Bayou Bend Gardens Endowment

Analysis

Bayou Bend Gardens Endowment is a registered charity in United States, based in Houston, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 1966, 60 years ago. Its declared purposes cover environment, which this site groups under environment and conservation. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending June 2024, Bayou Bend Gardens Endowment reported income of $618k and spending of $226k, leaving 63% of income unspent that year. Across the 6 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2024, income fell from $991k to $618k (-38%), an average of -9.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2024, when income rose by 74%. Over the whole period it spent 24% of the income it received.

Among 10,430 United States charities whose main cause is environment and conservation and that reported income, Bayou Bend Gardens Endowment sits at the 70th percentile: it is larger than about 70% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 73rd percentile, and in the 77th percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Friends of Passaic County Parks a NJ Nonprofit Corporation ($618k), Sourland Conservancy ($619k) and Forest Preserve Foundation Inc ($618k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2024, revenue came from contributions and grants 12% of the total. At year end it held assets of $13.6m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $13.6m.