Texas · Nonprofit
TEXAS TRIBAL BUFFALO PROJECT
TEXAS TRIBAL BUFFALO PROJECT (Texas) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $916,640 to it, the largest being NDN COLLECTIVE INC ($200,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.8M
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $917k
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What Texas Tribal Buffalo Project does
Mission
Texas Tribal Buffalo Project, exists to reconnect texas indigenous lineal descendents to each other as relatives as well as the iyane'e as our relative. We are aligned with the international buffalo treaty and other buffalo lifeway movements.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
1 Practicing good stewardship of its natural resources in the raising of bison 2 offering quality bison meat and products to enhance people's health and lives 3 promoting health and wellbeing of our tribe and other surrounding tribes of Texas 4 providing all peoples of Texas a chance to interact and understand the buffalo and the native peoples of Texas history and culture and 5 learning about soil health and regenerative practices.
$411,500 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $411,500.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2023 to 2024, from $888k to $2.4M (+171%).
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 0% · 2022 1% · 2023 16% · 2024 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of TEXAS TRIBAL BUFFALO PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 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
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $35k → $282k.
10 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 TRIBAL BUFFALO PROJECT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 21 of 22 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 TRIBAL BUFFALO PROJECT has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
72% 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 TRIBAL BUFFALO PROJECT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 57% · 2022 53% · 2023 18% — 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 TRIBAL BUFFALO PROJECT draws 87% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $225k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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 TRIBAL BUFFALO PROJECT runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,203 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,203 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding TEXAS TRIBAL BUFFALO PROJECT receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.5M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$900k
- Department of Agriculture$447k
- Corporation for National and Community Service$150k
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 TRIBAL BUFFALO PROJECT
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
52% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TEXAS TRIBAL BUFFALO PROJECT: 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 TRIBAL BUFFALO PROJECT?
- TEXAS TRIBAL BUFFALO PROJECT (Texas) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $916,640 to it, the largest being NDN COLLECTIVE INC ($200,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TEXAS TRIBAL BUFFALO PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $916,640 in grants to TEXAS TRIBAL BUFFALO PROJECT, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TEXAS TRIBAL BUFFALO PROJECT?
- NDN COLLECTIVE INC is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TEXAS TRIBAL BUFFALO PROJECT 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 22 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