Texas · Nonprofit
FOUNDATION FOR TX WILDLIFE
FOUNDATION FOR TX WILDLIFE (Texas) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,945,980 to it, the largest being SAN ANTONIO LIVESTOCK EXPOSITION EDUCATIONAL FUND INC ($674,500). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $9.4M
What Foundation for Tx Wildlife does
Mission
The texas wildlife association foundation, inc(twaf) increases natural resource literacy and promotes conservation and educational programs that connect texans to the land.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Twaf promotes educational, research, and informational activities in support of wildlife, habitat, and the management of the same. The activities and programs include science curriculum for middle school students, leadership camps, youth hunting opportunities, teacher training and adult education seminars, most of which are conducted by the texas wildlife association. Twaf provides grants for natural resource literacy, private lands stewardship and education, wildlife management and research, and provide scholarships for educational purposes.
$1,495,007 spentof which $1,450,547 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2022 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,495,007.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $3.0M to $5.4M (+80%).
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.
87% of FOUNDATION FOR TX WILDLIFE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (74% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
Justin Dreibelbis
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $237k → $363k.
10 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.1M from 6 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Educational Fund). These are real filings, and they are not money FOUNDATION FOR TX WILDLIFE raised.
From the IRS filings of FOUNDATION FOR TX WILDLIFE’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
FOUNDATION FOR TX WILDLIFE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 35% 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
87% 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 FOUNDATION FOR TX WILDLIFE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 93% · 2019 85% · 2020 22% · 2021 41% · 2022 34% · 2023 41% — 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
50% of FOUNDATION FOR TX WILDLIFE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
79% of FOUNDATION FOR TX WILDLIFE's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $416k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
FOUNDATION FOR TX WILDLIFE holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,559 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,559 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like FOUNDATION FOR TX WILDLIFE
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
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
- Wildlife Association of Texas · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR TX WILDLIFE?
- FOUNDATION FOR TX WILDLIFE (Texas) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,945,980 to it, the largest being SAN ANTONIO LIVESTOCK EXPOSITION EDUCATIONAL FUND INC ($674,500). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FOUNDATION FOR TX WILDLIFE have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $1,945,980 in grants to FOUNDATION FOR TX WILDLIFE, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOUNDATION FOR TX WILDLIFE?
- SAN ANTONIO LIVESTOCK EXPOSITION EDUCATIONAL FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $674,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOUNDATION FOR TX WILDLIFE 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 27 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