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Texas Agricultural Land Trust
Texas Agricultural Land Trust (Texas) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,220,345 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ($5,652,543). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $28M
- Funders on record
- 44
- Grants received
- $17M
- Net assets
- $7.9M
What Texas Agricultural Land Trust does
Mission
To conserve the Texas heritage of agricultural lands, natural resources, and wildlife habitats.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
TALT conserves working lands through voluntary conservation easements that allow landowners to retain ownership and management of their property while permanently limiting development. These easements protect agricultural viability, open space, and natural resources, while also serving as valuable tools for estate planning and reinvestment in land operations. Easements may be donated, purchased, or structured as a combination of both. TALT provides expert support throughout the easement process, offering professional, efficient, and responsive service. Once an easement is completed, TALT assumes responsibility for annual stewardship monitoring. (See Schedule O for continuation)
$22,314,164 spent$335,402 earned by the program97% of program spendingTALT's education and outreach program is dedicated to empowering landowners with the knowledge and resources needed to make informed decisions about land conservation and succession planning. By focusing on the practical applications of conservation easements, TALT helps landowners understand how these tools can protect working lands, preserve family legacies, and support long-term land stewardship. Throughout the year, TALT engages with audiences across Texas through a variety of outreach channels, including in person events, digital media, and collaborative partnerships. (See Schedule O for continuation)
$694,419 spent3% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $23,008,583.
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 2024 to 2025, from $3.7M to $8.0M (+118%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 10% · 2018 4% · 2019 2% · 2020 7% · 2021 3% · 2022 3% · 2023 2% · 2024 3% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of Texas Agricultural Land Trust’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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
Chad Ellis
Chief Executive Officer
Board chair
Russell Marshall
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $321k → $8.7M.
6 of 44 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.
Left out of every figure on this page: $432k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Texas Agricultural Land Trust Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money Texas Agricultural Land Trust raised.
From the IRS filings of Texas Agricultural Land Trust’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 44 funders by total. 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
Texas Agricultural Land Trust has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% 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
44% 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 Texas Agricultural Land Trust.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 33% · 2019 33% · 2020 37% · 2021 30% · 2022 23% · 2023 62% — 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
54% of Texas Agricultural Land Trust's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% give in more than one year at all.
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
62% of Texas Agricultural Land Trust's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Against its field
Texas Agricultural Land Trust has grown faster than three-quarters of the 195 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 195 environment nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding Texas Agricultural Land Trust receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $220k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$150k
- Department of the Interior$70k
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.
Organizations like Texas Agricultural Land Trust
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
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
58%
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
- Texas Agricultural Land Trust Foundation · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Texas Agricultural Land Trust: 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 Texas Agricultural Land Trust?
- Texas Agricultural Land Trust (Texas) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,220,345 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ($5,652,543). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Texas Agricultural Land Trust have?
- IRS filings report 44 organizations giving $17,220,345 in grants to Texas Agricultural Land Trust, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Texas Agricultural Land Trust?
- NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,652,543 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Texas Agricultural Land Trust 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 44 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