Applications are now being accepted for the 2026-2027 Financial Education Endowment Grant.
Donor Name: Texas Financial Education Endowment
State: Texas
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 09/01/2025
Size of the Grant: Not Available
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The TFEE mission is to support statewide financial capability and consumer credit building activities. The fund welcomes funding requests from all organizations that strives to promote the TFEE mission.
Priorities
TFEE funds are awarded to organizations that implement the following:
School and youth based financial education
- Kindergarten through 12th grade financial education programs that implement statewide TEKS requirements, including train the trainer programs
- Educational materials seamlessly integrate personal finance principles into existing curricula
- Comprehensive professional development programs in personal financial education for kindergarten through 12th grade teachers and administrators
- Incentive programs for youth or college savings
- Provide information and incentives to match savings for low-and moderate-income families to save for their children’s education
- Children or youth savings program
Adult financial education and capability
- Increase credit scores, personal savings and reduce debt of low-income, payday, and auto title customers
- Savings programs and incentives
- Innovative strategies for long-term financial empowerment, including parenting for financial capability
- Encourage liquid asset building
Financial Coaching
- Program emphasizes changes in financial behaviors over time, based on an ongoing relationship between the coach and the client.
Key elements include:
- Empower clients to become financially independent and secure
- A focus on long-term outcomes
- An ongoing, systematic, client-driven, collaborative process for assisting clients to change behaviors
- Support to practice new behaviors and financial well being
- Building skills and teaching content based on the client’s unique needs and goals
Eligibility Criteria
Non-profit organizations, governmental organizations, schools, and for-profit entities are eligible to apply. Funding is not open to financial service providers and entities regulated by the Finance Commission.
Eligilbity Checklist
- Does the organization hold a license or registration regulated by the Texas Finance Commission?
- Will any of the funds be used to create a new company or business venture?
- Will any of the funds be used to pay tuition for a staff member to attend college or professional school?
- Will any of the funds be used to support individuals who do not reside in Texas?
- Will the organization require the entire grant amount requested to sustain the program or business operations (i.e., the applicant will not be able to supplement or adjust the program budget if a lesser amount is awarded)?
- Will any of the funds be used to purchase capital expenditures (e.g. land, real estate, construction of a new building)?
- Does the organization object to or anticipate issues complying with the reporting requirements listed in the Grant Application?
- Does the funded program have difficulty adhering to state and federal Equal Employment Opportunity laws?
- Will any of the funds be used to support programs or activities that do not align with the TFEE mission and objectives identified in the Grant Application?
For more information, visit TFEE.
