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Mainspring Schools 2022 - 2023 Annual Report

The last year was a great one at Mainspring Schools, and we are pleased to present our 2023 Annual Report.

In it, you’ll find information and updates about our model, impact, stories, and financials — along with some great pictures of our kids!

We hope you enjoy reading about your school. This is a community effort and the work being done to help kids and families here in Austin couldn’t happen without you. Please feel free to share this with anyone who may be interested!

Special thanks to our Executive Director Colin Swanson for leading this project, with content and writing assistance from Abe Louise Young. The beautiful design was done by Laurel Barickman the Founder & Creative Director of Recspec.

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Mainspring is a lean nonprofit that is changing young lives at the grassroots level and improving Austin’s future. It is a community effort supported by individuals, partners, grantors, and sponsors who believe that high-quality early childhood education and a two-generation approach to breaking cycles of poverty should be a priority in our society.

We are all stewards of this long-standing mission and the respected organization behind it. We believe in full transparency so that our community sees the work that happens at Mainspring and the status of the organization that they support through donations, volunteer service, advocacy, and encouragement. We are pleased to share our most recent annual report, auditor’s report, and IRS form 990.

• Annual Financial Statements with Independent Auditor's Report (2019-2020)

• IRS Form 990 (2021-2022

Want to dig in further? Explore Mainspring’s 2020-2023 strategic plan.

As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, Mainspring relies on charitable donations as a cornerstone of our ability to serve at-risk children and their families. Thank you for supporting the work of Mainspring Schools!