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Texas A&M Foundation

Texas A&M Foundation (Texas) receives grants from 464 organizations whose IRS filings report $260,786,258 to it, the largest being GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($27,350,840). 257 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$434M
Funders on record
464
Grants received
$261M
Net assets
$3.3B
257/464 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 16%
01What it does

What Texas A&M Foundation does

Mission

The Texas A&M Foundation builds a brighter future for texas a&m university, one relationship at a time, by uniting generosity and vision to raise support and manage endowed gifts.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Departmental Support: Provide needed funds to support the University's College, School, Institute, Center and programmatic departmental needs and activities through both non-endowed funds and funds generated from endowments.

    $103,387,632 spentof which $103,387,632 as grants
    63% of program spending
  2. Scholarships/Fellowships: Provide financial aid for both undergraduates and graduates with both non-endowed scholarships and fellowships and funds generated from endowments.

    $43,702,072 spentof which $43,702,072 as grants
    27% of program spending
  3. Faculty Support: Provide funding for faculty teaching, research, recruitments and retention with both non-endowed funds and funds generated from endowment.

    $16,457,325 spentof which $16,457,325 as grants
    10% of program spending
  4. Institutional support

    $373,784 spentof which $372,540 as grants
    0% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $163,920,813.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($229M) Expenses 100 ($116M) Net assets 100 ($1.8B)2018 Revenue 128 ($292M) Expenses 129 ($150M) Net assets 111 ($2.0B)2019 Revenue 109 ($249M) Expenses 138 ($161M) Net assets 117 ($2.1B)2020 Revenue 123 ($282M) Expenses 129 ($150M) Net assets 119 ($2.1B)2021 Revenue 88 ($201M) Expenses 128 ($149M) Net assets 150 ($2.7B)2022 Revenue 132 ($303M) Expenses 145 ($169M) Net assets 150 ($2.7B)2023 Revenue 128 ($293M) Expenses 192 ($224M) Net assets 156 ($2.8B)2024 Revenue 148 ($339M) Expenses 181 ($210M) Net assets 167 ($3.0B)2025 Revenue 190 ($434M) Expenses 208 ($242M) Net assets 185 ($3.3B)
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Revenue (190)Expenses (208)Net assets (185)Peer revenue range

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 $2.5B to $3.1B (+26%).

$2.0B
$2.3B
$2.4B
$2.5B
$3.1B
$3.1B
$3.2B
$3.4B
$3.7B
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

60% of Texas A&M Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (14% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 732 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$113M
’17
$142M
’18
$89M
’19
$133M
’20
$52M
’21
$134M
’22
$70M
’23
$128M
’24
$192M
’25
3.4
months of
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

Tyson T Voelkel

President & CEO

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed171917171717171718
Joined·+5+3+1+4+3+3+4+2
No longer listed·35143341
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 107 funders to 174 funders, grant income rose $13M → $47M.

61 of 464 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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 Texas A&M Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 464 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 A&M Foundation has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 10% of grant income, and it takes 12 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 12 funders to its left

57% 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 Texas A&M Foundation.

10%
largest funder
27%
top three
~28
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 20% · 2018 15% · 2019 27% · 2020 12% · 2021 12% · 2022 25% · 2023 20% — 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.

How long its funders stay

44% of Texas A&M Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

74% of Texas A&M Foundation's grant income comes from Texas funders.

VT
NH
WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
MS
GA
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’21
’22
’23
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $122M arriving through sponsors registered in 26 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Texas A&M Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 684 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin44% · top quartile
Months of reserve3.4mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 684 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025

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In Texas

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

68% of spending goes to programs.

Program 68%Management 20%Fundraising 12%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

71%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 17 states

NH
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CA
UT
KY
WV
MD
AR
SC
DC

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Questions and answers

Who funds Texas A&M Foundation?
Texas A&M Foundation (Texas) receives grants from 464 organizations whose IRS filings report $260,786,258 to it, the largest being GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($27,350,840). 257 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Texas A&M Foundation have?
IRS filings report 464 organizations giving $260,786,258 in grants to Texas A&M Foundation, 257 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Texas A&M Foundation?
GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $27,350,840 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Texas A&M 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 464 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing