Texas · Nonprofit
TEDDY BEAR PARTY
TEDDY BEAR PARTY (Texas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,465 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($6,086). 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 FY2024
- $128k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $9k
- Net assets
- $37k
What Teddy Bear Party does
Mission
To protect children, to support and advocate for equality and protections for lgbtq families and communities, and celebrate family all while continuing the battle against cancer. The Teddy Bear Party started in 2009 as a small christmas house party of seventy-five friends in which we could all get together, have a few cocktails, laughs, and spread the holiday cheer. The annual event originated as a tree trimming party for the first year but transformed into a toy drive for toys for tots the following year.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Every attendee is required to bring a new teddy bear. In addition to the teddy bear, there is currently a suggested donation of $75 per person. The attendees enjoy an evening which includes an open bar, DJ, dance floor, and photo booth. To date, the event has benefitted the below: 1.Toys for Tots 2.Childrens Medical Center - Teddy bears are donated to a local childrens hospital 3.Monetary beneficiaries have included Equality Texas,Family Equality Council, Rainbow Roundup and The Trevor Project.
$170,549 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $170,549.
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 $79k to $37k (−54%).
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.
100% of TEDDY BEAR PARTY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $1k → $72.
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 TEDDY BEAR PARTY’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
TEDDY BEAR PARTY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 TEDDY BEAR PARTY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2021 75% · 2022 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 TEDDY BEAR PARTY'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 $3k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Texas, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k 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
TEDDY BEAR PARTY has grown faster than half of the 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like TEDDY BEAR PARTY
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.
Public support
69%
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 TEDDY BEAR PARTY: 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 TEDDY BEAR PARTY?
- TEDDY BEAR PARTY (Texas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,465 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($6,086). 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 TEDDY BEAR PARTY have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $9,465 in grants to TEDDY BEAR PARTY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TEDDY BEAR PARTY?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $6,086 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TEDDY BEAR PARTY 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 2017–2024), 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