Texas · Nonprofit
SPEARHEAD CORPORATION
SPEARHEAD CORPORATION (Texas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $313,815 to it, the largest being AMARILLO AREA FOUNDATION INC ($216,684). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
SPEARHEAD CORPORATION's revenue fell 53% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,485 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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.
- Dr Kent Roberts & Ilene Roberts Balliett Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Texas Farm Bureau Ag Research & Education Foundationlocal
- Merrymac McKinley Foundation Incportfolio match
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.
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.
61% of SPEARHEAD CORPORATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $40k → $44k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 69% 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 SPEARHEAD CORPORATION’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
SPEARHEAD CORPORATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 SPEARHEAD CORPORATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 100% · 2019 59% · 2020 55% · 2021 59% · 2022 40% · 2023 54% — growing more concentrated.
“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
69% of SPEARHEAD CORPORATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $97k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $217k 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.
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 5 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Dr Kent Roberts & Ilene Roberts Balliett Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchTX · backs 75 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Texas Farm Bureau Ag Research & Education FoundationlocalTX · funds 3 organizations near you
- Merrymac McKinley Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- David D & Nona S Payne Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sylvester and Tessie Kaminski Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Bobbie a Atkinson Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kramer Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Robert C & Cornealia H Patton Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- McCrory Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- High Plains Christian Ministries Foundationshared fundersTX · backs 81 organizations that share your funders
- The United Way Incshared fundersTX · backs 44 organizations that share your funders
- Frances Maddox Foundationshared fundersTX · backs 18 organizations that share your funders
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 SPEARHEAD CORPORATION
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 SPEARHEAD CORPORATION: 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 SPEARHEAD CORPORATION?
- SPEARHEAD CORPORATION (Texas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $313,815 to it, the largest being AMARILLO AREA FOUNDATION INC ($216,684). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SPEARHEAD CORPORATION have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $313,815 in grants to SPEARHEAD CORPORATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SPEARHEAD CORPORATION?
- AMARILLO AREA FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $216,684 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SPEARHEAD CORPORATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 5funders 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