Texas · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF THE WILDLIFE CORRIDOR
FRIENDS OF THE WILDLIFE CORRIDOR (Texas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $562,321 to it, the largest being American Forests ($445,389). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $82k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $562k
- Net assets
- $439k
What Friends of the Wildlife Corridor does
Mission
Preserve, protect, and enhance the wildlife corridors that encompass santa ana and the lower rio grande valley national wildlife refuges, so that all native animal and plant life maintain healthy populations, and so the wildlife corridors are preserved for future generations.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
At the end of the current year, we started a membership program. In exchange for membership dues, a member gets a refuge pass, discounts at our nature store, a newsletter, and invitations to special programs and events.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
We are raising awareness of the critical role wildlife corridors play in maintining the biodiversity of ecosystems by advocating for the preservation of the vital habitats through community engagement, education, and conservation initiatives. As examples, this year we hosted a run at the refuge which drew in about 200 runners and 30 walkers. We operated our nature store where our volunteers can answer the publics questions. We send out a quarterly newletter that includes a report on the refuge, information on conservation issues, and nature related articles. We started a membership program this year to raise awareness and involve more people in our efforts.
$44,264 spent60% of program spendingTo create healthy native habitats, we actively participate in a revegetation program which plants between 50,000 and 250,000 seedlings a year. In addition, we are a partner organization and participated in rio reforestation, a yearly planting event that draws up to twelve hundred participants a year. During the current year, american forests is managing the refuge revegitation program. Funds raised prior to this change, remain with the friends for future revegitation related uses.
$29,442 spentof which $26,700 as grants40% of program spendingWhen possible, we purchase small tracts of land for subsequent incorporation into the lower rio grande valley national wildlife refuge. Last year, we made an investment in a 220 acre piece of land with our sister refuge, the laguna atasocsa national wildlife refuge, to be added to their refuge system. We still have an investment in this piece of land. We received a piece of land as a donation this year. We have paid to have the land transfered to our name and paid minor expenses for upkeep. We actively look for grants to help us in our goals. This year, we received one grant that totalled $26,700 to purchase and plant seedlings on two refuge revegitation sites.
$605 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $74,311.
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 2021 to 2022, from $788k to $1.2M (+48%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 4% · 2021 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
38% of FRIENDS OF THE WILDLIFE CORRIDOR’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $97k → $36k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 THE WILDLIFE CORRIDOR’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 THE WILDLIFE CORRIDOR leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
92% 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 FRIENDS OF THE WILDLIFE CORRIDOR.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 96% · 2021 70% · 2022 100% · 2023 52% — 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.
Where its funders are
FRIENDS OF THE WILDLIFE CORRIDOR draws 92% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $105 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 THE WILDLIFE CORRIDOR holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Government funding FRIENDS OF THE WILDLIFE CORRIDOR 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 THE WILDLIFE CORRIDOR
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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WILDLIFE CORRIDOR?
- FRIENDS OF THE WILDLIFE CORRIDOR (Texas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $562,321 to it, the largest being American Forests ($445,389). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF THE WILDLIFE CORRIDOR have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $562,321 in grants to FRIENDS OF THE WILDLIFE CORRIDOR, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF THE WILDLIFE CORRIDOR?
- American Forests is the largest funder on record, with $445,389 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF THE WILDLIFE CORRIDOR 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 7 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