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DOWNWINDERS AT RISK EDUCATION FUND

DOWNWINDERS AT RISK EDUCATION FUND (Texas) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,075,070 to it, the largest being COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC ($253,821). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$365k
Funders on record
16
Grants received
$1.1M
Net assets
$270k
10/16 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 97%
01What it does

What Downwinders at Risk Education Fund does

Mission

Downwinders at Risk Education Fund is dedicated to taking effective action on behalf of those being harmed by air pollution. Our goal is to build a strong grassroots constituency and create new strategies for clean air in North Texas. We do this by informing, connecting, and mobilizing citizens to become active participants in the decision-making that affects the air we breathe. In doing so, we improve both the quality of our air and the quality of our democracy.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Community education: communiversity

    $81,311 spent
    33% of program spending
  2. Community organizing: neighborhood self-defense project

    $81,310 spent
    33% of program spending
  3. Community advocacy: toxic twins campaign, gafs gotta go and justice for joppa

    $81,310 spent
    33% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $243,931.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($103k) Expenses 100 ($100k) Net assets 100 ($48k)2021 Revenue 169 ($174k) Expenses 130 ($131k) Net assets 190 ($91k)2022 Revenue 366 ($378k) Expenses 246 ($247k) Net assets 462 ($222k)2023 Revenue 337 ($347k) Expenses 307 ($308k) Net assets 543 ($261k)2024 Revenue 198 ($204k) Expenses 251 ($252k) Net assets 480 ($231k)2025 Revenue 354 ($365k) Expenses 300 ($301k) Net assets 562 ($270k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (354)Expenses (300)Net assets (562)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 2021 to 2022, from $91k to $222k (+143%).

$48k
$91k
$222k
$261k
$232k
$271k
202020212022202320242025
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of DOWNWINDERS AT RISK EDUCATION FUND’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,629 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$3k
’20
$43k
’21
$131k
’22
$39k
’23
−$48k
’24
$64k
’25
9.6
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

Cindy Hua

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2022202320242025
Listed871210
Joined·+2+8+0
No longer listed·332
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $74k → $282k.

9 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 74% 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 DOWNWINDERS AT RISK EDUCATION FUND’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

DOWNWINDERS AT RISK EDUCATION FUND has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% 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

89% 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 DOWNWINDERS AT RISK EDUCATION FUND.

24%
largest funder
61%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 57% · 2019 67% · 2020 50% · 2021 66% · 2022 79% · 2023 53% — broadly stable.

“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

33% of DOWNWINDERS AT RISK EDUCATION FUND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

74% of DOWNWINDERS AT RISK EDUCATION FUND's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $285k that is directly attributable, 69% of it comes from funders outside Texas, across 6 states.

VT
WA
IL
NY
CA
TX

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

’17
’19
’21
’22
’23
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $791k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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

DOWNWINDERS AT RISK EDUCATION FUND has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin18% · above the median
Months of reserve9.6mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)29% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding DOWNWINDERS AT RISK EDUCATION FUND receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $499k on record.

Federal$499k
grants $499kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Environmental Protection Agency$499k

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 DOWNWINDERS AT RISK EDUCATION FUND

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 19%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

87%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds DOWNWINDERS AT RISK EDUCATION FUND?
DOWNWINDERS AT RISK EDUCATION FUND (Texas) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,075,070 to it, the largest being COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC ($253,821). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does DOWNWINDERS AT RISK EDUCATION FUND have?
IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $1,075,070 in grants to DOWNWINDERS AT RISK EDUCATION FUND, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of DOWNWINDERS AT RISK EDUCATION FUND?
COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC is the largest funder on record, with $253,821 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DOWNWINDERS AT RISK EDUCATION FUND 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 16 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