Texas · Private foundation
Gulf Coast Medical Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $868k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 36
- Grants FY2024
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 45%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $21,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 22 to 31
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $12M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 45% of the organizations Gulf Coast Medical Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $182k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 27 | $868k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $621k | 45% |
| FY2022 | 28 | $756k | 32% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $699k | 28% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $452k | 4% |
| FY2019 | 31 | $699k | 23% |
| FY2018 | 27 | $838k | 56% |
| FY2017 | 30 | $788k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oakbend Medical Center | $621,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Just Do It Now Inc | $582,000 | 7 | 20% |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Inc | $320,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Matagorda Episcopal Health Outreach Program Corporation | $237,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Hesed House of Wharton Inc | $237,000 | 4 | 21% |
| Boys & Girls Club of El Campo | $214,000 | 4 | 9% |
| Ft Bend County Child Advocates Inc | $150,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Blessed Be Hope for Three Inc | $108,100 | 8 | 2% |
| Fort Bend Seniors Meals on Wheels and Much Much More | $105,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Palacios Community Hub | $100,000 | 7 | 14% |
Show all 44 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 44 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Gulf Coast Medical Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 37 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The George Foundation · Mary Louise Dobson Foundation · The Henderson-Wessendorff Foundation · Fort Bend Junior Service League · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Fred and Mabel R Parks Foundation · Episcopal Health Foundation · United Way of Greater Houston · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Fluor Cares
How this is measured
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About Gulf Coast Medical Foundation
- How much does Gulf Coast Medical Foundation give?
- Gulf Coast Medical Foundation reported 36 grants totaling $868,371 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 31 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Gulf Coast Medical Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (27%), Human Services (21%), Youth Development (18%).
- Who are Gulf Coast Medical Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Oakbend Medical Center ($622k), Just Do It Now Inc ($582k), Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Inc ($320k).
- Does Gulf Coast Medical Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 45% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Gulf Coast Medical Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Gulf Coast Medical Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The George Foundation, Mary Louise Dobson Foundation, The Henderson-Wessendorff Foundation.
- Where is Gulf Coast Medical Foundation based?
- Gulf Coast Medical Foundation is based in TX.
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