Texas · Nonprofit
TLCA TEXAS LEADERSHIP CHARTER ACADEMY
TLCA TEXAS LEADERSHIP CHARTER ACADEMY (Texas) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $282,954 to it, the largest being KICKAPOO SPRINGS FOUNDATION ($100,396). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $50M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $283k
- Net assets
- $14M
What Tlca Texas Leadership Charter Academy does
Mission
To empower students to develop characteristics which promote positive leadership as a way of life. Providing education utilizing an advanced, innovative learning style that challenges and enriches the classroom setting. T.l.c. Strives to nurture and provide oppportunities for children to grow academically regardless of their learning differences.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Tuition and registration: educating children, kindergarten through 12th grade.
$28,652,144 spent67% of program spendingFood programs & school auxiliary services and other athletic and learning activities.
$14,112,250 spent$1,292,941 earned by the program33% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $42,764,394.
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 2021 to 2022, from $38M to $61M (+60%).
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: 2022 95% · 2023 96% · 2024 96% · 2025 96%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of TLCA TEXAS LEADERSHIP CHARTER ACADEMY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Chief executive
Walt Landers
CEO/Board Pres
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $13k → $1k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 TLCA TEXAS LEADERSHIP CHARTER ACADEMY’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
TLCA TEXAS LEADERSHIP CHARTER ACADEMY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
64% 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 TLCA TEXAS LEADERSHIP CHARTER ACADEMY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 71% · 2021 100% · 2022 96% · 2023 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
99% of TLCA TEXAS LEADERSHIP CHARTER ACADEMY's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $91k 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.
Against its field
TLCA TEXAS LEADERSHIP CHARTER ACADEMY is better cushioned than half of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like TLCA TEXAS LEADERSHIP CHARTER ACADEMY
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TLCA TEXAS LEADERSHIP CHARTER ACADEMY: 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 TLCA TEXAS LEADERSHIP CHARTER ACADEMY?
- TLCA TEXAS LEADERSHIP CHARTER ACADEMY (Texas) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $282,954 to it, the largest being KICKAPOO SPRINGS FOUNDATION ($100,396). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TLCA TEXAS LEADERSHIP CHARTER ACADEMY have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $282,954 in grants to TLCA TEXAS LEADERSHIP CHARTER ACADEMY, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TLCA TEXAS LEADERSHIP CHARTER ACADEMY?
- KICKAPOO SPRINGS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $100,396 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TLCA TEXAS LEADERSHIP CHARTER ACADEMY 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 6 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