Texas · Nonprofit
COASTAL BEND BAYS & ESTUARIES PROGRAM INC
COASTAL BEND BAYS & ESTUARIES PROGRAM INC (Texas) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,671,862 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ($8,712,437). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $13M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $9.7M
- Net assets
- $34M
What Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program Inc does
Mission
Coastal bend bays & estuaries program is dedicated to protecting and restoring bays and estuaries of the texas coastal bend. Coastal bend bays and estuaries remain a vital part of the environmental and economic landscape by preserving and enhancing their roles as a recreational resource, international seaport, and habitat for fish and wildlife.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The u.s. Environmental protection agency's (epa) national estuary program was established by congress in 1987 to improve the quality of estuaries of national importance. The clean water act section 320 directs epa to develop plans for attaining and maintaining water quality in an estuary. This includes protection of public water supplies and protection and propogation of a balance indigenous population of shellfish, fish, and wildlife that allows recreational activities, in and on water, requires that control of point and nonpoint sources of pollution to supplement existing controls of pollution. In several cases, more than one state is participating in a national estuary program. Each program establishes a comprehensive conservation and management plan to meet the goals of section 320. To assist the state of texas in the efforts of promoting judicious use and maximum conservation and protection of the quality of the state's waters, section 604 (b) of the federal clean water act (cwa), as amended, authorizes epa to fund water quality management planning activities. Under the fiscal year 2017 604(b) texas commission on environmental quality (tceq) work plan, the water quality…
$2,549,586 spent28% of program spendingThe texas general land office orginated the cepra and gomesa programs to address declining colonial waterbird populations and disappearing rookery islands in nueces bay and throughout the coastal bend. Coastal bend bays and estuaries programs used these approved funds to successfully implement and put into action the rookery island shoreline protection plan and the restoring colonial waterbird populations along the texas coast.
$2,354,889 spent25% of program spendingThe coastal program is one of the u.s. Fish and wildlife service's most effective resources for restoring and protecting fish and wildlife habitat on public and privately-owned lands. Funding from u.s. Fish & wildlife provides assistance for habitat restoration and protection in the coastal bend area, including the implementation of prescribed fire to enhance habitats for attwater's prairie chicken, aplomado falcon, whooping crane, and associated grassland and migratory birds that will benefit from prescribed fire. The national wildlife refuge enhancements program (cfda 15.654) provides resources to identify, conserve, manage and enhance the physical and ecological infrastructure of national wildlife refuges (nwr). This award assists in the protection of the aransas nwr shoreline, which eroded during hurricane harvey, from future storms by reconstructing water management infrastructure. It also provides assistance for the restoration and enhancement of leaves and water control structures that benefit federal trust resources. A portion of the shoreline supports a coastal woodland plant community that is an important habitat for migratory birds and other wildlife. The migratory bird…
$1,077,857 spent12% of program spendingThe texas coastal management program (cmp) seeks to ensure the long-term environmental and economic health of the texas coast through management of the state's coastal natural resource areas. The coastal coordination council is a public/private council chaired by the texas land commissioner, manages the cmp, on behalf of the council, the general land office (glo), awards approximately 2.2 million annually in grants, reviews federal actions in the texas coastal zone to ensure consistency with the goals and policies of the cmp, support protection of natural habitats and wildlife, and provides baseline data on the health of gulf waters. Texas general land office award is a pass-through from national oceanic and atmospheric administration to assist in disaster relief. The mission-aransas national estuarine reserach reserve (nerr) took a direct hit from hurricane harvey in august of 2017. Removal of debris on sensitive wetland habitat, state park and critical research area are being facilitated by this funding. The coastal erosion planning and response act, texas natural resources codes provides state assistance to maintain and protect texas' barrier island and bay systems. This…
$3,265,339 spent35% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $9,247,671.
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 2018 to 2019, from $25M to $32M (+24%).
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 59% · 2018 36% · 2019 22% · 2020 38% · 2021 71% · 2022 80% · 2023 64% · 2024 61%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of COASTAL BEND BAYS & ESTUARIES PROGRAM INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (87% 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
Kiersten Stanzel
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $52k → $1.1M.
3 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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: $286k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Coastal Bend Industry Association). These are real filings, and they are not money COASTAL BEND BAYS & ESTUARIES PROGRAM INC raised.
From the IRS filings of COASTAL BEND BAYS & ESTUARIES PROGRAM INC’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
COASTAL BEND BAYS & ESTUARIES PROGRAM INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% 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 COASTAL BEND BAYS & ESTUARIES PROGRAM INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 81% · 2018 98% · 2019 90% · 2020 98% · 2021 85% · 2022 82% · 2023 80% — 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.
How long its funders stay
40% of COASTAL BEND BAYS & ESTUARIES PROGRAM INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
COASTAL BEND BAYS & ESTUARIES PROGRAM INC draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $58k 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
COASTAL BEND BAYS & ESTUARIES PROGRAM INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 329 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 329 environment nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding COASTAL BEND BAYS & ESTUARIES PROGRAM INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $36.4M on record.
- Department of the Interior$24.2M
- Environmental Protection Agency$11.9M
- Department of Agriculture$272k
- Department of Commerce$105k
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 COASTAL BEND BAYS & ESTUARIES PROGRAM 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
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COASTAL BEND BAYS & ESTUARIES PROGRAM INC?
- COASTAL BEND BAYS & ESTUARIES PROGRAM INC (Texas) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,671,862 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ($8,712,437). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COASTAL BEND BAYS & ESTUARIES PROGRAM INC have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $9,671,862 in grants to COASTAL BEND BAYS & ESTUARIES PROGRAM INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COASTAL BEND BAYS & ESTUARIES PROGRAM INC?
- NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $8,712,437 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COASTAL BEND BAYS & ESTUARIES PROGRAM 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 13 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