Parks and Wildlife Foundation of Texas
Dallas, TX · EIN 74-2602504. Reported 62 grants totalling $28.9M to 42 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Parks and Wildlife Foundation of Texas, by its IRS classification it exists to support one specific institution in environment -- typically its own parent hospital, university or school (NTEE C11).
- How spread out its giving is. 42 distinct organizations, with 91% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is extreme concentration. A grantmaker sending three quarters of its money to one organization is in practice a support fund for that organization, whatever its classification says, and an unsolicited request is very unlikely to go anywhere.
- How much its list changes. 36% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $17,405. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $57,500; the smallest was $5,150 and the largest $14.2M. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
3 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $18.6M in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Texas Parks and Wildlife Dept | Austin, TX | $26.2M | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Texas Foundation for Conservation | Dallas, TX | $800,950 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Borderlands Research Inst | Alpine, TX | $432,250 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Chasing the Tide | Austin, TX | $279,188 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Nature Conservancy | Arlington, VA | $131,800 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Friedkin Conservation Fund | Houston, TX | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Friends of the Pecos River Inc | Iraan, TX | $97,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Wildlife Habitat Federation | Sealy, TX | $74,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Texas Land Conservancy | Austin, TX | $62,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Native Prairies Association of Texas | Manchaca, TX | $58,090 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Coastal Prairie Conservancy | Houston, TX | $55,300 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Harte Research Institute | Corpus Christi, TX | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Society for Ecological Restoration Inc | Washington, DC | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Texas Agricultural Land Trust Foundation | San Antonio, TX | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Texas A&m Univ-Coprus Christi | Corpus Christi, TX | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Town of Fulton Texas | Fulton, TX | $45,365 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Audubon Outdoor Club of Corpus Christi Inc | Corp Christi, TX | $43,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| American Bird Conservancy | Marshall, VA | $41,863 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Huston-Tillotson University | Austin, TX | $38,100 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Borderland Research Foundation | Alpine, TX | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Wildlife Association of Texas | New Braunfels, TX | $25,282 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Arizona Quail Alliance | Nogales, AZ | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Coastal Bend Community Foundation | Corp Christi, TX | $19,810 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Auburn University Foundation | Auburn, AL | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Quail Federation Inc | Houston, TX | $14,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Texas Children in Nature | Austin, TX | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Fort Worth Mountain Bikers | Fort Worth, TX | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ecology Action of Texas Inc | Austin, TX | $11,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Bat Conservation International Inc | Austin, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Brazoria County | Angleton, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Exploration Green Conservancy | Houston, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Park Cities Quail | Dallas, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Peregrine Fund Inc | Boise, ID | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Texas Business Hall of Fame Foundation | Houston, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Trans-Pecos Bird Conservation | Fort Davis, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership Inc | Washington, DC | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| City of Port Aransas Nature Preserve | Port Aransas, TX | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Fort Worth Zoo | Fort Worth, TX | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Artist Boat Inc | Galveston, TX | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Rio Brazos Audubon Society | College Sta, TX | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Ducks Unlimited Inc | Memphis, TN | $5,929 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Luck Family Found- Acf | Austin, TX | $5,150 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
12 of 42 (29%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Texas Parks and Wildlife Dept
MAINTAIN PARKS AND WILDLIFE - Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
Support and Maintain Parks & Wildlife - Tx Agricultural Land Trust
BIRDWELL & CLARK RANCH SUPPORT - Coastal Prairie Conservancy
GREAT TEXAS BIRDING CLASSIC - Huston Tillotson University
SCHOLARS INTERNS PROGRAMS - Arizona Quail Alliance
MONTEZUMA QUAIL COLLECTIONS TX PROJ
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 23 of 42 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 11 | $4,917,863 | $12,500 |
| 2022 | 15 | $3,713,003 | $20,000 |
| 2023 | 13 | $4,721,339 | $12,000 |
| 2024 | 23 | $15.6M | $46,800 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
99% of its giving went to organizations in Texas. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $17,405 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Texas.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Parks and Wildlife Foundation of Texas's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 23 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 6220 Gaston Avenue 700, Dallas, TX, 75214.
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