Texas · Nonprofit
BAT CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL
BAT CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL (Texas) receives grants from 135 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,416,397 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,509,360). 91 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $13M
- Funders on record
- 135
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $33M
What Bat Conservation International does
Mission
Bat Conservation International's (bci) mission is to conserve the world's bats and their ecosystems to ensure a healthy planet. We are a science-based and results-focused organization dedicated to ending the extinction of the world's most vulnerable bat species.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Bat Conservation International programs are science-based and collaborative, working with conservation partners in the u.s. And around the world to protect bats and their habitats by identifying, protecting, and managing critical bat habitats and addressing broad threats, like white-nose syndrome, that threaten multiple species of bats. Our work is focused on highpriority conservation targets and based on rigorous science and shared data. Developing effective solutions to protect bats requires bci to design innovative research programs while maintaining the ability to implement science-based solutions on the ground. Bci also seeks to increase public understanding and appreciation of the essential role bats play in the health of ecosystems and human well-being. By promoting research-led and science-based solutions around the world, bci collaborates with leading researchers and scientists around the world and supports graduate students through its granting programs.
$13,905,524 spentof which $878,682 as grants$458,392 earned by the program94% of program spendingBat Conservation International's public engagement programs are designed to inspire people to conserve bats through inperson nature experiences that promote connectedness to nature. Strategies include community events, research, publications, training, and social media. Bci is committed to building global capacity by investing in the next generation of conservation leaders.
$958,641 spent6% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $14,864,165.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $16M to $37M (+132%).
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 26% · 2018 25% · 2019 14% · 2020 41% · 2021 28% · 2022 35% · 2023 14% · 2024 55% · 2025 63%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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
Michael Daulton
Executive director
Board chair
Andrew Sansom
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 35 funders to 60 funders, grant income rose $369k → $1.8M.
19 of 135 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of BAT CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 135 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
BAT CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
46% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BAT CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 23% · 2018 16% · 2019 25% · 2020 20% · 2021 21% · 2022 16% · 2023 14% — 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
48% of BAT CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
BAT CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL draws 87% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 31 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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.
Government funding BAT CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $56.7M on record.
- Department of the Interior$29.4M
- Department of Agriculture$19.4M
- Department of Energy$7.9M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like BAT CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
69%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 39 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BAT CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BAT CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL?
- BAT CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL (Texas) receives grants from 135 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,416,397 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,509,360). 91 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BAT CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL have?
- IRS filings report 135 organizations giving $11,416,397 in grants to BAT CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL, 91 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BAT CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,509,360 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BAT CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 135 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing