Texas · Nonprofit
LANTANA CARES
LANTANA CARES (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,210,555 to it, the largest being LANTANA EDUCATIONAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($2,210,478). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $269k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $202k
What Lantana Cares does
Mission
Lantana Cares is a local organization dedicated to resident-empowered beautification, education and recreation in the lantana community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Lantana Cares continued to support teachers pay teachers through the teacher synergy program, allocating $23,500 to benefit 158 educators and impacting 2,792 students at public schools in lantana. Additionally, a meeting for neighborhood crime captains and a situational awareness class was hosted in conjunction with the funding of criminal justice/law class filed trips for 81 students from guyer high school. We continue to finance the chair fit program, which included supplies for bi-weekly classes over three months, serving 20-30 participants per session; supported a homeschool science activity for the rental of the lantana community event center, accommodating 20 homeschool students. We also funded a playground for special need children in lantana.
$153,425 spentof which $143,428 as grants78% of program spendingLantana Cares funded the beautification of several areas of the community including the reparation of the hard scape on hilltop road, quarterly weeding and trimming along lantana trail, and providing support for earth day conservation by funding native wildflower seeds, pollinator plants, shrub swaps.
$4,130 spent2% of program spendingDonations to lantana ladies league, guyer high school, mission moms, denton county crime stoppers, denton isd, and angel tree.
$39,885 spentof which $39,885 as grants20% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $197,440.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2023 to 2024, from $703k to $145k (−79%).
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: 2023 59%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of LANTANA CARES’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. 2 of the last 5 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 2 funders, grant income rose $20k → $805k.
1 of 2 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 LANTANA CARES’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
LANTANA CARES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of LANTANA CARES's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $77 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
LANTANA CARES runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like LANTANA CARES
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
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 LANTANA CARES: 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 LANTANA CARES?
- LANTANA CARES (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,210,555 to it, the largest being LANTANA EDUCATIONAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($2,210,478). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LANTANA CARES have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $2,210,555 in grants to LANTANA CARES, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LANTANA CARES?
- LANTANA EDUCATIONAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,210,478 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LANTANA CARES 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 2 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