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TEXAS STATE AQUARIUM INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE CONSERVATION
TEXAS STATE AQUARIUM INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE CONSERVATION (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $399,130 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ZOOLOGICAL PARKS AND AQUARIUMS INC ($335,030). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $488k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $399k
- Net assets
- $-348325
What Texas State Aquarium Institute for Wildlife Conservation does
Mission
In 2023, the Texas State Aquarium Institute for Wildlife Conservation took over and expanded upon the wildlife conservation efforts of the texas state aquarium association. The institute is engaged in wildlife rescue and rehabilitation, species restoration work, wildlife conservation education, wildlife conservation research, and wildlife-related emergency management within a new state-of-the-art rescue facility.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The Texas State Aquarium Institute for Wildlife Conservation is permitted to treat marine mammals, raptors, shorebirds, and sea turtles and the new wildlife rescue facility can accommodate thousands of animals at any given time. The institute staff treated 1 aquatic, 42 avian, and 344 sea turtle patients during 2024. These numbers include 16 mississippi kite fledglings displaced from their nests in houston, tx following hurricane beryl in july and 18 critically endangered kemp's ridley sea turtles flown in following a cold stunning event along the beaches of cape cod, ma. Since 2005, there have been 25 aquatic animals, more than 5,000 aves, and more than 4,500 sea turtles released back into the wild due to the work of the employees of the texas state aquarium and the institute for wildlife conservation.
$600,550 spent$51,000 earned by the program64% of program spendingThe Texas State Aquarium Institute for Wildlife Conservation's education activities - from field trips to summer camps to distance learning - promote inclusive and collaborative learning, foster stem exploration and discovery, and empower learners of all ages to reach their full potential. The institute's wildlife rescue on the road program, a traveling education program in which an animal rescue is simulated, reached more than 900 students across the state in 2024. Our summer camp program, seacamp, hosted 40 students and our student volunteer program, aquateens, had 38 participants in 2024.
$340,927 spent36% of program spendingThe Texas State Aquarium Institute for Wildlife Conservation's office of emergency management (oem) is dedicated to responding to wildlife-related emergencies and reducing risks to ensure continuous preparedness. The oem also manages the wildlife response operations center, the nation's first emergency operations center built to support wildlife response efforts in texas and along the texas gulf coast. In 2024, the oem hosted seminars on oil spill responses and harmful algal blooms and participated in several incident command exercises in cooperation with local industry and emergency responders including exxonmobil, gulf coast growth ventures, the port of corpus christi, and the corpus christi fire department.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $941,477.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2023 to 2024, from $645k to $863k (+34%).
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.
103% of TEXAS STATE AQUARIUM INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE CONSERVATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 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.
Board chair
Darcy Schroeder
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of TEXAS STATE AQUARIUM INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE CONSERVATION’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
TEXAS STATE AQUARIUM INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE CONSERVATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
84% 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 TEXAS STATE AQUARIUM INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE CONSERVATION.
“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
TEXAS STATE AQUARIUM INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE CONSERVATION draws 84% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
TEXAS STATE AQUARIUM INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE CONSERVATION's revenue fell 50% between 2023 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,435 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
60%
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
- Friends of the Texas State Aquarium · exempt
- Texas State Aquarium Association · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds TEXAS STATE AQUARIUM INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE CONSERVATION?
- TEXAS STATE AQUARIUM INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE CONSERVATION (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $399,130 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ZOOLOGICAL PARKS AND AQUARIUMS INC ($335,030). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TEXAS STATE AQUARIUM INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE CONSERVATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $399,130 in grants to TEXAS STATE AQUARIUM INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE CONSERVATION.
- Who is the largest funder of TEXAS STATE AQUARIUM INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE CONSERVATION?
- AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ZOOLOGICAL PARKS AND AQUARIUMS INC is the largest funder on record, with $335,030 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TEXAS STATE AQUARIUM INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE CONSERVATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2023–2024), and the filings of 2 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