Texas · Nonprofit
TEXAS TRIBUNE INC
TEXAS TRIBUNE INC (Texas) receives grants from 158 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,878,569 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,340,812). 102 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $15M
- Funders on record
- 158
- Grants received
- $32M
- Net assets
- $10M
What Texas Tribune Inc does
Mission
The texas tribune promotes civic engagement and public education across the state by producing and sharing for free public data interactives, statewide events and intensive and daily reporting on texas public policy, politics and current events.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
A nonprofit, nonpartisan public news organization that provides free news, data interactives and public events to engage and educate texans about matters of public policy, politics and current events.
$9,765,232 spent86% of program spendingDaily emailed newsletter with the latest information on texas politics.
$216,086 spent$127,239 earned by the program2% of program spendingThe texas tribune festival is a multi-day celebration of big, bold ideas about politics, public policy and the day's news, headlined by names you already know alongside those you should.
$1,328,059 spent$1,187,832 earned by the program12% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $11,309,377.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $5.7M to $11M (+95%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 0% · 2020 9% · 2023 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of TEXAS TRIBUNE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Trei Brundrett
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 24 funders to 80 funders, grant income rose $1.1M → $5.3M.
15 of 158 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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: $5.7M from 21 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Silicon Valley Community Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money TEXAS TRIBUNE INC raised.
From the IRS filings of TEXAS TRIBUNE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 158 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 TRIBUNE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 10% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left
28% 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 TRIBUNE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 38% · 2019 28% · 2020 14% · 2021 16% · 2022 12% · 2023 14% — 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
62% of TEXAS TRIBUNE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% give in more than one year at all.
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
62% of TEXAS TRIBUNE INC's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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.
Against its field
TEXAS TRIBUNE INC is better cushioned than half of the 4,065 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,065 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like TEXAS TRIBUNE INC
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
76%
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 TRIBUNE 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds TEXAS TRIBUNE INC?
- TEXAS TRIBUNE INC (Texas) receives grants from 158 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,878,569 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,340,812). 102 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TEXAS TRIBUNE INC have?
- IRS filings report 158 organizations giving $31,878,569 in grants to TEXAS TRIBUNE INC, 102 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TEXAS TRIBUNE INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $3,340,812 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TEXAS TRIBUNE 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 158 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