Texas · Nonprofit
INGLESIDE ON THE BAY COASTAL WATCH ASSOCIATION
INGLESIDE ON THE BAY COASTAL WATCH ASSOCIATION (Texas) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,249,087 to it, the largest being ROCKEFELLER FAMILY FUND INC ($995,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $859k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $611k
What Ingleside on the Bay Coastal Watch Association does
Mission
Coastal Watch Association CWA is a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting clean air clean water public health and environmental quality along the Coastal Bend. CWA advances its mission through community education environmental monitoring public engagement and advocacy related to industrial development and environmental protection.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
BP2 Stop Enbridge: Program accomplishments included continued advocacy and organizing efforts opposing large-scale ammonia and related industrial buildout in Ingleside Texas through community engagement public education regulatory participation and environmental health advocacy. Funding supported approximately 30% of staff payroll taxes and benefits helping sustain critical organizational capacity for outreach permit engagement and frontline community support. Program activities also included advancement of a regional health study project focused on environmental and public health concerns within the Coastal Bend.
$216,511 spent47% of program spendingAir Monitoring:The project supports community-based environmental advocacy public engagement and scientific monitoring efforts across the Texas Coastal Bend in response to rapid industrial and LNG expansion. Activities include air monitoring permit and regulatory engagement community education environmental health initiatives and technical and legal support for frontline communities impacted by industrial development. Funding also supports organizational capacity including staff payroll taxes and benefits necessary to sustain ongoing advocacy outreach and environmental protection efforts
$214,136 spent46% of program spendingHealth Study Initiative: The project supports Phase 1 of the San Patricio County Health Study in partnership with the Texas Health Institute THI. This work focuses on gathering baseline environmental public health and demographic data to better understand existing community health conditions identify data gaps and inform future community-centered environmental health research and engagement efforts across the Coastal Bend.
$32,500 spent7% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $463,147.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $283k to $611k (+116%).
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.
99% of INGLESIDE ON THE BAY COASTAL WATCH ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $100k → $339k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 80% 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 INGLESIDE ON THE BAY COASTAL WATCH ASSOCIATION’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
INGLESIDE ON THE BAY COASTAL WATCH ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 INGLESIDE ON THE BAY COASTAL WATCH ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 87% · 2023 44% — 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.
Where its funders are
80% of INGLESIDE ON THE BAY COASTAL WATCH ASSOCIATION'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 $254k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Texas, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $995k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
INGLESIDE ON THE BAY COASTAL WATCH ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like INGLESIDE ON THE BAY COASTAL WATCH ASSOCIATION
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds INGLESIDE ON THE BAY COASTAL WATCH ASSOCIATION?
- INGLESIDE ON THE BAY COASTAL WATCH ASSOCIATION (Texas) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,249,087 to it, the largest being ROCKEFELLER FAMILY FUND INC ($995,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does INGLESIDE ON THE BAY COASTAL WATCH ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $1,249,087 in grants to INGLESIDE ON THE BAY COASTAL WATCH ASSOCIATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INGLESIDE ON THE BAY COASTAL WATCH ASSOCIATION?
- ROCKEFELLER FAMILY FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $995,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INGLESIDE ON THE BAY COASTAL WATCH ASSOCIATION 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 6 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