Preserve Our Hill Country Environment Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN: 844045589
IRS 990-EZ coverage: 2021–2025
Forms available: Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2020
Location: New Braunfels, TX, USA
Rating: 38
Verdict: REVIEW
Rating confidence: Moderate
Sector: Environmental Quality, Protection, and Beautification N.E.C.

Reported finances

Revenue: $64,537
Expenses: $5,812
Assets: $279,780
Liabilities: $105

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

People named in this filing

Mona Milann Guckian (Director)
Kira Olson (Director)
Elizabeth James (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To educate the public about the dangers of pollutants caused by open pit quarry mining in Texas and to keep open pit mining from destroying the local communities where they operate. Our mission is to protect the air water and land in residential areas for the use of its people for this generation and generations to come.

What it reported doing in 2025

Education of the public about the dangers of open pit mining for the area residents and to protect them from these dangers by limiting the operations of such open pit mines in residential areas.

Operating model

Revenue model: Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model: No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.

The verdict

REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

Financial Efficiency: 0
Transparency & Controls: 82
Sustainability: 86
Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
Program expense ratio: Limited

Transparency & Controls

Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

Operating margin: 91%; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Total-asset coverage ratio: 48.14; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

Program expense growth: -89.3% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Revenue growth: -9.1% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Asset growth: 30.4% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings

Details

Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed
Governance: Filed governance answers
Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
Schedules: 2 filed schedules
Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
Contacts: How to reach this organization
Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 31/100.
Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.