Texas · Nonprofit
WAYSIDE SCHOOLS
WAYSIDE SCHOOLS (Texas) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,532,383 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($759,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $24M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $7.8M
What Wayside Schools does
Mission
Wayside Schools exists to prepare college ready, community engaged, global citizens.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Instruction and instruction-related servicesthis function is for services that provide direct interaction between staff members and students to achieve student learning or provide staff members with the appropriate materials for development to achieve student learning.
$12,550,816 spent$77,416 earned by the program84% of program spendingInstructional and school leadershipthis function is related to managing, directing, supervising, and leading staff members who provide instruction or instruction-related services. It is also for costs related to the general management and leadership of a school campus.
$2,339,308 spent16% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $14,890,124.
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 2019 to 2020, from $41M to $44M (+5%).
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: 2019 96% · 2020 96% · 2021 97% · 2022 87% · 2023 98% · 2024 94% · 2025 96%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of WAYSIDE SCHOOLS’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. 3 of the last 7 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
Matthew Abbott
Superintendent, CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $51k → $117k.
4 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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 WAYSIDE SCHOOLS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 15 of 16 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
WAYSIDE SCHOOLS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
67% 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 WAYSIDE SCHOOLS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 95% · 2019 80% · 2020 30% · 2021 39% · 2022 70% · 2023 73% — growing more concentrated.
“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
55% of WAYSIDE SCHOOLS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.
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
55% of WAYSIDE SCHOOLS's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $693k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $839k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Against its field
WAYSIDE SCHOOLS receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1.5M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like WAYSIDE SCHOOLS
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
60% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WAYSIDE SCHOOLS: 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 WAYSIDE SCHOOLS?
- WAYSIDE SCHOOLS (Texas) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,532,383 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($759,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WAYSIDE SCHOOLS have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $1,532,383 in grants to WAYSIDE SCHOOLS, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WAYSIDE SCHOOLS?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $759,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WAYSIDE SCHOOLS 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 16 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing