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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 natural resources.

$174k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$110k
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$559kCommunity Improvement$60kCivil Rights$55kPublic Safety & Disaster$45kArts & Culture$34kYouth Development$16k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $165,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $173,985 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $8,985 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $110k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$6.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Air Alliance Houston$110,000
Port Arthur Community Action Network$20,000
Refined Community Empowerment Inc$20,000
Fort Bend County Houston Environmenta$15,000
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 (FY22–23, $90k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Micah 68 Mission: $15k → 17%Habitat Recovery Project: $75k → 17%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.

38%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$296k · 8 repeat orgs$473k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
15

Total granted

$296k
$328k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+32%

Still filing today

75%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 12% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $145k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’22’23’24
EnvironmentHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementReligionOther
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

  • IF
    INSTITUTE FOR ENHANCED EQUITY
    2× · 2022–2023 · $54k · revenue +345%
  • SO
    SOCIETY OF NATIVE NATIONS
    2× · 2022–2023 · $43k · revenue +33%
  • AB
    ATCHAFALAYA BASINKEEPER INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $40k · revenue +221%

Funded once

  • TI
    TRIBAL IMAGES MUSEUM INC
    one grant, 2023 · $75k
  • AP
    ArtSpot Productions Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $34k · revenue +537%
  • AF
    ALLIANCE FOR AFFORDABLE ENERGY
    one grant, 2023 · $22k · revenue -33%
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
Louisiana Bucket Brigade

To support communities use of grassroots action in order to create sustainable neighborhoods free from industrial pollution.

Environment
2
Louisiana Swamp Watch Inc

Educate public on special interest in Louisiana

Public Benefit
3
Capital Region Industry for Sustainable Infrastructure Solutions

Infrastructure Solutions

Community Improvement
4
Texas Clean Energy Coalition
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5
Louisiana Flood Risk Coalition

The entity was established to advocate for reform of the national flood insurance program in order to develop responsible floodplain management within coastal and riverine communities.

Employment
6
Together Louisiana

Together Louisiana is a network of faith and community institutions that works to strengthen local leadership and support practical solutions to everyday challenges. Its mission focuses on helping communities work together across race…

Public Benefit
7
Conservation Law Foundation Inc

Conservation law foundation, inc. (clf) protects new england's environment for the benefit of all people and future generations. we use the law, science, and markets to create solutions that preserve and restore our natural resources,…

Environment
8
Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana

The mission of the coalition to restore coastal louisiana (crcl) is to unite people in action to achieve a thriving, sustainable louisiana coast for all.

Environment
9
Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy

Tejas is dedicated to providing community members with the tools necessary to create sustainable, environmentally healthy communities by educating individuals on health concerns and implications arising from environment.

Environment
10
Louisiana Environmental Action Network

ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION/ADVOCACY/PROTECTION The purpose of the Louisiana Environmental Action Network (LEAN) is to foster cooperation and communication between individual citizens and corporate and government organizations in an effort to…

Environment
11
Center for Contemporary Documentation Inc
Philanthropy
12
Educator Collective for Envionmental Justice Inc

Environmental Justice & Equality

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tribal Images Museum Inc; the most unlike its peers is Coalition for Lousiana Progress Inc. 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

17 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. 17 of the 26 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)
15/17
Grantees still filing
9/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PORT ARTHUR COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK: $40,000 · OtherPORT ARTHUR COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORKSIERRA CLUB: $22,666 · OtherSIERRA CLUBCambio Texas: $20,000 · OtherCambio TexasREFINED COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT: $20,000 · OtherREFINED COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENTLouisiana Just Recovery Network: $20,000 · OtherLouisiana Just Recovery NetworkSOUTH END CHARLTON-POLLARD GREATER HISTORIC COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $20,000 · OtherSOUTH END CHARLTON-POLLARD GREATER HIS…CARRIZO COMECRUDO NATION OF TEXAS INC: $20,000 · OtherCARRIZO COMECRUDO NATION OF TEXAS INCFORT BEND COUNTY HOUSTON ENVIRONMENTAL ORGANIZATION: $15,000 · OtherFORT BEND COUNTY HOUSTON ENVIRONMENTAL…Lake Maurepas Preservation Society: $15,000 · OtherLake Maurepas Preservation SocietyA Community Voice: $11,000 · OtherTHE WESTRY MOUTON PROJECT: $10,000 · OtherGREATER NEW ORLEANS INTERFAITH CLIMATE COALITION: $20,000 · OtherGREATER NEW ORLEANS INTERFAITH CLIMATE…COALITION FOR LOUSIANA PROGRESS INC: $20,000 · OtherCOALITION FOR LOUSIANA PROGRESS INC+1 more: $5,500 · OtherAIR ALLIANCE HOUSTON: $110,000 · EnvironmentAIR ALLIANCE HOUSTONATCHAFALAYA BASINKEEPER INC: $40,000 · EnvironmentATCHAFALAYA BASINKEEPER I…ALLIANCE FOR AFFORDABLE ENERGY: $22,000 · EnvironmentALLIANCE FOR AFFORDABLE E…TRIBAL IMAGES MUSEUM INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesTRIBAL IMAGES…MICAH SIX EIGHT MISSION: $15,000 · Human ServicesMICAH SIX EIG…SOUTHERN SECTOR RISING: $45,332 · Community ImprovementSOUTHERN SEC…SOCIETY OF NATIVE NATIONS: $42,666 · Community ImprovementSOCIETY OF N…CITIZENS FOR CLEAN AIR AND WATER IN BRAZORIA COUNTY: $40,000 · EducationBAYOU ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE COALITION: $20,000 · EducationINSTITUTE FOR ENHANCED EQUITY: $54,000 · Civil RightsArtSpot Productions Inc: $34,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMITTEE FOR A BETTER NEW ORLEANS: $11,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$259,166Environment$172,000Human Services$90,000Community Improvement$87,998Education$60,000Civil Rights$54,000Arts & Culture$45,000

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 budgetAIR ALLIANCE HOUSTON: $110,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR ENHANCED EQUITY: $54,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetSOUTHERN SECTOR RISING: $45,332 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetSOCIETY OF NATIVE NATIONS: $42,666 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetATCHAFALAYA BASINKEEPER INC: $40,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetSIERRA CLUB: $22,666 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE FOR AFFORDABLE ENERGY: $22,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGREATER NEW ORLEANS INTERFAITH CLIMATE COALITION: $20,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetCOALITION FOR LOUSIANA PROGRESS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetCOMMITTEE FOR A BETTER NEW ORLEANS: $11,000 over 1y, 4.6% 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.

Amalgamated Charitabl…EarthworksFoundation for Louisi…Rockefeller Family Fu…Tides FoundationTaproot EarthSustainable Markets F…Sierra ClubRockefeller Philanthr…Resources Legacy FundWindward FundThe Greater New Orlea…
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation IncDC23.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Earthworks · Foundation for Louisiana · Rockefeller Family Fund Inc · Tides Foundation · Taproot Earth · Sustainable Markets Foundation · Sierra Club · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Resources Legacy Fund · Windward Fund · The Greater New Orleans 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 Healthy Gulf funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Healthy Gulf. 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%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 26 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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