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TEXAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATION INITIATIVE

TEXAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATION INITIATIVE (Texas) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,405,233 to it, the largest being ASCENDIUM EDUCATION SOLUTIONS INC ($4,107,800). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$5.4M
Funders on record
13
Grants received
$19M
Net assets
$3.5M
12/13 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Texas Community College Education Initiative does

Mission

To provide programs that benefit higher education in promoting, through research and development, high quality instruction to advance student success.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Texas success center: will develop and implement a plan to align success initiatives, accelerate the learning and adoption of proven or evidence- based initiatives, and support the implementation by the field of state and federal policies affecting the student success agenda.

    $4,091,819 spentof which $1,273,713 as grants
    96% of program spending
  2. Board of trustee institute: the program builds training curricula and delivers professional development to texas trustees.

    $160,624 spent
    4% of program spending
  3. Other programs: other programs are centered around a multi-year strategy anchored in one vision. Tccei will engage evidence-based messaging and multiple communications tactics and mediums to build meaningful understanding of, and statewide support for, community colleges by multiple stakeholders.

    $1,500 spent$42,095 earned by the program
    0% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,253,943.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($2.3M) Expenses 100 ($2.2M) Net assets 100 ($4.4M)2020 Revenue 135 ($3.0M) Expenses 76 ($1.7M) Net assets 131 ($5.8M)2021 Revenue 88 ($2.0M) Expenses 118 ($2.6M) Net assets 116 ($5.1M)2022 Revenue 89 ($2.0M) Expenses 163 ($3.6M) Net assets 79 ($3.5M)2023 Revenue 145 ($3.3M) Expenses 176 ($3.9M) Net assets 65 ($2.9M)2024 Revenue 241 ($5.4M) Expenses 207 ($4.6M) Net assets 80 ($3.5M)
201920202021202220232024
Revenue (241)Expenses (207)Net assets (80)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 2019 to 2020, from $4.6M to $6.4M (+39%).

$4.6M
$6.4M
$5.4M
$3.7M
$3.8M
$4.2M
201920202021202220232024
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
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

95% of TEXAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATION INITIATIVE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,360 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$30k
’19
$1.4M
’20
−$643k
’21
−$1.6M
’22
−$641k
’23
$820k
’24
11
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.

201920202021202220232024
Listed555553525456
Joined·+3+6+4+5+10
No longer listed·38538
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $250k → $2.7M.

Left out of every figure on this page: $951k from 5 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Texas Association of Community Colleges). These are real filings, and they are not money TEXAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATION INITIATIVE raised.

From the IRS filings of TEXAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATION INITIATIVE’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 COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATION INITIATIVE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

35% 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 COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATION INITIATIVE.

21%
largest funder
55%
top three
~8
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 95% · 2019 69% · 2020 27% · 2021 33% · 2022 59% · 2023 27% — 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

86% of TEXAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATION INITIATIVE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 92% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

TEXAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATION INITIATIVE draws 57% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 8 states in all.

WA
MN
WI
NY
MA
IN
MD
TX

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATION INITIATIVE holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,761 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin15% · above the median
Months of reserve10.7mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)19% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,761 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like TEXAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATION INITIATIVE

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.

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 6%Fundraising 1%

Governance

48
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

41%

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

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Tacc · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds TEXAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATION INITIATIVE?
TEXAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATION INITIATIVE (Texas) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,405,233 to it, the largest being ASCENDIUM EDUCATION SOLUTIONS INC ($4,107,800). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does TEXAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATION INITIATIVE have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $19,405,233 in grants to TEXAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATION INITIATIVE, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of TEXAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATION INITIATIVE?
ASCENDIUM EDUCATION SOLUTIONS INC is the largest funder on record, with $4,107,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TEXAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATION INITIATIVE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 13 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