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Lone Star Coastal Alliance

Lone Star Coastal Alliance (Texas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $204,020 to it, the largest being GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($85,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$167k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$204k
Net assets
$6k
2/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 74%
01What it does

What Lone Star Coastal Alliance does

Mission

Preserve upper TX Coastal Region

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Promoting awareness of this region of the country through education, outreach, and volunerism.

    $160,499 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $160,499.

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 ($13k) Expenses 100 ($53k) Net assets 100 ($37k)2018 Revenue 480 ($60k) Expenses 107 ($57k) Net assets 107 ($40k)2019 Revenue 552 ($69k) Expenses 156 ($83k) Net assets 68 ($25k)2020 Revenue 543 ($68k) Expenses 107 ($57k) Net assets 97 ($36k)2021 Revenue 740 ($93k) Expenses 125 ($67k) Net assets 167 ($62k)2022 Revenue 361 ($45k) Expenses 75 ($40k) Net assets 180 ($67k)2024 Revenue 1670 ($209k) Expenses 402 ($215k) Net assets -16 ($-5977)2025 Revenue 1332 ($167k) Expenses 300 ($160k) Net assets 16 ($6k)
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Revenue (1332)Expenses (300)Net assets (16)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 2020 to 2021, from $36k to $62k (+71%).

$37k
$40k
$25k
$36k
$62k
$67k
$-5977
$6k
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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
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2024 100%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of Lone Star Coastal Alliance’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. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$41k
’17
$3k
’18
−$14k
’19
$11k
’20
$26k
’21
$5k
’22
−$6k
’24
$6k
’25
-0.3
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.

Chief executive

Kelly Schaun

Executive Director

Board chair

JP Bryan

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

2017201820192020202120222024
Listed66131313135
Joined·+0+7+0+0+0·
No longer listed·00000·
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $25k.

1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 Lone Star Coastal Alliance’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

Lone Star Coastal Alliance leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

42% 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 Lone Star Coastal Alliance.

42%
largest funder
93%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 50% · 2021 58% · 2023 80% — 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.

Where its funders are

100% of Lone Star Coastal Alliance's grant income comes from Texas funders.

TX

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

’20
’21
’23
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $85k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Lone Star Coastal Alliance has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin4% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)38% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

87%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds Lone Star Coastal Alliance?
Lone Star Coastal Alliance (Texas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $204,020 to it, the largest being GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($85,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Lone Star Coastal Alliance have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $204,020 in grants to Lone Star Coastal Alliance, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Lone Star Coastal Alliance?
GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $85,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Lone Star Coastal Alliance 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 5 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