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GREAT PLAINS RESTORATION COUNCIL

GREAT PLAINS RESTORATION COUNCIL (Texas) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $893,833 to it, the largest being LESLEY FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($220,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$247k
Funders on record
15
Grants received
$894k
Net assets
$377k
13/15 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Great Plains Restoration Council does

Mission

Great Plains Restoration Council is a 501(c)(3) non-profit ecological health organization that helps people take care of their own health through restoring and protecting native ecosystems, particulary damaged prairies, plains and waters. Gprc teaches ecological health practices and principles around the country, as well as uses the literary arts and other media to broaden awareness and community engagement.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Continued ongoing fort worth prairie park preservation campaign and restoration of rare native prairie. Nearly completed phase 2 of prairie restoration work, including our first prescribed burn. Provided paid outdoor green jobs and nature-based work therapy for youth facing social and emotional stress/distress.

    $111,192 spent
    70% of program spending
  2. Provided ecological health education locally and nationwide; supported the adoption of restoration not incarceration practices and principles by others.

    $15,885 spent
    10% of program spending
  3. Second year background work on the new texas panhandle plains conservation & recreation area/state park project.

    $15,885 spent
    10% of program spending
  4. Developed american literary works fostering cultural awareness of the prairie and the ocean.

    $15,884 spent
    10% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $158,846.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($114k) Expenses 100 ($99k) Net assets -496 ($-50797)2018 Revenue 133 ($151k) Expenses 91 ($90k) Net assets 100 ($10k)2019 Revenue 109 ($124k) Expenses 95 ($93k) Net assets 403 ($41k)2020 Revenue 55 ($62k) Expenses 100 ($98k) Net assets 50 ($5k)2021 Revenue 99 ($112k) Expenses 89 ($87k) Net assets 295 ($30k)2022 Revenue 179 ($204k) Expenses 112 ($110k) Net assets 1210 ($124k)2023 Revenue 321 ($366k) Expenses 156 ($154k) Net assets 3276 ($335k)2024 Revenue 217 ($247k) Expenses 208 ($205k) Net assets 3683 ($377k)
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Revenue (217)Expenses (208)Net assets (3683)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $128k to $342k (+166%).

$19k
$85k
$109k
$73k
$65k
$128k
$342k
$383k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of GREAT PLAINS RESTORATION COUNCIL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,629 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$15k
’17
$61k
’18
$31k
’19
−$36k
’20
$25k
’21
$94k
’22
$212k
’23
$42k
’24
20
months of
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.

202220232024
Listed533
Joined·+0+0
No longer listed·20
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $22k → $173k.

4 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 GREAT PLAINS RESTORATION COUNCIL’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

GREAT PLAINS RESTORATION COUNCIL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% 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

32% 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 GREAT PLAINS RESTORATION COUNCIL.

25%
largest funder
56%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 39% · 2019 81% · 2020 78% · 2021 48% · 2022 34% · 2023 29% — 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

70% of GREAT PLAINS RESTORATION COUNCIL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 87% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

80% of GREAT PLAINS RESTORATION COUNCIL's grant income comes from Texas funders.

NY
CA
NM
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $270k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

GREAT PLAINS RESTORATION COUNCIL holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 4,264 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin17% · above the median
Months of reserve19.8mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)12% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like GREAT PLAINS RESTORATION COUNCIL

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In Texas

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

77% of spending goes to programs.

Program 77%Management 10%Fundraising 13%

Governance

3
board members
67%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

71%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds GREAT PLAINS RESTORATION COUNCIL?
GREAT PLAINS RESTORATION COUNCIL (Texas) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $893,833 to it, the largest being LESLEY FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($220,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does GREAT PLAINS RESTORATION COUNCIL have?
IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $893,833 in grants to GREAT PLAINS RESTORATION COUNCIL, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of GREAT PLAINS RESTORATION COUNCIL?
LESLEY FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $220,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GREAT PLAINS RESTORATION COUNCIL 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 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