Texas · Nonprofit
Tom T East Sr and Alice K East and Alice H East and Robert C East Wildlife Fnd
Tom T East Sr and Alice K East and Alice H East and Robert C East Wildlife Fnd (Texas) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $240,000 to it, the largest being LAS HUELLAS INC ($60,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $16M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $240k
- Net assets
- $506M
What Tom T East Sr and Alice K East and Alice H East and Robert C East Wildlife Fnd does
Mission
The East Foundation is an Agricultural Research Organization. We promote the advancement of land stewardship through ranching, science and education (See Schedule O for continuation). On our land, ranchers, scientists, and educators work together to address issues important to wildlife management, rangeland health, and ranch productivity.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Ranching: The East Foundation's exempt purposes can only be achieved through the active management of a livestock ranch that is representative of the primary land use on 14.1 million acres of native rangeland in the South Texas Brush Country and Coastal Sand Plain region. This ranch serves as a laboratory for agricultural research that will facilitate advancement of land stewardship and management practices, wildlife conservation, and livestock production throughout these 14.1 million acres of native rangeland. The operating ranch also serves as the outdoor 'classroom' to fulfill elements of the education purpose of the East Foundation. (See Schedule O for continuation).
$7,745,862 spent$6,359,642 earned by the program71% of program spendingScience: The science program's purpose, to enable more effective decision-making by stewards of working lands, is embedded in an active working landscape. Research programs span 3 key areas: Land Stewardship and Management, Livestock Production and Ranching, and Wildlife Conservation and Management, which focus on those factors that most threaten the productivity, sustainability, and utility of working native rangelands. Each of these program areas contains discovery elements, intended to elucidate mechanisms that govern the complexities of land ecology, animal science and production systems, and population ecology of wildlife; development elements, intended to implement discoveries into systems and technologies for application by land stewards; (See Schedule O for continuation).
$2,841,339 spent$705,092 earned by the program26% of program spendingEducation: East Foundation's Behind the Gates Education Program connects students to the land using hands-on, science-based curriculum. The program recognizes the value of a multifaceted system starting with delivering the message of natural resource conservation in schools and continuing with involving students in land stewardship practices on East Foundation's working lands. We believe that demonstrating how land stewardship provides quality of life for both people and wildlife is essential for their appreciation and understanding of working lands. Our goal is twofold. We aim to empower future leaders with knowledge and appreciation of how our natural systems work and we cultivate the next generation of natural resource professionals to support the working lands of Texas (See Schedule O for continuation).
$332,006 spentof which $238,744 as grants3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $10,919,207.
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. 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 2020 to 2021, from $724M to $503M (−31%).
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 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
47% of Tom T East Sr and Alice K East and Alice H East and Robert C East Wildlife Fnd’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (80% for the typical peer).
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.
Chief executive
Robert Neal Wilkins
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $15k → $35k.
2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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: $39M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Diamond Bar Fund). These are real filings, and they are not money Tom T East Sr and Alice K East and Alice H East and Robert C East Wildlife Fnd raised.
From the IRS filings of Tom T East Sr and Alice K East and Alice H East and Robert C East Wildlife Fnd’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 9 of 10 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
Tom T East Sr and Alice K East and Alice H East and Robert C East Wildlife Fnd has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% 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
65% 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 Tom T East Sr and Alice K East and Alice H East and Robert C East Wildlife Fnd.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 27% · 2022 57% · 2023 57% — 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
20% of Tom T East Sr and Alice K East and Alice H East and Robert C East Wildlife Fnd's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 50% 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
91% of Tom T East Sr and Alice K East and Alice H East and Robert C East Wildlife Fnd's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $65k 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
Tom T East Sr and Alice K East and Alice H East and Robert C East Wildlife Fnd is better cushioned than half of the 452 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 452 philanthropy nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like Tom T East Sr and Alice K East and Alice H East and Robert C East Wildlife Fnd
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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- East Foundation Ranches LLC · disregarded
- The Diamond Bar Fund · exempt
- Diamond Bar Conservation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Tom T East Sr and Alice K East and Alice H East and Robert C East Wildlife Fnd: 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 Tom T East Sr and Alice K East and Alice H East and Robert C East Wildlife Fnd?
- Tom T East Sr and Alice K East and Alice H East and Robert C East Wildlife Fnd (Texas) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $240,000 to it, the largest being LAS HUELLAS INC ($60,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Tom T East Sr and Alice K East and Alice H East and Robert C East Wildlife Fnd have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $240,000 in grants to Tom T East Sr and Alice K East and Alice H East and Robert C East Wildlife Fnd, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Tom T East Sr and Alice K East and Alice H East and Robert C East Wildlife Fnd?
- LAS HUELLAS INC is the largest funder on record, with $60,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Tom T East Sr and Alice K East and Alice H East and Robert C East Wildlife Fnd 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 10 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