Texas · Nonprofit
Student Alternatives Program Incorporated
Student Alternatives Program Incorporated (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $192,500 to it, the largest being TEXAS CHARTER SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION ($120,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $16M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $193k
- Net assets
- $19M
What Student Alternatives Program Incorporated does
Mission
Student Alternatives Program, Inc. is a nonprofit organization incorporated in Texas dedicated to establishing alternative education programs for at risk students. Four charter districts that are branch operations of SAPI, were established in November 1998. The charter schools provide an alternative high school diploma program to students who did not thrive in the normal high school settings or have returned for a charter school diploma after entering the work force.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Triumph Public High Schools is a Texas-based, tuition-free, public charter high school with 9 schools in the state Texas. TPHS is the charter holder of four open-enrollment charter district high schools operating in El Paso,Laredo, Lubbock, McAllen, San Benito, and Brownsville, Texas. Triumph Public High Schools is for students that are looking for a different learning environment, to get inspired and take hold of their future.
$11,654,822 spent$170,123 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $11,654,822.
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 $21M to $24M (+17%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 97% · 2022 97% · 2023 99% · 2024 97%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of Student Alternatives Program Incorporated’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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
Frances Berrones-Johnson
Chief Executive Officier
Board chair
Mr David Ojeda Jr
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Student Alternatives Program Incorporated’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
Student Alternatives Program Incorporated leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% 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
100% 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 Student Alternatives Program Incorporated.
“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
100% of Student Alternatives Program Incorporated's grant income comes from Texas funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
Student Alternatives Program Incorporated is better cushioned than half of the 4,064 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,064 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like Student Alternatives Program Incorporated
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
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 6 related entities
- Student Alternative Program Inc · disregarded
- Triumph Public High Schools Laredo · disregarded
- Student Alternative Program Inc · disregarded
- Triumph Public High Schools Lubbock · disregarded
- Community Development Buildings Corporation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Student Alternatives Program Incorporated: 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 Student Alternatives Program Incorporated?
- Student Alternatives Program Incorporated (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $192,500 to it, the largest being TEXAS CHARTER SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION ($120,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Student Alternatives Program Incorporated have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $192,500 in grants to Student Alternatives Program Incorporated, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Student Alternatives Program Incorporated?
- TEXAS CHARTER SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION is the largest funder on record, with $120,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Student Alternatives Program Incorporated 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 2 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