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Malpai Borderlands Group Inc

Malpai Borderlands Group Inc (Arizona) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $622,977 to it, the largest being WILBURFORCE FOUNDATION ($230,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$628k
Funders on record
15
Grants received
$623k
Net assets
$14M
9/15 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 33%
01What it does

What Malpai Borderlands Group Inc does

Mission

Rancher led conservation partnership working across ~800,000 acres of rangelands in southeastern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico to protect native grasslands, wildlife habitat, and open space while sustaining working ranches and rural communities.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Conducted scientific research and survey activities of the rangelands

    $194,322 spentof which $134,101 as grants
    67% of program spending
  2. Support ranchers in conservation projects

    $57,103 spent
    20% of program spending
  3. Awards scholarships to worthy students from the Borderlands region to attend college

    $17,088 spentof which $13,000 as grants
    6% of program spending
  4. Conducted ranch tours and other outreach activities to educate others about the conservation and utilization of the rangelands

    $16,352 spent
    6% of program spending
  5. Pursuit of the protection of threatened and endangered species on the rangelands

    $5,110 spent
    2% of program spending

The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $289,975.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($378k) Expenses 100 ($212k) Net assets 100 ($11M)2019 Revenue 139 ($524k) Expenses 83 ($175k) Net assets 106 ($12M)2020 Revenue 182 ($688k) Expenses 88 ($187k) Net assets 110 ($12M)2021 Revenue 245 ($926k) Expenses 102 ($217k) Net assets 116 ($13M)2022 Revenue 113 ($427k) Expenses 145 ($308k) Net assets 108 ($12M)2023 Revenue 66 ($248k) Expenses 92 ($196k) Net assets 114 ($13M)2024 Revenue 147 ($554k) Expenses 104 ($220k) Net assets 118 ($13M)2025 Revenue 166 ($628k) Expenses 184 ($390k) Net assets 124 ($14M)
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Revenue (166)Expenses (184)Net assets (124)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 2021 to 2022, from $13M to $12M (−7%).

$11M
$12M
$12M
$13M
$12M
$13M
$13M
$14M
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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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

46% of Malpai Borderlands Group Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$166k
’18
$349k
’19
$501k
’20
$709k
’21
$119k
’22
$52k
’23
$334k
’24
$238k
’25
19
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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.

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Listed1312121213131313
Joined·+1+0+0+1+0+1+0
No longer listed·2000010
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $82k → $81k.

4 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 Malpai Borderlands Group Inc’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

Malpai Borderlands Group Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 37% 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

37%
largest funder
60%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 83% · 2019 63% · 2020 34% · 2021 57% · 2022 50% · 2023 55% — 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

33% of Malpai Borderlands Group Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

Malpai Borderlands Group Inc draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Arizona, across 9 states in all.

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IL
IA
PA
CA
UT
NM
NC
GA

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

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Arizona out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $67k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Malpai Borderlands Group Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin38% · top quartile
Months of reserve18.7mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · below the median

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

Government funding Malpai Borderlands Group Inc receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $172k on record.

Federal$172k
grants $172kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of the Interior$131k
  • Department of Agriculture$41k

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

74% of spending goes to programs.

Program 74%Management 21%Fundraising 4%

Governance

14
board members
86%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

45%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds Malpai Borderlands Group Inc?
Malpai Borderlands Group Inc (Arizona) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $622,977 to it, the largest being WILBURFORCE FOUNDATION ($230,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Malpai Borderlands Group Inc have?
IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $622,977 in grants to Malpai Borderlands Group Inc, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Malpai Borderlands Group Inc?
WILBURFORCE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $230,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Malpai Borderlands Group Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 15 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