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TEXAS FOUNDATION FOR CONSERVATION

EIN 81-3971522 DALLAS, TX

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Revenue 2025
$550,000
Expenses 2025
$561,927

Program services were 97.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
D30
Classification
2000
Street
6220 GASTON AVE STE 750

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

Fish and wildlife conservation and outreach including public awareness. Fifteen public relations campaign on social media with over 7.5 million impressions. Twenty plus speaking engagements to a variety of conservation organizations including expert testimony at State Capitol public hearings and Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission meetings.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Fish and wildlife conservation and outreach to ensure the people of Texas will always have abundant and healthy fish and wildlife populations to enjoy. Through outreach education and emphasizing science as the basis for decision-making the Texas Foundation for Conservation supports initiatives that uphold the principles of the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation and the Public Trust Doctrine.

  • Fish and wildlife conservation and outreach including public awareness. Fifteen public relations

    Expenses $548,914

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • John Shepperd

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $196,933
    From this org
    $196,933
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $168,333
    Bonus
    $25,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $3,600
    Filer's total
    $196,933

  • David Yeates

    Director of Policy

    Total calculated
    $55,167
    From this org
    $55,167
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $550,000
    Expenses
    $561,927
    Contributions
    $550,000
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $440,000
    Expenses
    $434,368
    Contributions
    $440,000
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $440,000
    Expenses
    $434,368
    Contributions
    $440,000
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $450,650
    Expenses
    $422,937
    Contributions
    $450,650
    Grants paid
    $76,805
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $231,450
    Expenses
    $195,504
    Contributions
    $231,450
    Grants paid
    $30,100

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $247,416
    Expenses
    $212,886
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,166

  • 2020 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $114,560
    Expenses
    $141,785
    Assets (EOY)
    $466

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2016

Tax period
1 January 2016 to 31 December 2016
Principal officer
John Shepperd
Mailing address
PO Box 300621Austin TX 78703

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

  • Exemption revoked 15 May 2022, reinstated 15 May 2022.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.