Austin Public Education Foundation

Analysis

Austin Public Education Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Austin, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 1993, 33 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education, which this site groups under education and training. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Austin Public Education Foundation reported income of $3.3m and spending of $3.8m, spending 116% of what it took in. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2023, income fell from $10.7m to $3.3m (-69%), an average of -44% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 56%. Over the whole period it spent 82% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Austin Public Education Foundation sits at the 86th percentile: it is larger than about 86% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 90th percentile, and in the 92nd percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Shawnee State University Foundation ($3.3m), Garden House School of New York ($3.3m) and 9 Dots Community Learning Center ($3.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 96% of the total. At year end it held assets of $6.5m against liabilities of $2.5m, net assets of $4.0m.