Texas · Nonprofit
Big Thicket Natural Heritage Trust
Big Thicket Natural Heritage Trust (Texas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,301 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($11,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $134k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $22k
- Net assets
- $1.0M
What Big Thicket Natural Heritage Trust does
Mission
We acquire properties to be donated to the National Park Service and state entities and advocate for protection of Big Thicket natural resources.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
LAND CONSERVATION - The Big Thicket Natural Heritage Trust (BTNHT) protects Big Thicket ecosystems in the following ways: acquisition of conservation lands at fair market value, acquisition of conservation lands through a bargain sale arrangement, receipt of donated conservation lands to BTNHT, donation of conservation easements to BTNHT, and purchase of development rights on conservation lands in southeast Texas. Conservation lands are held in permanent trust and are maintained for the benefit of wildlife and ecosystems. LAND STEWARDSHIP - BTNHT monitors its conservation easement lands annually to ensure that the goals and objectives of the easement are followed and that the land retains its conservation values. BTNHT establishes baseline data on all its easements so it can track changes over time through regular monitoring protocols. PUBLIC OUTREACH - BTNHT works with various governmental entities to track and monitor public policy issues that may affect Big Thicket ecosystems, including major thoroughfare and road plans, flood control initiatives, and solar farms. BTNHT partners with the Big Thicket National Preserve on restoration efforts and educational programs and…
$25,196 spent$50 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $25,196.
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 2020 to 2021, from $748k to $1.1M (+45%).
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 37%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of Big Thicket Natural Heritage Trust’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. 1 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $500 → $58.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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 Big Thicket Natural Heritage Trust’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
Big Thicket Natural Heritage Trust leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
55% 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 Big Thicket Natural Heritage Trust.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
55% of Big Thicket Natural Heritage Trust's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $10k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Texas funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
Big Thicket Natural Heritage Trust runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Big Thicket Natural Heritage Trust
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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
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 Big Thicket Natural Heritage Trust: 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 Big Thicket Natural Heritage Trust?
- Big Thicket Natural Heritage Trust (Texas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,301 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($11,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Big Thicket Natural Heritage Trust have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $22,301 in grants to Big Thicket Natural Heritage Trust, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Big Thicket Natural Heritage Trust?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $11,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Big Thicket Natural Heritage Trust 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 4 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