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High Tide Foundation Inc at a glance

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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.

$184k
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$223kReligion$205kEducation$147kEnvironment$75kHealth$74kEmployment$50kYouth Development$33kAnimals$18kOther$0
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k15 grants · $59k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%GALVESTON URBAN MINISTRIES: $3k → 14%Libbie's Place: $10k → 14%Libbie's Place: $5k → 14%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.

23%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$197k · 8 repeat orgs$672k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +5% since the first grant, against -7% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
12

Total granted

$197k
$588k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
-7%

Still filing today

63%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $84k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesInternationalEnvironmentHealthOther
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

  • GB
    Galveston Bay Foundation Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $75k · revenue +5%
  • TR
    THE RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF GALVESTON
    2× · 2023–2024 · $40k · revenue +74%
  • GALVESTON ISLAND HUMANE SOCIETY INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $18k · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • FL
    First Lutheran Church of Galveston
    one grant, 2023 · $205k
  • BT
    BATTLESHIP TEXAS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $193k · revenue -7%
  • TA
    TEXAS AGGIE CORPS OF CADETS ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +18%
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
Build Galveston

Build Galveston is a nonprofit community development corporation focused on developing attainable workforce housing for Galveston's first responders, teachers, healthcare and hospitality workers.

Community Improvement
2
Vision Galveston

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.

Community Improvement
3
Sea Star Base Galveston
Recreation & Sports
4
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…

Environment
5
Galveston Regional Chamber of Commerce

To promote and advocate for business

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6
Raise Texas

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…

Human Services
7
Fort Bend Seniors Meals on Wheels and Much Much More

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…

Human Services
8
United Way of Brazoria County

To educate, unite and focus our community's resources in order to efficiently address the most critical needs of Brazoria County

Philanthropy
9
Galveston College Foundation

To support and enhance the ability of Galveston College to achieve its mission of advancing people's lives through lifelong learning.

Education
10
Good Samaritan Foundation of Texas Inc

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…

Education
11
Texprotects-the Texas Association for the Protection of Children

TexProtects advances public policy and local implementation to strenghten families to prevent child abuse and neglect.

Youth Development
12
Glasstire

Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Galveston Bay Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

18 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. 18 of the 31 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/18
Grantees still filing
6/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

First Lutheran Church of Galveston: $205,000 · OtherFirst Lutheran Church of GalvestonProject GRAD Houston: $50,000 · OtherProject GRAD HoustonWalk N Roll for SCI Foundation: $25,000 · OtherWalk N Roll for SCI FoundationThe Bryan Museum: $25,000 · OtherThe Bryan Museum+16 more: $85,450 · Other+16 moreBATTLESHIP TEXAS FOUNDATION: $192,500 · Arts & CultureBATTLESHIP TEXAS FOUNDATI…+1 more: $5,000 · Arts & CultureTEXAS AGGIE CORPS OF CADETS ASSOCIATION: $100,000 · EducationTEXAS AGGIE CORPS…Small Steps Nurturing Center: $25,000 · EducationSmall Steps Nurtu…BUILD Command Team: $5,000 · Education+1 more: $1,250 · EducationGalveston Bay Foundation Inc: $75,000 · EnvironmentGalveston…THE RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF GALVESTON: $40,000 · HealthGALVESTON ISLAND HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $17,500 · AnimalsLIBBIES PLACE CO MOODY MEMORIAL UNITED METHODIST: $15,000 · Human ServicesGalveston Urban Ministries: $2,500 · Human Services
Other$390,450Arts & Culture$197,500Education$131,250Environment$75,000Health$40,000Animals$17,500Human Services$17,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBATTLESHIP TEXAS FOUNDATION: $192,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTEXAS AGGIE CORPS OF CADETS ASSOCIATION: $100,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetGalveston Bay Foundation Inc: $75,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF GALVESTON: $40,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetSmall Steps Nurturing Center: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGALVESTON ISLAND HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $17,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetLIBBIES PLACE CO MOODY MEMORIAL UNITED METHODIST: $15,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $5,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBUILD Command Team: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYOUTH IMPROVING NON-PROFITS FOR CHILDREN: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAITH IN PRACTICE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGALVESTON ISLAND MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $4,550 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetGULF COAST BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGalveston Urban Ministries: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS OF TEXAS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSmart Family Literacy Inc: $1,250 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

The Moody FoundationUnited Way of Galvest…Harris & Eliza Kempne…The Mary Moody Northe…Dr Leon Bromberg Char…Permanent Endowment F…Shell USA Company Fou…Greater Houston Commu…Ippolito Charitable F…Network for GoodMorgan Stanley Global…Natl Christian Charit…
The Moody FoundationTX21.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 High Tide Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from High Tide Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to High Tide Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to High Tide Foundation Inc 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 31 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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