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Texas Alliance for Minorities in Engineering Inc

Texas Alliance for Minorities in Engineering Inc (Texas) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $517,739 to it, the largest being AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($186,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$606k
Funders on record
16
Grants received
$518k
Net assets
$401k
9/16 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 24%
01What it does

What Texas Alliance for Minorities in Engineering Inc does

Mission

TAME creates equitable experiences for students from underrepresented groups to explore futures in engineering by fostersing their sense of belonging and equipping them with knowledge, skills, and intergenerational support through statewide programming at no cost to students.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Alliance for Pathways Into Engineering offers Clubs, Competitions, and Scholarships to middle and high school students across Texas. Our program encourages an sustains interest in engineering careers. We receive financial and in-kind support from corporations, univerities, and individual donors.

    $434,822 spentof which $8,000 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $434,822.

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 ($778k) Expenses 100 ($813k) Net assets 100 ($610k)2018 Revenue 103 ($803k) Expenses 99 ($805k) Net assets 100 ($608k)2019 Revenue 116 ($899k) Expenses 103 ($834k) Net assets 110 ($672k)2020 Revenue 73 ($567k) Expenses 74 ($602k) Net assets 104 ($637k)2021 Revenue 67 ($522k) Expenses 72 ($584k) Net assets 94 ($574k)2022 Revenue 77 ($600k) Expenses 76 ($615k) Net assets 92 ($559k)2023 Revenue 61 ($477k) Expenses 78 ($636k) Net assets 66 ($399k)2024 Revenue 78 ($606k) Expenses 74 ($604k) Net assets 66 ($401k)
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Revenue (78)Expenses (74)Net assets (66)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 2022 to 2023, from $630k to $467k (−26%).

$670k
$676k
$734k
$680k
$640k
$630k
$467k
$488k
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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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

82% of Texas Alliance for Minorities in Engineering Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (79% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 882 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$35k
’17
−$2k
’18
$64k
’19
−$35k
’20
−$62k
’21
−$16k
’22
−$159k
’23
$2k
’24
8.8
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.

Board chair

David Salas

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed201314121211910
Joined·+6+1+2+3+0+2+6
No longer listed·13043145
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $40k → $113k.

8 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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 Alliance for Minorities in Engineering Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 15 of 16 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 Alliance for Minorities in Engineering Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

59% 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 Alliance for Minorities in Engineering Inc.

36%
largest funder
63%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 58% · 2019 69% · 2020 40% · 2021 66% · 2022 65% · 2023 46% — 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

56% of Texas Alliance for Minorities in Engineering Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

59% of Texas Alliance for Minorities in Engineering Inc'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 $212k that is directly attributable, 73% of it comes from Texas funders.

ID
MN
MO
TX

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

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’23
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $306k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 Alliance for Minorities in Engineering Inc is better cushioned than half of the 793 science & tech nonprofits its size.

Operating margin0% · below the median
Months of reserve8.8mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−4% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 science & tech nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

72% of spending goes to programs.

Program 72%Management 11%Fundraising 17%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

54%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds Texas Alliance for Minorities in Engineering Inc?
Texas Alliance for Minorities in Engineering Inc (Texas) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $517,739 to it, the largest being AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($186,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Texas Alliance for Minorities in Engineering Inc have?
IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $517,739 in grants to Texas Alliance for Minorities in Engineering Inc, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Texas Alliance for Minorities in Engineering Inc?
AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $186,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Texas Alliance for Minorities in Engineering Inc 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 16 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