Texas Gun Rights Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 922627555
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Weatherford, TX, USA
- Phone
- 5127745309
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Research Institutes and Public Policy Analysis
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $58,123
- Expenses
- $35,229
- Assets
- $21,998
- Liabilities
- $80
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Chris McNutt (President)
People named in this filing
- Chris McNutt (President)
- Barry Arrington (Chairman)
- Joe Neville (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
To educate the public on the historical, constitutional, and moral necessity of bearing arms as a safeguard against tyranny, while promoting firearms safety, shooting sports, and hunting as part of Texass cultural heritage. TXGRF also works to defend the Second Amendment through litigation and legal education, including the protection of due process and free speech rights necessary to preserve and exercise the right to keep and bear arms.
What it reported doing in 2024
1. Legal and Policy GuidanceMaintained a legal retainer to provide timely legal and policy analysis on Second Amendment issues, enabling the Foundation to educate members and the public on constitutional rights. This service also allows the Foundation to assist individuals who inquire about firearms laws and related concerns.2. Legal Fees for Gun Owners in LitigationProvided legal support in Second Amendment-related litigation, ensuring that Texans constitutional rights were defended in cases with broader implications for due process and firearm ownership. These efforts further the Foundations mission of protecting and educating the public on the legal necessity of the right to keep and bear arms.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 65
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 56
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 52%; rating input score 52
- Program expense ratio: 85.8%; rating input score 86
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: 39.4%; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.62; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.3%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -143.8% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -101% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 122.1% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 52% of revenue deployed · 85.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $30K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 52/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 34/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 32/100.