Texas Evaluation Network TEN
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 453008742
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Austin, TX, USA
- Phone
- 8778295500
- Rating
- 57
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Professional Societies, Associations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $115,728
- Expenses
- $14,801
- Assets
- $136,540
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- David Osman (Vice President)
- Kelly Grace (President)
People named in this filing
- Christina Tuell (Secretary)
- David Osman (Vice President)
- Jessica Whittington (Trustee)
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 Texas Evaluation Network (TEN) is a voluntary statewide organization serving the multidisciplinary interests and needs of evaluation and other allied professionals. The work of TEN is focused in three areas: 1.Promote and advocate for evaluation and building evaluation capacity; 2.Provide professional development opportunities for Texas evaluators; and 3.Establish a venue for networking and the exchange of theoretical, methodological, and practical knowledge related to the field of evaluation.
What it reported doing in 2025
TEN is a non-profit, interdisciplinary organization serving Texas evaluators for almost a decade. Devoted to strengthening ties through educational and professional development, TEN seeks to promote evaluation methods and principles; advocate for evaluation best practices; strengthen evaluation capacities; provide professional/career development opportunities, and institute a venue for networking and the exchange of theoretical, methodological and practical knowledge related to the field of evaluation. TENs membership includes students and evaluators working in settings such as government, health care, nonprofits, and education, and independent small and medium sized evaluation consulting firms. In 2025 TEN supported its membership through professional development programming and networking opportunities such as: The TEN Virtual Institute 196 individuals attended the Institute. It included a keynote address and 37 presentations shared during 4 sessions. Topics included participatory evaluation approaches, using AI in evaluation, designing and conducting needs assessments, developing data dashboards, designing evaluations, cleaning data, logic modeling, and data analysis. Local Networking Gatherings Local gatherings throughout the year and after the TEN Virtual Institute offered opportunities for evaluation professionals to network to support their career and business development. Professional Development Webinars TEN presented four professional development webinars that provided information on career development and job seeking skills, peer networking, social network analysis, dashboards with Power BI, evaluating advocacy, and using Tableau. Two Newsletters newsletters shared information about committees with invitations to join, upcoming events, and professional development opportunities. A Meet-Up at the national American Evaluation Association meeting which provided additional in-person networking opportunities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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.
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: 26
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 82
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 7.2%; rating input score 7
- Program expense ratio: 56.5%; rating input score 57
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 87.2%; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 9.23; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 7.2% of revenue deployed · 56.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $8K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 7/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 57/100.