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Galveston Bay Foundation Inc

The mission of the Galveston Bay Foundation (GBF) is to preserve and enhance Galveston Bay as a healthy and productive place for generations to come.

$25k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
2
Grants FY2024
3
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$14,664
Largest grant, FY2024
$14,664
Organizations funded a year
2 to 5
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$48M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Galveston Bay Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

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EnvironmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving2$25k50%
FY20233$52k0%
FY20224$51k50%
FY20213$42k67%
FY20203$123k33%
FY20192$26k50%
FY20185$99k100%
FY20174$58kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$249kRecreation & Sports$90kScience & Tech$58kEducation$40kPublic Safety & Disaster$32kAnimals$15kEmployment$7k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Trust for Public Land$91,88730%
Clear Lake City Water Auth$90,0001n/a
University of Houston$80,8076n/a
Mississippi Land Trust$28,95021%
Alachua Conservation Trust Inc$25,00012%
The Artist Boat Inc$25,00020%
Ducks Unlimited Inc$18,50010%
Big Waters Land Trust Inc$17,20120%
4b Disaster Response Network$15,8151n/a
The Houston Audubon Society$15,00011%
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All grantees of Galveston Bay Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Trust for Public Land$91,88730%
Clear Lake City Water Auth$90,0001n/a
University of Houston$80,8076n/a
Mississippi Land Trust$28,95021%
Alachua Conservation Trust Inc$25,00012%
The Artist Boat Inc$25,00020%
Ducks Unlimited Inc$18,50010%
Big Waters Land Trust Inc$17,20120%
4b Disaster Response Network$15,8151n/a
The Houston Audubon Society$15,00011%
Coastal Prairie Conservancy$10,00020%
Bayou City Waterkeeper Inc$8,33313%
Land Trust for the Mississippi Coastal Plain$8,10011%
The Conservation Fund a Nonprofit Corporation$8,00010%
American Youthworks$7,10010%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($26k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Galveston Bay Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Trust for Public Land: $91,887 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMississippi Land Trust: $28,950 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetAlachua Conservation Trust Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetThe Artist Boat Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDucks Unlimited Inc: $18,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBig Waters Land Trust Inc: $17,201 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe Houston Audubon Society: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCoastal Prairie Conservancy: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBayou City Waterkeeper Inc: $8,333 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetLand Trust for the Mississippi Coastal Plain: $8,100 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetThe Conservation Fund a Nonprofit Corporation: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Youthworks: $7,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.

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.

National Fish and Wildlife FoundationDC22.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · United States Endowment for Forestry · The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About Galveston Bay Foundation Inc

How much does Galveston Bay Foundation Inc give?
Galveston Bay Foundation Inc reported 2 grants totaling $24,664 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 5 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Galveston Bay Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (51%), Recreation & Sports (18%), Science & Tech (12%).
Who are Galveston Bay Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Trust for Public Land ($92k), Clear Lake City Water Auth ($90k), University of Houston ($81k).
Does Galveston Bay Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Galveston Bay Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, United States Endowment for Forestry, The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation.
Where is Galveston Bay Foundation Inc based?
Galveston Bay Foundation Inc is based in TX.

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 17 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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