Texas · Nonprofit
Tackle Tomorrow
Tackle Tomorrow (Texas) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $643,938 to it, the largest being Esping Family Foundation ($130,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $644k
- Net assets
- $293k
What Tackle Tomorrow does
Mission
To improve childhood literacy rates for students in undeserved communities in the DFW metroplex.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Cost to cover the cost of reading coaches and i-Station related costs at various inner city schools in Dallas, TX in which the organization operates its programs. The reading coaches are an instrumental part of the program as they implement the tools to improve reading and comprehension of the students.
$350,569 spent56% of program spendingSchool food drives are held to provide food for the students, their families and the community in which the organization operates its programs.
$152,118 spent24% of program spendingCampus improvement projects and celebrations enhance the classroom and overall learning environment of the students. The improvement projects keep the campus presentable and the celebrations award the students for achievement milestones
$66,890 spent11% of program spendingOther initiatives - Book/bike/toy drive and mental health
$57,518 spent9% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $627,095.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $158k to $411k (+160%).
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.
139% of Tackle Tomorrow’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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.
Board chair
Scott Ridell
BOD Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $87k → $172k.
4 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 Tackle Tomorrow’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 21 of 22 funders by total. 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
Tackle Tomorrow has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
40% 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 Tackle Tomorrow.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 60% · 2021 63% · 2022 37% · 2023 32% — 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
43% of Tackle Tomorrow's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 41% 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
68% of Tackle Tomorrow's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $160k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
Tackle Tomorrow runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Tackle Tomorrow
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
66% 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 Tackle Tomorrow: 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 Tackle Tomorrow?
- Tackle Tomorrow (Texas) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $643,938 to it, the largest being Esping Family Foundation ($130,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Tackle Tomorrow have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $643,938 in grants to Tackle Tomorrow, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Tackle Tomorrow?
- Esping Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $130,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Tackle Tomorrow 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 22 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