Skip to content
Nonprofiteer
← TOM T EAST SR & ALICE K EAST & ALICE H EAST & ROBERT C EAST WILDL

Form 990 for tax year 2024

Filed by TOM T EAST SR & ALICE K EAST & ALICE H EAST & ROBERT C EAST WILDL.

Totals

Total revenue
$16,451,180
Total expenses
$14,620,615
Contributions and grants received
$7,671,161
Grants paid
$238,744
Program service revenue
$2,157,611
Investment income
$1,376,550
Other revenue
$5,245,858
Total assets, end of year
$528,379,918
Total liabilities, end of year
$22,835,432
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$505,544,486
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$10,919,207
Management and general expenses
$3,701,408
Fundraising expenses
$0
Program service expenses (Part III)
$10,919,207

Program services were 74.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1d · Related organizations

    $7,521,024

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $150,137

  • 2a · Program service revenue: Program lease income

    total $844,991 · related or exempt $844,991

  • 2b · Program service revenue: Research services

    total $832,375 · related or exempt $832,375

  • 2c · Program service revenue: Drought insurance

    total $480,245 · related or exempt $480,245

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $998,864 · unrelated business $956,124 · excluded $42,740

  • 5 · Royalties

    total $14,041 · excluded $14,041

  • 6a · Gross rents

    real property $55,150

  • 6b · Less rental expenses

    real property $0

  • 6c · Rental income or loss

    real property $55,150

  • 6d · Net rental income or loss

    total $55,150 · excluded $55,150

  • 7a · Gross sales of assets other than inventory

    other assets $542,579

  • 7b · Less cost or other basis and sales expenses

    other assets $164,893

  • 7c · Gain or loss

    other assets $377,686

  • 7d · Net gain or loss

    total $377,686 · related or exempt $377,686

  • 10a · Gross sales of inventory

    $6,365,649

  • 10b · Cost of goods sold

    $1,836,212

  • 10c · Net income from sales of inventory

    total $4,529,437 · related or exempt $4,529,437

  • 11a · Other revenue: Easement settlement

    total $647,230 · excluded $647,230

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $647,230

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $222,744 · program services $222,744

  • 2 · Grants to domestic individuals

    total $16,000 · program services $16,000

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $2,260,803 · program services $1,352,318 · management and general $908,485

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $3,056,221 · program services $2,083,362 · management and general $972,859

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $331,964 · program services $226,293 · management and general $105,671

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $343,548 · program services $234,189 · management and general $109,359

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $309,672 · program services $211,097 · management and general $98,575

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $150,149 · program services $115,983 · management and general $34,166

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $196,898 · management and general $196,898

  • 11d · Fees: lobbying

    total $9,784 · program services $9,784

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $329,171 · program services $243,544 · management and general $85,627

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $45,643 · program services $45,643

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $90,154 · program services $22,021 · management and general $68,133

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $161,404 · program services $106,417 · management and general $54,987

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $781,389 · program services $527,880 · management and general $253,509

  • 17 · Travel

    total $269,585 · program services $187,969 · management and general $81,616

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $34,301 · program services $34,301

  • 20 · Interest

    total $659,026 · program services $85,673 · management and general $573,353

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $1,800,290 · program services $1,783,380 · management and general $16,910

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $379,509 · program services $357,087 · management and general $22,422

  • 24a · Other expenses: 990-T income tax

    total $54,000 · management and general $54,000

  • 24b · Other expenses: Ranch program

    total $1,662,030 · program services $1,662,030

  • 24c · Other expenses: Research and monitoring

    total $808,239 · program services $808,239

  • 24d · Other expenses: Repairs and maintenance

    total $567,033 · program services $510,706 · management and general $56,327

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $81,058 · program services $72,547 · management and general $8,511

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $11,299 · end of year $206,696

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $7,509,828 · end of year $8,542,882

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $300,230 · end of year $277,659

  • 8 · Inventories for sale or use

    beginning of year $2,272,582 · end of year $2,360,490

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $7,984 · end of year $49,938

  • 10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

    $509,618,061

  • 10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation

    $13,356,391

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $496,078,303 · end of year $496,261,670

  • 11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

    beginning of year $15,409,288 · end of year $15,942,830

  • 14 · Intangible assets

    beginning of year $166,519 · end of year $154,866

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $4,582,887 · end of year $4,582,887

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $1,258,976 · end of year $1,670,685

  • 19 · Deferred revenue

    beginning of year $236,858 · end of year $213,172

  • 24 · Unsecured notes and loans payable

    beginning of year $20,000,000 · end of year $20,000,000

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $184,781 · end of year $951,575

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $504,658,305 · end of year $505,544,486

Mission and programs · 2024

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.

Activities or mission (Part I)

We promote the advancement of land stewardship through ranching, science, and education.

  • 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).

    Expenses $7,745,862 · Revenue $6,359,642

  • Science: 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).

    Expenses $2,841,339 · Revenue $705,092

  • Education: 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).

    Expenses $332,006 · Grants $238,744

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

  • Richard W Evans Jr

    Director

    Total calculated
    $70,500
    From this org
    $70,500
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    4 + 2 related

  • Dan Kinsel III

    Director

    Total calculated
    $65,500
    From this org
    $65,500
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    4 + 2 related

  • Stephen J Kleberg

    Director

    Total calculated
    $65,500
    From this org
    $65,500
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    4 + 2 related

  • Bryan Wagner

    Director

    Total calculated
    $65,500
    From this org
    $65,500
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    4 + 2 related

  • Robert Neal Wilkins

    President & CEO

    Total calculated
    $718,514
    From this org
    $512,222
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $206,292
    Hours/week
    40 + 2 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $509,713
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $2,509
    Deferred
    $189,783
    Nontaxable benefits
    $16,509
    Filer's total
    $718,514

  • Robert Todd Snelgrove

    Chief Operating Officer

    Total calculated
    $249,688
    From this org
    $224,381
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $25,307
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $224,181
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $200
    Deferred
    $17,491
    Nontaxable benefits
    $7,816
    Filer's total
    $249,688

  • Jason E Sawyer

    Chief Science Officer

    Total calculated
    $287,026
    From this org
    $259,182
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $27,844
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $258,982
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $200
    Deferred
    $20,028
    Nontaxable benefits
    $7,816
    Filer's total
    $287,026

  • Veronica L Paredez

    CFO, Sec, Treas

    Total calculated
    $214,735
    From this org
    $192,709
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $22,026
    Hours/week
    22 + 18 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $192,459
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $250
    Deferred
    $14,210
    Nontaxable benefits
    $7,816
    Filer's total
    $214,735

  • Trey R Dyer

    Director of Land & Fixed Assets

    Total calculated
    $224,903
    From this org
    $201,266
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $23,637
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $201,016
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $250
    Deferred
    $15,821
    Nontaxable benefits
    $7,816
    Filer's total
    $224,903

  • James Powell IV

    Director of Communications

    Total calculated
    $233,886
    From this org
    $210,339
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $23,547
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $210,139
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $200
    Deferred
    $15,731
    Nontaxable benefits
    $7,816
    Filer's total
    $233,886

  • Cynthia A Pavlicek

    Chief of Staff

    Total calculated
    $180,500
    From this org
    $160,867
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $19,633
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $160,667
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $200
    Deferred
    $11,817
    Nontaxable benefits
    $7,816
    Filer's total
    $180,500

  • Christine Buford

    Director of Education

    Total calculated
    $135,429
    From this org
    $118,280
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $17,149
    Hours/week
    40

  • Margarita A DeLeon

    Controller

    Total calculated
    $130,935
    From this org
    $114,687
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $16,248
    Hours/week
    40

  • Ashley M Reeves

    Research Veterinarian

    Total calculated
    $119,336
    From this org
    $103,581
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $15,755
    Hours/week
    40

  • Richard M Douglas

    Security Manager

    Total calculated
    $113,859
    From this org
    $106,177
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $7,682
    Hours/week
    40

  • Eduardo Reyna

    Ranch Operations Manager

    Total calculated
    $146,516
    From this org
    $102,935
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $43,581
    Hours/week
    40

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Answered yes

  • 1a · Housing allowance or residence for personal use
  • 1b · Written policy on the line-1a expenses
  • 2 · Substantiation required before reimbursing expenses
  • 3 · Independent compensation consultant
  • 3 · Form 990 of other organizations
  • 3 · Compensation survey or study
  • 3 · Approval by the board or compensation committee
  • 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan

Answered no

  • 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
  • 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
  • 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
  • 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
  • 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
  • 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
  • 7 · Other non-fixed payments
  • 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception

The filer's explanations (Part III)

Part I, Line 1a
The Ranch Operations Manager resides on the ranch in housing provided by East Foundation. The estimated annual value of this housing and utilities is $28,000. This lodging is provided for the convenience of the organization and is required to enable the Ranch Operations Manager to properly perform their essential duties for East Foundation. The housing is not treated as taxable compensation, pursuant to IRC Section 119.
Part I, Line 4b
The organization has deferred compensation plans under IRC Section 457(f) covering Robert Neal Wilkins (President and CEO), Cynthia A. Pavlicek (Chief of Staff), Robert Todd Snelgrove (Chief Operating Officer), Jason E. Sawyer (Chief Science Officer), and Veronica L. Paredez, (CFO, Secretary, and Treasurer).

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Related organizations on this return

Schedule R Part II: tax-exempt organizations related to the filer by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

  • The Diamond Bar Fund

    501(c)(3) · Support East Foundation · TX · controlled entity

    Directly controlled by East Foundation

  • Diamond Bar Conservation

    501(c)(3) · Support East Foundation · TX · controlled entity

    Directly controlled by East Foundation

Taxable family on this return

Schedule R Parts I, III and IV, as filed. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money moved.

Disregarded entities

Part I: entities that legally are the filer and file no return of their own.

  • East Foundation Ranches LLC

    Ranching · TX · income $5,424,438 · assets $8,528,563

    Directly controlled by East Foundation

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2024
Filed
13 August 2026
IRS schema version
2024v5.5
Source object
202632259349301838

Check it against the return as filed: the GivingTuesday Data Lake hosts a public copy of the original XML.

The source document this was parsed from is served over the API, which is where bulk and document access live.