· Private foundation
High Tide Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PROJECT GRAD INC | $50,000 |
| Galveston Bay Foundation | $50,000 |
| Ronald McDonald House Galveston | $15,000 |
| Walk N Roll for SCI Foundation | $10,000 |
| Galveston Island Humane Society | $7,500 |
| UTMB SCHOOL OF NURSING | $5,500 |
| JUNIOR LEAGUE OF GALVESTON | $5,500 |
| Libbie's Place | $5,000 |
| NHS Athletic Booster Club | $5,000 |
| FAITH IN PRACTICE | $5,000 |
| GALVESTON ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| BUILD COMMAND TEAM | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $3,500 |
| Galveston Island Meals on Wheels | $2,550 |
| GULF COAST BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTER | $2,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +5% since the first grant, against -7% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $84k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- GBGalveston Bay Foundation Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $75k · revenue +5%
- TRTHE RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF GALVESTON2× · 2023–2024 · $40k · revenue +74%
GALVESTON ISLAND HUMANE SOCIETY INC2× · 2023–2024 · $18k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- FLFirst Lutheran Church of Galvestonone grant, 2023 · $205k
- BTBATTLESHIP TEXAS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $193k · revenue -7%
- TATEXAS AGGIE CORPS OF CADETS ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +18%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Build Galveston is a nonprofit community development corporation focused on developing attainable workforce housing for Galveston's first responders, teachers, healthcare and hospitality workers.
Vision Galveston's mission is to help turn Galveston into the best place to raise a family, uncover new opportunities, and grow the economy. Vision Galveston seeks to connect that vision with the resources needed for implementation.
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…
To promote and advocate for business
RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…
See Schedule OFort Bend Seniors Meals on Wheels provides comprehensive services, including Meals on Wheels, congregate meals, transportation, case management, health screenings, information and referral services, recreation, and more. Our…
To educate, unite and focus our community's resources in order to efficiently address the most critical needs of Brazoria County
To support and enhance the ability of Galveston College to achieve its mission of advancing people's lives through lifelong learning.
Good Samaritan Foundation (GSF) is a fundraising and grant-making organization dedicated solely to Texas nursing. Its mission is to increase the number of nurses dedicated to clinical care and to improve the quality of nurse education and…
TexProtects advances public policy and local implementation to strenghten families to prevent child abuse and neglect.
Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Galveston Bay Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Build Command Team. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 31 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds BATTLESHIP TEXAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TEXAS AGGIE CORPS OF CADETS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Galveston Bay Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Project GRAD Houston ↗
- Who funds THE RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF GALVESTON ↗
- Who funds Small Steps Nurturing Center ↗
- Who funds GALVESTON ISLAND HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds LIBBIES PLACE CO MOODY MEMORIAL UNITED METHODIST ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds BUILD Command Team ↗
- Who funds YOUTH IMPROVING NON-PROFITS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAITH IN PRACTICE ↗
- Who funds GALVESTON ISLAND MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds GULF COAST BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS INC ↗
- Who funds Galveston Urban Ministries ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds Smart Family Literacy Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Moody Foundation · United Way of Galveston Inc White · Harris & Eliza Kempner Fund Inc · The Mary Moody Northen Endowment · Dr Leon Bromberg Charitable Trust · Permanent Endowment Fund of Moody Methodist Church · Shell USA Company Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Ippolito Charitable Foundation of Galveston · Network for Good · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization High Tide Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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