Texas · Nonprofit
WONDERLAND EDUCATIONAL ESTATE DBA BEATRICE MAYES INSTITUTE
WONDERLAND EDUCATIONAL ESTATE DBA BEATRICE MAYES INSTITUTE (Texas) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,994,900 to it, the largest being GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($3,535,500). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $10.0M
- Net assets
- $19M
What Wonderland Educational Estate Dba Beatrice Mayes Institute does
Mission
To provide free public education for grades k-8 addressing individualized learning style for each student. Bmi promotes and maintains desireable achievement in all behaviors.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Beatrice mayes charter institute provided a free public education to low income & disadvantaged students. School served grades k-8 & provided services to address individual student needs.
$8,780,026 spent$512,943 earned by the program94% of program spendingWonderland daycare provided services to pre-k aged students.
$592,251 spent6% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $9,372,277.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $18M to $38M (+115%).
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: 2020 81% · 2021 74% · 2022 53% · 2023 63% · 2024 63% · 2025 70%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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
Christopher Mayes
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $100k → $486k.
4 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 WONDERLAND EDUCATIONAL ESTATE DBA BEATRICE MAYES INSTITUTE’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
WONDERLAND EDUCATIONAL ESTATE DBA BEATRICE MAYES INSTITUTE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 35% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
52% 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 WONDERLAND EDUCATIONAL ESTATE DBA BEATRICE MAYES INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 41% · 2021 35% · 2022 44% · 2023 54% — diversifying over time.
“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
0% of WONDERLAND EDUCATIONAL ESTATE DBA BEATRICE MAYES INSTITUTE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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
91% of WONDERLAND EDUCATIONAL ESTATE DBA BEATRICE MAYES INSTITUTE's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.6M 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.
Organizations like WONDERLAND EDUCATIONAL ESTATE DBA BEATRICE MAYES INSTITUTE
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WONDERLAND EDUCATIONAL ESTATE DBA BEATRICE MAYES INSTITUTE: 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 WONDERLAND EDUCATIONAL ESTATE DBA BEATRICE MAYES INSTITUTE?
- WONDERLAND EDUCATIONAL ESTATE DBA BEATRICE MAYES INSTITUTE (Texas) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,994,900 to it, the largest being GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($3,535,500). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WONDERLAND EDUCATIONAL ESTATE DBA BEATRICE MAYES INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $9,994,900 in grants to WONDERLAND EDUCATIONAL ESTATE DBA BEATRICE MAYES INSTITUTE, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WONDERLAND EDUCATIONAL ESTATE DBA BEATRICE MAYES INSTITUTE?
- GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,535,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WONDERLAND EDUCATIONAL ESTATE DBA BEATRICE MAYES INSTITUTE 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 22 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