- Revenue 2023
- $59,981
- Expenses 2023
- $31,215
Program services were 2.8% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- C27
- Classification
- 1200
- Street
- PO BOX 831
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 · 2023
Primary exempt purpose
Our mission is to keep Real County beautiful day and night. Our focus is collection of cardboard, aluminum cans, and plastics for recycling, trash cleanups along Highway 83 and 55, trash collection on the Frio and Nueces Rivers, and preservation of the night sky through education on how to limit the effects of lights on our dark skies.
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We organized the first Frio River trash cleanup in five years. We had approximately 45 volunteers take sections of the river to collect trash. We then had a celebratory BBQ with small awards.
Expenses $725 · Grants $1,500
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Each quarter we collected trash along Highways 83 and 55 in Real County. Volunteer numbers ranged from 32 for the 2nd quarter when we had students from the local high school help to earn service hours to as few as 6 for Q3
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We pulled our recycling trailer to the local Food Bank distribution 10 times, (every month except July and August). We collected cardboard, aluminum cans, and plastics and then drove the trailer to the Utopia Texas recycling center.
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We participated in Earth Day activities at The Springs resort. We hired a face painter and distibuted information on recycling.
Expenses $150
As filed on the 2023 return.
Officers and directors · 2023
As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.
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Amanda Griffin
President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 10
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Jeff Carter
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 10
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Patti Berkstresser
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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Laurie Reagan
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 6
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Kelli McLaughlin
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Victoria Towers
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.
Filings
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2023
- Revenue
- $59,981
- Expenses
- $31,215
- Contributions
- $31,351
- Grants paid
- $1,500
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.
Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2025
- Tax period
- 1 January 2025 to 31 December 2025
- Principal officer
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Jeff Carter
- Mailing address
- PO Box 831Leakey TX 78873
- Website
- keepitrealbeautiful.org
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
No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.
Grants received
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2025 GENERAL SUPPORT
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$6,000
2023 GRANT
Other IRS files
Auto-Revocation List
Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.
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 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.