Arizona · Nonprofit
BORDERLANDS RESTORATION NETWORK
BORDERLANDS RESTORATION NETWORK (Arizona) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,651,633 to it, the largest being THE BIOPHILIA FOUNDATION INC ($1,005,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.2M
- Funders on record
- 43
- Grants received
- $4.7M
- Net assets
- $3.1M
What Borderlands Restoration Network does
Mission
We partner to grow a restorative economy by rebuilding healthy ecosystems, restoring habitat for plants and wildlife, reconnecting our border communities to the land through shared learning, and linking communities to the land in a culturally relevant context.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Education - the Borderlands Restoration Network education program comprises place-based educational programs built around a common curriculum covering the restoration of watersheds, ecosystems, and communities, providing a culturally relevant context.
$625,421 spentof which $231,154 as grants42% of program spendingNative plant program - the Borderlands Restoration Network native plant program works to promote and protect biodiversity and ecosystems in the sky islands by providing restoration-quality native plant materials. We provide a large selection of organically grown, chemical-free native trees, shrubs, grasses, succelents, and forbs for home, large scale restoration and contract services. We provide seed collection services of ethically collected wild or farmed native seed including cleaning and curating.
$484,206 spent32% of program spendingWatershed and habitat restoration - the watershed and habitat restoration program takes a multipronged approach to restoring degraded landscapes to a trajectory of recovery and climate resiliency. Brn works with nonprofits, government and state agencies, and individuals to repair and protect our landscapes. Using hand-built erosion control structures, our restoration crew creates masterful rock and wood structures to mitigate the erosive flow of water across degraded landscapes.
$289,934 spent19% of program spendingProgram service expenses 93,660, grants and allocations 0, revenue 0 conservation program-expand conservation initiatives and facilitate conversation and relationships in the borderlands region to build a coalition of regional organizations to coordinate wildlife conservation actions and address conservation areasd of mutual concern.
$93,660 spent6% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,493,221.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $2.1M to $3.4M (+60%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 15% · 2021 31% · 2022 10% · 2023 29% · 2024 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of BORDERLANDS RESTORATION NETWORK’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $85k → $983k.
11 of 43 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 RESTORATION NETWORK’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 43 funders by total. 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 RESTORATION NETWORK has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
56% 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 RESTORATION NETWORK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 50% · 2020 46% · 2021 54% · 2022 32% · 2023 29% — 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.
How long its funders stay
44% of BORDERLANDS RESTORATION NETWORK's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
BORDERLANDS RESTORATION NETWORK draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Arizona, across 20 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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 RESTORATION NETWORK runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,187 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,187 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding BORDERLANDS RESTORATION NETWORK receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.8M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$1.9M
- Department of the Interior$912k
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 BORDERLANDS RESTORATION NETWORK
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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BORDERLANDS RESTORATION NETWORK: 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 RESTORATION NETWORK?
- BORDERLANDS RESTORATION NETWORK (Arizona) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,651,633 to it, the largest being THE BIOPHILIA FOUNDATION INC ($1,005,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BORDERLANDS RESTORATION NETWORK have?
- IRS filings report 43 organizations giving $4,651,633 in grants to BORDERLANDS RESTORATION NETWORK, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BORDERLANDS RESTORATION NETWORK?
- THE BIOPHILIA FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,005,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BORDERLANDS RESTORATION NETWORK find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 43 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing