Coastal Conservation Association
Houston, TX · EIN 74-1984482. Reported 61 grants totalling $10.4M to 30 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Coastal Conservation Association, by its IRS classification it is an alliance or advocacy organization in environment (NTEE C013).
- How spread out its giving is. 30 distinct organizations, with 57% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
- How much its list changes. 62% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 56% median for grantmaking charities -- lower than the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $31,862. Half of what it reported fell between $15,000 and $131,315; the smallest was $6,000 and the largest $2,785,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cca Texas Fund | Houston, TX | $5,866,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Harte Research Institute - Tamucc | Corpus Christi, TX | $1,388,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Texas a & M University-Corpus Christi Foundation Inc | Corp Christi, TX | $465,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Building Conservation Trust | Houston, TX | $451,274 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Parks and Wildlife Foundation of Texas Inc | Dallas, TX | $423,807 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Texas Parks & Wildlife Department | Austin, TX | $346,275 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Texas a & M University Galveston | Galveston, TX | $333,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Board of Supervisors of LSU and Agriculture | Baton Rouge, LA | $199,805 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Texas Surf Conservancy | Corpus Christi, TX | $152,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Blue Latitudes Foundation | Laguna Beach, CA | $118,725 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program | Corp Christi, TX | $86,204 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lee County Artificial Reef Association Inc | Sanibel, FL | $71,109 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Mexico Beach Artificial Reef Association Inc | Port St Joe, FL | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| University of Central Florida Foundation Inc | Orlando, FL | $56,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Fish & Wildlife Foundation of Florida Inc | Tallahassee, FL | $54,362 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Reef Ball Foundation Inc | Athens, GA | $45,427 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Sarasota Bay Watch Inc | Osprey, FL | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| State of South Carolina | Columbia, SC | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| South Walton Artificial Reef Association Inc | Santa Rosa Beach, FL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Anglers for Conservation Inc | Satellite Bch, FL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Bobwhite Brigade | New Braunfels, TX | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The University of Texas - Rgv | Brownsville, TX | $19,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| City of Carrabelle | Carrabelle, FL | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Operation Game Thief Inc | Austin, TX | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Texas Marine Science Institute | Port Aransas, TX | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc | Annapolis, MD | $13,082 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| County of Hernando Board of County Commissioners | Brooksville, FL | $11,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The University of North Florida Foundation Inc | Jacksonville, FL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Galveston Bay Foundation | Kemah, TX | $9,928 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Georgia Department of Natural Resources | Brunswick, GA | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
14 of 30 (47%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Harte Research Institute - Tamucc
CENTER FOR SPORTFISHING SCIENCE AND CONSERVATION, ENDOWED CHAIR IN HONOR OF OUR CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD - Texas a & M Corpus Christi
TEXAS PARKS AND WILDLIFE INTERNS, SCHOLARSHIPS, TAGGING, CENTER FOR SPORTFISH SCIENCE & CONSERVATION, OYSTER RECYCLING TRAILER - Texas Parks & Wildlife Department
SEAGRASS BILLBOARDS & GAME WARDEN INTERNSHIP PROGRAM - Texas Parks & Wildlife Foundation
GAME WARDEN INTERNS, EQUIPMENT FOR GAME WARDEN REGION 4, GAME WARDEN FLOATING CABIN - Texas a & M University Galveston
TEXAS PARKS AND WILDLIFE INTERNS, GRIHMS PROGRAM - Tampa Bay Watch
FANTASY ISLAND LIVING SHORELINE PROJECT 2024
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 20 of 30 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 14 | $1,495,772 | $29,390 |
| 2022 | 14 | $3,679,426 | $42,131 |
| 2023 | 16 | $1,653,828 | $17,350 |
| 2024 | 17 | $3,540,972 | $50,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
92% of its giving went to organizations in Texas. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $31,862 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Texas.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Coastal Conservation Association's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: 6919 Portwest Drive 100, Houston, TX, 77024.
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