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THE NATIVE PRAIRIES ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS
THE NATIVE PRAIRIES ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS (Texas) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,555,790 to it, the largest being AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($369,813). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.1M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $12M
What The Native Prairies Association of Texas does
Mission
The Native Prairies Association of Texas (npat) is a nonprofit membership organization and an accredited land trust. Our mission is dedicated to the conservation, restoration, and appreciation of native prairies, savannas, and other grasslands in texas.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Land conservation, general/other: discovery, acquisition, management, restoration, and educational use of prairie remnants, both via conservation easement and ownership, in the state of texas. Npat owns eleven fee simple prairie remnants totaling 2,390 acres and conservation easements on 20 prairie remnants.
$1,848,777 spent$6,417 earned by the program96% of program spendingEnvironmental education programs, general/other: education of the public, with respect to the native flora and fauna of the prairies and grasslands of the state of texas, about the aesthetic, spiritual, scientific, educational and economic values of our prairies and grasslands and published an educational newsletter and website.
$80,957 spent$10,129 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,929,734.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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 $7.7M to $11M (+48%).
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: 2020 10% · 2022 2% · 2023 0% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $60k → $329k.
6 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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: $2.1M from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Charles Jago Elder Charitable Trust). These are real filings, and they are not money THE NATIVE PRAIRIES ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS raised.
From the IRS filings of THE NATIVE PRAIRIES ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS’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 NATIVE PRAIRIES ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% 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
55% 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 NATIVE PRAIRIES ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 86% · 2021 61% · 2022 42% · 2023 31% — 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
17% of THE NATIVE PRAIRIES ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
51% of THE NATIVE PRAIRIES ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS'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 $760k that is directly attributable, 92% of it comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $796k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Organizations like THE NATIVE PRAIRIES ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE NATIVE PRAIRIES ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS?
- THE NATIVE PRAIRIES ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS (Texas) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,555,790 to it, the largest being AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($369,813). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE NATIVE PRAIRIES ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $1,555,790 in grants to THE NATIVE PRAIRIES ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE NATIVE PRAIRIES ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS?
- AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $369,813 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE NATIVE PRAIRIES ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 23 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