Texas · Nonprofit
TEXANS FOR STATE PARKS
TEXANS FOR STATE PARKS (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $530 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($430). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
TEXANS FOR STATE PARKS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 12,485 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,485 recreation & sports nonprofits under $100k, FY2022
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.
- Better Business Bureaulocal
- Texans for Lawsuit Reformportfolio match
- Parks and Wildlife Foundation of Texasportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $90 → $82.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 81% 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 TEXANS FOR STATE PARKS’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
TEXANS FOR STATE PARKS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
81% 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 TEXANS FOR STATE PARKS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 59% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
81% of TEXANS FOR STATE PARKS'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 $100 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Texas, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $430 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.
- Better Business BureaulocalTX · funds 1090 organizations near you
- Texans for Lawsuit Reformportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Parks and Wildlife Foundation of Texasportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dsc Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Foster Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Apache Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jacob and Terese Hershey Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Elliott Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Cash Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Still Water Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Conservative Energy Networkportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- 04arts 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 TEXANS FOR STATE PARKS
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.
Public support
100%
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 TEXANS FOR STATE PARKS: 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 TEXANS FOR STATE PARKS?
- TEXANS FOR STATE PARKS (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $530 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($430). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does TEXANS FOR STATE PARKS have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $530 in grants to TEXANS FOR STATE PARKS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TEXANS FOR STATE PARKS?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $430 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TEXANS FOR STATE PARKS 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 FY2022 (financials across 2022–2022), and the filings of 2funders 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