Texas · Nonprofit
THE GREAT QUESTIONS FOUNDATION
THE GREAT QUESTIONS FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $869,750 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($575,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $870k
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What The Great Questions Foundation does
Mission
The Great Questions Foundation seeks to promote liberal education and core-text and discussion-based learning at the community college through supporting faculty developement, course redesign, and helping to establish and support core-text programs and courses.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
To date, tgqf has helped over 230 faculty members at more than 70 community colleges redesign courses to focus on the discussion-based study of transformative texts and ideas in their general education course work, impacting over 65,000 students. Tgqf completed an impact study of faculty who have participated in our programs. On average, each faculty member teaches 240 students per year and reports applying skills gained through tgqf, such as whole-text reading approaches and discussion leadership techniques, in approximately 70% of their courses. Faculty from our inaugural 2022 cohort report sustained use of these practices today. Tgqf's investment in a single community college faculty member reaches thousands of students over the course of a career.tgqf continues to offer its online curriculum redesign workshops, focused on helping faculty members incorporate the discussion-based study of transformative texts into general education courses they teach at community colleges. About 50 community college faculty members have completed tgqf online workshops during this period, impacting about 8,000 students. In each workshop, 10 community college faculty members collaborate with two…
$25,396 spent7% of program spendingDiscussion-based classrooms mirror how citizens work together in a healthy democratic society, and the diversity of the community college classroom makes it an ideal setting for students to practice these skills. Tgqf's american political and social thought (apst) course redesign institute brings discussion-based study of foundational american texts, from plato and locke to douglass, du bois, and dr. King, to community college, social science classrooms at community colleges. Experienced community college faculty lead each cohort of up to fifteen instructors in developing approaches that help students in diverse classrooms engage openly with questions of liberty, equality, and democratic self-governance. The program has reached 47 faculty and over 5,000 students. Before participating, 71% of faculty reported little to no experience teaching these texts through discussion; afterward, 100% planned to integrate more. Among students, 83% reported more discussion opportunities than in other courses, 78% felt free to explore unpopular viewpoints, and 87% came to see the continued relevance of the constitution and founding documents. These results reflect exactly the kind of civic…
$51,321 spent15% of program spendingTgqf faculty fellowships bring discussion-based, humanities-grounded pedagogy to community college general education. Our 51 fellows, spanning institutions from miami dade to west los angeles to rural oklahoma, are changing the culture of teaching and learning at their colleges, and their work is having structural impacts on the institution where they teach. Tgqf fellows at columbus state community college founded a dedicated liberal arts learning institute that has already engaged nearly 500 students. At west los angeles college, fellows led 13 faculty across disciplines from mathematics to dental hygiene now weave humanistic inquiry into courses that rarely engage with the humanities. At miami dade, our fellow's professional development model has been formally integrated into institutional structures. Students notice the difference: 90% rated fellows-taught courses "exceptional or "very good, and the share who strongly agreed their course explored questions important to their own lives grew by over 12 percentage points across semesters. Over three-quarters of students reported making deeper connections between readings and their own lives and listening more attentively to…
$274,750 spent78% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $351,467.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2023 to 2024, from $68k to $1.1M (+1553%).
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.
100% of THE GREAT QUESTIONS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $63k → $47k.
From the IRS filings of THE GREAT QUESTIONS 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
THE GREAT QUESTIONS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 60% · 2023 68% — growing more concentrated.
“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
THE GREAT QUESTIONS FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
THE GREAT QUESTIONS FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like THE GREAT QUESTIONS FOUNDATION
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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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE GREAT QUESTIONS 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 THE GREAT QUESTIONS FOUNDATION?
- THE GREAT QUESTIONS FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $869,750 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($575,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE GREAT QUESTIONS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $869,750 in grants to THE GREAT QUESTIONS FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE GREAT QUESTIONS FOUNDATION?
- THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $575,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE GREAT QUESTIONS 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 FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), and the filings of 4 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