Texas · Nonprofit
ROB & BESSIE WELDER WILDLIFE FOUNDATION
ROB & BESSIE WELDER WILDLIFE FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $160,625 to it, the largest being COASTAL BEND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($114,625). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
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.
- Coastal Bend Foundation Inclocal
- Rangeland Foundationportfolio match
- Conservation Society of Californiaportfolio match
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $81k → $10k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $844k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Rob & Bessie Welder Wildlife Conservation Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money ROB & BESSIE WELDER WILDLIFE FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of ROB & BESSIE WELDER WILDLIFE 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 FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
78% 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 ROB & BESSIE WELDER WILDLIFE FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 27% · 2019 67% · 2020 83% · 2021 70% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
71% of ROB & BESSIE WELDER WILDLIFE FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $46k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $115k 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 4 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Coastal Bend Foundation InclocalTX · funds 8 organizations near you
- Rangeland Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Conservation Society of Californiaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wildlife Protection Solutionsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Brodsky Charitable Foundation Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Commonwealth Zoological Corporation D/B/A Zoo New Englandportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dsc Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Utah Zoological Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wildlife Support Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Defenders of Wildlifeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Head & Heart Foundation Tr 12319portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Carole Shapiro Memorial Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 ROB & BESSIE WELDER WILDLIFE FOUNDATION
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ROB & BESSIE WELDER WILDLIFE 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.
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 ROB & BESSIE WELDER WILDLIFE FOUNDATION?
- ROB & BESSIE WELDER WILDLIFE FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $160,625 to it, the largest being COASTAL BEND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($114,625). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ROB & BESSIE WELDER WILDLIFE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $160,625 in grants to ROB & BESSIE WELDER WILDLIFE FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ROB & BESSIE WELDER WILDLIFE FOUNDATION?
- COASTAL BEND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $114,625 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ROB & BESSIE WELDER WILDLIFE 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 4funders 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