Bexar Branches Alliance
Legal name: Bexar Branches Alliance Corp
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 871957313
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2022, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- San Antonio, Texas, USA
- Phone
- 2109175552
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Forest Conservation
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $298,325
- Expenses
- $217,278
- Assets
- $200,982
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jaci Randel (Executive Director)
- Michael Nentwich (PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS)
- Dixie Watkins III (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Jaci Randel (Executive Director): $58,870 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To expand and preserve the urban forest in the greater San Antonio region through education, tree planting, and maintenance assistance.
What it reported doing in 2024
Our Tree Buds Citizen Forester Training Program, sponsored by the Alamo Forest Partnership and the San Antonio Arborists Association with support from Bexar Branches Alliance, is the primary initiative supporting our tree-preservation efforts. The program provides hands-on instruction in proper pruning techniques for young trees and essential tree care, helping to supplement the City of San Antonio Parks and Recreation Department's ongoing tree-planting initiatives. During 2024, community organizations, local businesses, and government partners continued to support the program's volunteer-driven work. This season included 9 pruning events, with 104 volunteers contributing 428 service hours to improve the health and long-term survivability of young trees across public parks and natural areas. BBA also launched Rooted Resilience, a new tree-care initiative focused on mature trees in low-canopy, high-risk neighborhoods. The program supports environmental equity by helping low-income homeowners maintain critical shade trees and preparing communities for climate-related stressors. Rooted Resilience funding: City of San Antonio Office of Sustainability, American Forests. Rooted Resilience status: The pilot phase runs in 2025, and planning and preparation activities were conducted during 2024. These combined efforts strengthen canopy preservation, extend the impact of prior planting projects, and expand BBA's year-round urban forestry capacity.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 73
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 60
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 64.8%; rating input score 65
- Program expense ratio: 88.9%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: $32.88 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 27.2%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.92; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 27.1%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 75.8% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 31.1% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 74.9% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 12 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 3 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 64.8% of revenue deployed · 88.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 14 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $193K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $59K · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 13/100.