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Gulf Coast Medical Foundation at a glance

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Gulf Coast Medical Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$868k
Granted FY2024still arriving
36
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$1.6MHuman Services$1.2MYouth Development$1.0MEducation$682kFood & Nutrition$233kCrime & Legal$170kHousing & Shelter$169kArts & Culture$133kOther$0
02FY2024 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k25 grants · $493k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $347k
$21,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTHSIDE EDUCATION CENTER$100,000
OAKBEND MEDICAL CENTER$71,500
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER HOUSTON$65,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF EL CAMPO & PALACIOS$60,000
HESED HOUSE$50,000
BOLING DISTRICT IMPROVEMENT ASSO$40,000
BLESSING CUP STOREHOUSE$30,000
EL CAMPO MEMORIAL HOSPITAL$25,000
NORTHSIDE EDUCATION CENTER$25,000
JUST DO IT NOW$25,000
JUST DO IT NOW$25,000
JUST DO IT NOW$25,000
MATAGORDA COUNTY CRISIS CENTER$25,000
THE ARC OF WHARTON$25,000
JUST DO IT NOW$25,000
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 (FY17–24, $490k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 68% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%FORT BEND SENIORS MEALS ON WHEELS: $25k → 8%FRIENDS OF ELDER CITIZENS: $15k → 20%FORT BEND SENIORS MEALS ON WHEELS: $20k → 8%FORT BEND SENIORS MEALS ON WHEELS: $20k → 8%FORT BEND SENIORS MEALS ON WHEELS: $15k → 8%FORT BEND SENIORS MEALS ON WHEELS: $15k → 8%FRIENDS OF ELDER CITIZENS: $15k → 20%FRIENDS OF ELDER CITIZENS: $13k → 20%FRIENDS OF ELDER CITIZENS: $10k → 20%FORT BEND SENIORS MEALS ON WHEELS: $10k → 8%FRIENDS OF ELDER CITIZENS: $10k → 20%FRIENDS OF ELDER CITIZENS: $10k → 20%HESED HOUSE OF WHARTON: $60k → 15%HESED HOUSE OF WHARTON: $60k → 15%HESED HOUSE OF WHARTON: $50k → 15%COLLABORATIVE FOR CHILDREN: $25k → 16%HESED HOUSE OF WHARTON: $32k → 15%HESED HOUSE OF WHARTON: $25k → 15%SECOND MILE MISSION CENTER: $10k → 8%SECOND MILE MISSION CENTER: $10k → 8%EAST FORT BEND HUMAN NEEDS MINISTRY: $10k → 8%LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF FT BEND CO: $20k → 8%HESED HOUSE OF WHARTON: $10k → 15%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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.7M · 45 repeat orgs$971k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

45 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
34

Total granted

$4.7M
$691k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
0%

Still filing today

56%
18%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $281k 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
HealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentCivil RightsArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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

  • JD
    Just Do It Now Inc
    7× · 2017–2024 · $582k · revenue +18%
  • BA
    Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Inc
    6× · 2019–2024 · $320k · revenue +53%
  • ME
    MATAGORDA EPISCOPAL HEALTH OUTREACH PROGRAM CORPORATION
    4× · 2018–2021 · $237k · revenue +95%

Funded once

  • WC
    WHARTON COUNTY JUNIOR COLLEGE
    one grant, 2018 · $100k
  • TM
    THE MONTGOMERY HOME INC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -45%
  • SC
    SANFORD COMMUNITY CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $39k
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
Fort Bend Care Center

To transform community wellness through literacy, health, spiritual and wellness programs

Human Services
2
Spring Branch Community Health Center

To increase the number of healthy families in our community by providing high quality, comprehensive health services.

Health
3
Guadalupe County Children's Advocacy Center

To advocate for and provide services to children and families when there are allegations of abuse and neglect throughout the investigation,prosecution, treatment, and prevention of child abuse, and to reduce the trauma to childrent with…

Crime & Legal
4
Fredericksburg Community Health Center

The mission of the Good Samaritan Center is to provide a safe, Christ- Centered environment that gives our patients quality, coordinated and affordable healthcare.

Health
5
East Texas Community Clinic Inc

To provide comprehensive primary care and preventive care to all persons regardless of their ability to pay.

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6
Texas Foster Care & Adoption Serv

A state of texas licensed foster care and adoption agency that identifies and provides approved healing foster homes for children.

Human Services
7
Family Service Center of Houston and Harris County

The mission of Family Service Center of Houston and Harris County (Family Houston) is to create a stronger community for tomorrow by helping individuals and families meet the challenges they face today. We help others help themselves.

Human Services
8
Lubbock Family Outreach Center Inc Dba Family Guidance & Outreach Center

The Family Guidance & Outreach Center of Lubbock is dedicated to the prevention of child abuse and neglect and supporting, mentoring, and educating parents.

Human Services
9
Atascosa Health Center Inc

Health care services are provided to low to moderate income families who are residents of South Texas. Services are provided at a low cost are based on abiilty to pay base. Approximately 18,022 patients were served in the fiscal year.

Health
10
Central Texas Children's Home

To provide family services and to provide residential child care for dependent children where there is a need to assist children and families disrupted by problems.

Human Services
11
Bastrop County Emergency Food Pantry

The mission of the Bastrop County Emergency Food Pantry and Support Center is to serve Bastrop County residents going through periods of transition by providing emergency food assistance, education and support.

—
12
East Texas Community Health Services Inc

Operate a primary health care clinic for the care and treatment of sick, injured, afflicted, infirm, disabled or destitute.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Palacios Community Medical Center; the most unlike its peers is Share Corporation. 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

39 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. 39 of the 88 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/39
Grantees still filing
24/39
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OAKBEND MEDICAL CENTER: $621,500 · OtherOAKBEND MEDICAL CENTERNORTHSIDE EDUCATION CENTER: $225,000 · OtherNORTHSIDE EDUCATION CENTERBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF EL CAMPO & PALACIOS: $222,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF EL CAMPO & PALACIOSBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BAY CITY: $145,000 · Other+61 more: $1,983,468 · Other+61 moreJust Do It Now Inc: $582,000 · Youth DevelopmentJust Do It Now IncBoys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Inc: $320,000 · Youth DevelopmentBoys and Girls Clu…+1 more: $26,000 · Youth DevelopmentMATAGORDA EPISCOPAL HEALTH OUTREACH PROGRAM CORPORATION: $237,000 · HealthMATAGORDA E…Blessed Be Hope for Three Inc: $108,100 · HealthBlessed Be …PALACIOS COMMUNITY MEDICAL CENTER: $55,000 · HealthPALACIOS CO…THE MONTGOMERY HOME INC: $50,000 · HealthTHE MONTGOM…MATAGORDA COUNTY WOMEN'S CRISIS CENTER: $45,000 · HealthMATAGORDA C…EL CAMPO MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $25,000 · HealthFORT BEND FAMILY HEALTH CENTER INC: $20,000 · HealthMemorial Hermann Foundation: $20,000 · HealthHESED HOUSE OF WHARTON INC: $237,000 · Human ServicesHESED HOU…Fort Bend Seniors Meals on Wheels and Much Much More: $105,000 · Human ServicesFort Bend…FRIENDS OF ELDER CITIZENS: $72,750 · Human ServicesFRIENDS O…Collaborative for Children: $25,000 · Human ServicesLITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF FORT BEND: $20,000 · Human ServicesSECOND MILE MISSION CENTER: $20,000 · Human ServicesEAST FORT BEND HUMAN NEEDS MINISTRY: $20,000 · Human ServicesBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF EL CAMPO: $214,000 · Recreation & SportsFt Bend County Child Advocates Inc: $150,000 · Civil RightsGULF COAST CASA: $56,000 · Civil RightsFort Bend Children's Discovery Center LLC: $95,500 · Arts & CultureROSENBERG RAILROAD MUSEUM INC: $20,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$3,196,968Youth Development$928,000Health$560,100Human Services$499,750Recreation & Sports$214,000Civil Rights$206,000Arts & Culture$115,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJust Do It Now Inc: $582,000 over 7y, 20% of budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Inc: $320,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetMATAGORDA EPISCOPAL HEALTH OUTREACH PROGRAM CORPORATION: $237,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetHESED HOUSE OF WHARTON INC: $237,000 over 4y, 21% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF EL CAMPO: $214,000 over 4y, 8.9% of budgetFt Bend County Child Advocates Inc: $150,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetBlessed Be Hope for Three Inc: $108,100 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetFort Bend Seniors Meals on Wheels and Much Much More: $105,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetPALACIOS COMMUNITY HUB: $100,000 over 7y, 14% of budgetFort Bend Children's Discovery Center LLC: $95,500 over 6y, 4.4% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $76,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetTHE ROSE: $75,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF ELDER CITIZENS: $72,750 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetFORT BEND FAMILY PROMISE: $60,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetGULF COAST CASA: $56,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetPALACIOS COMMUNITY MEDICAL CENTER: $55,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWHARTON RECOVERY TEAM: $55,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WHARTON INC: $55,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetThe Institute for Civility in Government: $53,700 over 6y, 7.2% of budgetTHE MONTGOMERY HOME INC: $50,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetMATAGORDA COUNTY WOMEN'S CRISIS CENTER: $45,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetBOLING DISTRICT IMPROVEMENT AS: $40,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetBLESSING CUP STOREHOUSE INC: $30,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetGirl Scouts of San Jacinto Council: $26,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCollaborative for Children: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF VICTORIA DBA FOOD BANK OF THE GOLDEN CRESCENT: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEL CAMPO MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRESTORATION CITY INC: $22,500 over 1y, 13% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR HEARING AND SPEECH: $21,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetROSENBERG RAILROAD MUSEUM INC: $20,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetLITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF FORT BEND: $20,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetFORT BEND FAMILY HEALTH CENTER INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSECOND MILE MISSION CENTER: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEAST FORT BEND HUMAN NEEDS MINISTRY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMemorial Hermann Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWHARTON COUNTY STRAY PET OUTREACH TEAM: $13,200 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetPHILANTHROPY SOUTHWEST: $2,300 over 2y, 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.

  • Who funds Just Do It Now Inc ↗
  • Who funds Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Inc ↗
  • Who funds MATAGORDA EPISCOPAL HEALTH OUTREACH PROGRAM CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds HESED HOUSE OF WHARTON INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF EL CAMPO ↗
  • Who funds Ft Bend County Child Advocates Inc ↗
  • Who funds Blessed Be Hope for Three Inc ↗
  • Who funds Fort Bend Seniors Meals on Wheels and Much Much More ↗
  • Who funds PALACIOS COMMUNITY HUB ↗
  • Who funds Fort Bend Children's Discovery Center LLC ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ROSE ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF ELDER CITIZENS ↗
  • Who funds FORT BEND FAMILY PROMISE ↗
  • Who funds GULF COAST CASA ↗
  • Who funds PALACIOS COMMUNITY MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds WHARTON RECOVERY TEAM ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WHARTON INC ↗
  • Who funds The Institute for Civility in Government ↗
  • Who funds THE MONTGOMERY HOME INC ↗
  • Who funds MATAGORDA COUNTY WOMEN'S CRISIS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds BOLING DISTRICT IMPROVEMENT AS ↗
  • Who funds BLESSING CUP STOREHOUSE INC ↗

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.

The George FoundationMary Louise Dobson Fo…The Henderson-Wessend…Fort Bend Junior Serv…Albert & Ethel Herzst…Greater Houston Commu…Shell USA Company Fou…Fred and Mabel R Park…Episcopal Health Foun…United Way of Greater…Centerpoint Energy Fo…Fluor Cares
The George FoundationTX34.5× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Gulf Coast Medical Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gulf Coast Medical Foundation. 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%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Gulf Coast Medical Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Gulf Coast Medical Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 88 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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