Texas · Nonprofit
WATERLOO GREENWAY CONSERVANCY
WATERLOO GREENWAY CONSERVANCY (Texas) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,200,113 to it, the largest being The Moody Foundation ($3,100,000). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $7.4M
- Funders on record
- 61
- Grants received
- $19M
- Net assets
- $12M
What Waterloo Greenway Conservancy does
Mission
Waterloo Greenway Conservancy is a 501(c)(3) non-profit whose mission is to create and maintain a chain of extraordinary urban parks around a restored waller creek, in partnership with the city of austin, for the benefit of all.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Waterloo Greenway Conservancy opened the revitalized waterloo park to the community in 2021. The organization activates waterloo park and moody amphitheater with a variety of arts and cultural experiences, including: permanent and temporary art exhibitions; live music concerts; dance and performance art; large-scale cultural festivals; and arts and cultural activities at weekly programs.
$2,198,308 spent$1,853,134 earned by the program43% of program spendingOnce complete, waterloo greenway will be a 35 acre, 1.5-mile park system of connected green space that will be home to a wild array of natural and cultural destinations. A significant public-private partnership between the city of austin and Waterloo Greenway Conservancy, this park is being planned, designed, and built in a series of geographic milestones. Symphony square, waterloo park, and moody amphitheater are now open. Construction of the confluence began in 2023.
$1,534,868 spent30% of program spendingWaterloo Greenway Conservancy's park operations program maintains and operates waterloo park in downtown austin. The park operations team maintains 1.5 miles of trails, 500 trees, 90,000+ plants, a beautiful tree deck, an open plaza, and a 5,000 person capacity outdoor amphitheater.
$1,124,560 spent22% of program spendingWaterloo greenway's non-arts programming includes partnership-based healthy living/fitness classes and a community engagement program. Fitness classes are offered at the park throughout the spring and summer. The community engagement program operates year-round to raise citywide awareness and ensure that residents in all 10 council districts have opportunities to engage with and benefit from the project.
$237,738 spent5% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,095,474.
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 2020 to 2021, from $22M to $14M (−35%).
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: 2017 63% · 2019 69% · 2020 84% · 2021 38% · 2022 8% · 2023 5% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
72% of WATERLOO GREENWAY CONSERVANCY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 7 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
Jesus Aguirre
Chief executive officer (thru 5/2024)
Board chair
Tim Lafrey
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 27 funders, grant income fell $1.8M → $1.2M.
14 of 61 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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: $769k from 6 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Austin Community Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money WATERLOO GREENWAY CONSERVANCY raised.
From the IRS filings of WATERLOO GREENWAY CONSERVANCY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 61 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
WATERLOO GREENWAY CONSERVANCY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
26% 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 WATERLOO GREENWAY CONSERVANCY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 77% · 2018 43% · 2019 58% · 2020 31% · 2021 38% · 2022 21% · 2023 21% — 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
43% of WATERLOO GREENWAY CONSERVANCY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
87% of WATERLOO GREENWAY CONSERVANCY's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
WATERLOO GREENWAY CONSERVANCY is better cushioned than half 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
Organizations like WATERLOO GREENWAY CONSERVANCY
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
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WATERLOO GREENWAY CONSERVANCY?
- WATERLOO GREENWAY CONSERVANCY (Texas) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,200,113 to it, the largest being The Moody Foundation ($3,100,000). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WATERLOO GREENWAY CONSERVANCY have?
- IRS filings report 61 organizations giving $19,200,113 in grants to WATERLOO GREENWAY CONSERVANCY, 37 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WATERLOO GREENWAY CONSERVANCY?
- The Moody Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $3,100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WATERLOO GREENWAY CONSERVANCY 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 61 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