2025-01-20T05:42:23-08:00 2024-09-30 752448183 Gerald G Kepner Jr CPA 8750 N Central Expy Ste 230 Dallas TX 75231 990 2023-10-01 237112618 Texas Conservation Alliance TEXA 9729711035 PO Box 822554 Dallas TX 75231 Justin Lannen Chairman 2025-01-20 true true Gerald G Kepner Jr P01395740 2143615081 X 2023 2024-10-15 13:58:12Z PO Box 822554 Dallas TX 75231 1059961 false X tcatexas.org X 1971 TX Texas Conservation Alliance educates Texans and builds alliances to enhance and sustain wildlife habitat and protect our land, air, and water for future generations. 14 14 4 2000 0 1015162 940617 49337 57152 24299 33580 18755 28612 1107553 1059961 0 0 308037 332899 42531 57940 114940 729237 654304 1079805 1045143 27748 14818 2578074 2710977 1812697 1914687 765377 796290 X Texas Conservation Alliance educates Texans and builds alliances to enhance and sustain wildlife habitat and protect our land, air, and water for future generations. false false 282747 290050 Habitat Restoration and Lights Out for Wildlife: TCA conducts events and recruits people from a wide range of constituencies, particularly young people, to participate in habitat restoration events planting trees and native prairie plants, cleaning up trash harmful to wildlife, turning off nonessential lighting during spring and fall bird migrations (called Lights Out for Wildlife), and eliminating invasive plants from natural areas. In FY24, TCA held or co-hosted events at which more than 1,000 volunteers planted trees and prairie plants and picked up trash from Texas waterways. TCA staff, interns, and volunteers conducted on-foot surveys of downtown Dallas and Fort Worth on 138 mornings to gather data about bird mortality due to light pollution and to rehab injured birds, and urged cities, building managers, and residents to go Lights Out. TCA propagates and disseminates native plants. 270659 428828 Texas Conservation Alliance conducts or leads a number of conservation projects, participates in the state's water planning process,supports issues led by other conservation organizations, holds or participates in events such as Earth Day, serves on state and federal advisory boards, and disseminates general conservation information directly, at events, via email, on our website, through a newsletter, and via social media. Specific projects not listed in Part III, Lines 4b, 4c, and 4d include: support for funding for state parks, dissemination of information on water conservation and water recycling, protection of rivers, bays, and estuaries, advocating for wildlife and wildlife habitat, and input to decisions regarding management of national forests. 245691 245691 Marvin Nichols Reservoir: TCA coordinates a coalition of property owners, timber industry officials, citizens engaged in agribusiness, conservationists, and other Texas residents who oppose construction of the 66,000-acre Marvin Nichols Reservoir on the Sulphur River in Texas and who advocate for cost-effective water supply options that are less damaging to the natural and human environments. This year, TCAs project, Preserve Northeast Texas, generated coverage in numerous media and print outlets, recruited more than 300 people to attend meetings, and generated comments to a state agency regarding a feasibility review of the project 33500 33200 832597 true true false true false false false false false true false false false false true false false false false false false false false true false false false false false true false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false true 30 0 true 4 true false false false false false false false 0 false false false false false false false X 14 14 false false false false true true false true true false false true true true true true true true false false X Kepner and Company Inc 2143615081 8750 N Central Expy Ste 230 Dallas TX 75231 X John DeFilipo Former Executive Dir. 40.00 0.00 108726 0 26923 Victoria Calder Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Zeshan Segal Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Richard LeTourneau Vice Chair 15.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Justin Lannen Chairman 8.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Hon Jesse Oliver Treasurer 8.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Susan Schmidt Director 3.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 David Gray Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Peggy Carr Secretary 4.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Earl B Matthew MD Director 3.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Susan Petersen Director 5.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 David Todd Director 5.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Bruce Walker Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Allyn Dukes Director 10.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 John Shepperd Director 3.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 108726 26923 1 true false false 0 20606 920011 940617 Special Programs Income 57152 57152 57152 33580 33580 0 0 0 0 0 0 28144 28144 28144 Reward Redemption 900099 468 468 468 1059961 34048 85296 0 0 0 0 127809 70295 31952 25562 0 171033 125317 23244 22472 0 13000 9490 1820 1690 21057 13687 3580 3790 0 0 19152 19152 3162 3162 57940 57940 0 1450 1450 875 875 16571 12428 1658 2485 12706 11021 1346 339 0 2151 2000 108 43 28242 26878 828 536 0 9992 9829 80 83 0 0 0 3261 3261 Unrecg Rev Future-End Restrict 1907666 1907666 Contract Labor 410160 407260 2900 Habitat Restoration Materials 30326 30326 Internships 15060 15060 -1806470 -1812697 6227 1045143 832597 97606 114940 -10518 12769 1980024 1347726 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 608568 1350482 0 0 0 0 2578074 2710977 8967 5326 1803730 1907666 1695 1812697 1914687 X 765377 796290 765377 796290 2578074 2710977 X 14818 24215 -8120 X false false false X 307475 519245 716670 786291 902801 3232482 0 0 307475 519245 716670 786291 902801 3232482 320378 2912104 7648 4762 9234 304 459 22407 0 -279 306 761 18755 28612 48155 3303044 0.88160 0.88450 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED false false 1680 8072 9752 1035391 1045143 179514 44879 false 133303 165479 145240 179514 623536 935304 12242 9752 21994 33326 41370 36310 44879 155885 233828 5797 2556 1372 1680 11405 714953 508111 206842 666714 48239 714953 758989 -92275 666714 745820 13168 758988 104439 639398 1983 745820 0.51550 0.48450 false false false Payroll Liabilities 1381 Sales Tax Liabilities 314 1695 X X X X X true Julia Bates 3613 Hyde Park Dr Midlothian TX 76065 Grant Writing false 198900 42640 156260 Alan J Prewitt 11 Riverpoint Rd Hannibal MO 63401 Grant Writing false 71300 15300 56000 270200 57940 212260 TX X X false false false false false false false false false John DeFilipo Former Executive Dir. 108726 26923 135649 Form 990, Part III, Line 4d OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 4: Texas Conservation Alliance conducts or leads a number of conservation projects, participates in the state's water planning process,supports issues led by other conservation organizations, holds or participates in events such as Earth Day, serves on state and federal advisory boards, and disseminates general conservation information directly, at events, via email, on our website, through a newsletter, and via social media. Specific projects not listed in Part III, Lines 4b, 4c, and 4d include: support for funding for state parks, dissemination of information on water conservation and water recycling, protection of rivers, bays, and estuaries, advocating for wildlife and wildlife habitat, and input to decisions regarding management of national forests. Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 6 Any person supportive of the purposes of TCA is eligible for membership. Membership dues begin at $50.00. The membership meets once a year. At that meeting, the members elect the board of directors. The board then chooses officers from the board members. All decisions of the organization, except electing the directors, are the purview of the board. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b Texas Conservation Alliance has an independent financial review committee which oversees policies related to book-keeping, record keeping and reporting. The committee consists of the treasurer and two other persons with experience in accounting, budgeting, and/or financial management or reporting. The 990 and associated schedules are sent to the committee for review before being sent to the IRS. The 990 and associated schedules are also reviewed by the chairman and executive director and are provided to each director before being submitted. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c Every year each director is given a copy of the conflict of interest disclosure form to be signed and returned. If a potential conflict is disclosed, the other directors determine whether a conflict exists, following the procedures in the organization's conflict of interest policy. If a conflict exists, the director is excluded from the decision on the relevant issue. If the directors discover a conflict of interest not voluntarily disclosed,the chairman will appoint a committee of directors to review the conflict and recommend the appropriate action. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15a Compensation for the Executive Director is determined by the Board of Directors. A committee of directors reviews comparable salaries of similar non- profit organizations and reports the research finds to the Board. The deliberations about the Executive Director's salary are substantiated in the minutes of a meeting of the Board of Directors. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 The formation documents, financial statements, conflict of interest policy and other documents are available to the public upon request. Form 990, Part XI, Line 9 Inventory Purchase reducing income = -$0 Form 990, Part XI, Line 9 Investment income reported -Dividends/Cap (Bank to Book) = -$6318 Form 990, Part XI, Line 9 Investment income reported -Interest (Bank to Book) = -$1803 Form 990, Part XI, Line 9 Rounding = -$0 Form 990, Part XI, Line 9 Rounding = $1