2024-10-21T08:39:01-07:00 2023-12-31 752593210 Sutton Frost Cary LLP 200 E Front St Suite 200 Arlington TX 76011 990 2023-01-01 742602504 PARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF TEXAS PARK 2147201478 6220 GASTON AVENUE 700 DALLAS TX 75214 ANNE BROWN Executive Dir. 2024-10-21 true true Carroll Elizabeth Arnott P01965628 8176498083 2023 2024-10-15 13:58:12Z X ANNE BROWN 6220 GASTON AVENUE 700 DALLAS TX 75214 78931291 false X WWW.TPWF.ORG X 1991 TX TO SUPPORT TEXAS PARKS AND WILDLIFE DEPARTMENT (TPWD) TO ENSURE THAT ALL TEXANS, TODAY AND IN THE FUTURE, CAN ENJOY THE WILD THINGS AND WILD PLACES OF TEXAS. 25 25 18 65 0 12910159 15669699 233628 999219 1843914 2992262 134269 69255 15121970 19730435 3796444 4736772 0 1610535 2020215 0 35365 3104935 3717035 8511914 10474022 6610056 9256413 79643197 92031663 7945928 7444591 71697269 84587072 X The primary objective of TPWF is to support Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and other Texas conservation partners to advance Texas proud outdoor traditions through meaningful, high-impact programs, partnerships, and a wide range of projects that conserve and enhance our states lands, waters, and wildlife. This is accomplished through private fundraising and the strategic investment of funds to provide to the department and other conservation partners that are doing research, outreach, and on-the-ground conservation. The staff is knowledgeable in TPWD projects and has the expertise and experience partnering with the department to secure funding and resources to amplify their efforts statewide. false false 4027210 1144641 344358 TPWFs Engage program strives to engage and inspire all Texans to take an active interest in the natural wonders of our state by offering a wide variety of opportunities to experience Texas great outdoors and to help ensure a thriving future for the wild things and wild places of our state. Through this program, TPWF supports transformational projects at Texas State Parks. Between 2019 and mid-2023, TPWF led a campaign to raise funds through a landmark public-private partnership to open Palo Pinto Mountains State Park. Located 75 miles west of the Dallas/Fort Worth area and sitting on almost 5,000 acres of rambling hills and stunning vistas, this will be the first new state park in North Texas in over 25 years. TPWF successfully raised $10 million in private dollars to pair with public funding and broke ground on the vertical construction of visitor facilities in late 2023. Construction is expected to take 18 months to complete, and Palo Pinto Mountains State Park is expected to open sometime in 2025. 2023 also marked the centennial anniversary of Texas State Parks, and TPWF successfully mobilized a grassroots campaign that raised $1.9 million to deliver significant visitor experience enhancements and priority-need equipment to all 88 parks, ranging from wildlife and dark sky viewing equipment, ADA-accessible kayak launches and courtesy docks, and mountain bike repair stations to kid-friendly archery equipment, beach and playground shade structures, and off-road search and rescue vehicles. Projects are currently underway and expected to be completed in 2024. In addition, TPWFs conservation leadership program, Stewards of the Wild, continues to engage and encourage hundreds of annual members across Texas to take an active role in being good stewards and champions of our wild things and wild places. 2023 marked the programs 10th anniversary, and it is now the largest conservation leadership program in Texas, with member-led chapters in most major metropolitan areas. In addition to educational events, conservation service projects, and statewide outdoor experiences, Stewards of the Wild offers mentored hunting and fishing opportunities that serve to connect novice and lapsed adult hunters with experienced hunters who can teach them practical, ethical and conservation elements of hunting in Texas. To date, Stewards of the Wild has engaged more than 150 participants in mentored hunting and fishing experiences. The program also provides select advisory council members with opportunities to further develop their leadership skills as fellows to the TPWF Board of Trustees. TPWF has also encouraged the pursuit of conservation careers by launching the Women in Conservation Science Scholarship in 2021 and partnering with the Coastal Conservation Association to fund 38 Coastal Game Warden Internship Program interns since 2016. 2689353 1349992 412500 TPWFs Conserve program works to ensure the future of Texas incredible fish and wildlife resources and the habitats they rely on. From restoring a sea of grasslands across West Texas to researching the natural recolonization of black bears in West Texas, TPWF is conserving the wild things and wild places of Texas acre-by acre, species-by-species. In partnership with the Oaks and Prairies Joint Venture, TPWD, and private landowners, TPWF continues its work to restore and enhance grassland habitat in Texas and Oklahoma through the Grassland Restoration Incentive Program by implementing on-the-ground habitat restoration projects that directly combat the issues involved in the decline of grassland species, with the restoration of over 7,500 acres underway since the beginning of 2022 and a total of over 120,000 acres restored since the program launched in 2013. A similar project in the Pecos River watershed has restored over 16,000 acres of grassland habitat since its launch in 2021. In 2022, TPWF partnered with Borderlands Research Institute at Sul Ross State University on a multi-year research and outreach program to investigate the natural recolonization of black bears in West Texas, including bear population numbers, habitat needs, behaviors, and movements. Preliminary findings through 2023 already indicate potential for a stable, native black bear population recovery in the future. This research will also serve as the foundation for science-based strategies to effectively manage the return of native bears and educational outreach programs to foster their coexistence with area landowners and residents. Additionally, in 2023, TPWF continued a multi-year, multi-million-dollar campaign to fund $4.6 million in capital improvements to the Edwin L. Cox, Jr., Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center (TFFC) in Athens, Texas. Opened in 1996, TFFC is a 106-acre educational facility and freshwater fish hatchery, including a laboratory, over 300,000 gallons of indoor and outdoor aquariums, and 45 ponds covering 37 acres. TFFC serves more than 35,000 visitors each year, many of whom visit with school and youth group field trips. Construction preparation began in fall 2023, and TPWF is currently overseeing management of the renovations, which includes refurbishing the popular Dive Theater and its dive tank, renovating four large outdoor aquaria exhibits, installing four new outdoor fisheries tanks, and enhancing the indoor exhibits and overall visitor experience. TFFCs fish hatcheries and its ShareLunker citizen-science trophy bass research and breeding program will remain operational during the renovation, and the facility is slated to reopen to the public in spring 2025. 1701737 1137000 344358 Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundations (TPWF) Steward program is focused on priority land conservation acquisitions. Since its inception in 1991, TPWF has helped conserve over 200,000 acres of land across Texas. Recent land conservation projects have included adding 497 acres to TPWDs Matagorda Peninsula Coastal Management Area, which now consists of over 6,700 acres and serves as a sea turtle nesting location and a nesting and foraging site for a variety of wading birds and shorebirds. The peninsula is also an important part of storm surge mitigation, protecting East Matagorda Bay and the mainland. TPWF also helped create the iconic 17,351-acre Powderhorn Wildlife Management Area and future state park on Matagorda Bay, one of Texas most exciting land conservation projects to date. The Powderhorn acquisition was a multi-partner effort that conserved valuable fish and wildlife habitat and created access to undeveloped, restored coastal prairie, fulfilling a promise made to the people of Texas nearly 10 years ago. In 2023, TPWF helped acquire the 2,178-acre Burns Ranch, a former TPWD Lone Star Land Stewards Award winner. Now protected as TPWDs Paul and Toni Burns Wildlife Management Area, this rare property of the Cross Timbers and Plains Ecological Region provides essential grassland habitat and sustenance for hundreds of native and migratory species. In all, TPWF helped permanently protect 10,738 acres worth over $60 million in 2023, including nine land acquisitions totaling 9,835 acres. Through TPWFs Buffer Lands Incentive Program, which supports partner land trusts that acquire conservation easements across the state, TPWF supported four conservation easement projects totaling 903 acres in 2023. In a state with limited protected public and private lands, TPWFs Steward program is critical to meet the needs of a growing population while simultaneously protecting the wild things and wild places that make Texas special. 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THE USE OF THE ENDOWMENT FUNDS IS TO CONSERVE THE NATURAL AND CULTURAL RESOURCES OF TEXAS; PROMOTE CONSERVATION EDUCATION, AND OFFER SCHOLARSHIP AND INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITIES. Part X : FIN48 Footnote The Foundation is exempt from federal income taxes under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) and has not been classified as a private foundation as defined in the IRC. Income generated from activities unrelated to the Foundations exempt purposes is subject to tax under IRC Section 511. The Foundation had no unrelated business income tax liability for the years ended December 31, 2023. Accordingly, no provision has been made for federal income tax.GAAP requires the evaluation of tax positions taken in the course of preparing the Foundations tax returns and recognition of a tax liability (or asset) if the Foundation has taken an uncertain position that more likely than not would not be sustained upon examination by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). 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REQUESTS FROM THE TEXAS PARKS AND WILDLIFE DEPARTMENT(TPWD) ARE SUBMITTED TO THE BOOKKEEPER FOR PRINTING AND DISTRIBUTION TO THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR. ADDITIONAL REQUESTS FOR GRANT FUNDING MAY BE SUBMITTED THROUGH THE DIRECTOR OF CONSERVATION PROGRAMS, THE DIRECTOR OF PHILANTHROPY, OR THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR. AFTER A REVIEW AND APPROVAL BY THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, THE REQUEST WILL BE SUBMITTED FOR PROCESSING TO THE CONTROLLER OR BOOKKEEPER. X false false false false false false false false false ANNE BROWN Executive Dir. 130000 23728 153728 EMILY HOUSE DIR. OF OUTREACH 135000 3500 13187 151687 PHIL LAMB DIR. OF PHILAN. 160504 20000 1167 23726 205397 ZACH SPECTOR DIR. OF CONSER. 145507 4313 11781 161601 X 2 1403200 FMV X 1 67500 fmv false true false Form 990, Part III, Line 4d OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 4: TPWFs Lead program seeks to advance the capabilities of the Texas Game Wardens who have watched over the lands, waters, wildlife, and people of Texas for over 125 years. Every year Texas Game Wardens patrol over 10 million miles by vehicle and 160,000 hours by boat, facing challenges as unique as the 254 counties they serve. With more than 550 commissioned peace officers throughout the state, game wardens tirelessly lead the way in critical search and rescue operations; render aid during times of natural disaster like hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, and wildfires; and provide conservation enforcement and education for fishing, hunting, and boating. Texas Game Wardens are widely recognized as the best trained corps of conservation officers in the nation, and 2023 marked the 6th anniversary of TPWFs successful S. Reed Morian Gear Up for Game Wardens program. Since its launch in 2017, Gear Up for Game Wardens has outfitted game wardens across Texas with specialized equipment ranging from thermal search and rescue drones and side-scan sonar units to custom-outfitted ATVs and UTVs for off-road patrols, and even custom-made skiffs for shallow-water patrols and seagrass regulation enforcement. The program has now raised over $4.6 million through 2023 and procured and put into service an estimated value of $5 million in specialty equipment for game wardens in every region of the state. Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 8b WHILE THE FULL BOARD HAS MINUTES AT EACH MEETING, THERE ARE FEW COMMITTEE MEETINGS AND THESE DO NOT HAVE MINUTES. THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE DOES NOT TAKE MINUTES DUE TO CONFIDENTIALITY. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b THE CONTROLLER AND/OR FINANCE DIRECTOR REVIEW THE FORM 990 AND COMPARES NUMBERS TO INTERNAL FINANCIALS. THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, ALONG WITH THE FINANCE COMMITTEE, INCLUDING THE CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD, REVIEW THE FORM 990 BEFORE IT IS FILED. THE FORM 990 IS PROVIDED TO THE BOARD BEFORE IT IS FILED. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c THE BOARD AND OFFICERS SIGN AN ANNUAL STATEMENT DECLARING ANY POTENTIAL CONFLICTS OF INTEREST EVERY YEAR. THE OFFICE MANAGER COLLECTS THESE STATEMENTS AND REVIEWS THEM. IF THERE IS ANY CONFLICT THE OFFICE MANAGER WOULD PASS ON TO THE CONTROLLER FOR FURTHER INVESTIGATION. IF A CONFLICT IS FOUND TO EXIST, THE CONFLICTED MEMBER WILL ABSTAIN FROM VOTING AND REMOVE THEMSELVES FROM THE BOARD ROOM DURING DISCUSSIONS. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15a THE PROCESS TO DETERMINE THE COMPENSATION FOR THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR INCLUDES THE REVIEW AND APPROVAL OF THE COMPENSATION BY COMPARABILITY DATA, AND CONTEMPORANEOUS SUBSTANTIATION OF THE DELIBERATION AND DECISIONS, AND REVIEW AND APPROVAL OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. NORMALLY IN AUGUST OR SEPTEMBER EACH YEAR THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR REVIEWS ALL KEY EMPLOYEE'S SALARY AND PERFORMANCE. ALL REVIEWS ARE DOCUMENTED IN THE EMPLOYEE'S HR FILES. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 THE ORGANIZATION MAKES ITS GOVERNING DOCUMENTS AND CONFLICT OF INTEREST POLICY AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC UPON REQUEST. THE AUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND THE FORM 990 ARE AVAILABLE ON ITS WEBSITE. TEXAS PARKS AND WILDLIFE DEPARTMENT 4200 SMITH SCHOOL ROAD AUSTIN TX 78744 741680372 CONSERVATION TX GOVT N/A false false true false false false false true false false false false false false false false false false false false TEXAS PARKS AND WILDLIFE DEPARTMENT b 4141260 cash paid/fmv TEXAS PARKS AND WILDLIFE DEPARTMENT g 1232500 FMV