Texas · Nonprofit
FORMER TEXAS RANGERS FOUNDATION
FORMER TEXAS RANGERS FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $235,163 to it, the largest being THE AUSTIN E KNOWLTON FOUNDATION INC ($65,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $409k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $235k
- Net assets
- $5.2M
What Former Texas Rangers Foundation does
Mission
To preserve, honor and perpetuate the living legacy of the texas rangers by celebrating their history and demonstrating the extraordinary qualities of character embodied by the rangers that have helped shape the state of texas and opened the american west.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
To further the educational mission of the foundation, a website is being developed to deliver an on-line history program for students in the 4th and 7th grades. Expenses in the current year were for development of the website and travel to promote the program to school districts. The program features lesson plans, videos and other educational materials to teach children about the texas rangers and their place in history. To provide a scholarship to a student enrolled full time in a college or university who is a son or daughter of an active texas ranger. Scholarships granted,
$352,827 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $352,827.
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 2023 to 2024, from $5.7M to $5.4M (−6%).
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. 6 of the last 8 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $20k → $31k.
4 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 FORMER TEXAS RANGERS 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
FORMER TEXAS RANGERS FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% 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
28% 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 FORMER TEXAS RANGERS FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 72% · 2019 92% · 2020 44% · 2021 46% · 2022 38% · 2023 49% — 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
36% of FORMER TEXAS RANGERS FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
58% of FORMER TEXAS RANGERS 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. $67k 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.
Organizations like FORMER TEXAS RANGERS 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
54% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Former Texas Rangers Association I · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FORMER TEXAS RANGERS 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 FORMER TEXAS RANGERS FOUNDATION?
- FORMER TEXAS RANGERS FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $235,163 to it, the largest being THE AUSTIN E KNOWLTON FOUNDATION INC ($65,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FORMER TEXAS RANGERS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $235,163 in grants to FORMER TEXAS RANGERS FOUNDATION, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FORMER TEXAS RANGERS FOUNDATION?
- THE AUSTIN E KNOWLTON FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $65,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FORMER TEXAS RANGERS 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 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