· Private foundation
Caesar Kleberg Foundation for Wildlife Conservation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k4 grants · $72k
- $250k+2 grants · $3.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY KINGSVILLE FDN | $2,907,000 |
| TEXAS PARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| TEXAS FOUNDATION FOR CONSERVATION | $25,000 |
| CAESAR KLEBERG WILDLIFE RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $24,000 |
| COASTAL BEND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $12,500 |
| TEXAS WILDLIFE ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 26%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against -34% for those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
PARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF TEXAS2× · 2023–2024 · $600k · revenue +1%- TCTaking Care of Texas2× · 2019–2020 · $200k · revenue +339%
- ZSZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO2× · 2021–2022 · $127k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- STSouth Texas Charity Weekend Incone grant, 2019 · $150k · revenue -34%
- SPSOUTH PADRE BIRDING AND NATURE CENTone grant, 2022 · $20k
- RCROTARY CLUB HARVEY WEILone grant, 2017 · $10k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Texas water foundation is a statewide nonprofit that provides educational resources and educational services on water in texas for decision makers, water professionals, and everyday texans. texas water foundation works in the areas of…
We acquire properties to be donated to the National Park Service and state entities and advocate for protection of Big Thicket natural resources.
To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.
The texas wildlife association foundation, inc(twaf) increases natural resource literacy and promotes conservation and educational programs that connect texans to the land.
The Coastal Prairie Conservancy (CPC) works to sustain a resilient Texas by preserving coastal prairies, wetlands, farms, and ranches to benefit people and wildlife forever. Continued on Schedule OCPC conserves land, restores and enhances…
To support texas land trusts and promote land conservation efforts in texas. host texas land conservation conference to educate conservation related professionals and volunteers from across the state.
To support coastal conservation association in carrying out the charitable and educational purpose for which it was organized and is operated, namely, promoting and advancing the preservation, conservation and protection of marine, plant…
Texas Food & Wine Alliance is dedicated to fostering awareness and innovation in the Texas culinary community through grants, educational programing, and events.
The mission of the Hill Country Alliance is to bring together a diverse coalition of partners to preserve the open spaces, starry night skies, clean and abundant waters, and unique character of the Texas Hill Country.
The Foundation provides financial and other resources in support exclusively for Texas Agricultural Land Trust ("TALT"), a Texas tax exempt nonprofit corporation, classified as a 501(c)(3) organization.
How this is measured
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 19 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Texas A&M University - Kingsville Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds PARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds Taking Care of Texas ↗
- Who funds KING HIGH HISTORICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds South Texas Charity Weekend Inc ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds Texas Foundation for Conservation ↗
- Who funds COASTAL BEND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Witte Museum ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: LAiglon Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Caesar Kleberg Foundation for Wildlife Conservation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Caesar Kleberg Foundation for Wildlife Conservation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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