Texas · Nonprofit
THE FOUNDATION AT SHIELD RANCH
THE FOUNDATION AT SHIELD RANCH (Texas) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,281,724 to it, the largest being AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($1,935,260). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $3.3M
- Net assets
- $14M
What The Foundation at Shield Ranch does
Programs
El ranchito & campsite year-round programming
$1,637,104 spentManagement & general administration
$282,523 spentFundraising
$230,053 spent
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
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 $9.3M to $16M (+74%).
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
Andrea Mellard
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 9 funders, grant income rose $5k → $814k.
8 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 76% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.7M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Shield-Ayres Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money THE FOUNDATION AT SHIELD RANCH raised.
From the IRS filings of THE FOUNDATION AT SHIELD RANCH’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
THE FOUNDATION AT SHIELD RANCH leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
76% 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 THE FOUNDATION AT SHIELD RANCH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 95% · 2020 53% · 2021 32% · 2022 77% · 2023 63% — 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
57% of THE FOUNDATION AT SHIELD RANCH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 41% 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
76% of THE FOUNDATION AT SHIELD RANCH's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $788k that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
THE FOUNDATION AT SHIELD RANCH has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,928 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,928 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like THE FOUNDATION AT SHIELD RANCH
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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION AT SHIELD RANCH?
- THE FOUNDATION AT SHIELD RANCH (Texas) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,281,724 to it, the largest being AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($1,935,260). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE FOUNDATION AT SHIELD RANCH have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $3,281,724 in grants to THE FOUNDATION AT SHIELD RANCH, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE FOUNDATION AT SHIELD RANCH?
- AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,935,260 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE FOUNDATION AT SHIELD RANCH 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 2017–2024), 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