Chisholm Trail Education Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 471707909
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Fort Worth, TX, USA
- Phone
- 8177570371
- Rating
- 46
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $66,303
- Expenses
- $56,844
- Assets
- $68,235
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Bonnie Barksdale (President)
People named in this filing
- Bonnie Barksdale (President)
- Samantha Wild (Treasurer)
- Anthony Kirchner (Secretary)
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
We are a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that was created to provide a source of funding to the educators and students of Crowley Independent School District (CISD) for projects and activities that go beyond the normal classroom experience. The Foundation consists of a volunteer Board of Directors made up of business, community and educational leaders. The Foundation will achieve its mission by supporting the following goals: * Encourage and motivate students to work at their highest potential * Support Educators for creative efforts * Recognize educators for exemplary teaching * Build strong community awareness for the Education Foundation * Inspire parents and community to participate with the school district in enriching education.
What it reported doing in 2025
Learn to Love to Read Project is a grant to enhance literacy through an enjoyable student choice reading experience and to create a reading culture on CISD campuses that increases student engagement with reading and builds lasting reading habits. To create awareness of the Learn to Love to Read initiative and to create excitement around literacy, CTEF purchased $25,000 of Scholastic books to give for free to all students attending various District events, such as PreK Saturday registration and campus STEM programs. CTEF also provided 5 CISD after-school programs with free library bundles. CTEF gifted two elementary PreK-5 campuses with an Inchy Book Vending Machine. Each campus created criteria for students to receive a gold coin to use in the vending machine. The novelty of visiting the vending machine is combined with a free book of their choice that they can keep. CTEF has committed to stocking the machines for the 2025-2026 school year.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 68% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 61
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 14.3%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.2; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 6.9% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.2% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 52/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.