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Dr Leon Bromberg Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$392k
Granted FY2025still arriving
59
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$991kEducation$753kArts & Culture$672kHuman Services$574kRecreation & Sports$214kEnvironment$194kReligion$191kPublic Safety & Disaster$170kOther$0
02FY2025 · 59 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k47 grants · $202k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $140k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$8.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BATTLESHIP TEXAS FOUNDATION$50,000
GALVESTON ISD EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$20,000
GALVESTON COLLEGE FOUNDATION$20,000
THE BRYAN MUSEUM$15,000
ARTIST BOAT$15,000
ODYSSEY ACADEMY$10,000
SUNSHINE CENTER INC$10,000
ST VINCENT'S HOUSE - GALVESTON TEXAS$10,000
GALVESTON ROTARY CLUB$10,000
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION$10,000
ROSENBERG LIBRARY$10,000
WILLIAM R ORANGE JR SCHOLARSHIP FUND - TAMU FOUNDATION$10,000
CAMP SUMMIT INC$9,000
NAMI GULF COAST$8,500
GALVESTON ART LEAGUE$8,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GOD'S GARAGE: $5k → 9%ANCHOR POINT: $8k → 14%ANCHOR POINT: $8k → 14%ANCHOR POINT: $8k → 14%ANCHOR POINT: $8k → 14%ANCHOR POINT: $8k → 14%ANCHOR POINT: $8k → 14%ANCHOR POINT: $8k → 14%ANCHOR POINT: $8k → 14%INTERFAITH CARING MINISTRIES: $3k → 14%CASA OF GALVESTON COUNTY: $5k → 14%CASA OF GALVESTON COUNTY: $5k → 14%TEXAS LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%TEXAS LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%JOE JOE BEAR FOUNDATION: $5k → 16%TEXAS LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%JOEJOE BEAR FOUNDATION: $5k → 16%TEXAS LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%JUSTICE FORWARD: $5k → 16%JUSTICE FORWARD: $5k → 16%TEXAS LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%JUSTICE FORWARD: $5k → 16%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $10k → 16%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $10k → 16%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $8k → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS - TEXAS GULF COAST REGION: $5k → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS-TEXAS GULF COAST REGION: $5k → 16%CASA OF GALVESTON COUNTY: $5k → 14%CASA OF GALVESTON COUNTY: $5k → 14%GALVESTON COUNTY FOOD BANK: $5k → 14%GALVESTON COUNTY FOOD BANK: $5k → 14%GALVESTON COUNTY FOOD BANK: $5k → 14%CASA OF GALVESTON COUNTY: $5k → 14%GALVESTON COUNTY FOOD BANK: $5k → 14%CASA OF GALVESTON COUNTY: $5k → 14%CASA OF GALVESTON COUNTY: $5k → 14%GALVESTON COUNTY FOOD BANK: $5k → 14%CASA OF GALVESTON COUNTY: $5k → 14%CASA OF GALVESTON COUNTY: $5k → 14%GALVESTON COUNTY FOOD BANK: $5k → 14%GALVESTON COUNTY FOOD BANK: $4k → 14%ST VINCENT'S HOUSE: $14k → 14%ST VINCENT'S HOUSE: $10k → 14%ST VINCENT'S HOUSE: $10k → 14%ST VINCENT'S HOUSE: $10k → 14%FAMILY SERVICE CENTER OF GALVESTON COUNTY: $5k → 14%RESOURCE AND CRISIS CENTER: $5k → 14%FAMILY SERVICE CENTER OF GALVESTON COUNTY: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.8M · 103 repeat orgs$447k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against +5% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

103
63

Total granted

$3.8M
$385k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+5%

Still filing today

44%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • GC
    Galveston College Foundation
    6× · 2020–2025 · $183k · revenue +324%
  • TA
    THE ARTIST BOAT INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $104k · revenue +252%
  • TR
    THE RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF GALVESTON
    9× · 2017–2025 · $91k · revenue +161%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $30k
  • GB
    Galveston Bay Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +191%
  • MG
    MHMR GULF COAST CENTER
    one grant, 2018 · $20k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Build Galveston

Build Galveston is a nonprofit community development corporation focused on developing attainable workforce housing for Galveston's first responders, teachers, healthcare and hospitality workers.

Community Improvement
2
Vision Galveston

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.

Community Improvement
3
Galveston County Community Action Council Inc

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…

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4
Galveston Artist Residency
Arts & Culture
5
The Gulf Coast Center

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…

Health
6
Galveston County Clubhouse Inc

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…

Health
7
Libbies Place Co Moody Memorial United Methodist

Provide older adults compassionateassistance with daily living activities and caregiver support forgalveston, tx and the surrounding communities.

Human Services
8
Galveston Urban Ministries

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…

Human Services
9
Gulfcoast South Area Health Education Center Inc

To provide health education that improves the well-being of the communities we serve.

Health
10
Healthy Gulf

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…

Environment
11
Galveston County Clinical Services Inc

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.

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12
Galveston Sustainable Communities Alliance

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.…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Casa of Galveston County; 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.
04the grantee network

68 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
65/68
Grantees still filing
40/68
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH: $350,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCHTHE BRYAN MUSEUM: $180,000 · OtherTHE BRYAN MUSEUMSUNSHINE CENTER INC: $90,000 · Other+124 more: $1,869,631 · Other+124 moreGALVESTON INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $190,250 · EducationGALVESTON INDE…Galveston College Foundation: $183,000 · EducationGalveston Coll…TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC: $64,000 · EducationTEXAS TECH FOU…UPWARD HOPE ACADEMY INC: $33,000 · EducationUPWARD HOPE AC…MOODY EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER: $32,500 · EducationMOODY EARLY CH…Texas A&M Foundation: $20,000 · Education+2 more: $15,000 · EducationTEXAS LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION: $85,000 · Human ServicesTEXAS LIGHT…APM Outreach Inc Anchor Point: $60,000 · Human ServicesAPM Outreac…RESOURCE & CRISIS CENTER OF GALVESTON COUNTY TEXAS: $55,000 · Human ServicesRESOURCE & …Open Door Mission: $48,500 · Human ServicesOpen Door M…CASA OF GALVESTON COUNTY: $45,000 · Human ServicesCASA OF GAL…ST VINCENTS HOUSE: $44,000 · Human ServicesST VINCENTS…GALVESTON COUNTY FOOD BANK: $34,000 · Human ServicesGALVESTON C…JUSTICE FORWARD: $15,000 · Human Services+8 more: $55,000 · Human Services+8 moreBATTLESHIP TEXAS FOUNDATION: $152,500 · Arts & CultureGALVESTON HISTORICAL FOUNDATION: $35,000 · Arts & CultureADMIRAL NIMITZ FOUNDATION: $22,500 · Arts & CultureGALVESTON ARTS CENTER: $20,000 · Arts & CultureGALVESTON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $15,000 · Arts & CultureCenter for Transportation and Commerce: $12,000 · Arts & CultureBolivar Point Lighthouse Foundation Inc: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $12,500 · Arts & CultureTHE RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF GALVESTON: $91,000 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $50,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $40,000 · HealthCHRISTUS Foundation for HealthCare: $40,000 · HealthSTRONG WHEN WEAK: $15,000 · HealthALCOHOLDRUG ABUSE WOMENS CENTER: $14,000 · Health+1 more: $5,000 · HealthTHE ARTIST BOAT INC: $104,000 · EnvironmentGALVESTON ISLAND NATURE TOURISM COUNCIL: $35,000 · EnvironmentGalveston Bay Foundation Inc: $20,000 · EnvironmentBETTER PARKS FOR GALVESTON: $12,500 · Environment+1 more: $5,000 · EnvironmentCAMP SUMMIT INC: $73,500 · Youth DevelopmentGirl Scouts of San Jacinto Council: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentBoys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Inc: $10,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $2,500 · Youth Development
Other$2,489,631Education$537,750Human Services$441,500Arts & Culture$279,500Health$255,000Environment$176,500Youth Development$106,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGALVESTON INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $190,250 over 9y, 7.9% of budgetGalveston College Foundation: $183,000 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetBATTLESHIP TEXAS FOUNDATION: $152,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ARTIST BOAT INC: $104,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetTHE RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF GALVESTON: $91,000 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetSUNSHINE CENTER INC: $90,000 over 9y, 2.6% of budgetTEXAS LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION: $85,000 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS OF TEXAS INC: $80,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budget1894 INC: $77,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetCAMP SUMMIT INC: $73,500 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetTEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC: $64,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAPM Outreach Inc Anchor Point: $60,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetRESOURCE & CRISIS CENTER OF GALVESTON COUNTY TEXAS: $55,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetGALVESTON ISLAND HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $52,000 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOpen Door Mission: $48,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCASA OF GALVESTON COUNTY: $45,000 over 9y, 1.5% of budgetST VINCENTS HOUSE: $44,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $40,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTUS Foundation for HealthCare: $40,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetGALVESTON ISLAND NATURE TOURISM COUNCIL: $35,000 over 6y, 5.0% of budgetGALVESTON HISTORICAL FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGALVESTON COUNTY FOOD BANK: $34,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNAMI Gulf Coast: $33,000 over 6y, 4.2% of budgetUPWARD HOPE ACADEMY INC: $33,000 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetMOODY EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER: $32,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetGALVESTON ISLAND MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $30,500 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetGALVESTON ART LEAGUE INC: $27,800 over 7y, 7.6% of budgetADMIRAL NIMITZ FOUNDATION: $22,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTexas A&M Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JESSE TREE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetGirl Scouts of San Jacinto Council: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGalveston Bay Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGALVESTON ARTS CENTER: $20,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetGALVESTON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $15,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetSTRONG WHEN WEAK: $15,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetJUSTICE FORWARD: $15,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetALCOHOLDRUG ABUSE WOMENS CENTER: $14,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetVOLUNTEER SERVICES COUNCIL OF RICHMOND STATE SUPPORTED LIVING CTR: $13,500 over 2y, 13% of budgetHOSPICE CARE TEAM INC: $13,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetBETTER PARKS FOR GALVESTON: $12,500 over 3y, 12% of budgetCenter for Transportation and Commerce: $12,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetGULF COAST BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetFamily Service Center of Galveston County Texas: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJOE JOE BEAR FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetOdyssey 2020 Academy Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBolivar Point Lighthouse Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds CHRISTUS Foundation for HealthCare ↗
  • Who funds GALVESTON ISLAND NATURE TOURISM COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds GALVESTON HISTORICAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GALVESTON COUNTY FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds NAMI Gulf Coast ↗
  • Who funds UPWARD HOPE ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds MOODY EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Harris & Eliza Kempner Fund IncTX76.7× affinity35 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Dr Leon Bromberg Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dr Leon Bromberg Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 176 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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