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.
Against its field
TEXAS TRIBAL BUFFALO PROJECT runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,197 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,197 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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.
- Novo Foundationshared funders
- Native American Agriculture Fundportfolio match
- Ndn Foundation Incportfolio match
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.
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
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 8 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 8 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.
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 22 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Novo Foundationshared fundersNY · backs 114 organizations that share your funders
- Native American Agriculture Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ndn Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Indian Land Tenure Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Colorado Plateau Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cottonwood Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Na'ah Illahee Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Great Plains Tribal Leaders Healthportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Women Donors Networkshared fundersCA · backs 38 organizations that share your funders
- Northwest Area Foundationshared fundersMN · backs 48 organizations that share your funders
- Possibility Labsshared fundersCA · backs 37 organizations that share your funders
- Solidaire Network Incshared fundersCA · backs 45 organizations that share your funders
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 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
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
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.
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 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.
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 22funders 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