Texas · Nonprofit
Texas 2036
Texas 2036 (Texas) receives grants from 84 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,888,153 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($3,960,010). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 84
- Grants received
- $28M
- Net assets
- $16M
What Texas 2036 does
Mission
Texas 2036 identifies and advances data-driven policies that will improve lives and expand opportunities for all Texans.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Policy Development: In 2025, Texas 2036 advanced its data-driven, research-informed, nonpartisan work by developing and publishing research, interactive data tools, and viable policy solutions to address Texas' most complex and long-term challenges. Guided by the goals and priorities outlined in our strategic framework for the state, Texas 2036 prepared and disseminated extensive data, research, stakeholder input, and policy analysis to legislative committees, government commissions and agencies, and business, non-profit, and civic organizations. These materials were also made freely available to the public through our website.(Continued on Schedule O)Texas 2036 continued to develop and engage with multi-sector stakeholder coalitions including Aim Hire Texas, a statewide consortium of advocates, employers, non-profit organizations, and education and training providers focused on improving the Texas workforce system; the States for the Future network, a collaboration of organizations and states pursuing a new approach to solving significant and systemic challenges; the Texas Water Funding Coalition, a group of business leaders and organizations from across the state urging Texas…
$3,105,187 spent46% of program spendingEngagement and Communication: In 2025, Texas 2036 conducted statewide outreach and public education activities to share research and data on issues affecting Texas. Staff visited communities across the state, convened meetings, and presented research at conferences and public events. Texas 2036 disseminated information through media interviews, op-eds, blog posts, videos, presentations, panel discussions, reports, infographics, one-pagers, and interactive websites. During the year, Texas 2036's work was mentioned in over 1,470 media reports, and we delivered 2,810 social media posts that earned over 500,000 engagements and a 96% increase in social media audience growth.
$1,996,301 spentof which $41,000 as grants30% of program spendingData Collection and Dissemination: Data is central to Texas 2036's approach to identifying, understanding, developing solutions to, and tracking progress on the biggest challenges facing the state. In 2025, Texas 2036 expanded and developed accessible data tools and published research-based reports examining trends and conditions in Texas. These resources are publicly available at texas2036.org.(Continued on Schedule O)In 2025, we completed new publicly-accessible data tools examining hospital quality and price measures in Texas, the geographic distribution of uninsured residents, the fiscal impacts of residential development patterns, and statewide population growth trends over the past century.Texas 2036 also completed substantial work on a forthcoming online data dashboard examining the geographic and demographic distribution of access to college and career courses in Texas, the impact of advanced coursework on student outcomes, and the effects of public school and community college finance options on course access. This work complements our 2025 report, Pathways to Rural Careers in Texas, which presents research and analysis related to postsecondary and workforce pathways for…
$1,600,683 spent$19,931 earned by the program24% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,702,171.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2020 to 2021, from $8.8M to $17M (+99%).
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 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of Texas 2036’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (30% 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.
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
David Leebron
President/CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 32 funders, grant income rose $510k → $4.4M.
11 of 84 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $4.9M from 10 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Communities Foundation of Texas Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Texas 2036 raised.
From the IRS filings of Texas 2036’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 84 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
Texas 2036 has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 35% · 2019 49% · 2020 25% · 2021 34% · 2022 21% · 2023 16% — 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
37% of Texas 2036's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
71% of Texas 2036's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
Texas 2036 runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 132 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 132 public benefit nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like Texas 2036
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
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
67%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 36 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Texas 2036: 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 Texas 2036?
- Texas 2036 (Texas) receives grants from 84 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,888,153 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($3,960,010). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Texas 2036 have?
- IRS filings report 84 organizations giving $27,888,153 in grants to Texas 2036, 48 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Texas 2036?
- GATES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,960,010 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Texas 2036 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 84 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