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The Wildlife Heritage Foundation of Texas at a glance

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The Wildlife Heritage Foundation of Texas

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$61k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$288kAnimals$283kCrime & Legal$213kHealth$73kHuman Services$56kReligion$41kPhilanthropy$31kPublic Benefit$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$5.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE TEXAS WILDLIFE ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION$30,000
THE NRA FOUNDATION$20,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$11,040
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 59% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE TEXAS WILDLIFE ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: $68k → 7%THE WOODLANDS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $10k → 9%HUNT VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $3k → 13%TEXAS PARKS & WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC - CHAPARRAL WILDLIFE MGMT: $25k → 14%TEXAS WILDLIFE ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: $20k → 16%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $20k → 16%MUY GRANDE INC: $5k → 27%WOUNDED WARRIOR: $29k → 14%QUEST MINISTRIES: $5k → 20%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $20k → 17%THE NRA FOUNDATION: $30k → 6%THE TEXAS WILDLIFE ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: $60k → 7%ISLAND CHURCH GALVESTON: $15k → 14%TEXAS PARKS & WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC - CHAPARRAL WILDLIFE MGMT: $21k → 14%HOUSTON SAFARI CLUB: $5k → 16%MUY GRANDE INC: $3k → 27%WOUNDED WARRIOR: $13k → 14%THE NRA FOUNDATION: $25k → 6%THE TEXAS WILDLIFE ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: $30k → 7%TEXAS PARKS & WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC - CHAPARRAL WILDLIFE MGMT: $20k → 14%HOUSTON SAFARI CLUB: $2k → 16%MUY GRANDE CONTEST: $3k → 27%WOUNDED WARRIOR: $13k → 14%THE NRA FOUNDATION: $25k → 6%THE TEXAS WILDLIFE ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: $30k → 7%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $11k → 16%THE NRA FOUNDATION: $25k → 6%TWA FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $11k → 16%THE NRA FOUNDATION: $25k → 6%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $11k → 16%THE NRA FOUNDATION: $23k → 6%CAMP HOPE: $10k → 16%THE NRA FOUNDATION: $20k → 6%BETHANY BAPTIST CHURCH: $14k → 16%THE NRA FOUNDATION: $20k → 6%THE NRA FOUNDATION: $20k → 6%THE ASTROS FOUNDATION: $20k → 16%ASTROS FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%CONSERVATION SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS: $44k → 16%CONSERVATION SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS: $42k → 16%CONSERVATION SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS: $38k → 16%CONSERVATION SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS: $38k → 16%CONSERVATION SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS: $35k → 16%CONSERVATION SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS: $32k → 16%CONSERVATION SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS: $30k → 16%CONSERVATION SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS: $30k → 16%OAKS OLYMPIANS SWIM TEAM: $3k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$937k · 13 repeat orgs$94k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
25

Total granted

$937k
$94k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-7%
+24%

Still filing today

38%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Public BenefitPhilanthropyPublic Safety & DisasterCrime & LegalHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    8× · 2017–2024 · $288k
  • NF
    NRA FOUNDATION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $213k · revenue -7%
  • TT
    THE TEXAS WILDLIFE ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2025 · $208k

Funded once

  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +74%
  • IC
    ISLAND CHURCH GALVESTON
    one grant, 2018 · $15k
  • BB
    BETHANY BAPTIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2018 · $14k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Texas State Rifle Association Foundation Inc
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2
National Foundation for Gun Rights Inc

Pursue legal support of 2nd amendment rights

Civil Rights
3
The Huntsman Foundation
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4
Houston Safari Club Foundation

Preserving the sport of hunting through education, conservation, and the promotion of our hunting heritage.

Animals
5
Rocky Mountain Veterans' Hunts & Excursions Inc
Recreation & Sports
6
Armed Forces Shootout Corp
Public Benefit
7
National Shooting League National Rifle League

The National Rifle League is a not for profit organization dedicated to the growth and education of long range precision shooting.

Recreation & Sports
8
Tscra Special Ranger Foundation

To aid the citizens of texas and oklahoma and law enforcement through investigation of property crimes, citizen assistance in the wake of natural disasters, and education on agricultural safety and security.

Public Safety & Disaster
9
Sitrep Foundation
Public Benefit
10
National Shooting Sports Foundation Inc

National shooting sports foundation's (nssf) purpose is to promote the shooting sports and foster a better understanding of recreational shooting. continue on schedule o.nssf works for the general welfare of hunting, target shooting,…

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11
The Range Foundation

The range foundation exists to advance education, research, and public benefit activities that support the mission of the range 501(c)(6) in driving innovation and sustainable development in the texas panhandle

Food & Nutrition
12
Shoot Down Kids Cancer Foundation
Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nra Special Contribution Fund; the most unlike its peers is Astros Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 38 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $288,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE TEXAS WILDLIFE ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: $208,000 · OtherTHE TEXAS WILDLIFE ASSOCIATION FOUNDATIONTEXAS PARKS & WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC - CHAPARRAL WILDLIFE MGMT: $68,899 · OtherTEXAS PARKS & WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC - CHAPARRAL WILDLIFE MGMTWOUNDED WARRIOR: $54,709 · OtherWOUNDED WARRIORST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $53,427 · OtherST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL+24 more: $75,691 · Other+24 moreNRA FOUNDATION INC: $212,600 · Crime & LegalNRA FOUNDATION INCASTROS FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $600 · PhilanthropyST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $20,000 · HealthPTSD FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $10,000 · Public BenefitQUEST MINISTRIES: $5,000 · Public Benefit+1 more: $500 · Public BenefitHUNT VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $3,000 · Public Safety & DisasterPROJECT CHILDSAFE INC: $1,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$748,726Crime & Legal$212,600Philanthropy$30,600Health$20,000Public Benefit$15,500Public Safety & Disaster$4,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNRA FOUNDATION INC: $212,600 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetASTROS FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPTSD FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOUSTON SAFARI CLUB: $6,350 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetQUEST MINISTRIES: $5,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetHUNT VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $3,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetPROJECT CHILDSAFE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNRA SPECIAL CONTRIBUTION FUND: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBoots for Troops: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 NRA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ASTROS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds PTSD FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds HOUSTON SAFARI CLUB ↗
  • Who funds QUEST MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds HUNT VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT CHILDSAFE INC ↗
  • Who funds NRA SPECIAL CONTRIBUTION FUND ↗
  • Who funds Boots for Troops ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Wildlife Heritage Foundation of Texas funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Wildlife Heritage Foundation of Texas. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 38 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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