Texas · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF BRAZORIA WILDLIFE REFUGE S
FRIENDS OF BRAZORIA WILDLIFE REFUGE S (Texas) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $745,767 to it, the largest being Houston Endowment Inc ($475,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
FRIENDS OF BRAZORIA WILDLIFE REFUGE S runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,307 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,307 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- United Way of Brazoria Countylocal
- Parks and Wildlife Foundation of Texasportfolio match
- Apache Foundationportfolio match
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.
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.
94% of FRIENDS OF BRAZORIA WILDLIFE REFUGE S’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $116k → $1k.
4 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 FRIENDS OF BRAZORIA WILDLIFE REFUGE S’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
FRIENDS OF BRAZORIA WILDLIFE REFUGE S leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 97% · 2018 98% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 31% · 2022 80% · 2023 92% — 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
33% of FRIENDS OF BRAZORIA WILDLIFE REFUGE S's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
83% of FRIENDS OF BRAZORIA WILDLIFE REFUGE S's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 10 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- United Way of Brazoria CountylocalTX · funds 22 organizations near you
- Parks and Wildlife Foundation of Texasportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Apache Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dsc Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Malcolm C Damuth Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Nancy and Clive Runnells Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Coastal Conservation Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Laurie and Reed Morian Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Felburn Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Garden Club of Houstonportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Elliott Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Audubon Society Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding FRIENDS OF BRAZORIA WILDLIFE REFUGE S receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $78k on record.
- Department of the Interior$78k
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 FRIENDS OF BRAZORIA WILDLIFE REFUGE S
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRIENDS OF BRAZORIA WILDLIFE REFUGE S: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BRAZORIA WILDLIFE REFUGE S?
- FRIENDS OF BRAZORIA WILDLIFE REFUGE S (Texas) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $745,767 to it, the largest being Houston Endowment Inc ($475,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF BRAZORIA WILDLIFE REFUGE S have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $745,767 in grants to FRIENDS OF BRAZORIA WILDLIFE REFUGE S, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF BRAZORIA WILDLIFE REFUGE S?
- Houston Endowment Inc is the largest funder on record, with $475,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF BRAZORIA WILDLIFE REFUGE S 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 10funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing