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THE TSTC FOUNDATION

THE TSTC FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 63 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,251,631 to it, the largest being THE HENDERSON-WESSENDORFF FOUNDATION ($9,328,735). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$7.0M
Funders on record
63
Grants received
$27M
Net assets
$22M
32/63 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What The Tstc Foundation does

Mission

To complement the state of texas' support of the colleges by providing financial support for new and ongoing projects and activities in the areas of research, education and community service.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Conducted successful fund raising through direct mail, solicited donors, and personal visits. Made awards to deserving students and faculty. Assisted in student recruitment and textbook purchases for remedial classes.

    $5,603,225 spentof which $5,408,340 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,603,225.

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 ($3.2M) Expenses 100 ($1.8M) Net assets 100 ($7.2M)2018 Revenue 788 ($25M) Expenses 1034 ($19M) Net assets 192 ($14M)2019 Revenue 60 ($1.9M) Expenses 146 ($2.6M) Net assets 182 ($13M)2020 Revenue 142 ($4.5M) Expenses 167 ($3.0M) Net assets 206 ($15M)2021 Revenue 136 ($4.4M) Expenses 129 ($2.3M) Net assets 229 ($17M)2022 Revenue 134 ($4.3M) Expenses 168 ($3.0M) Net assets 238 ($17M)2023 Revenue 357 ($11M) Expenses 189 ($3.4M) Net assets 351 ($25M)2024 Revenue 212 ($6.8M) Expenses 680 ($12M) Net assets 281 ($20M)2025 Revenue 219 ($7.0M) Expenses 356 ($6.4M) Net assets 310 ($22M)
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Revenue (219)Expenses (356)Net assets (310)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 $33M to $51M (+54%).

$34M
$38M
$34M
$33M
$51M
$49M
$55M
$47M
$49M
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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

90% of THE TSTC FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.4M
’17
$6.6M
’18
−$711k
’19
$1.5M
’20
$2.0M
’21
$1.3M
’22
$8.0M
’23
−$5.5M
’24
$593k
’25
13
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

Cledia Hernandez

Executive director

Board chair

Dr Harold Rafuse

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.

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Listed151412121111111312
Joined·+0+5+1+1+3+4+2+4
No longer listed·17123405
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $1.0M → $4.2M.

14 of 63 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 THE TSTC FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 63 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

THE TSTC FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

34%
largest funder
73%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 85% · 2019 79% · 2020 40% · 2021 48% · 2022 35% · 2023 45% — 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

43% of THE TSTC FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% 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

94% of THE TSTC FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Texas funders.

IL
MI
PA
NJ
NE
MO
DE
TN
DC
OK
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. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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

THE TSTC FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin8% · above the median
Months of reserve12.6mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like THE TSTC FOUNDATION

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

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 13%Fundraising 0%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

77%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds THE TSTC FOUNDATION?
THE TSTC FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 63 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,251,631 to it, the largest being THE HENDERSON-WESSENDORFF FOUNDATION ($9,328,735). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE TSTC FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 63 organizations giving $27,251,631 in grants to THE TSTC FOUNDATION, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE TSTC FOUNDATION?
THE HENDERSON-WESSENDORFF FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $9,328,735 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE TSTC 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.

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 63 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