Texas · Public charity
The Building Conservation Trust
THE BUILDING CONSERVATION TRUST (bct) was created to provide vital funding for grassroots-driven projects that achieve one or more of five key objectives: restore degraded habitats; create new habitats; advance the science of coastal habitat restoration and marine fisheries conservation; foster habitat stewardship, and educate coastal…
- $440k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 3
- Grants FY2024
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $200,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 8
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $4.1M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations The Building Conservation Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 3 | $440k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 1 | $148k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $590k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $330k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $1.5M | 25% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $1.2M | 43% |
| FY2018 | 6 | $951k | 33% |
| FY2017 | 6 | $935k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coastal Conservation Association | $2,321,727 | 7 | 4% |
| Friends of the Rio Grande Valley Reef Inc | $1,012,200 | 4 | 82% |
| Parks and Wildlife Foundation of Texas | $899,000 | 3 | 7% |
| Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi | $745,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Galveston Bay Foundation Inc | $550,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Ducks Unlimited Inc | $265,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program Inc | $130,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Billion Oyster Project Inc | $84,800 | 2 | 2% |
| Harbor Wildwatch | $27,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Tillamook Estuaries Partnership | $20,000 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 13 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coastal Conservation Association | $2,321,727 | 7 | 4% |
| Friends of the Rio Grande Valley Reef Inc | $1,012,200 | 4 | 82% |
| Parks and Wildlife Foundation of Texas | $899,000 | 3 | 7% |
| Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi | $745,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Galveston Bay Foundation Inc | $550,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Ducks Unlimited Inc | $265,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program Inc | $130,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Billion Oyster Project Inc | $84,800 | 2 | 2% |
| Harbor Wildwatch | $27,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Tillamook Estuaries Partnership | $20,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Puget Sound Restoration Fund | $17,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Reef Ball Foundation Inc | $7,600 | 1 | 1% |
| Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
Where it is load-bearing
The Building Conservation Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 12 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Nature Conservancy · Coastal Conservation Association · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Building Conservation Trust
- How much does The Building Conservation Trust give?
- The Building Conservation Trust reported 3 grants totaling $440,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 8 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Building Conservation Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (100%), Recreation & Sports (0%).
- Who are The Building Conservation Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Coastal Conservation Association ($2.3M), Friends of the Rio Grande Valley Reef Inc ($1.0M), Parks and Wildlife Foundation of Texas ($899k).
- Does The Building Conservation Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Building Conservation Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Nature Conservancy, Coastal Conservation Association, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation.
- Where is The Building Conservation Trust based?
- The Building Conservation Trust is based in TX.
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