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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 FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$14,664
Median grant
1
States reached
$48M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
University of Houston System$14,664
Coastal Prairie Conservancy$10,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 94% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%4B Disaster Response Network: $16k → 14%The Trust for Public Land: $22k → 14%Coastal Prairie Conservancy: $10k → 16%Conservation Fndn-Gulf Coast: $10k → 9%Alachua Conservation Trust: $25k → 19%Ducks Unlimited Inc: $19k → 17%Mississippi Land Trust: $15k → 27%The Conservation Fund: $8k → 11%Artist Boat: $15k → 14%Greater Houston Comnty Found: $16k → 16%Conservation Fndn-Gulf Coast: $7k → 9%Mississippi Land Trust: $14k → 27%Artist Boat: $10k → 14%American Youthworks: $7k → 16%Clear Lake City Water Auth: $90k → 16%Univ of Houston Clear Lake: $26k → 16%Univ of Houston Clear Lake: $19k → 16%University of Houston Clear Lake: $16k → 16%Univ of Houston Clear Lake: $12k → 16%Univ of Houston Clear Lake: $11k → 16%Houston Audubon Society: $15k → 16%UH Clear Lake: $8k → 16%Bayou City Waterkeeper: $8k → 16%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.

51%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$244k · 5 repeat orgs$232k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +119% since the first grant, against +91% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
10

Total granted

$244k
$222k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+119%
+91%

Still filing today

80%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND
    3× · 2018–2023 · $92k · revenue +119%
  • TA
    THE ARTIST BOAT INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $25k · revenue +252%
  • BW
    Big Waters Land Trust Inc
    2× · 2018–2019 · $17k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • CL
    Clear Lake City Water Auth
    one grant, 2020 · $90k
  • UO
    Univ of Houston Clear Lake
    one grant, 2017 · $26k
  • AC
    ALACHUA CONSERVATION TRUST INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +520%
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
Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program Inc

Coastal bend bays & estuaries program is dedicated to protecting and restoring bays and estuaries of the texas coastal bend. coastal bend bays and estuaries remain a vital part of the environmental and economic landscape by preserving and…

Environment
2
Big Thicket Natural Heritage Trust

We acquire properties to be donated to the National Park Service and state entities and advocate for protection of Big Thicket natural resources.

Environment
3
Bayou Land Conservancy

To preserve land along streams for flood control, clean water, and wildlife in the geographical area that drains into lake houston.

Environment
4
Conservation Florida Inc

Conservation florida's mission is to permanently protect florida's water, wildlife, and wild places - the places that make florida home.

Environment
5
Wetlands America Trust Inc

Wetlands america trust, inc. is a nonprofit organization formed in 1985 to expand ducks unlimited, inc's mission to provide leadership in the protection of the natural balance of wetlands ecosystems ensuring the future viability of…

Environment
6
Whatcom Land Trust

The mission of the Whatcom Land Trust is to preserve and protect wildlife habitat, scenic, agricultural and open space lands in Whatcom County for future generations by securing interests in land and promoting land stewardship.

Environment
7
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
8
Florida Conservation Group Inc

Mission is to seek protection of land and water resources through restoration and conservation; and conducting education and outreach on the ecological and economic importance of natural lands. we protect land from development and protect…

Environment
9
Land Trust for Louisiana

Land conservation

Education
10
Texas Agricultural Land Trust

To conserve the Texas heritage of agricultural lands, natural resources, and wildlife habitats.

Environment
11
Wildlands Trust Inc

The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…

Environment
12
Parks and Wildlife Foundation of Texas

Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation (TPWF) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization thatadvances Texas proud outdoor traditions through meaningful, high-impact programs,partnerships, and a wide range of projects that conserve and enhance our…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Land Trust for the Mississippi Coastal Plain; the most unlike its peers is 4B Disaster Response Network. 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

14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 17 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
11/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $91,887 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LANDMISSISSIPPI LAND TRUST: $28,950 · EnvironmentMISSISSIPPI LAND TRUSTALACHUA CONSERVATION TRUST INC: $25,000 · EnvironmentALACHUA CONSERVATION TRUST INCTHE ARTIST BOAT INC: $25,000 · EnvironmentTHE ARTIST BOAT INCDucks Unlimited Inc: $18,500 · EnvironmentDucks Unlimited IncBig Waters Land Trust Inc: $17,201 · EnvironmentBig Waters Land Trust IncThe Houston Audubon Society: $15,000 · EnvironmentThe Houston Audubon SocietyCoastal Prairie Conservancy: $10,000 · Environment+3 more: $24,433 · Environment+3 moreClear Lake City Water Auth: $90,000 · OtherClear Lake City Water AuthUNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON: $80,807 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF HOUSTONUniv of Houston Clear Lake: $25,736 · OtherUniv of Houston Clear LakeAMERICAN YOUTHWORKS: $7,100 · Other4B DISASTER RESPONSE NETWORK: $15,815 · Public Safety & DisasterGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $15,815 · Philanthropy
Environment$255,971Other$203,643Public Safety & Disaster$15,815Philanthropy$15,815

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

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 budgetGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $15,815 over 1y, 0.0% 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
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.

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 Wil…United States Endowme…The Cynthia & George …Shell USA Company Fou…Texas Instruments Fou…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Galveston Bay Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Galveston Bay Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Alachua Conservation Trust Inc: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 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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