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CONSERVATION HISTORY ASSOCIATION OF TX

CONSERVATION HISTORY ASSOCIATION OF TX (Texas) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $243,027 to it, the largest being Meadows Foundation Inc ($57,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$31k
Funders on record
15
Grants received
$243k
Net assets
$170k
6/15 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 88%
01What it does

What Conservation History Association of Tx does

Mission

The Association is developing, distributing and archiving oral histories, atlas maps and descriptive essays, and wildlife illustrations to expand public appreciation and grasp of Texas environmental history.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Texas Legacy Project: Research, archival work, oral history interviews, drafting, editing, and layout for histories of leading women in Texas conservation, for the biography of Andrew Sansom, a former executive director of the Texas Nature Conservancy and Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, to publish with the Texas A&M University Press, and to maintenance an archive at www.texaslegacy.org, and in the Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin.

    $27,852 spent
    61% of program spending

  2. Texas Fauna Project: Literature reviews, oral history interviews, research, drafting and manuscript preparation related to the history of wildlife conservation in Texas, for the website www.texasfauna.org, for an archive at the Briscoe Center for American History at the Univ of Texas, and for a manuscript for submission to Texas A&M University Press.

    $16,712 spent
    37% of program spending

  3. Tx Notebook Project: Choosing, drawing, scanning, digitally manipulating, and uploading images of wildlife in Texas for use on the www.texasnotebook.org site and in a book in preparation for Texas A&M University Press.

    $1,053 spent
    2% of program spending

  4. Texas Markers: Study of individuals, events, and places that have importance in the history of natural resource conservation in Texas, and developing related documents, partners, and applications for Texas historic markers.

    $28 spent
    0% of program spending

  5. Ongoing support for archives of maps and related narrative texts depicting Texas environmental history, including protection of water, habitat, air quality, energy, wildlife, public health and land use, for archives at www.texaslandscape.org and at the Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas

    $10 spent
    0% of program spending

The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $45,655.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($8k) Expenses 100 ($20k) Net assets 100 ($41k)2018 Revenue 720 ($55k) Expenses 145 ($30k) Net assets 162 ($66k)2019 Revenue 660 ($50k) Expenses 146 ($30k) Net assets 212 ($86k)2020 Revenue 902 ($68k) Expenses 199 ($40k) Net assets 281 ($114k)2021 Revenue 2157 ($164k) Expenses 241 ($49k) Net assets 562 ($229k)2022 Revenue 330 ($25k) Expenses 201 ($41k) Net assets 523 ($213k)2023 Revenue 804 ($61k) Expenses 406 ($82k) Net assets 470 ($191k)2024 Revenue 410 ($31k) Expenses 260 ($53k) Net assets 417 ($170k)
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Revenue (410)Expenses (260)Net assets (417)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $114k to $229k (+100%).

$41k
$66k
$86k
$114k
$229k
$213k
$192k
$170k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

75% of CONSERVATION HISTORY ASSOCIATION OF TX’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 26,798 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$13k
’17
$25k
’18
$20k
’19
$28k
’20
$115k
’21
−$16k
’22
−$22k
’23
−$22k
’24
39
months of
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.

Board chair

Susan Petersen

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Joined·+0+0+0+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·0000000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $15k → $40k.

Funder
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
2
5
6
4
5
2
1

4 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 CONSERVATION HISTORY ASSOCIATION OF TX’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

CONSERVATION HISTORY ASSOCIATION OF TX has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

24%
largest funder
49%
top three
~9
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 50% · 2020 47% · 2021 66% · 2022 45% · 2023 37% — 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

17% of CONSERVATION HISTORY ASSOCIATION OF TX's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

88% of CONSERVATION HISTORY ASSOCIATION OF TX's grant income comes from Texas funders.

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TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $33k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CONSERVATION HISTORY ASSOCIATION OF TX has grown faster than three-quarters of the 21,859 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−70% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve38.6mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)22% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,859 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

Organizations like CONSERVATION HISTORY ASSOCIATION OF TX

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

Cca Texas Fund82%Historic Houston81%West Texas Hunting and Fishing Heritage Museum Inc81%Texas Historical Foundation81%Hill Country Alliance80%Austin History Center Association Inc80%Big Thicket Natural Heritage Trust79%The Texas Hill Country Higher Education Development Foundation79%

Nationally

Cca Texas Fund82%Historic Houston81%West Texas Hunting and Fishing Heritage Museum Inc81%Texas Historical Foundation81%Hill Country Alliance80%Austin History Center Association Inc80%California Historical Society79%Big Thicket Natural Heritage Trust79%
05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 13%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

79%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds CONSERVATION HISTORY ASSOCIATION OF TX?
CONSERVATION HISTORY ASSOCIATION OF TX (Texas) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $243,027 to it, the largest being Meadows Foundation Inc ($57,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CONSERVATION HISTORY ASSOCIATION OF TX have?
IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $243,027 in grants to CONSERVATION HISTORY ASSOCIATION OF TX, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CONSERVATION HISTORY ASSOCIATION OF TX?
Meadows Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $57,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CONSERVATION HISTORY ASSOCIATION OF TX 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.

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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 15 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