Texas · Nonprofit
ESSAR Recreation Association
ESSAR Recreation Association (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $257,482 to it, the largest being Southwest Research Institute ($257,482). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $309k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $257k
- Net assets
- $51k
What ESSAR Recreation Association does
Mission
The ESSAR Recreation Association is a management supported, nonprofit, volunteer, and employee run association designed to provide social, athletic, wellness, educational, and special interests activities to the employees of Southwest Research Institute, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, Southwest Research Federal Credit Union, who are the members, and their families.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Social Events - The ESSAR promoted members to participate in social and recreational activities for its 3,500 members. The social activities include an annual Fall Festivals, Children's Holiday Party, and an annual picnic. The recreational activities include fishing tournaments, table tennis, and an annual golf tournament.
$218,080 spent$192,315 earned by the program76% of program spendingSports/Clubs - The athletics activities included organized intramural sports such as softball, soccer, volleyball, sand volleyball and basketball. Special interest groups including amateur radio operators, Toastmasters, photography and garden club. Community service projects were also held throughout the year.
$57,461 spent$34,915 earned by the program20% of program spendingEvent tickets, merchandise sales and VIA bus subsidies. The ESSAR provides discounted tickets to area entertainment and sports events. The association promotes the VIA bus system as alternate transportation by providing subsidized fares to its members.
$11,525 spent$11,362 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $287,066.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $66k to $48k (−28%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Mary Ramos
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $23k → $45k.
From the IRS filings of ESSAR Recreation Association’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.
Where its funders are
100% of ESSAR Recreation Association's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Organizations like ESSAR Recreation Association
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
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Southwest Research Institute · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ESSAR Recreation Association: 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 ESSAR Recreation Association?
- ESSAR Recreation Association (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $257,482 to it, the largest being Southwest Research Institute ($257,482). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ESSAR Recreation Association have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $257,482 in grants to ESSAR Recreation Association, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ESSAR Recreation Association?
- Southwest Research Institute is the largest funder on record, with $257,482 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ESSAR Recreation Association 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 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