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STTE Foundation

STTE Foundation (Texas) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $474,750 to it, the largest being EL PASO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($150,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$374k
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$475k
Net assets
$53k
4/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 68%
01What it does

What STTE Foundation does

Mission

The mission of the STTE Foundation is to drive economic development by expanding access to technology, entrepreneurship, and start-up focused education.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Hosted two hackathons to spark innovation, mentored five start-ups from inception to investment, and concluded with a year-end pitch event to expand capital access for Borderplex founders.

    $92,948 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $92,948.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 = 20192019 Net assets 0 ($0)2020 Revenue 100 ($15k) Expenses 100 ($27k) Net assets -621 ($-12480)2021 Revenue 827 ($122k) Expenses 396 ($108k) Net assets 100 ($2k)2022 Revenue 1190 ($176k) Expenses 505 ($138k) Net assets 2001 ($40k)2023 Revenue 1565 ($232k) Expenses 935 ($255k) Net assets 834 ($17k)2024 Revenue 2526 ($374k) Expenses 1236 ($337k) Net assets 2650 ($53k)
201920202021202220232024
Revenue (2526)Expenses (1236)Net assets (2650)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 2021 to 2022, from $2k to $40k (+1901%).

$0
$5k
$2k
$40k
$17k
$53k
201920202021202220232024
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2023 89% · 2024 95%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of STTE Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 25,057 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

’19
−$12k
’20
$14k
’21
$38k
’22
−$23k
’23
$37k
’24
1.9
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.

Board chair

Ebetuel Pallares

Board Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

20232024
Listed45
Joined·+1
No longer listed·0
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $125k → $55k.

2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 STTE Foundation’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

STTE Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

62% 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 STTE Foundation.

32%
largest funder
63%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 80% · 2020 100% · 2021 84% · 2022 100% · 2023 45% — 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

0% of STTE Foundation's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 40% 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

67% of STTE Foundation's grant income comes from Texas funders.

MN
OH
CA
NC
TX

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

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

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $177k 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

Against its field

STTE Foundation has grown faster than three-quarters of the 22,838 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin10% · above the median
Months of reserve1.9mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)124% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,838 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like STTE Foundation

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

28% of spending goes to programs.

Program 28%Management 69%Fundraising 4%

Governance

0
board members
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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 STTE Foundation: 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 STTE Foundation?
STTE Foundation (Texas) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $474,750 to it, the largest being EL PASO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($150,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does STTE Foundation have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $474,750 in grants to STTE Foundation, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of STTE Foundation?
EL PASO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like STTE Foundation 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 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing