KIPP Texas
Legal name: KIPP Texas Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 010639602
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Aug 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Austin, TX, United States
- Phone
- Austin: 512-501-3643; Dallas1Fort Worth: 972-323-4200; Houston: 832-328-1051
- Rating
- 91
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Primary, Elementary Schools
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $479,416,832
- Expenses
- $480,594,275
- Assets
- $868,086,294
- Liabilities
- $692,973,606
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
35 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Sehba Z Ali (Chief Executive Officer)
Highest reported compensation
- Sehba Z Ali (Chief Executive Officer): $615,123 total reported compensation
- Larry J Guillory (Chief Administration Officer): $541,286 total reported compensation
- Son Nam Han (Chief Financial Officer): $459,655 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
KIPP Texas Public Schools is an open-enrollment, free public charter school network of more than 45 schools with more than 32,000 Pre-K 512 students across the state and an impact of 30 years in Texas. Together with our families and communities, we prepare our students for college, career, and beyond!
What it reported doing in 2024
See Schedule O KIPP Texas is committed to excellence in education with an instructional program in which students are given the opportunity to master the fundamental skills of mathematics, science, social studies, fine arts, sports, additional languages, and more as well as the confidence necessary to succeed in college, career, and beyond. Other fundamental learning in the arts, literature, foreign language, natural sciences, social sciences, physical education, and college and career readiness skills is provided for all students. Recognition is given and provisions are made for the individual capabilities, creative talents, needs, and interests of each student so that all students Rise Together. Through our collective hard work and commitment, KIPP students complete college at a rate that is comparable to the national average for all students and four times higher for students from low-income households. KIPP Texas students enter by lottery with no test for admission and no screening.To learn more, go to https://kipptexas.org/
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 95% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 91
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 40
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 92.2%; rating input score 92
- Program expense ratio: 91.9%; rating input score 92
- Fundraising efficiency: $83.17 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.2%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.81; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.8; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.1%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 18.7% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 18.1% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 18.9% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 92.2% of revenue deployed · 91.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 18 of 18 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $441.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $615K · 35 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $46.7M reported
- Consistency: 39 of 39 current checks pass
- Schedules: 12 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 17 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 26/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 17/100.