Texas · Nonprofit
Texans for Clean Water Inc
Texans for Clean Water Inc (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $567,337 to it, the largest being Garver Black Hilyard Family Foundation ($567,337). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $515k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $567k
- Net assets
- $13k
What Texans for Clean Water Inc does
Mission
Our purpose is to educate Texans in the reduction and prevention of floatable trash from entering our waterways. We support a refundable deposit as an incentive to recycle and create jobs. Recycling will prevent the costly clean up of the floatable trash from the waterways.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Organize - Continue to organize a statewide group of Texans, including business leaders who believe clean waterways are good for business. Increased our outreach to these and other stakeholders through membership in professional associations and meeting with organizations of like-minded missions to impact waterway litter.
$37,849 spent7% of program spendingEducate- Continue to educate and collaborate with stakeholders to promote clean waterways, including prevention of storm water debris and litter from entering our waterways. In 2025 we engaged Reins Strategies, for website updates and upgrades and social media communications. We engaged Catalyst Advisor for communication consulting and content creation. We continued to provide outreach and education through conference presentations and participation. In 2024 & 2025, we worked with Venn Strategies to organize, manage and execute a Congressional roundtable on national recycling. We engaged stakeholders in dialogue regarding potential solutions to increase recycling and decrease litter through public policy. We attended a stakeholder tour to Oregon to educate on Oregons successful DRS recycling system. We hosted a breakfast for the Speaker of the Texas House, and stakeholders to discuss the pollution recycling problem we face in the State of Texas. We attended a tour of the Indorama Sustainable recycling facilities in Dallas. To further educate on the litter entering our waterways we created videos and pictures of litter in our Texas Waterways. We hired a new employee, to engage more…
$309,839 spent60% of program spendingAdvocate- Continued to advocate policy solutions for waterway litter prevention and mitigation, by an outside firm Texas Legislative Associates Held meetings and communciations with stakeholders to find common ground for future policy solutions to waterway litter, through the assistance of National Stewardship Action Council.
$167,504 spent33% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $515,192.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2021 to 2022, from $51k to $8k (−85%).
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.
100% of Texans for Clean Water Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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.
Chief executive
C M Garver
CEO and Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $202k → $235k.
From the IRS filings of Texans for Clean Water 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.
Where its funders are
100% of Texans for Clean Water Inc's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
Texans for Clean Water Inc's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Texans for Clean Water Inc
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Texans for Clean Water Inc: 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 Texans for Clean Water Inc?
- Texans for Clean Water Inc (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $567,337 to it, the largest being Garver Black Hilyard Family Foundation ($567,337). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Texans for Clean Water Inc have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $567,337 in grants to Texans for Clean Water Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Texans for Clean Water Inc?
- Garver Black Hilyard Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $567,337 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Texans for Clean Water Inc 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 1 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