Cypress Springs Elementary PTA
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 863609465
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Austin, TX, USA
- Phone
- 9792578907
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $94,409
- Expenses
- $87,396
- Assets
- $92,051
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Carmen Garza (President)
People named in this filing
- Carmen Garza (President)
- Julie Minnick (VP of Membership)
- Whitney Naquin (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
The Cypress Springs Elementary PTA is organized exclusively for charitable and educational purposes. As a local PTA affiliated with Texas PTA and National PTA, its primary exempt purpose is to make every child's potential a reality by strengthening education, supporting family engagement, mobilizing volunteers, and providing resources that enhance the educational experience and foster a strong school community.
What it reported doing in 2025
Hospitality: Provides teacher and volunteer appreciation activities that promote volunteer engagement and support a positive school environment. Also provides snacks for students during state testing to support student well-being and academic readiness.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 49% for direct work, and 51% for grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 48
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.7%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 90.4%; rating input score 90
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 7.4%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.05; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 54.8% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -6.4% per year; rating input score 0; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 19.2% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 83.7% of revenue deployed · 90.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 5 filed program accomplishments · $79K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 57/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 49/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.