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TEXAS FORESTRY ASSOCIATION EDUCATIONAL FUND INC

TEXAS FORESTRY ASSOCIATION EDUCATIONAL FUND INC (Texas) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $280,074 to it, the largest being AMERICAN FOREST FOUNDATION ($174,218). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$503k
Revenue FY2024
6
Funders on record
$280k
Grants received
$1.5M
Net assets
4/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 12%

Against its field

TEXAS FORESTRY ASSOCIATION EDUCATIONAL FUND INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 21,584 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin11% · above the median
Months of reserve3.2mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,584 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($450k) Expenses 100 ($379k) Net assets 100 ($1.5M)2018 Revenue 97 ($437k) Expenses 99 ($374k) Net assets 104 ($1.5M)2019 Revenue 80 ($358k) Expenses 98 ($372k) Net assets 103 ($1.5M)2020 Revenue 77 ($345k) Expenses 84 ($319k) Net assets 105 ($1.6M)2021 Revenue 82 ($370k) Expenses 91 ($343k) Net assets 107 ($1.6M)2022 Revenue 75 ($335k) Expenses 101 ($381k) Net assets 104 ($1.5M)2023 Revenue 79 ($354k) Expenses 109 ($415k) Net assets 100 ($1.5M)2024 Revenue 112 ($503k) Expenses 118 ($446k) Net assets 104 ($1.5M)
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Revenue (112)Expenses (118)Net assets (104)Peer revenue range

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
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 4% · 2021 7% · 2022 4% · 2023 4% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

62% of TEXAS FORESTRY ASSOCIATION EDUCATIONAL FUND INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,813 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$72k
’17
$63k
’18
−$14k
’19
$26k
’20
$27k
’21
−$45k
’22
−$61k
’23
$56k
’24
3.2
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $31k → $31k.

Funder
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'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
2
2
3
4
3
2
4
2

2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 TEXAS FORESTRY ASSOCIATION EDUCATIONAL FUND 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.

How concentrated its funding is

TEXAS FORESTRY ASSOCIATION EDUCATIONAL FUND INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

96% 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 FORESTRY ASSOCIATION EDUCATIONAL FUND INC.

62%
largest funder
96%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 70% · 2019 71% · 2020 64% · 2021 42% · 2022 57% · 2023 57% — diversifying over time.

“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

TEXAS FORESTRY ASSOCIATION EDUCATIONAL FUND INC draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 3 states in all.

TN
DC
TX

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

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

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 6 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 TEXAS FORESTRY ASSOCIATION EDUCATIONAL FUND INC

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

Texas Nursery & Landscape Association Foundation81%Texas Forestry Association Inc80%Texas Forestry Museum79%Wildlife Association of Texas78%Texas Rural Education Association Foundation78%Texas Freedom Network Education Fund77%Texas Future Farmers of America Foundation Inc77%Texas Conservation Fund77%

Nationally

Texas Nursery & Landscape Association Foundation81%Texas Forestry Association Inc80%Tennessee Foundation for Agriculture in the Classroom79%Texas Forestry Museum79%Washington Farm Forestry Assoc79%Tennessee Forestry Foundation79%Louisiana Forestry Association79%Wildlife Association of Texas78%
04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

73% of spending goes to programs.

Program 73%Management 27%Fundraising 0%

Governance

17
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

70%

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 Forestry Association Inc · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TEXAS FORESTRY ASSOCIATION EDUCATIONAL FUND 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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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 TEXAS FORESTRY ASSOCIATION EDUCATIONAL FUND INC?
TEXAS FORESTRY ASSOCIATION EDUCATIONAL FUND INC (Texas) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $280,074 to it, the largest being AMERICAN FOREST FOUNDATION ($174,218). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does TEXAS FORESTRY ASSOCIATION EDUCATIONAL FUND INC have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $280,074 in grants to TEXAS FORESTRY ASSOCIATION EDUCATIONAL FUND INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of TEXAS FORESTRY ASSOCIATION EDUCATIONAL FUND INC?
AMERICAN FOREST FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $174,218 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TEXAS FORESTRY ASSOCIATION EDUCATIONAL FUND 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.

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 6funders 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