Texas · Nonprofit
SOLID FOUNDATION ASSOCIATION
SOLID FOUNDATION ASSOCIATION (Texas) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $393,362 to it, the largest being CHARLES & LOIS MARIE BRIGHT FOUNDATION ($215,887). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $87k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $393k
- Net assets
- $177k
What Solid Foundation Association does
Mission
Solid Foundation Association emphasizes personal responsibility and action as parallel roads to freedom. We attempt to disrupt the destructive cycle of poverty through education, spiritual and personal development. Through our committed staff, trusted volunteers, mentor core group, community partners, prayer warriors, and dedicated tutors - we form a weapon against ignorance, poor self esteem, and poor school performance to reposition our students for success and give them a hope for the future.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
After school tutoring
$78,089 spent69% of program spendingSolid foundation serves approximately 200 students weekly in its main location, diversity center, and four satellite community centers, experiencing about 65% success rate. Through the 18-19 school year, solid foundation in collaboration with nisd and with sfasu stems program targeted under-achieving students who demonstrated a high potential for competing in the science and math fields in grades 6-12 with gpa's of 2.5 or less. This was accomplished through highly promoted parent/teacher/counselor collaboration agreements encouraging students that fall into this category to attend the solid foundation after school program.
$34,640 spent31% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $112,729.
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 2023 to 2024, from $97k to $202k (+109%).
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.
60% of SOLID FOUNDATION ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
John B Cannings
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $11k → $92k.
2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 SOLID FOUNDATION ASSOCIATION’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
SOLID FOUNDATION ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 84% · 2019 80% · 2020 75% · 2021 66% · 2022 47% · 2023 77% — 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
67% of SOLID FOUNDATION ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
100% of SOLID FOUNDATION ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k 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.
Against its field
SOLID FOUNDATION ASSOCIATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like SOLID FOUNDATION ASSOCIATION
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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 SOLID FOUNDATION ASSOCIATION: 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 SOLID FOUNDATION ASSOCIATION?
- SOLID FOUNDATION ASSOCIATION (Texas) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $393,362 to it, the largest being CHARLES & LOIS MARIE BRIGHT FOUNDATION ($215,887). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOLID FOUNDATION ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $393,362 in grants to SOLID FOUNDATION ASSOCIATION, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOLID FOUNDATION ASSOCIATION?
- CHARLES & LOIS MARIE BRIGHT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $215,887 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOLID FOUNDATION ASSOCIATION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 10 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