Texas · Nonprofit
TEXAS LAND TRUST COUNCIL
TEXAS LAND TRUST COUNCIL (Texas) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,295,000 to it, the largest being Jacob and Terese Hershey Foundation ($335,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $486k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $1.0M
What Texas Land Trust Council does
Mission
To support texas land trusts and promote land conservation efforts in texas. Host texas land conservation conference to educate conservation related professionals and volunteers from across the state.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Education: Texas Land Trust Council advocates to promote the many public benefits of collective conservation work and to increase public and private funding and support for conservation efforts. The texas land conservation conference is the preeminent statewide meeting for anyone working or interested in the field of land and water conservation, including nonprofit organizations, private landowners, government staff, volunteers, businesses, and agency partners. The annual three-day conference attracts 300 attendees and brings in experts from around the state and nation to provide an exceptional opportunity for shared learning and engagement in order to advance land and water conservation in texas.
$171,674 spent$186,910 earned by the program53% of program spendingOutreach and advocacy: Texas Land Trust Council advocates to promote the many public benefits of collective conservation work. Land trusts conserve texas special lands and waters by permanently protecting them from development for the benefit of people, wildlife, and the economy. Texas Land Trust Council works to coordinate land trust advocacy at the federal and state level, developing a robust coalition with a unified voice to build strong, sustained support for land conservation in texas. To this end, each year tltc hosts an annual land trust leaders retreat, the texas land trust assembly, where members gather to strengthen relationships, discuss legislative priorities, and engage with each other on issues that impact Texas Land Trust Councils collective work.
$118,302 spent37% of program spendingTechnical and financial assistance: Texas Land Trust Council seeks to provide relevant conservation related tools, assistance, and information to land trusts, landowners, and the general public. These include the tltc conservation lands inventory database and maps of land trust conserved lands, the Texas Land Trust Council conservation easement guidebook for landowners, information on the texas land trust coucils website, and the Texas Land Trust Council land trust directory. Texas Land Trust Council also provides technical assistance and outreach to advance farm and ranch land conservation in texas. In addition, the Texas Land Trust Council transaction matching grants program provides funds to cover costs associated with granting a perpetual conservation easement, to conserve private land for the public good.
$31,593 spentof which $5,000 as grants10% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $321,569.
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 2021 to 2022, from $808k to $1.2M (+51%).
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: 2021 18% · 2022 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
52% of TEXAS LAND TRUST COUNCIL’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Lori Olson
Executive director
Board chair
Jim Bradbury
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $36k → $143k.
From the IRS filings of TEXAS LAND TRUST COUNCIL’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 LAND TRUST COUNCIL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 97% · 2019 41% · 2020 63% · 2021 39% · 2022 28% · 2023 70% — 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.
How long its funders stay
50% of TEXAS LAND TRUST COUNCIL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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
90% of TEXAS LAND TRUST COUNCIL'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
TEXAS LAND TRUST COUNCIL holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding TEXAS LAND TRUST COUNCIL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $100k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$100k
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 LAND TRUST COUNCIL
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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
44%
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 TEXAS LAND TRUST COUNCIL: 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 LAND TRUST COUNCIL?
- TEXAS LAND TRUST COUNCIL (Texas) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,295,000 to it, the largest being Jacob and Terese Hershey Foundation ($335,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TEXAS LAND TRUST COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $1,295,000 in grants to TEXAS LAND TRUST COUNCIL, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TEXAS LAND TRUST COUNCIL?
- Jacob and Terese Hershey Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $335,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TEXAS LAND TRUST COUNCIL 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 11 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