To date, Artist Boat has raised or secured approximately $12.8M of the $16.3M total needed for these acquisitions. Confirmed or recommended sources include:
– $6M NOAA BIL grant (contract expected October 2025).
– $1M USFWS/TPWD CWPPRA award.
– $100K Galveston Bay Estuary Program.
– $400K Knobloch Family Foundation (in progress).
– $5M in GOMESA applications currently pending.
Grassroots donors through the Be One in a Million campaign have already contributed nearly $2M. To finish this effort, we must raise $3.5M — both to close the acquisition gap and to cover the operational and outreach costs of the BOIAM campaign itself.
