Alamito Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 870939200
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Missouri City, TX, USA
- Phone
- 2104886890
- Rating
- 91
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Family Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $132,498
- Expenses
- $114,732
- Assets
- $22,621
- Liabilities
- $13,382
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- C GAREY WILLBANKS JR (PRESIDENT/TR)
People named in this filing
- C GAREY WILLBANKS JR (PRESIDENT/TR)
- CARROL GAREY WILLBANKS III (VICE PRESIDE)
- CASEY WADE (DIRECTOR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Help the youth in the big bend region develop a positive vision for their lives and connect them to resources that will equip them for a successful life's journey; restoration and preservation of this riparian area as well as the connected land within its watershed
What it reported doing in 2024
Working to develop relationships with school districts, businesses, and students in order to set up 1) a life coaching/skills program, 2)a college preparatory program alamito foundation supports young life camp trips through yearly contributions. Students across the big bend region attend young life camps. In 2024, the organization donated 5,000 to college careers community through marfa education foundation. Completed the first year of marfa blooms (previously jaaga). The activity provides youth a safe space to cultivate skills, take chances and receive coaching. Student grow in business skills, work with a group, nurture something worth caring for and start and run their own business. This year, the students "ran a business" growing flowers in the hoop greenhouse. Class continued in the fall under the direction of a misd teacher using the donated greenhouse from alamito foundation. College tour in the summer of 2024, the foundation took students to utsa, Texas a&m san antonio, and Texas a&m kingsville. In the fall of 2024, took students to university of Texas el paso. Spring 2024 - the organization hosted a career fair for marfa isd in partnership with marfa education foundation. Alamito foundation hosted summer shake up, a two week summer camp on the alamito ranch in partnership with marfa isd for 3rd-5th graders. Students learned about soil health by prepping garden beds and testing the soil, the importance of water by installing irrigation, and were able to take plants home to nurture. The foundation hosted a land stewardship conference for landowners in far west Texas which included a trip to the alamito ranch to view land conservation practices and several speakers with knowledge of conditions in far west Texas. Land conservation: planted native grass seed west of perdiz creek to restore vegetation composition and productivity to conditions in the middle 1800's. Monitored black gamma garden to discover optimum conditions for growth. Treated salt cedar trees along alamito creek with herbicide to remove this invasive species from riparian corridor. Monitored vegetation covers inside and immediately outside the ten grazing enclosures. Maintaining weather station on the alamito ranch for the state of Texas.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 95% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.3%; rating input score 83
- Program expense ratio: 96.2%; rating input score 96
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 13.4%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.2; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.59; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 24.4%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 19.3% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 23.2% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 60.2% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 83.3% of revenue deployed · 96.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $110K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 18/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 9/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 14/100.