How do I find funders for a environment nonprofit in Texas?

Start with the funders already giving to environment in Texas, currently National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Windward Fund. Then look at who funds the environment organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Texas from out of state.

Who is the largest environment funder in Texas?

National Fish and Wildlife Foundation gives the most to environment organizations in Texas, $45M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.

How much grant money goes to environment in Texas?

$876M reached 719 environment organizations in Texas, from 2,120 funders. 45% came from funders also based in Texas.

How recent is this data?

It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

Funding · Texas · Environment

Who funds environment in Texas

Environment funding in Texas is unusually spread out: no single organization draws even 12%, though Rewild leads, and the money reaches 719 groups.

$876M

granted

719

organizations

45%

from in-state

The short version

2,120 funders gave $876M to 719 environment organizations in Texas across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
45% of that came from funders also based in Texas; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of environment in Texas is National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, at $45M.
The environment organization drawing the most is Rewild, at $98M.

Largest funders of environment in Texas

The funders giving the most to environment organizations in Texas, in-state and out. Pick one for its dossier.

1National Fish and Wildlife Foundation$45M 2Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$38M 3Windward Fund$27M 4Greater Houston Community Foundation$23M 5Climateworks Foundation$21M 6Houston Endowment Inc$17M 7The Brown Foundation Inc$16M 8Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program$14M 9Leonardo Dicaprio Foundation$14M 10The Greater Cincinnati Foundation$14M

Environment organizations in Texas that draw the most

Sized by grant dollars received. Pick one to see exactly who funds it.

709 other environment organizations$507M

Rewild$98M

How to find environment funders in Texas

1
Start with the funders already active in Texas
The funders giving the most to environment in Texas are National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Windward Fund. A funder already writing environment checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.
2
See who funds organizations like yours
Open the environment organizations on this page that resemble yours in size or work, and look at who funds them. Shared funders are the strongest signal of fit.
3
Add the out-of-state funders reaching in
55% of environment money in Texas comes from funders elsewhere, so national environment funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in Texas.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a environment nonprofit in Texas?: Start with the funders already giving to environment in Texas, currently National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Windward Fund. Then look at who funds the environment organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Texas from out of state.
Who is the largest environment funder in Texas?: National Fish and Wildlife Foundation gives the most to environment organizations in Texas, $45M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to environment in Texas?: $876M reached 719 environment organizations in Texas, from 2,120 funders. 45% came from funders also based in Texas.
How recent is this data?: It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines

Each grant is placed by its stated purpose and the recipient's mission, falling back to the recipient's IRS activity category where that is unclear; location is the recipient's state on its most recent filing. Grant figures are read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file XML for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, among recipients resolved by EIN. Source: IRS Form 990 downloads.