Texas · Nonprofit
Coastal Bend Bays Foundation Inc
Coastal Bend Bays Foundation Inc (Texas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,583 to it, the largest being CELANESE FOUNDATION ($8,797). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $225k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $13k
- Net assets
- $216k
What Coastal Bend Bays Foundation Inc does
Mission
Coastal Bend Bays Foundation is dedicated to the conservation of freshwater and coastal natural resources for current and future generations through consensus, facilitation, communication, advocacy, research and education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Earth Day Bay Day - Coastal Bend Bays Foundation plans and organizes the annual Earth Day Bay Day event to educate the public about bays, estuaries, and other native habitats and the importance of clean air, water, and environment for conservations of resources and energy through reducing, reusing, and recycling; encourages protection of native habitats such as seagrasses by promoting low-impact outdoor activities. CBBF also facilitates the active engagement of visitors with local organizations which provide interactive activities to about 9,000 people that attend the event.
$54,987 spent$103,341 earned by the program53% of program spendingEnvironmental Awards Banquet - Coastal Bend Bays Foundation plans this annual event which recognizes and honors outstanding Coastal Bend citizens, educators, businesses, governing bodies and other entities that have made significant contributions to education and protection of the Coastal Bend's natural resources, habitats, native species and activities involved in conserving the bay system and its coastal natural resources. This event services about 300 people annually who network and are made aware of all the different community opportunities CBBF has to offer throughout the following year.
$45,350 spent$64,062 earned by the program43% of program spendingCoastal Issues Forum - Coastal Bend Bays Foundation provides nine free public informational Coastal Issures Forums that increase opportunities for regional public education and outreach. About 250 people attend annually where they network and are made aware of the issues involving the community with the opportunity to also discuss their concerns of different topics at other forums throughout the year.
$4,135 spent4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $104,472.
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 2024 to 2025, from $148k to $216k (+46%).
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.
24% of Coastal Bend Bays Foundation Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
2019 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $2k → $2k.
1 of 5 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: $6k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Coastal Bend Community Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money Coastal Bend Bays Foundation Inc raised.
From the IRS filings of Coastal Bend Bays Foundation 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 Foundation Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 65% · 2020 100% · 2021 95% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
98% of Coastal Bend Bays Foundation 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. $86 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 Foundation Inc 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 Coastal Bend Bays Foundation 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
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Coastal Bend Bays Foundation Inc: 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 Coastal Bend Bays Foundation Inc?
- Coastal Bend Bays Foundation Inc (Texas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,583 to it, the largest being CELANESE FOUNDATION ($8,797). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Coastal Bend Bays Foundation Inc have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $12,583 in grants to Coastal Bend Bays Foundation Inc, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Coastal Bend Bays Foundation Inc?
- CELANESE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $8,797 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Coastal Bend Bays Foundation 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 5 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