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TYLER JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION

TYLER JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,869,015 to it, the largest being JAMES I PERKINS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($2,124,313). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$11M
Funders on record
32
Grants received
$3.9M
Net assets
$118M
20/32 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 14%
01What it does

What Tyler Junior College Foundation does

Mission

The Tyler Junior College Foundation provides scholarship, program and capital support to ensure that TJC continues its legacy of excellence by successfully serving the educational and workforce needs of communities throughout East Texas.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Awarded 1,407 scholarships from permanently and temporarily restricted funds to 1,009 TJC students. These awards make it possible for many of the students to receive a college education which they could not otherwise afford, helping them to become leaders in their community.

    $2,635,033 spentof which $2,635,033 as grants
    51% of program spending
  2. Support programs and projects to promote the mission of Tyler Junior College including expenditures for art, athletics, technology, library, nursing and other academics. In addition, the foundation contributed funds for the construction/renovation costs of the Ornelas Center for band, belles,and dance, Acoustic Shell Project, Rusk Building Site, Athletics Projects, and Academy of Dance Projects.

    $2,555,577 spentof which $2,555,577 as grants
    49% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,190,610.

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 ($7.2M) Expenses 100 ($3.9M) Net assets 100 ($50M)2018 Revenue 223 ($16M) Expenses 74 ($2.9M) Net assets 127 ($63M)2019 Revenue 287 ($21M) Expenses 112 ($4.4M) Net assets 159 ($79M)2020 Revenue 94 ($6.7M) Expenses 136 ($5.3M) Net assets 174 ($87M)2021 Revenue 116 ($8.3M) Expenses 226 ($8.8M) Net assets 192 ($96M)2022 Revenue 118 ($8.5M) Expenses 118 ($4.6M) Net assets 173 ($86M)2023 Revenue 94 ($6.8M) Expenses 154 ($6.0M) Net assets 186 ($93M)2024 Revenue 88 ($6.3M) Expenses 121 ($4.7M) Net assets 213 ($106M)2025 Revenue 146 ($11M) Expenses 156 ($6.1M) Net assets 236 ($118M)
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Revenue (146)Expenses (156)Net assets (236)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 2018 to 2019, from $64M to $80M (+25%).

$51M
$64M
$80M
$88M
$100M
$90M
$97M
$110M
$121M
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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

63% of TYLER JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,251 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$3.3M
’17
$13M
’18
$16M
’19
$1.4M
’20
−$495k
’21
$3.9M
’22
$798k
’23
$1.6M
’24
$4.4M
’25
2.7
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.

Board chair

Tom Seale

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed354130282937333433
Joined·+16+2+3+4+8+2+6+5
No longer listed·1013530656
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $204k → $929k.

6 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $641k from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest East Texas Communities Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money TYLER JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION raised.

From the IRS filings of TYLER JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 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

TYLER JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

55%
largest funder
73%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 59% · 2019 80% · 2020 60% · 2021 45% · 2022 31% · 2023 74% — 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.

How long its funders stay

47% of TYLER JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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

100% of TYLER JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Texas funders.

NY
TN
NC
OK
TX

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

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Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $430k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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

TYLER JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin42% · top quartile
Months of reserve2.7mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Organizations like TYLER JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 9%Fundraising 5%

Governance

29
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Tyler Junior College · exempt
  • Tyler Junior College · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds TYLER JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION?
TYLER JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,869,015 to it, the largest being JAMES I PERKINS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($2,124,313). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does TYLER JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $3,869,015 in grants to TYLER JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of TYLER JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION?
JAMES I PERKINS FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,124,313 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TYLER JUNIOR COLLEGE 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 32 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