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USD 273 EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC

USD 273 EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC (Kansas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,792 to it, the largest being PATTERSON FAMILY FOUNDATION ($8,150). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.1M
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$10k
Net assets
$2.3M
1/3 repeat funders
01What it does

What Usd 273 Educational Foundation Inc does

Mission

Usd 273 Educational Foundation Inc's mission statement is to engage business and community partners in the support of the usd 273 school district and the academic achievement of all its students.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The usd 273 educational foundation is to provide the support for programs, supplies and capital improvements within the school district.

    $48,719 spentof which $48,719 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $48,719.

02The organization over time

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

Tiffany Schroeder

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $361 → $194.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
'23
'25*
total
funders
1
2
1
1
1

1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 USD 273 EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC’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

USD 273 EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% 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

83%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 96% · 2022 100% · 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

USD 273 EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside Kansas, across 2 states in all.

MO
KS

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1k 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

USD 273 EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $10k to it.

Operating margin97% · outside the comparable range
Months of reserve241.2mo · outside the comparable range

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

Organizations like USD 273 EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC

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In Kansas

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

79% of spending goes to programs.

Program 79%Management 21%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds USD 273 EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC?
USD 273 EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC (Kansas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,792 to it, the largest being PATTERSON FAMILY FOUNDATION ($8,150). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does USD 273 EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $9,792 in grants to USD 273 EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of USD 273 EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC?
PATTERSON FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $8,150 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like USD 273 EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kansas. 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 2025–2025), and the filings of 3 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