Texas · Nonprofit
The Bayou City Initiative
The Bayou City Initiative (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $110,000 to it, the largest being Jacob and Terese Hershey Foundation ($100,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2020
- $58k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $110k
- Net assets
- $57k
What The Bayou City Initiative does
Mission
The Bayou City Initiative (BCI) purpose is to address, educate and advocate for flooding solutions in Houston, Texas. BCI seeks to focus public debate on solutions to environmental problems and safe alternatives to Houstons current flood-prone infrastructure. BCI intends to develop policy solutions and proposals to address flooding problems including, but not limited to, inaccurate flood maps, homeowner risk awareness, land buyouts, mitigation solutions, and project prioritization.
As stated on its FY2020 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Public Meetings Program: The purpose of BCI is to work with and educate flood victims and the Harris County community post-Harvey. We have developed a three-part action plan for moving forward post-Harvey that includes vision, information and action. We have membership from about 40 non-profits and neighborhood associations around Harris County, and we meet about once every two or three months to discuss important issues about recovery and living with and improving our situation regarding flooding.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $26k to $57k (+119%).
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.
100% of The Bayou City Initiative’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (92% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2020: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $60k → $50k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 The Bayou City Initiative’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
The Bayou City Initiative leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 83% · 2020 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
100% of The Bayou City Initiative's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k 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
The Bayou City Initiative runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,497 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,497 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2020
Organizations like The Bayou City Initiative
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.
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Bayou City Initiative: 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 The Bayou City Initiative?
- The Bayou City Initiative (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $110,000 to it, the largest being Jacob and Terese Hershey Foundation ($100,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Bayou City Initiative have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $110,000 in grants to The Bayou City Initiative, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Bayou City Initiative?
- Jacob and Terese Hershey Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Bayou City Initiative 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 FY2020 (financials across 2019–2020), 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