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Texas Interscholastic League Foundation

Texas Interscholastic League Foundation (Texas) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,050,144 to it, the largest being The Robert A Welch Foundation ($943,750). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.4M
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$3.1M
Net assets
$22M
7/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 48%
01What it does

What Texas Interscholastic League Foundation does

Mission

The Foundation grants scholarships to Texas residents attending an accredited Texas college or university.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The Foundation grants scholarships to Texas residents attending an accredited Texas college or university. To be eligible, the scholarship recipient must compete at the state (Texas) level in University Interscholastic League (UIL) academic competition.

    $1,357,029 spentof which $1,274,800 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,357,029.

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 ($1.3M) Expenses 100 ($1.2M) Net assets 100 ($12M)2018 Revenue 228 ($3.0M) Expenses 96 ($1.1M) Net assets 114 ($13M)2019 Revenue 263 ($3.4M) Expenses 98 ($1.2M) Net assets 118 ($14M)2020 Revenue 104 ($1.3M) Expenses 98 ($1.2M) Net assets 129 ($15M)2021 Revenue 82 ($1.1M) Expenses 91 ($1.1M) Net assets 169 ($20M)2022 Revenue 139 ($1.8M) Expenses 99 ($1.2M) Net assets 150 ($18M)2023 Revenue 90 ($1.2M) Expenses 106 ($1.3M) Net assets 150 ($18M)2024 Revenue 121 ($1.6M) Expenses 105 ($1.3M) Net assets 180 ($21M)2025 Revenue 107 ($1.4M) Expenses 124 ($1.5M) Net assets 190 ($22M)
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Revenue (107)Expenses (124)Net assets (190)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 $15M to $20M (+31%).

$12M
$13M
$14M
$15M
$20M
$18M
$18M
$21M
$22M
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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

62% of Texas Interscholastic League Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (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 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$103k
’17
$1.8M
’18
$2.3M
’19
$167k
’20
−$26k
’21
$615k
’22
−$101k
’23
$319k
’24
−$94k
’25
0.2
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

Trudy Richards

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed141415141414141416
Joined·+5+5+3+0+1+0+0+2
No longer listed·54401000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $98k → $374k.

2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 Interscholastic League 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 Interscholastic League Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

31%
largest funder
74%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 90% · 2018 36% · 2019 41% · 2020 59% · 2021 40% · 2022 45% · 2023 66% — 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

75% of Texas Interscholastic League Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

100% of Texas Interscholastic League Foundation's grant income comes from Texas funders.

NC
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. $39k 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

Against its field

Texas Interscholastic League Foundation's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 4 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−7% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.2mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like Texas Interscholastic League Foundation

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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

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 6%Fundraising 3%

Governance

15
board members
87%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

33%

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

  • UILUniversity of Texas · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds Texas Interscholastic League Foundation?
Texas Interscholastic League Foundation (Texas) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,050,144 to it, the largest being The Robert A Welch Foundation ($943,750). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Texas Interscholastic League Foundation have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $3,050,144 in grants to Texas Interscholastic League Foundation, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Texas Interscholastic League Foundation?
The Robert A Welch Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $943,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Texas Interscholastic League 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 11 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