Texas · Nonprofit
BAYOU LAND CONSERVANCY
BAYOU LAND CONSERVANCY (Texas) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,573,995 to it, the largest being HOUSTON ENDOWMENT INC ($550,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $975k
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $4.3M
What Bayou Land Conservancy does
Mission
To preserve land along streams for flood control, clean water, and wildlife in the geographical area that drains into lake houston.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Land conservation & stewardship: blc works with private landowners, businesses, and local municipalities to establish conservation easements, legal agreements between a landowner and a land trust that allow the landowner to retain ownership of their land, while permanently protecting the propertys conservation value. Outreach, education, and advocacy: blc hosts environmental education programs for youth and adults and conducts additional public outreach throughout the region. Blc advocates for policies that support ethical land conservation on the local, state, and federal level. Blc hosts annual membership programs to deepen member engagement with the organization and with the land that the organization protects and preserves.
$646,810 spent$41,850 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $646,810.
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 2019 to 2020, from $2.0M to $4.0M (+100%).
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: 2021 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of BAYOU LAND CONSERVANCY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
Justin Hicks
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $30k → $190k.
8 of 27 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.
From the IRS filings of BAYOU LAND CONSERVANCY’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
BAYOU LAND CONSERVANCY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 91% · 2019 69% · 2020 83% · 2021 32% · 2022 27% · 2023 26% — 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
69% of BAYOU LAND CONSERVANCY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 78% 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
91% of BAYOU LAND CONSERVANCY's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $150k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
BAYOU LAND CONSERVANCY is better cushioned than half of the 2,606 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,606 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like BAYOU LAND CONSERVANCY
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
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BAYOU LAND CONSERVANCY: 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 BAYOU LAND CONSERVANCY?
- BAYOU LAND CONSERVANCY (Texas) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,573,995 to it, the largest being HOUSTON ENDOWMENT INC ($550,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BAYOU LAND CONSERVANCY have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $1,573,995 in grants to BAYOU LAND CONSERVANCY, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BAYOU LAND CONSERVANCY?
- HOUSTON ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $550,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BAYOU LAND CONSERVANCY 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 27 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