Texas · Nonprofit
ROB & BESSIE WELDER WILDLIFE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION
ROB & BESSIE WELDER WILDLIFE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $51,728 to it, the largest being ALBERT AND MARGARET ALKEK FOUNDATION ($26,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $259k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $52k
- Net assets
- $673k
What Rob & Bessie Welder Wildlife Conservation Foundation does
Mission
The Rob & Bessie Welder Wildlife Conservation Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing wildlife conservation through education, research, and public engagement. We provide financial operational support for educational programming, competitive graduate fellowships, and the infrastructure required to deliver high-impact initiatives. Our commitment to public education ensures that all foundation activities yield measurable community benefit and contribute to scientific progress in wildlife conservation and related disciplines.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Grants to rob & bessie welder wildlife foundation for education and research, and other necessary projects.
$234,007 spentof which $234,007 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $234,007.
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.
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 $494k to $721k (+46%).
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.
85% of ROB & BESSIE WELDER WILDLIFE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $45 → $2k.
1 of 6 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 ROB & BESSIE WELDER WILDLIFE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION’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
ROB & BESSIE WELDER WILDLIFE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 80%; 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: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 93% · 2023 96% — 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
71% of ROB & BESSIE WELDER WILDLIFE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $228 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
ROB & BESSIE WELDER WILDLIFE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,264 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like ROB & BESSIE WELDER WILDLIFE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION
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
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
25%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Rob & Bessie Welder Wildlife · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ROB & BESSIE WELDER WILDLIFE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: 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 ROB & BESSIE WELDER WILDLIFE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION?
- ROB & BESSIE WELDER WILDLIFE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $51,728 to it, the largest being ALBERT AND MARGARET ALKEK FOUNDATION ($26,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ROB & BESSIE WELDER WILDLIFE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $51,728 in grants to ROB & BESSIE WELDER WILDLIFE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ROB & BESSIE WELDER WILDLIFE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION?
- ALBERT AND MARGARET ALKEK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $26,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ROB & BESSIE WELDER WILDLIFE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION 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 6 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