· Private foundation
Ippolito Charitable Foundation of Galveston
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k33 grants · $61k
- $10k–50k58 grants · $801k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $345k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Build Galveston | $300,000 |
| Christus Foundation For Healthcare | $100,000 |
| Texas A&M Foundation | $100,000 |
| Vision Galveston Inc | $85,000 |
| Vision Galveston Inc | $60,000 |
| United Way Of Galveston Inc | $35,000 |
| Galveston Historical Foundation Inc | $25,000 |
| Artist Boat Inc | $20,000 |
| Bolivar Point Lighthouse Foundation Inc | $20,000 |
| Protestant Episcopal Church Diocese Of Texas | $20,000 |
| Moody Early Childhood Center | $20,000 |
| Toolbank USA Inc | $20,000 |
| Upward Hope Academy Inc | $20,000 |
| Smart Family Literacy Inc | $20,000 |
| 1894 Inc | $20,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $853k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 8% of Ippolito Charitable Foundation of Galveston’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +31% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
69 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 25 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, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $619k 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
- VGVision Galveston5× · 2020–2024 · $676k · revenue +3%
- GUGalveston Urban Ministries6× · 2019–2024 · $325k · revenue +56%
- CFCHRISTUS Foundation for HealthCare6× · 2019–2024 · $195k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- JFJUSTICE FORWARDgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +26%
- CSChristina Sullivan Foundationone grant, 2020 · $20k
- GCGalveston College Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +238%
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.
To promote and advocate for business
The Councils mission is to enhance the quality of life of low-income families in Galveston, Fort Bend, Wharton, and Brazoria Counties by promoting self-sufficiency pursuant to the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964. It also operates…
To publish and promote literature.
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 provide and restore affordable housing for low to moderate income residents throughout the concho valley
Gulf Coast Center provides accessible efficient and quality services to support the independent and healthy living of those we serve. Every day our counselors therapists psychiatrists case workers peers support and administrative staff…
The mission of Girls Incorporated of Greater Houston is to inspire all girls to be strong, smart and bold.
To promote the catholic faith and practices in texas by supporting catholic religious, educational & charitable activities in texas.
The Houston Local Information Initiative, Inc. provides public service journalism that reflects the civic needs of the diverse communities comprising Greater Houston.
The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.
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 Make-a-Wish Foundation of the Texas Gulf Coast & Louisiana Inc and the most unlike its peers is Polichic Engagement Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 12% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
106 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 106 of the 130 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 Vision Galveston ↗
- Who funds Galveston Urban Ministries ↗
- Who funds Build Galveston ↗
- Who funds CHRISTUS Foundation for HealthCare ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GALVESTON INC WHITE ↗
- Who funds GALVESTON ISLAND MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds MOODY EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER ↗
- Who funds Texas A&M Foundation ↗
- Who funds GALVESTON HISTORICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds 1894 INC ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENTS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds UPWARD HOPE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Smart Family Literacy Inc ↗
- Who funds GALVESTON INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TEEN HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds RESOURCE & CRISIS CENTER OF GALVESTON COUNTY TEXAS ↗
- Who funds Family Service Center of Galveston County Texas ↗
- Who funds THE ARTIST BOAT INC ↗
- Who funds GALVESTON COUNTY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON - HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds CASA OF GALVESTON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ALCOHOLDRUG ABUSE WOMENS CENTER ↗
- Who funds NAMI Gulf Coast ↗
- Who funds SUNSHINE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GALVESTON ISLAND NATURE TOURISM COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds NIA CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds Galveston Bay Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE JESSE TREE INC ↗
- Who funds GALVESTONS OWN FARMERS MARKET INC ↗
- Who funds Galveston-Houston Immigrant Representation Project ↗
- Who funds MEADOWS MENTAL HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE FOR TEXAS ↗
- Who funds GALVESTON ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds SER-JOBS FOR PROGRESS OF THE TEXAS GULF COAST INC ↗
- Who funds TURTLE ISLAND RESTORATION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds BRYAN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds GALVESTON CHAMBER PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
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: Harris & Eliza Kempner Fund Inc · The Moody Foundation · Permanent Endowment Fund of Moody Methodist Church · The Mary Moody Northen Endowment · Dr Leon Bromberg Charitable Trust · United Way of Galveston Inc White · The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation · Sasser Family Foundation Inc · John P McGovern Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Grant Family Fund
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 Ippolito Charitable Foundation of Galveston 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.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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.