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THE UNIQUE FRIENDS FOUNDATION

THE UNIQUE FRIENDS FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $270 to it, the largest being VERIZON FOUNDATION ($265). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$270
Net assets
$662
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What The Unique Friends Foundation does

Mission

The purpose of the Unique Friends Foundation is to educate employers on how to employ special need people.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Quality Control Team - The team uses special needs kids to assemble gift bags for churches and other organizations. They are rewarded with a pizza party.

    $0 spent
  2. Parent Awareness Community Awareness Workshops - Host workshops designed to enable parents and the community better support special needs children.

    $0 spent

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($3k) Expenses 100 ($4k) Net assets 100 ($660)2022 Revenue 102 ($3k) Expenses 87 ($4k) Net assets 51 ($337)2023 Revenue 36 ($1k) Expenses 27 ($1k) Net assets 54 ($359)2024 Revenue 39 ($1k) Expenses 23 ($908) Net assets 100 ($662)
2021202220232024
Revenue (39)Expenses (23)Net assets (100)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 2021 to 2022, from $660 to $337 (−49%).

$660
$337
$359
$662
2021202220232024
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.

2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of THE UNIQUE FRIENDS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 26,798 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

’21
−$323
’22
$22
’23
$303
’24
2.0
months of
reserve
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $103 → $50.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
'24*
total
funders
1
1
1
1

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 UNIQUE FRIENDS 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 UNIQUE FRIENDS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

98%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% — broadly stable.

“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 UNIQUE FRIENDS FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 1 state in all.

NJ

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

’20
’22
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 UNIQUE FRIENDS FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 21,859 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin25% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−27% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,859 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

100%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

TX

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Questions and answers

Who funds THE UNIQUE FRIENDS FOUNDATION?
THE UNIQUE FRIENDS FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $270 to it, the largest being VERIZON FOUNDATION ($265). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE UNIQUE FRIENDS FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $270 in grants to THE UNIQUE FRIENDS FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE UNIQUE FRIENDS FOUNDATION?
VERIZON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $265 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE UNIQUE FRIENDS 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 2 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