Texas · Nonprofit
BORDERLANDS RESEARCH FOUNDATION
BORDERLANDS RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $846,292 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($195,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $972k
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $846k
- Net assets
- $7.4M
What Borderlands Research Foundation does
Mission
The mission of the Borderlands Research Foundation is to support the borderlands research institute by advancing our understanding, appreciation, and conservation of the chihuahuan desert borderlands through scientific investigations, student training, and sharing information with our stakeholders.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The Borderlands Research Foundation made grants and scholarships to support the mission. The Borderlands Research Foundation's grants and scholarships help support our initiative and provide funds for student training.
$718,070 spentof which $685,172 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $718,070.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2023 to 2024, from $6.5M to $7.4M (+15%).
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.
92% of BORDERLANDS RESEARCH FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 10 funders, grant income fell $366k → $281k.
5 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 BORDERLANDS RESEARCH FOUNDATION’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
BORDERLANDS RESEARCH FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
74% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BORDERLANDS RESEARCH FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 45% · 2023 49% — growing more concentrated.
“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
97% of BORDERLANDS RESEARCH FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $356k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
BORDERLANDS RESEARCH FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 6,435 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,435 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like BORDERLANDS RESEARCH FOUNDATION
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.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BORDERLANDS RESEARCH FOUNDATION: 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 BORDERLANDS RESEARCH FOUNDATION?
- BORDERLANDS RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $846,292 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($195,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BORDERLANDS RESEARCH FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $846,292 in grants to BORDERLANDS RESEARCH FOUNDATION, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BORDERLANDS RESEARCH FOUNDATION?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $195,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BORDERLANDS RESEARCH FOUNDATION 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 20 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