Texas · Nonprofit
Armand Bayou Nature Center Inc
Armand Bayou Nature Center Inc (Texas) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,801,917 to it, the largest being The Cullen Foundation ($1,500,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $7.8M
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $4.8M
- Net assets
- $8.1M
What Armand Bayou Nature Center Inc does
Mission
To preserve the habitats with which we have been entrusted and to provide opportunities for people to experience and understand the local ecosystems through preservation and education we strive to reconnect people with nature.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Stewardship: ABNC is one of the largest urban wilderness preserves in the nation, conserving one of the most extensive holdings of coastal tallgrass prairie in the lower Galveston Bay watershed. Currently, over 900 acres are actively managed within out preserve boundaries. Critical prairie habitat is annually being restored and then preserved through controlled burns and mowing to reduce invasive species and replanting native grasses an forbs propagated in out native plant nursery. More recently, ABNC has assumed management of a 24-acre tract that specifically protects the endangered Prarie Dawn Flower species. Additionally, ABNC manages over 330 acres of Texas State Coastal Preserve in the Armand Bayou watershed, restoring intertidal marsh to maintain appropriate water depth and encourage native plant and animal recolonization.
$974,719 spent100% of program spendingEducation: Over 9,500 students of all ages participate in ABNC environmental education programs annually. School groups attend Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills TEKS correlated outdoor classes, field trips, and unique natural and cultural history programs. ABNC offers outdoor nature camps each summer and winter, scouting and similar youth programs, and community outreaches. ABNC has also introduced a range of early-childhood outdoor programs and STEM focused classes to support homeschool programs.
All other accomplishments
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $974,719.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $1.7M to $8.9M (+411%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2018 32% · 2019 10% · 2020 15% · 2021 11% · 2022 6% · 2023 11% · 2024 38%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
80% of Armand Bayou Nature Center Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Tim Pylate
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $66k → $326k.
5 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $674k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Armand Bayou Nature Center Foundation Attention Anne Bike). These are real filings, and they are not money Armand Bayou Nature Center Inc raised.
From the IRS filings of Armand Bayou Nature Center Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Armand Bayou Nature Center Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 45% · 2019 47% · 2020 29% · 2021 38% · 2022 24% · 2023 23% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
50% of Armand Bayou Nature Center Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
70% of Armand Bayou Nature Center Inc's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $477k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Armand Bayou Nature Center Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,186 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,186 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Armand Bayou Nature Center Inc
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Armand Bayou Nature Center Foundation · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Armand Bayou Nature Center Inc?
- Armand Bayou Nature Center Inc (Texas) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,801,917 to it, the largest being The Cullen Foundation ($1,500,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Armand Bayou Nature Center Inc have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $4,801,917 in grants to Armand Bayou Nature Center Inc, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Armand Bayou Nature Center Inc?
- The Cullen Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Armand Bayou Nature Center Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 35 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing