At a glance
Trust integrity: Intact and funded (methodology)- Enabling Act
- Republic-of-Texas annexation (1845); no federal school-land grant (state-derived state)
- Trust fund value
- $55 billion (as of 2024 (approx., Permanent School Fund))
- AG opinions in substrate
- Pending — Phase 4 sourcing
- Key cases
- 0
- Advocacy contact
- pending
Why this state matters
Texas is a state-derived state: it retained its public lands at annexation and created the Permanent School Fund (1854) from its own land base. The PSF is the largest education endowment in the United States.
Notable AG opinions
AG opinions for Texas are being sourced in Phase 4 — see the Atlas index for a campus-wide search.
First-draft preview. Substrate sources: Margaret Bird, Trust Land Case Quotes by Topic (2021); OASTL legal.md (2026-05-16); ASTL thematic research (2026-05-17). Phase 2 will deepen this dossier.
