Carnegie Vanguard High School PTO
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 760234729
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2013–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2012, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Houston, TX, US
- Phone
- 2817721640
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Parent/Teacher Group
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $109,596
- Expenses
- $75,930
- Assets
- $313,222
- Liabilities
- $10,980
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Gauri Semlani (President)
People named in this filing
- Gauri Semlani (President)
- Mary Mathias (Volunteers and Special Events)
- Mala Gupta (Treasurer)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our organization's purpose is to promote and provide social and cultural opportunities for Vanguard students, improve the school environment, and foster further development of the Vanguard program and other gifted and talented programs both within and outside HISD.
What it reported doing in 2025
Support to teachers classroom supplies, instructional support, dues And Conferences
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 77% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 77% for direct work, and 23% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 71
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 77
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 61.9%; rating input score 62
- Program expense ratio: 86.2%; rating input score 86
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 30.7%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.13; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -7.8% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -7.5% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 61.9% of revenue deployed · 86.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $65K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2013 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 28/100.