Texans for Clean Water Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
463895729
IRS 990 coverage
2020–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2013
Location
Houston, TX, USA
Phone
7135223092
Rating
85
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Community Service Clubs

Reported finances

Revenue
$515,000
Expenses
$517,995
Assets
$13,376
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Maia Lenoir Corbitt (President and Director)
  • C M Garver (CEO and Director)

Highest reported compensation

  • Louis J Trotter (Employee): $108,173 total reported compensation
  • Maia Lenoir Corbitt (President and Director): $57,500 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Our purpose is to educate Texans in the reduction and prevention of floatable trash from entering our waterways. We support a refundable deposit as an incentive to recycle and create jobs. Recycling will prevent the costly clean up of the floatable trash from the waterways.

What it reported doing in 2025

Educate- Continue to educate and collaborate with stakeholders to promote clean waterways, including prevention of storm water debris and litter from entering our waterways. In 2025 we engaged Reins Strategies, for website updates and upgrades and social media communications. We engaged Catalyst Advisor for communication consulting and content creation. We continued to provide outreach and education through conference presentations and participation. In 2024 & 2025, we worked with Venn Strategies to organize, manage and execute a Congressional roundtable on national recycling. We engaged stakeholders in dialogue regarding potential solutions to increase recycling and decrease litter through public policy. We attended a stakeholder tour to Oregon to educate on Oregons successful DRS recycling system. We hosted a breakfast for the Speaker of the Texas House, and stakeholders to discuss the pollution recycling problem we face in the State of Texas. We attended a tour of the Indorama Sustainable recycling facilities in Dallas. To further educate on the litter entering our waterways we created videos and pictures of litter in our Texas Waterways. We hired a new employee, to engage more stakeholders in more diaologue, write editorials and papers regarding recycling and decrease litter public policy

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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.

The verdict

STRONG - 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 expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 89
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 84
  • Sustainability: 25
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 99.5%; rating input score 99
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • 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: -0.6%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.03; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 32%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 8.6% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 6.2% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -27% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 99.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $515K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $108K · 7 people listed
  • Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $143K reported
  • Consistency: 18 of 18 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • 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.

  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 28/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.