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Texas Border Sheriffs Coalition

Texas Border Sheriffs Coalition (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $15,000 to it, the largest being HOWARD G BUFFETT FOUNDATION ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$114k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$15k
Net assets
$-23192
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 26%
01What it does

What Texas Border Sheriffs Coalition does

Mission

To exclusively assist sheriffs in texas counties along the international boundary with mexico.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. To exclusively assist sheriffs in texas counties along the international boundary with mexico.

    $46,061 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $46,061.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($195k) Expenses 100 ($252k) Net assets 100 ($4k)2018 Revenue 10 ($19k) Expenses 22 ($55k) Net assets -845 ($-32433)2019 Revenue 67 ($130k) Expenses 52 ($130k) Net assets -856 ($-32877)2023 Revenue 78 ($152k) Expenses 44 ($111k) Net assets 123 ($5k)2024 Revenue 59 ($114k) Expenses 57 ($142k) Net assets -604 ($-23192)
20172018201920232024
Revenue (59)Expenses (57)Net assets (-604)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $47k to $72k (+55%).

$13k
$10k
$14k
$47k
$72k
20172018201920232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

82% of Texas Border Sheriffs Coalition’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,778 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

−$57k
’17
−$36k
’18
−$444
’19
$40k
’23
−$28k
’24

Leadership and staff

Chief executive

Clint Mcdonald

Executive director

Board chair

Sheriff Tom Schmerber

Chairman

As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2018: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $5k.

Funder
'17
'18
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of Texas Border Sheriffs Coalition’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

Texas Border Sheriffs Coalition draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 1 state in all.

IL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
Texas out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Texas Border Sheriffs Coalition's revenue fell 41% between 2017 and 2024.

Operating margin−24% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−7% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,538 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

TX

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Questions and answers

Who funds Texas Border Sheriffs Coalition?
Texas Border Sheriffs Coalition (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $15,000 to it, the largest being HOWARD G BUFFETT FOUNDATION ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Texas Border Sheriffs Coalition have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $15,000 in grants to Texas Border Sheriffs Coalition, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Texas Border Sheriffs Coalition?
HOWARD G BUFFETT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Texas Border Sheriffs Coalition 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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