· Private foundation
Dr Leon Bromberg Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k47 grants · $202k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $140k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BATTLESHIP TEXAS FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| GALVESTON COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| GALVESTON ISD EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| THE BRYAN MUSEUM | $15,000 |
| ARTIST BOAT | $15,000 |
| ST VINCENT'S HOUSE - GALVESTON TEXAS | $10,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| ROSENBERG LIBRARY | $10,000 |
| WILLIAM R ORANGE JR SCHOLARSHIP FUND - TAMU FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ODYSSEY ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| SUNSHINE CENTER INC | $10,000 |
| GALVESTON ROTARY CLUB | $10,000 |
| CAMP SUMMIT INC | $9,000 |
| NAMI GULF COAST | $8,500 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN-GALVESTON | $8,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $359k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
103 repeat relationships — 42 still active in FY2025, 61 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- GCGalveston College Foundation6× · 2020–2025 · $183k · revenue +324%
- TATHE ARTIST BOAT INC9× · 2017–2025 · $104k · revenue +252%
- TRTHE RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF GALVESTON9× · 2017–2025 · $91k · revenue +161%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $30k
- MGMHMR GULF COAST CENTERone grant, 2018 · $20k
- GBGalveston Bay Foundation Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +191%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Build Galveston is a nonprofit community development corporation focused on developing attainable workforce housing for Galveston's first responders, teachers, healthcare and hospitality workers.
Vision Galveston's mission is to help turn Galveston into the best place to raise a family, uncover new opportunities, and grow the economy. Vision Galveston seeks to connect that vision with the resources needed for implementation.
The Councils mission is to enhance the quality of life of low-income families in Galveston, Fort Bend, Wharton, and Brazoria Counties by promoting self-sufficiency pursuant to the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964. It also operates…
Gulf Coast Center provides accessible efficient and quality services to support the independent and healthy living of those we serve. Every day our counselors therapists psychiatrists case workers peers support and administrative staff…
The Mission of the Galveston Clubhouse is the support of chronically mentally ill individuals in Galveston County by providing or facilitating the following: 1) Psychological and vocational rehabilitation services; 2) Pre-vocational…
Provide older adults compassionateassistance with daily living activities and caregiver support forgalveston, tx and the surrounding communities.
The mission of Galveston Urban Ministries (GUM) is to develop holistic relationships to transform the beloved Galveston community using GUM-E's: Engage, Equip and Empower. Continued on Sch O. By teaching kids to read, helping adult…
To provide health education that improves the well-being of the communities we serve.
Healthy Gulfs purpose is to collaborate with and serve communities who love the Gulf of Mexico by providing the research, communications, and coalition-building tools needed to reverse the long pattern of over exploitation of the Gulfs…
Facilitate the delivery of health care services to indigent persons in galveston county, texas. the corporation does not bill or collect any fees for care provided to the indigent. all revenue comes from payments from the members.
The purpose of GSCA as set out in its By-Laws includes creation of sustainable and holistic neighborhood revitalization through education [and] integrated social services that provide opportunity for [Galveston] residents to succeed.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Casa of Galveston County and the most unlike its peers is Sea Star Base Galveston. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 18% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
68 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 68 of the 176 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds GALVESTON INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Galveston College Foundation ↗
- Who funds BATTLESHIP TEXAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ARTIST BOAT INC ↗
- Who funds THE RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF GALVESTON ↗
- Who funds SUNSHINE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds 1894 INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP SUMMIT INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds APM Outreach Inc Anchor Point ↗
- Who funds RESOURCE & CRISIS CENTER OF GALVESTON COUNTY TEXAS ↗
- Who funds GALVESTON ISLAND HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Open Door Mission ↗
- Who funds CASA OF GALVESTON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENTS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds CHRISTUS Foundation for HealthCare ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds GALVESTON HISTORICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GALVESTON ISLAND NATURE TOURISM COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds GALVESTON COUNTY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds UPWARD HOPE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds NAMI Gulf Coast ↗
- Who funds MOODY EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Harris & Eliza Kempner Fund Inc · Ippolito Charitable Foundation of Galveston · The Moody Foundation · The Mary Moody Northen Endowment · Permanent Endowment Fund of Moody Methodist Church · United Way of Galveston Inc White · John P McGovern Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · United Way Galveston County Mainland Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · The Grant Family Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Dr Leon Bromberg Charitable Trust funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.