Tyler Sanders Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 934460387
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Houston, TX, USA
- Phone
- 7139824860
- Rating
- 91
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $46,920
- Expenses
- $73,394
- Assets
- $36,775
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- David Sanders (President)
- Ginger Sanders (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- David Sanders (President)
- Ginger Sanders (Vice President)
- Robin Miners (Secretary, 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
To support young filmmakers
What it reported doing in 2025
The Tyler Sanders Foundation is dedicated to honoring the memory and spirit of Tyler Sanders by fostering creativity, talent, and growth in aspiring young filmmakers. The Foundation provides financial support for the education of young filmmakers, helping to illuminate and mentor their journeys from the first frame to the last frame of each film. Through the Dear Filmmaker program, the Foundation provides one or more fellowships to young filmmakers who do not have financial means to make a short film, which is critical for their advancement in the film industry. These fellowships allow the students to work with local film production organizations to make their films so they can receive mentoring in script refining, pre-production, casting, location scouting, crew selection, production, and post-production. The Foundation also provides shadowing experiences for young filmmakers, giving them the opportunity to spend a full day on a working film set observing and learning from experienced professionals.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 84% of its reported program spending out as grants.
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 revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 96
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 89.5%; rating input score 89
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: -56.4%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.5; rating input score 31; 31st 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: 145.9% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -73.6% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -52.9% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 89.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $66K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 11/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 31/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.