Texas · Nonprofit
Westcave Outdoor Discovery Center
Westcave Outdoor Discovery Center (Texas) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,549,487 to it, the largest being JAMES A BUDDY DAVIDSON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($250,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $931k
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What Westcave Outdoor Discovery Center does
Mission
Land Preservation and Education
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Conservation: Our staff provides ongoing land management and trail maintenance to ensure that Westcave remains a prime example of effective land and water conservation. Westcave's stewardship of its grotto, rainwater ponds, and riparian areas supports local water cycles and mitigates the impact of droughta significant climate vulnerability in Central Texas. Healthy green spaces like Westcave's preserve help manage stormwater, reduce erosion, and maintain groundwater recharge, providing natural climate adaptation benefits for the region. Westcave protects the quality and quantity of natural springs and other water sources, including the Heinz Creek branch of the Pedernales River and the Middle Trinity Aquifer. We are also part of the Motus Tracking system, identifying the migratory patterns of birds and insects, as well as Dark Sky initiatives to help limit light pollution so we can see more of our immense galaxy.
$121,425 spent$52,684 earned by the program21% of program spendingConservation: Protecting the preserve, restoring native habitat, and providing research opportunities.
$269,458 spent$181,402 earned by the program47% of program spendingCommunity: Providing understanding communities with opportunities to explore the natural world.
$181,076 spent$123,963 earned by the program32% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $571,959.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2019 to 2020, from $1.1M to $1.5M (+39%).
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: 2018 3% · 2019 2% · 2020 2% · 2021 25% · 2022 7% · 2023 6% · 2025 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
47% of Westcave Outdoor Discovery Center’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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
Jenny McMillan
Executive Director
Board chair
Troy Meyer
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 9 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $93k → $76k.
6 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 Westcave Outdoor Discovery Center’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 28 of 29 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
Westcave Outdoor Discovery Center 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
32% 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 Westcave Outdoor Discovery Center.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 45% · 2019 49% · 2020 51% · 2021 32% · 2022 26% · 2023 33% — broadly stable.
“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 Westcave Outdoor Discovery Center's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% 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
89% of Westcave Outdoor Discovery Center's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $205k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
Westcave Outdoor Discovery Center runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Westcave Outdoor Discovery Center
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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
61%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Westcave Outdoor Discovery Center?
- Westcave Outdoor Discovery Center (Texas) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,549,487 to it, the largest being JAMES A BUDDY DAVIDSON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($250,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Westcave Outdoor Discovery Center have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $1,549,487 in grants to Westcave Outdoor Discovery Center, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Westcave Outdoor Discovery Center?
- JAMES A BUDDY DAVIDSON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Westcave Outdoor Discovery Center 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 29 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