Texas · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF HAGERMAN NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE FOUNDATION
FRIENDS OF HAGERMAN NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $658 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($658). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $73k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $658
- Net assets
- $139k
What Friends of Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge Foundation does
Mission
Education/Conservation of wildlife and habitats. The Friends of Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) Foundation (hereafter referred to as Friends of Hagerman) was incorporated in the State of Texas on August 19, 2005, at Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge, Sherman, Texas, to promote appreciation and conservation of wildlife and habitat through environmental education and natural history experiences.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Education $22540 greeted 11,678 visitors, 18,000 to our website and 15978 followers on Facebook. Service 2602 Adults and children through monthly seminars, field trips, and special events. Fledged 143 Bluebird in 46 nest boxes for $420. Refuge Support $7155 planted 215 acres of wheat and completed 25 projects such as clearing trails, painted picnic tables, mowing, cleaning refuge windows, etc.
$22,540 spentof which $19,022 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $22,540.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2020 to 2021, from $116k to $88k (−24%).
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.
95% of FRIENDS OF HAGERMAN NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $117 → $177.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 HAGERMAN NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE 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.
Where its funders are
100% of FRIENDS OF HAGERMAN NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE FOUNDATION'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $658 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
FRIENDS OF HAGERMAN NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,315 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,315 animals nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like FRIENDS OF HAGERMAN NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE 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.
Public support
75%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDS OF HAGERMAN NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE FOUNDATION?
- FRIENDS OF HAGERMAN NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $658 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($658). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF HAGERMAN NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $658 in grants to FRIENDS OF HAGERMAN NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF HAGERMAN NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE FOUNDATION?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $658 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF HAGERMAN NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE 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.
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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 2018–2025), 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