Keep Texas Beautiful Inc
Keep Texas Beautiful Inc is a public charity based in Austin, Texas. It works to inspire and empower Texans to keep communities clean and beautiful, supporting community improvement, cleanups, youth engagement, recycling, and education across the state.
Keep Texas Beautiful Inc at a glance
- Total assets
- $1,014,556
- -12.8% vs 2024
- Revenue (2025)
- $1,116,760
- -18.0% vs 2024
- Net investment income (2025)
- $9,068
- +67.2% vs 2024
- Expenses (2025)
- $1,199,246
- -7.8% vs 2024
- Latest 990 filing
- Form 990, 2025 View filing
Data from IRS Form 990, 2025; updated October 2026.
How to apply to Keep Texas Beautiful Inc
- Contact
Mailing address: 8850 Business Park Drive, Austin, TX 78759
Phone: (512) 478-8813
Website: https://ktb.org
Application details from Grantable's research on the foundation's public materials; confirm on its website before applying.
Open Grants
2 open opportunities from Keep Texas Beautiful Inc
Who Keep Texas Beautiful Inc funds
How this funder distributes its grants
Grant Size Distribution
29 grants across all recorded years
The most common grant size was under $50K: 27 grants of 29 (93%).
Geographic Focus
Where this funder awards grants
The organization’s work and grant opportunities described on its website are focused on Texas. The Our Texas, Our Future Grants are for eligible KTB affiliates in an H-E-B service area, and the Texas Recycles Day Grants are for KTB affiliates and Keep Texas Recycling members.
Grant Distribution by State
States
Cities
How Keep Texas Beautiful Inc gives
Estimate from itemized grant lists in IRS Form 990 filings (2024). Recipient names are matched across years, so a renamed or misspelled grantee can look new; grants to individuals are left out. Methodology.
Giving History
Giving Over Time
Total grant dollars and number of grants per year
From 2019 to 2024, annual grant giving ranged from $6K (2020) to $291K (2024). In 2024 it made 15 grants totaling $291K.
Hatched bars: grants paid as reported on the IRS filing, which lists no individual grants for that year.
Grants by year
Grant recipients and amounts by year
| Recipient | Purpose | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| City of Floresville Floresville, TX | GRANT | $81,000 |
| Burleson County Burleson, TX | GRANT | $42,944 |
| Keep San Marcos Beautiful San Marcos, TX | GRANT | $36,130 |
| City of Ingleside Ingleside, TX | GRANT | $22,000 |
| Fayette County Lagrange, TX | GRANT | $20,000 |
| Keep Waco Beautiful Waco, TX | GRANT | $18,000 |
| Don't Make Waste Bandera Bandera, TX | GRANT | $11,000 |
| Fort Clark Spring Brackettville, TX | GRANT | $10,000 |
| Keep Victoria Beautiful Victoria, TX | GRANT | $10,000 |
| Keep Cuero Beautiful Cuero, TX | GRANT | $10,000 |
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Financial History
Multi-year comparison from IRS filings
| Filing year | Total Assets | Revenue | Expenses | Grants paid | Grants | Net Investment Income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $1,014,556 | $1,116,760 | $1,199,246 | — | — | $9,068 |
| 2024 | $1,163,071 | $1,361,124 | $1,300,076 | $290,676 | 15 | $5,425 |
| 2023 | $1,067,692 | $1,608,741 | $1,441,957 | $243,504 | 13 | $3,893 |
| 2022 | $937,781 | $1,107,287 | $1,207,873 | $217,026 | Total only | $368 |
| 2021 | $1,031,088 | $1,150,835 | $951,818 | $6,000 | 1 | $94 |
| 2020 | $905,581 | $1,057,796 | $887,570 | $5,500 | 1 | $261 |
| 2019 | $651,639 | $813,899 | $936,785 | $47,230 | Total only | $661 |
"Total only": grants paid as reported on the IRS filing, which lists no individual grants for that year.
Research compiled by Grantable AI from public sources. Last updated October 2026.
Mission & Focus Areas
The organization’s stated mission is to inspire and empower Texans to keep communities clean and beautiful. Its programming and education address litter prevention, beautification, and waste reduction, including recycling. Its website also identifies water conservation and wildlife protection and habitat restoration as eligible project areas for the Our Texas, Our Future Grants.
Grantees include local community organizations. Keep Waco Beautiful, which received $18,000 in 2024, describes its mission as making the Waco community cleaner, safer, healthier, and more beautiful through anti-litter efforts, cleanups, beautification, sustainability, recycling, and citizen involvement. Keep Temple Beautiful, which received $5,500 in 2024, describes itself as a community-led organization focused on litter prevention and control, beautification, education, public awareness, and community involvement. Galveston Bay Foundation, which received $5,502 in 2024, states that its mission is to preserve and enhance Galveston Bay as a healthy and productive place for generations to come.
Grantmaking
The 2024 filing reports 15 grants totaling $290,676, an average of about $19,378 per grant. The 2023 filing reports 13 grants totaling $243,504, an average of about $18,731 per grant. The 2025 filing reports no grants. Among the 2024 grantees listed, Keep Waco Beautiful received $18,000, Galveston Bay Foundation received $5,502, and Keep Temple Beautiful received $5,500.
The organization’s website describes grant opportunities for KTB affiliates and Keep Texas Recycling member communities. Texas Recycles Day Grants offer eligible affiliates and members $5,000–$25,000 to strengthen existing recycling programs. The Our Texas, Our Future Grants, offered with H-E-B, support new or existing projects in areas including beautification, litter prevention, recycling, waste reduction, water conservation, and wildlife protection and habitat restoration. The 2025 application cycle ran August 4 through September 18, 2025, and is past. For that cycle, eligible applicants had to be KTB affiliates in an H-E-B service area with Gold Star, Silver Star, or Good Standing status for 2025; awards ranged from $1,000 to $5,000. The application requested project goals, milestones and timeline, an itemized budget, community partnerships, outreach plans, evaluation methods, attention to underserved or low-income neighborhoods, and plans for community, financial, and organizational sustainability.
Leadership & Key People
Leadership team and compensation from IRS filings
The 2025 filing lists Johnny Womack as president; Jess Washburn as director/president; Maggie Hernandez as secretary; and John Kiehl as treasurer. It also lists Christopher Cox, Jeri Harwell, Adrian Hernandez, Daniel Lucio, Aaron Seal, and Brad Shields as directors.
Keep Texas Beautiful Inc is led by Suzanne Kho, Executive Director on every filing since 2019; 1 of 16 officers listed in 2025 is compensated.
Officers on the 2025 filing
Suzanne Kho
Executive Director
On filings since 2019
40 hrs/week
$96K (2019) → $110K (2025)
Jess Washburn
Director & President
Vice President → President, 2024
President → Director & President, 2025
On filings since 2019
4 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Johnny Womack
President
Treasurer → President, 2025
On filings since 2019
4 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Jeri Harwell
Director
On filings since 2022
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Abraham Tueme
Director
On filings since 2023
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Aaron Seal
Director
On filings since 2024
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Adrian Hernandez
Director
On filings since 2024
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Brad Shields
Director
On filings since 2024
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Christopher Cox
Director
On filings since 2024
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Christopher York
Director
On filings since 2024
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Chrisy Youker
Director
On filings since 2024
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Daniel Lucio
Director
On filings since 2024
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Jennifer Jones Ward
Director
On filings since 2024
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Anahi Villarruel
Director
New on the 2025 filing
1 hr/week
No compensation reported
Maggie Hernandez
Secretary
Director → Secretary, 2024
On filings since 2019
4 hrs/week
No compensation reported
John Kiehl
Treasurer
Treasurer → Director, 2023
Director → Treasurer, 2025
On filings since 2020
4 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Former officers (26)
- Former: Chris Lash (2019–2024) — Vice President
- Former: Rodney Ahart (2019–2024) — Director
- Former: Tony Arce Jr. (2019–2024) — Director
- Former: Tyler Corder (2023–2024) — Director
- Former: Doug Burks (2019–2023) — Director
- Former: Greta Calvery (2019–2023) — Director
- Former: Richard McDonald (2022–2023) — Director
- Former: Timothy Hamilton (2023) — Secretary
- Former: Amy Reed (2019–2022) — Director
- Former: Fred Davis (2019–2022) — Director
- Former: Heather Dowell (2019–2022) — Past President
- Former: Morris Smith (2019–2022) — Director
- Former: Tim Hamilton (2019–2022) — Secretary
- Former: Alvin Brown (2020–2022) — Director
- Former: Wendy Bradley (2021–2022) — Director
- Former: Cheryl Brock (2019–2021) — Director
- Former: Donna Higgins-Gardner (2019–2021) — Director
- Former: Joan Meeks (2019–2021) — Director
- Former: Dennis Hobbs (2019–2020) — Director
- Former: Terri Cardwell (2019–2020) — Director
- Former: Cheri Reynolds Howard (2019) — Director
- Former: Dan Eden (2019) — Director Unitl September
- Former: Jamie Wolman (2019) — Director Unitl September
- Former: Leslie Thorne (2019) — Director
- Former: Stephen Perry (2019) — Director
- Former: Tammy Wallace (2019) — Director
Data from IRS Form 990 filings, 2019–2025. "On filings since" is the earliest filing we hold that lists the person; hours are average hours per week as reported.
Compensation Overview
From 2025 IRS filing
The highest reported compensation on the 2025 filing was $110K, to Suzanne KHO (Executive Director).
Frequently asked questions about Keep Texas Beautiful Inc
How large is Keep Texas Beautiful Inc?
Keep Texas Beautiful Inc reported $1.0M in total assets on its 2025 IRS Form 990. Its revenue that year was $1.1M.
What does Keep Texas Beautiful Inc fund?
The organization’s stated mission is to inspire and empower Texans to keep communities clean and beautiful. Its programming and education address litter prevention, beautification, and waste reduction, including recycling. See mission & focus areas ↑
How do I apply for a grant from Keep Texas Beautiful Inc?
Keep Texas Beautiful Inc has no public application process in the sources Grantable reviewed. Check ktb.org for current guidelines, or contact the foundation directly before submitting a request.
Where does Keep Texas Beautiful Inc make grants?
The organization’s work and grant opportunities described on its website are focused on Texas. The Our Texas, Our Future Grants are for eligible KTB affiliates in an H-E-B service area, and the Texas Recycles Day Grants are for KTB affiliates and Keep Texas Recycling members.
What is Keep Texas Beautiful Inc's EIN?
Keep Texas Beautiful Inc's EIN (Employer Identification Number) is 74-7055759. IRS Form 990 filing data is available on this page for 2019–2025.
Data last updated October 2026. Sourced from IRS Form 990 filings. Research dossier generated October 2026.
Data update history
(8)
When this profile's IRS filing data changed on Grantable
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2020 (received by the IRS March 15, 2021)
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2023 (received by the IRS July 3, 2024)
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2024 (received by the IRS June 12, 2025)
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2021 (received by the IRS January 20, 2023)
- Added Form 990 for fiscal year 2019 (received by the IRS March 9, 2020)
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2022 (received by the IRS March 17, 2023)
- Added Form 990 for fiscal year 2025 (received by the IRS July 8, 2026)
- IRS filings on file for fiscal years 2020–2024
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