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BOTANICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TEXAS INC
BOTANICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TEXAS INC (Texas) receives grants from 73 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,354,888 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXAS (TAX ($4,998,488). 49 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $20M
- Funders on record
- 73
- Grants received
- $19M
- Net assets
- $15M
What Botanical Research Institute of Texas Inc does
Mission
Explore, discover, engage: we explore the critically important world of plants, collaborate to discover the role they play in our cultural and natural environments, and engage people to conserve nature and improve the human experience.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Garden. Effective october 1, 2020, the botanical institute of texas (brit) entered into an agreement with the city of fort worth to manage the fort worth botanic garden (fwbg). Fwbg is a 110-acre botanic garden adjacent to brit in the cultural district of fort worth, texas. The garden is open to the public and contains various horticultural displays including a japanese garden and a rose garden. In addition to individual visitation, the garden is also used for many educational programs and school field trips.
$17,197,327 spent$2,229,581 earned by the program82% of program spendingResearch. Brit's research program is the foundational activity upon which the institute achieves its mission. Brit acts as a catalyst within the scientific community to address globally challenging problems by using various botanical lenses (taxonomy, ecological/environmental, and genomics). Research conducted by britmakes the world a better place, sometimes directly through improvements to life and sometimes indirectly through increasing our understanding of the world which allows us to become more responsible citizens of the planet.
$1,348,356 spent6% of program spendingEducation. Brit develops and presents numerous education programs covering various topics in botany, ecology and conservation. Programs are presented to various groups including educators, students and the public. The brit seed (science-based experiential education design) school for educators inspires and supports educators in connecting children to nature through the use of outdoor classrooms, nature andurban environments. Brit provides continuing education opportunities that combine research-based best practices with hands-on, real world learning through outdoor inquiry, place-based education and culturally responsive teaching.
$1,222,021 spent$169,783 earned by the program6% of program spendingCOLLECTIONS. The cornerstone of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas is its Herbarium and botanical library. BRIT's herbarium, a collection of more than one million dried plant specimens representing much of Earth's plant diversity, is among the largest in the United States. BRIT's collections-based research provides information for conservation purposes and is a resource for research scientists, students, teachers, plant enthusiasts, gardeners, hospitals, and many others. BRIT's plant collections and educational programs are open to the public to help fulfill our mission to achieve public understanding of the value that plants bring to life.
$872,530 spent4% of program spendingPRESS. In addition to the specific programs described on lines 4A, 4B, and 4C, BRIT publishes the Journal of Botanical Research of Texas (JBRIT), which presents research from BRIT researchers as well as leading researchers from other organizations throughout the world. BRIT also publishes monographs and botanical books such as the Illustrated Flora of North Texas and the Illustrated Flora of East Texas which are leading works in botanical education in Texas.
$441,796 spent$151,752 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $21,082,030.
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 2017 to 2018, from $83M to $23M (−72%).
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%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
52% of BOTANICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TEXAS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (52% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Patrick Newman
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 28 funders, grant income rose $209k → $4.8M.
12 of 73 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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: $19M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Brit Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money BOTANICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TEXAS INC raised.
From the IRS filings of BOTANICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TEXAS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 73 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
BOTANICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TEXAS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% 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
40% 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 BOTANICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TEXAS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 36% · 2019 70% · 2020 30% · 2021 63% · 2022 81% · 2023 52% — 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
33% of BOTANICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TEXAS INC'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
88% of BOTANICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TEXAS 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. $6.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
BOTANICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TEXAS INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 85 science & tech nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 85 science & tech nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding BOTANICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TEXAS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.5M on record.
- National Science Foundation$5.3M
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$157k
- Department of the Interior$49k
- Smithsonian Institution$35k
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 BOTANICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TEXAS 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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
65%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Brit Foundation · exempt
- Brit Landowner · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BOTANICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TEXAS INC?
- BOTANICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TEXAS INC (Texas) receives grants from 73 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,354,888 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXAS (TAX ($4,998,488). 49 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BOTANICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TEXAS INC have?
- IRS filings report 73 organizations giving $19,354,888 in grants to BOTANICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TEXAS INC, 49 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BOTANICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TEXAS INC?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXAS (TAX is the largest funder on record, with $4,998,488 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BOTANICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TEXAS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 73 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