Texas · Nonprofit
HILL COUNTRY CONSERVANCY
HILL COUNTRY CONSERVANCY (Texas) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,108,292 to it, the largest being GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,730,833). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.4M
- Funders on record
- 49
- Grants received
- $5.1M
- Net assets
- $39M
What Hill Country Conservancy does
Mission
Hill Country Conservancy preserves vital natural resources through conservation, community collaboration, and engagement to sustain our region now and forever.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Land conservation - Hill Country Conservancy (hcc) partners with landowners to protect open space in the texas hill country through the execution of conservation easements in order to protect water supply, maintain native wildlife habitats, and mitigate flooding.
$2,474,592 spent50% of program spendingPublic spaces - hcc provides access to nature by maintaining two nature preserves in the austin area, as well as building and operating the violet crown trail, currently a 13-mile public recreational trail. When completed, the trail will stretch 30 miles.
$1,822,990 spent37% of program spendingCommunity engagement - hcc promotes conservation in our community through educational programming, volunteer opportunities, landowner workshops, and outdoor recreation activities.
$383,276 spent8% of program spendingLand & water stewardship - hcc works with landowners and partners to steward and protect natural resources in the texas hill country, including working to conserve water quality, implementing ecological restoration programs and partnering with public and private stakeholders to ensure clean water and air quality in the region.
$272,239 spent$7,147 earned by the program5% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,953,097.
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 $8.9M to $36M (+301%).
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 13% · 2018 21% · 2019 7% · 2020 19% · 2021 14% · 2022 0% · 2023 30% · 2024 20% · 2025 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of HILL COUNTRY CONSERVANCY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Kathy Miller
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021, and between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $201k → $426k.
13 of 49 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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 HILL COUNTRY CONSERVANCY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 49 funders by total. 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
HILL COUNTRY CONSERVANCY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 34% 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
53% 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 HILL COUNTRY CONSERVANCY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 22% · 2019 45% · 2020 38% · 2021 22% · 2022 55% · 2023 37% — broadly stable.
“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
47% of HILL COUNTRY CONSERVANCY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
85% of HILL COUNTRY CONSERVANCY's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.
Against its field
HILL COUNTRY CONSERVANCY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,209 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,209 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding HILL COUNTRY CONSERVANCY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $147k on record.
- Department of the Interior$114k
- Department of Agriculture$33k
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 HILL COUNTRY CONSERVANCY
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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HILL COUNTRY CONSERVANCY?
- HILL COUNTRY CONSERVANCY (Texas) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,108,292 to it, the largest being GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,730,833). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HILL COUNTRY CONSERVANCY have?
- IRS filings report 49 organizations giving $5,108,292 in grants to HILL COUNTRY CONSERVANCY, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HILL COUNTRY CONSERVANCY?
- GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,730,833 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HILL COUNTRY CONSERVANCY 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 49 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing