Texas · Nonprofit
BLACKWOOD EDUCATIONAL LAND INSTITUTE
BLACKWOOD EDUCATIONAL LAND INSTITUTE (Texas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $97,501 to it, the largest being BLUE YAK FOUNDATION ($78,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $913k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $98k
- Net assets
- $85k
What Blackwood Educational Land Institute does
Mission
Blackwood focuses on resilient agriculture through holding nature camps, school field trips, wilderness medicine training, farm to table experiences and tours.
As stated on its FY2019 Form 990.
Programs
Nature camp - offers children 8 - 14 a week long adventure to explore and connect with the outdoors.
$57,792 spentEducation - farm tours, resilient farming, tours and young farmers
$53,954 spentRetreats - churches, schools and yoga centers rent blackwood's facility to hold retreats.
$44,994 spent
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $186k to $265k (+43%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
61% of BLACKWOOD EDUCATIONAL LAND INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Cath Conlon
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $5k → $28k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of BLACKWOOD EDUCATIONAL LAND INSTITUTE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
BLACKWOOD EDUCATIONAL LAND INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 73% · 2023 91% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
BLACKWOOD EDUCATIONAL LAND INSTITUTE draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
BLACKWOOD EDUCATIONAL LAND INSTITUTE has grown faster than half of the 4,264 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding BLACKWOOD EDUCATIONAL LAND INSTITUTE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $250k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$250k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like BLACKWOOD EDUCATIONAL LAND INSTITUTE
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BLACKWOOD EDUCATIONAL LAND INSTITUTE: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BLACKWOOD EDUCATIONAL LAND INSTITUTE?
- BLACKWOOD EDUCATIONAL LAND INSTITUTE (Texas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $97,501 to it, the largest being BLUE YAK FOUNDATION ($78,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BLACKWOOD EDUCATIONAL LAND INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $97,501 in grants to BLACKWOOD EDUCATIONAL LAND INSTITUTE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BLACKWOOD EDUCATIONAL LAND INSTITUTE?
- BLUE YAK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $78,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BLACKWOOD EDUCATIONAL LAND INSTITUTE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 7 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing