Texas · Nonprofit
TEXAS SURF CONSERVANCY
TEXAS SURF CONSERVANCY (Texas) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $208,217 to it, the largest being COASTAL CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ($152,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $57k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $208k
- Net assets
- $11k
What Texas Surf Conservancy does
Mission
The mission of the Texas Surf Conservancy is to work collaboratively across disciplines and industries to promote the health of marine habitats and support oyster mariculture along the gulf coast of texas.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The mission of the Texas Surf Conservancy is to work collaboratively across disciplines and industries to promote the health of marine habitats and support oyster mariculture along the gulf coast of texas. Our facility has served as a training site for partners from texas parks & wildlife, sea grant texas, texas a & m university, and the texas agricultural extension. We regularly provide working tours and extensive information to prospective oyster farmers and others interested in this burgeoning texas seafood industry. We also serve as a living classroom for students from local elementary and high schools to those involved in doctoral work at the harte research institute at tamucc.
$124,489 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $124,489.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2022 to 2023, from $178k to $73k (−59%).
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: 2022 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of TEXAS SURF CONSERVANCY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $10k → $3k.
3 of 9 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 SURF CONSERVANCY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 8 of 9 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 SURF CONSERVANCY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
77% 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 SURF CONSERVANCY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 56% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 94% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
20% of TEXAS SURF CONSERVANCY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% 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 SURF CONSERVANCY's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 SURF CONSERVANCY's revenue fell 70% between 2019 and 2023.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,386 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2023
Organizations like TEXAS SURF CONSERVANCY
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.
Public support
99%
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 SURF CONSERVANCY: 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 SURF CONSERVANCY?
- TEXAS SURF CONSERVANCY (Texas) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $208,217 to it, the largest being COASTAL CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ($152,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TEXAS SURF CONSERVANCY have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $208,217 in grants to TEXAS SURF CONSERVANCY, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TEXAS SURF CONSERVANCY?
- COASTAL CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION is the largest funder on record, with $152,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TEXAS SURF CONSERVANCY 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 FY2023 (financials across 2019–2023), and the filings of 9 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