Texans for Clean Water Inc
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What it says it does
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.
- Income
- $515,000
- Spending
- $517,995
- Employees
- 2
- Volunteers
- 0
- Highest pay
- $108,173, employee
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. How we rate
Financial health
We do not score finances when yearly spending is very small or the return has too little detail. The ratios stop meaning much at that size.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. How we rate
Governance
This return does not answer enough of the governance questions to score.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. How we rate
Impact evidence
Describes programs. Its tax return describes what it does but we have found no measurable results in it.
Programs described in its return (3)
- $37,849 spent. Organize - Continue to organize a statewide group of Texans, including business leaders who believe clean waterways are good for business. Increased our outreach to these and other stakeholders through membership in professional associations and meeting with organizations of like-minded missions to impact waterway litter.
- $309,839 spent. 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
- $167,504 spent. Advocate- Continued to advocate policy solutions for waterway litter prevention and mitigation, by an outside firm Texas Legislative Associates Held meetings and communciations with stakeholders to find common ground for future policy solutions to waterway litter, through the assistance of National Stewardship Action Council.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. How we rate
Legitimacy checks
Is it registered with the IRS? Passed.
Listed in the IRS master file of tax-exempt organizations as a 501(c)(4) social welfare organization.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Has the IRS revoked its tax-exempt status? Passed.
Not on the IRS automatic revocation list.
Source: Automatic revocation of exemption list, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Are donations tax-deductible? Caution.
The IRS master file records contributions to this 501(c)(4) social welfare organization as not deductible.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it keeping up with its IRS filings? Passed.
Most recent return on file covers the year ending December 2025.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
How long has it been tax-exempt? Passed.
Recognized by the IRS since June 2014.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it in good standing with state regulators? Passed.
Not on California's list of charities barred from soliciting. Other states are not yet checked.
Source: May Not Operate or Solicit for Charitable Purposes list, California Attorney General, Registry of Charities and Fundraisers, file dated October 21, 2026.
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