GALVESTON BAY FOUNDATION

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

C320

Classification

1000

Street

1725 HIGHWAY 146

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

• Conservation programs work to preserve, protect, and restore important coastal habitats that provide critical ecosystem services and have suffered loss or degradation. The Foundation works closely with numerous partners in land acquisition, land stewardship, habitat restoration, and habitat enhancement activities across the Bay. As an accredited land trust, the Foundation protects natural areas by acquiring real estate and partnering with landowners to establish conservation easements on private lands. Program income is generated where appropriate from grazing and hunting leases and baling of hay. Habitat restoration activities work to ensure healthy habitats for productive and sustainable populations of native species. (Continued on Schedule O) Restoration sites all around Galveston Bay focus on protection of eroding shorelines; restoration of wetlands, oyster reefs, coastal prairies, and bird rookery; and removal of marine debris. The Foundation maintains a native plant nursery to provide stock for habitat restoration work around Galveston Bay and offers native plant sales within the community. The Foundation also collects oyster shells from local restaurants to return to the bay to build oyster shell breakwaters and provide habitat for oyster spat.

  Expenses $9,633,701 · Grants $24,664 · Revenue $72,730

• Education and outreach programs aim to connect our community to Galveston Bay and inspire lifelong stewardship through diverse programs, training, tools, and events that reach tens of thousands of people each year. The Foundation's youth education programs connected students in the classroom and in the field with hands-on STEM curriculum and resources. The Foundation also offers rain barrel installation workshops and distributes rain barrels to the public. Ongoing public outreach campaigns and initiatives target segments of the population to increase awareness of the importance of Galveston Bay and address specific issues of concern.

  Expenses $741,990 · Revenue $25,602

• Research programs monitor trends affecting Galveston Bay's most valuable coastal resources. Current efforts monitor dolphin populations (in partnership with the Environmental Institute of Houston), marine debris, and water quality at sites around Galveston Bay. These efforts are collaborative, involving research partners throughout the region and beyond. Several utilize trained citizen scientists to augment professional monitoring data. Findings are widely communicated through data portals, public presentations, and scientific publications. Most monitoring efforts are ongoing in an effort to collect large datasets spanning many years, though some are initiated to allow the Foundation to respond to specific incidents impacting the bay.

  Expenses $306,463 · Revenue $1,211

• Advocacy programs aim to give a voice to Galveston Bay, taking an inclusive and collaborative approach to protect the health and well-being of the bay. The Foundation attempts to balance the multiple uses of Galveston Bay so that the long-term interests of the Bay itself are not compromised. Through initiatives such as the Galveston Bay Report Card (released in partnership with the Houston Advanced Research Center) and the Galveston Bay Action Network (GBAN) pollution reporting app, the Foundation provides tools to enable the public to take positive actions for Galveston Bay.

  Expenses $85,448

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

The first 25 listed. Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2024

  Revenue

  $20,190,335

  Expenses

  $12,599,370

  Contributions

  $19,679,248

  Grants paid

  $24,664

• 2023

  Revenue

  $19,308,156

  Expenses

  $13,756,624

  Contributions

  $19,132,900

  Grants paid

  $5,322,734

• 2022

  Revenue

  $6,948,230

  Expenses

  $4,940,666

  Contributions

  $6,477,456

  Grants paid

  $50,649

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

• 2024 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $21,368,993

  Expenses

  $11,793,769

  Assets (EOY)

  $27,822,588

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $11,431,459

  Expenses

  $9,399,800

  Assets (EOY)

  $18,391,815

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $9,231,810

  Expenses

  $3,777,753

  Assets (EOY)

  $16,609,211

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $7,563,933

  Expenses

  $6,264,451

  Assets (EOY)

  $13,201,325

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $7,877,294

  Expenses

  $3,490,697

  Assets (EOY)

  $13,956,748

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $7,790,994

  Expenses

  $6,699,575

  Assets (EOY)

  $10,446,415

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $5,917,902

  Expenses

  $5,813,975

  Assets (EOY)

  $4,272,205

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $4,619,660

  Expenses

  $4,418,203

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,650,321

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,282,283

  Expenses

  $2,799,683

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,715,744

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

• The Trust for Public Land

  $21,252

  2023 · General support

• Ducks Unlimited Inc

  $18,500

  2022 · General support

• University of Houston Clear Lake

  $15,521

  2023 · EIH Marine Life research

• Mississippi Land Trust

  $14,950

  2023 · General support

• University of Houston System

  $14,664

  2024 · General support

• Mississippi Land Trust

  $14,000

  2022 · General support

• Artist Boat

  $10,000

  2022 · General support

• Coastal Prairie Conservancy

  $10,000

  2024 · General support

• UH Clear Lake

  $8,149

  2022 · EIH Marine Life Research

• Texas Parks and Wildlife Department

  $0

  2023 · General support

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION

  $6,646,214

  2022 · LAND ACQUISITION

• NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION

  $397,420

  2023 · DOLLAR BAY-MOSES LAKE WETLANDS RESTORATION, TX

• GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $281,250

  2024 · ENVIRONMENTAL

• AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC

  $239,264

  2023 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• BUILDING CONSERVATION TRUST

  $200,000

  2024 · OYSTER LAKE SHORELINE PROTECTION PHASE III

• GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $185,850

  2022 · ENVIRONMENTAL

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $182,200

  2024 · ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMALS

• RESTORE AMERICAS ESTUARIES

  $125,192

  2024 · COMMUNITY BASED COASTAL HABITAT RESTORATION

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $124,850

  2023 · ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMALS

• NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR

  $110,550

  2023 · HUMAN SERVICES

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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