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.
Against its field
TEXAS LAND TRUST COUNCIL holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,156 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,156 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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.
- The Powell Foundationshared funders
- The Malcolm C Damuth Foundationportfolio match
- Texans for Lawsuit Reformportfolio match
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.
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
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
100% 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.
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 11 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Powell Foundationshared fundersTX · backs 75 organizations that share your funders
- The Malcolm C Damuth Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Texans for Lawsuit Reformportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Land Trust Alliance Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Parks and Wildlife Foundation of Texasportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Colorado Coalition of Land Trustsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Atira Conservation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Farmland Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- St David's Foundationshared funderslocalTX · backs 46 organizations that share your funders · funds 247 organizations near you
- The Brown Foundation Incshared fundersTX · backs 79 organizations that share your funders
- Meadows Foundation Incshared fundersTX · backs 65 organizations that share your funders
- Better Business BureaulocalTX · funds 1092 organizations near you
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.
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
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.
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.
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 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 11funders 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