Texas · Nonprofit
MAIN PLAZA CONSERVANCY
MAIN PLAZA CONSERVANCY (Texas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $720,557 to it, the largest being William & Salome McAllen Scanlan Foundation ($313,557). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
MAIN PLAZA CONSERVANCY is better cushioned than half of the 7,812 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,812 housing & shelter 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.
- Charitable Foundation Frost F0359600shared fundersportfolio match
- John R & Greli N Less Charitable Trust #FE324localportfolio match
- George W Brackenridge Foundationshared funders
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.
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 87% · 2018 94% · 2019 82% · 2020 89% · 2021 79% · 2022 68% · 2023 69% · 2024 60%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of MAIN PLAZA CONSERVANCY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (37% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $1k → $125k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 MAIN PLAZA CONSERVANCY’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
MAIN PLAZA CONSERVANCY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 50% · 2021 71% · 2022 56% · 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
99% of MAIN PLAZA 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. $145k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
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 5 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Charitable Foundation Frost F0359600shared fundersportfolio matchTX · backs 29 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- John R & Greli N Less Charitable Trust #FE324localportfolio matchTX · funds 63 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- George W Brackenridge Foundationshared fundersTX · backs 16 organizations that share your funders
- The Williamson Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Collins Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- John & Florence Newman Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hixon Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Tobin Endowmentportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Nancy Wood Moorman Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Semmes Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Norman Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Helen Greathouse Charitable Trustshared fundersMO · backs 28 organizations that share your funders
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 MAIN PLAZA CONSERVANCY
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
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
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 MAIN PLAZA CONSERVANCY: 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.
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 MAIN PLAZA CONSERVANCY?
- MAIN PLAZA CONSERVANCY (Texas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $720,557 to it, the largest being William & Salome McAllen Scanlan Foundation ($313,557). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MAIN PLAZA CONSERVANCY have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $720,557 in grants to MAIN PLAZA CONSERVANCY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MAIN PLAZA CONSERVANCY?
- William & Salome McAllen Scanlan Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $313,557 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MAIN PLAZA 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 5funders 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