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I-20 WILDLIFE PRESERVE & JENNA WELCH NATURE STUDY CENTER

I-20 WILDLIFE PRESERVE & JENNA WELCH NATURE STUDY CENTER (Texas) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $634,099 to it, the largest being ABELL-HANGER FOUNDATION ($345,217). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$263k
Revenue FY2024
14
Funders on record
$634k
Grants received
$1.1M
Net assets
7/14 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 35%

Against its field

I-20 WILDLIFE PRESERVE & JENNA WELCH NATURE STUDY CENTER is better cushioned than half of the 4,260 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−50% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve15.3mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−7% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,260 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($438k) Expenses 100 ($223k) Net assets 100 ($1.2M)2018 Revenue 51 ($222k) Expenses 97 ($217k) Net assets 100 ($1.2M)2019 Revenue 37 ($164k) Expenses 93 ($207k) Net assets 97 ($1.2M)2020 Revenue 38 ($166k) Expenses 110 ($245k) Net assets 91 ($1.1M)2021 Revenue 83 ($362k) Expenses 168 ($375k) Net assets 90 ($1.1M)2022 Revenue 93 ($409k) Expenses 100 ($223k) Net assets 104 ($1.3M)2023 Revenue 49 ($214k) Expenses 145 ($324k) Net assets 95 ($1.2M)2024 Revenue 60 ($263k) Expenses 177 ($394k) Net assets 85 ($1.1M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Revenue (60)Expenses (177)Net assets (85)Peer revenue range

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

Government-grant reliance: 2021 8% · 2022 100%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

97% of I-20 WILDLIFE PRESERVE & JENNA WELCH NATURE STUDY CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,616 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$215k
’17
$4k
’18
−$43k
’19
−$79k
’20
−$13k
’21
$186k
’22
−$110k
’23
−$131k
’24
15
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $26k → $44k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
3
3
2
4
4
8
4
4
2

4 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 I-20 WILDLIFE PRESERVE & JENNA WELCH NATURE STUDY CENTER’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

I-20 WILDLIFE PRESERVE & JENNA WELCH NATURE STUDY CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

54%
largest funder
79%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 68% · 2019 63% · 2020 45% · 2021 96% · 2022 45% · 2023 75% — 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.

How long its funders stay

43% of I-20 WILDLIFE PRESERVE & JENNA WELCH NATURE STUDY CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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

93% of I-20 WILDLIFE PRESERVE & JENNA WELCH NATURE STUDY CENTER's grant income comes from Texas funders.

NV
CA
TX

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $61k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 14 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like I-20 WILDLIFE PRESERVE & JENNA WELCH NATURE STUDY CENTER

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Texas

Parks and Wildlife Foundation of Texas79%Friends of the Fort Worth Nature Center & Refuge Inc79%Midland Downtown Park Conservancy79%Riverside Nature Center Association78%Wildlife Association of Texas77%United Way of Midland Inc77%Bayou Preservation Association Inc77%Foundation for Tx Wildlife76%

Nationally

Parks and Wildlife Foundation of Texas79%West Shore Wildlife Center79%Friends of the Fort Worth Nature Center & Refuge Inc79%Wilton Wildlife Preserve and Park Inc79%Midland Downtown Park Conservancy79%Western Watersheds Projects Inc78%Wildlife Rescue Center78%Washington Wild78%
04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

59% of spending goes to programs.

Program 59%Management 37%Fundraising 4%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

60%

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 I-20 WILDLIFE PRESERVE & JENNA WELCH NATURE STUDY CENTER: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds I-20 WILDLIFE PRESERVE & JENNA WELCH NATURE STUDY CENTER?
I-20 WILDLIFE PRESERVE & JENNA WELCH NATURE STUDY CENTER (Texas) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $634,099 to it, the largest being ABELL-HANGER FOUNDATION ($345,217). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does I-20 WILDLIFE PRESERVE & JENNA WELCH NATURE STUDY CENTER have?
IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $634,099 in grants to I-20 WILDLIFE PRESERVE & JENNA WELCH NATURE STUDY CENTER, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of I-20 WILDLIFE PRESERVE & JENNA WELCH NATURE STUDY CENTER?
ABELL-HANGER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $345,217 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like I-20 WILDLIFE PRESERVE & JENNA WELCH NATURE STUDY CENTER 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 14funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing