Texas · Nonprofit
TTARA Research Foundation
TTARA Research Foundation (Texas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $96,750 to it, the largest being THE CHARLES BUTT FOUNDATION ($75,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $142k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $97k
- Net assets
- $156k
What TTARA Research Foundation does
Mission
The TTARA Research Foundation is a research and educational entity that conducts independent research related to economic, fiscal and public policy issues.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
In 2024, Phase 1 of the research on the new 20% appraisal cap for local ad valorem tax examined its impact on qualifying properties by analyzing data from a sample of five counties.
$210,853 spentof which $175,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $210,853.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2020 to 2021, from $169k to $240k (+42%).
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.
96% of TTARA Research Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (79% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Leslie Ward
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $15k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 TTARA Research 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
TTARA Research Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% of grant income and the top three 99%; 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: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 69% · 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
100% of TTARA Research Foundation's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k 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
TTARA Research Foundation has grown faster than three-quarters of the 793 science & tech nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 science & tech nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like TTARA Research 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
96%
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 TTARA Research 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 TTARA Research Foundation?
- TTARA Research Foundation (Texas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $96,750 to it, the largest being THE CHARLES BUTT FOUNDATION ($75,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TTARA Research Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $96,750 in grants to TTARA Research Foundation, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TTARA Research Foundation?
- THE CHARLES BUTT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TTARA Research 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 2019–2024), 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