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TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC

TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC (Texas) receives grants from 301 organizations whose IRS filings report $172,939,663 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($20,030,925). 178 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$93M
Revenue FY2024
301
Funders on record
$173M
Grants received
$933M
Net assets
178/301 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 49%

Against its field

TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC's revenue fell 20% between 2017 and 2024.

Operating margin−32% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.1mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−3% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,063 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($115M) Expenses 100 ($69M) Net assets 100 ($648M)2018 Revenue 64 ($73M) Expenses 82 ($57M) Net assets 105 ($677M)2019 Revenue 67 ($78M) Expenses 94 ($65M) Net assets 110 ($709M)2020 Revenue 70 ($81M) Expenses 102 ($70M) Net assets 110 ($712M)2021 Revenue 48 ($55M) Expenses 154 ($106M) Net assets 129 ($836M)2022 Revenue 109 ($125M) Expenses 140 ($97M) Net assets 131 ($845M)2023 Revenue 96 ($110M) Expenses 140 ($97M) Net assets 137 ($886M)2024 Revenue 80 ($93M) Expenses 178 ($123M) Net assets 144 ($933M)
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Revenue (80)Expenses (178)Net assets (144)Peer revenue range

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

89% of TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,261 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$46M
17
$16M
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$13M
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$11M
20
$51M
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$29M
22
$13M
23
$30M
24
0.1
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reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 57 funders to 148 funders, grant income rose $4.5M → $22M.

51 of 301 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)57% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $48M from 2 payers (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Red Raider Facilities Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC raised.

From the IRS filings of TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 301 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 TECH FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left

69% 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 TECH FOUNDATION INC.

12%
largest funder
29%
top three
~20
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 22% · 2018 52% · 2019 53% · 2020 9% · 2021 21% · 2022 33% · 2023 9%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

55% of TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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

57% of TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION 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 $74M that is directly attributable, 88% of it comes from Texas funders.

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

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Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $99M arriving through sponsors registered in 22 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 301 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Texas

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

98% of spending goes to programs.

Program 98%Management 2%Fundraising 0%

Governance

33
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

65%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 13 states

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NH
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MA
OH
CO
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Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Ttfi Holdings LLC · disregarded
  • Texas Tech University System · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC?
TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC (Texas) receives grants from 301 organizations whose IRS filings report $172,939,663 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($20,030,925). 178 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 301 organizations giving $172,939,663 in grants to TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC, 178 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $20,030,925 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION 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.

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 301funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing