Texas · Nonprofit
YES Prep Public Schools Inc
YES Prep Public Schools Inc (Texas) receives grants from 115 organizations whose IRS filings report $62,293,979 to it, the largest being HOUSTON ENDOWMENT INC ($11,118,000). 72 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $299M
- Funders on record
- 115
- Grants received
- $62M
- Net assets
- $232M
What YES Prep Public Schools Inc does
Mission
YES Prep Public Schools, Inc. prepares low-income youth to enter a four-year college or university by implementing an innovative and rigorous academic program which also emphasizes community service.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
YES Prep served approximately 18,000 Houston area low-income students from pre-Kindergarten through 12th grade. YES Prep receives approximately 91% of its funding from state and federal agencies and the remainder is locally fundraised. The mission of YES Prep Public Schools is to empower all Houston students to succeed in college and to pursue lives of opportunity, and our College Initiatives programming is designed to ensure ALL YES Prep students have viable post-secondary options.
$269,917,907 spentof which $441,474 as grants$3,800,525 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $269,917,907.
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.
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 $278M to $367M (+32%).
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: 2017 83% · 2018 80% · 2019 83% · 2020 74% · 2021 85% · 2022 86% · 2023 87% · 2024 91% · 2025 91%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of YES Prep Public Schools Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (14% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 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
Mark DiBella
CEO
Board chair
Eric Calderon
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 31 funders to 48 funders, grant income fell $6.7M → $6.7M.
20 of 115 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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: $96k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Texas Charter Schools Association). These are real filings, and they are not money YES Prep Public Schools Inc raised.
From the IRS filings of YES Prep Public Schools Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 115 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
YES Prep Public Schools Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
45% 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 YES Prep Public Schools Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 31% · 2019 27% · 2020 33% · 2021 34% · 2022 37% · 2023 37% — 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
42% of YES Prep Public Schools Inc'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
76% of YES Prep Public Schools Inc's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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
YES Prep Public Schools Inc holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 684 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 684 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding YES Prep Public Schools Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $30.5M on record.
- Department of Education$30.5M
- Department of Agriculture$19k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like YES Prep Public Schools Inc
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
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- The Norman Rowlinson 2009 Trust · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for YES Prep Public Schools Inc: 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 YES Prep Public Schools Inc?
- YES Prep Public Schools Inc (Texas) receives grants from 115 organizations whose IRS filings report $62,293,979 to it, the largest being HOUSTON ENDOWMENT INC ($11,118,000). 72 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does YES Prep Public Schools Inc have?
- IRS filings report 115 organizations giving $62,293,979 in grants to YES Prep Public Schools Inc, 72 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YES Prep Public Schools Inc?
- HOUSTON ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $11,118,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YES Prep Public Schools Inc 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 115 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