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TEXAS CIVIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION

TEXAS CIVIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $45,000 to it, the largest being GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2021
$130k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$45k
Net assets
$39k
0/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 18%
01What it does

What Texas Civic Education Foundation does

Mission

Our mission is to promote civic education and engagement through initiatives that promote civic virtues, shine the light of transparency on government, and provide plain language summaries of bills under consideration by the state legislature.

As stated on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ.

Program

During the 87th texas legislature, Texas Civic Education Foundation wrote and published bill analysis of more than 3,100 bills scheduled for floor votes in the texas house and senate. All of this bill analysis was made available to the public for free on our website.

The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($244k) Expenses 100 ($184k) Net assets 100 ($60k)2020 Revenue 4 ($9k) Expenses 3 ($6k) Net assets 105 ($63k)2021 Revenue 53 ($130k) Expenses 84 ($154k) Net assets 65 ($39k)
201920202021
Revenue (53)Expenses (84)Net assets (65)

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 $63k to $39k (−38%).

$60k
$63k
$39k
201920202021
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.

2019
2020
2021
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

$60k
’19
$3k
’20
−$24k
’21
3.9
months of
reserve
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 CIVIC EDUCATION 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

TEXAS CIVIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% 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 CIVIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION.

56%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

“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

100% of TEXAS CIVIC EDUCATION 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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $45k 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like TEXAS CIVIC EDUCATION 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

05Profile & governance

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

Public support

100%

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 TEXAS CIVIC EDUCATION 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 TEXAS CIVIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
TEXAS CIVIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $45,000 to it, the largest being GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does TEXAS CIVIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $45,000 in grants to TEXAS CIVIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION.
Who is the largest funder of TEXAS CIVIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TEXAS CIVIC EDUCATION 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.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2021 (financials across 2019–2021), and the filings of 2 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