Texas · Nonprofit
GUADALUPE-BLANCO RIVER TRUST
GUADALUPE-BLANCO RIVER TRUST (Texas) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $147,635 to it, the largest being The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation ($75,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $427k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $148k
- Net assets
- $4.6M
What Guadalupe-Blanco River Trust does
Mission
The mission of the Guadalupe-Blanco River Trust is to preserve the unique natural heritage of the guadalupe watershed for future generations by protecting open landscapes, working farms and ranches, and wildlife habitat through conversation easements, education, and outreach that connects people to the water and the land.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Wetland enhancement and infrastructure improvement plan for the whitmire unit of the aransas national wildlife refuge resulted in the enhancement of 176 acres of wetlands through the replacement of two older water control structures as well as the engineering necessary to develop water management and infrastructure improvement plan for an additional 230 acres of wetlands
$330,314 spent77% of program spendingThe trust pursues conservation easements to preserve natural resources, assure that land remains in agriculture production, and to pass undeveloped land to future generations
$17,056 spent4% of program spendingEducation programs are conducted for land owners and for the public to promote conservation measures for the land in the guadalupe river basin using publications and conferences to further this goal
$79,892 spent19% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $427,262.
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 $7.3M to $4.3M (−42%).
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 6% · 2018 94% · 2019 76% · 2020 15% · 2021 79% · 2022 67% · 2023 49% · 2024 48%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
71% of GUADALUPE-BLANCO RIVER TRUST’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Doug Dillow
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $100k → $56.
1 of 6 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 GUADALUPE-BLANCO RIVER TRUST’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
GUADALUPE-BLANCO RIVER TRUST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
35% 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 GUADALUPE-BLANCO RIVER TRUST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2020 59% · 2021 99% · 2022 99% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
65% of GUADALUPE-BLANCO RIVER TRUST's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $235 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
GUADALUPE-BLANCO RIVER TRUST is better cushioned than half of the 4,264 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like GUADALUPE-BLANCO RIVER TRUST
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 GUADALUPE-BLANCO RIVER TRUST: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GUADALUPE-BLANCO RIVER TRUST?
- GUADALUPE-BLANCO RIVER TRUST (Texas) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $147,635 to it, the largest being The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation ($75,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GUADALUPE-BLANCO RIVER TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $147,635 in grants to GUADALUPE-BLANCO RIVER TRUST, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GUADALUPE-BLANCO RIVER TRUST?
- The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GUADALUPE-BLANCO RIVER TRUST 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 6 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