median
Months of reserve5.9mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)16% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

93% of spending goes to programs.

Program 93%Management 7%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

14%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

TX

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Questions and answers

Who funds SCHOOL DISCOVERY NETWORK FKA SAN ANTONIO CHARTER MOMS?
SCHOOL DISCOVERY NETWORK FKA SAN ANTONIO CHARTER MOMS (Texas) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,551,021 to it, the largest being The Ewing Halsell Foundation ($475,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SCHOOL DISCOVERY NETWORK FKA SAN ANTONIO CHARTER MOMS have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $1,551,021 in grants to SCHOOL DISCOVERY NETWORK FKA SAN ANTONIO CHARTER MOMS, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SCHOOL DISCOVERY NETWORK FKA SAN ANTONIO CHARTER MOMS?
The Ewing Halsell Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $475,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SCHOOL DISCOVERY NETWORK FKA SAN ANTONIO CHARTER MOMS 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 8 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