Texas · Nonprofit
TARA SAWYER FOUNDATION
TARA SAWYER FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $49,500 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXAS (TAX ($22,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $141k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $50k
- Net assets
- $32k
What Tara Sawyer Foundation does
Mission
We commit to support and empower young athletes, children, and families in need through funding and programming.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Tara Sawyer Foundation ("tsf") unites communities by creating events and partnering with organizations that support athletes and families in need in order to offer hope to younger generations. Tsf commits to improving lives of the younger generations and empowering families by providing athletic fees, academic fees, uniforms and equipment, academic scholarships, camp fees, and monetary support to local children, as well as impoverished children in remote parts of the world. Tsf provides sponsorship and contributions for: individual scholarships (athletic, academic, in-kind); youth/student athletic organization/camps; special needs teams; camps for abused/neglected/and abandoned children; camps for youth with medical conditions; enrichment programs benefitting children in impoverished parts of the world; and the barnabas awards - annual scholarships to selected graduating seniors based on athletics and outstanding character. Tsf brings communities together to help those in need.
$58,967 spentof which $43,865 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $58,967.
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 2017 to 2018, from $87k to $45k (−48%).
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.
138% of TARA SAWYER FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5k → $8k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% 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 TARA SAWYER 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
TARA SAWYER FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
66% 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 TARA SAWYER FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
66% of TARA SAWYER FOUNDATION'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 $17k that is directly attributable, 59% of it comes from funders outside Texas, across 2 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $33k 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
TARA SAWYER FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like TARA SAWYER 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.
In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
48% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
72%
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 TARA SAWYER 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 TARA SAWYER FOUNDATION?
- TARA SAWYER FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $49,500 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXAS (TAX ($22,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does TARA SAWYER FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $49,500 in grants to TARA SAWYER FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TARA SAWYER FOUNDATION?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXAS (TAX is the largest funder on record, with $22,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TARA SAWYER 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.
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 4 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