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Ippolito Charitable Foundation of Galveston

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
96
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Human Services$815kCommunity Improvement$780kEducation$690kHealth$622kArts & Culture$510kHousing & Shelter$311kEnvironment$274kFood & Nutrition$258kOther$0
02FY2024 · 96 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k33 grants · $61k
  • $10k–50k58 grants · $801k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $345k
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
St Vincents Episcopal House & Preschool$20,000
Bolivar Point Lighthouse Foundation Inc$20,000
Shriners Hospitals For Children$20,000
Galveston Island Meals On Wheels Inc$20,000
1894 Inc$20,000
Galvestons Historic Downtown Cultural Arts District$20,000
Christus Foundation For Healthcare$20,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON: $20k → 16%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON: $15k → 16%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON: $10k → 16%COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES CASA: $20k → 14%Court Appointed Special Advocates Casa: $10k → 14%Catholic Charities Of The Archdiocese Of Galveston-Houston: $10k → 16%COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES CASA: $10k → 14%COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES CASA: $10k → 14%COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES CASA: $8k → 14%HOSPICE CARE TEAM INC: $8k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON: $10k → 16%HOSPICE CARE TEAM INC: $5k → 14%COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES CASA: $5k → 14%Catholic Charities Of The Archdiocese Of Galveston-Houston: $5k → 16%JUSTICE FORWARD: $20k → 16%GALVESTON COUNTY FOOD BANK: $20k → 14%GALVESTON COUNTY FOOD BANK: $15k → 14%GALVESTON COUNTY FOOD BANK: $10k → 14%Galveston County Food Bank: $10k → 14%GALVESTON COUNTY FOOD BANK: $10k → 14%GALVESTON COUNTY FOOD BANK: $10k → 14%GALVESTON URBAN MINISTRIES: $100k → 14%GALVESTON URBAN MINISTRIES: $100k → 14%ST VINCENTS EPISCOPAL HOUSE & PRESCHOOL: $20k → 14%Galveston Urban Ministries: $20k → 14%RESOURCE AND CRISIS CENTER OF GALVESTON COUNTY: $20k → 14%GALVESTON URBAN MINISTRIES: $20k → 14%RESOURCE AND CRISIS CENTER OF GALVESTON COUNTY: $20k → 14%GALVESTON URBAN MINISTRIES: $20k → 14%ST VINCENTS EPISCOPAL HOUSE & PRESCHOOL: $20k → 14%ST VINCENTS EPISCOPAL HOUSE & PRESCHOOL: $20k → 14%GALVESTON URBAN MINISTRIES: $20k → 14%FAMILY SERVICE CENTER OF GALVESTON COUNTY TEXAS: $20k → 14%RESOURCE AND CRISIS CENTER OF GALVESTON COUNTY: $20k → 14%St Vincents Episcopal House & Preschool: $20k → 14%GALVESTON URBAN MINISTRIES: $20k → 14%ST VINCENTS EPISCOPAL HOUSE & PRESCHOOL: $15k → 14%GALVESTON URBAN MINISTRIES: $15k → 14%RESOURCE AND CRISIS CENTER OF GALVESTON COUNTY: $13k → 14%FAMILY SERVICE CENTER OF GALVESTON COUNTY TEXAS: $10k → 14%FAMILY SERVICE CENTER OF GALVESTON COUNTY TEXAS: $10k → 14%FAMILY SERVICE CENTER OF GALVESTON COUNTY TEXAS: $10k → 14%GALVESTON URBAN MINISTRIES: $10k → 14%Family Service Center Of Galveston County Texas: $10k → 14%Resource And Crisis Center Of Galveston County: $10k → 14%FAMILY SERVICE CENTER OF GALVESTON COUNTY TEXAS: $10k → 14%Family Service Center Of Galveston County Texas: $10k → 14%RESOURCE AND CRISIS CENTER OF GALVESTON COUNTY: $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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
CT
CA
MD
TN
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 8% of Ippolito Charitable Foundation of Galveston’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Ippolito Charitable Foundation of Galvestonlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.2M · 69 repeat orgs$750k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +10% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

69
36

Total granted

$4.2M
$131k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+10%

Still filing today

87%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $619k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentOther
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

  • VG
    Vision Galveston
    5× · 2020–2024 · $676k · revenue +3%
  • GU
    Galveston Urban Ministries
    6× · 2019–2024 · $325k · revenue +56%
  • CF
    CHRISTUS Foundation for HealthCare
    6× · 2019–2024 · $195k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • CS
    Christina Sullivan Foundation
    one grant, 2020 · $20k
  • JF
    JUSTICE FORWARDgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +26%
  • NL
    NEW LIFE DAY SCHOOL
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -11%
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
Galveston Regional Chamber of Commerce

To promote and advocate for business

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2
Galveston County Community Action Council Inc

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…

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3
Sea Star Base Galveston
Recreation & Sports
4
Gulf Coast - a Journal of Literature and Fine Arts

To publish and promote literature.

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5
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
6
Galilee Community Development Corp

To provide and restore affordable housing for low to moderate income residents throughout the concho valley

Housing & Shelter
7
The Gulf Coast Center

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…

Health
8
Girls Incorporated of Greater Houston

The mission of Girls Incorporated of Greater Houston is to inspire all girls to be strong, smart and bold.

Youth Development
9
Scanlan Foundation

To promote the catholic faith and practices in texas by supporting catholic religious, educational & charitable activities in texas.

Human Services
10
Houston Local Information Initiative Inc

The Houston Local Information Initiative, Inc. provides public service journalism that reflects the civic needs of the diverse communities comprising Greater Houston.

Arts & Culture
11
Progress Texas Institute

The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.

Civil Rights
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 Make-a-Wish Foundation of the Texas Gulf Coast & Louisiana Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

106 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
104/106
Grantees still filing
69/106
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Vision Galveston: $675,757 · Community ImprovementVision GalvestonBuild Galveston: $300,000 · Community ImprovementBuild GalvestonTHE JESSE TREE INC: $45,000 · Community ImprovementGALVESTONS OWN FARMERS MARKET INC: $40,000 · Community Improvement+4 more: $58,750 · Community ImprovementGalveston Urban Ministries: $325,000 · Human ServicesGalveston Urban Mini…ST VINCENTS HOUSE: $100,000 · Human ServicesST VINCENTS HOUSERESOURCE & CRISIS CENTER OF GALVESTON COUNTY TEXAS: $87,596 · Human ServicesRESOURCE & CRISIS CE…Family Service Center of Galveston County Texas: $86,905 · Human ServicesFamily Service Cente…GALVESTON COUNTY FOOD BANK: $75,000 · Human ServicesGALVESTON COUNTY FOO…CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON - HOUSTON: $70,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES O…CASA OF GALVESTON COUNTY: $62,500 · Human ServicesCASA OF GALVESTON CO…+7 more: $105,500 · Human Services+7 more1894 INC: $110,000 · Other1894 INCTEEN HEALTH CENTER INC: $90,000 · OtherTEEN HEALTH CENTER INCHOLY FAMILY PARISH: $65,000 · OtherNAMI Gulf Coast: $55,000 · OtherSUNSHINE CENTER INC: $53,000 · OtherBoys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Inc: $170,000 · OtherBoys and Girls Clubs of Greate…UNITED WAY OF GALVESTON INC WHITE: $160,500 · OtherUNITED WAY OF GALVESTON INC WH…GALVESTON ISLAND MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $132,514 · OtherGALVESTON ISLAND MEALS ON WHEE…+54 more: $510,466 · Other+54 moreMOODY EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER: $125,000 · EducationMOODY EARLY C…Texas A&M Foundation: $118,750 · EducationTexas A&M Fou…UPWARD HOPE ACADEMY INC: $100,000 · EducationUPWARD HOPE A…Smart Family Literacy Inc: $95,350 · EducationSmart Family …GALVESTON INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $93,500 · EducationGALVESTON IND…+12 more: $77,278 · Education+12 moreGALVESTON HISTORICAL FOUNDATION: $115,004 · Arts & CultureNIA CULTURAL CENTER: $52,500 · Arts & CultureGALVESTON ARTS CENTER: $40,000 · Arts & CultureBRYAN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE: $35,000 · Arts & CultureGALVESTON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $32,500 · Arts & CultureLa Izquierda Fest Inc: $25,000 · Arts & CultureBolivar Point Lighthouse Foundation Inc: $20,000 · Arts & CultureGALVESTON HISTORIC DOWNTOWN CULTURAL ARTS DISTRICT: $20,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $30,300 · Arts & CultureCHRISTUS Foundation for HealthCare: $195,000 · HealthALCOHOLDRUG ABUSE WOMENS CENTER: $57,500 · HealthMEADOWS MENTAL HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE FOR TEXAS: $40,000 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $35,000 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS GULF COAST & LOUISIANA INC: $20,000 · Health+4 more: $4,800 · HealthTHE ARTIST BOAT INC: $80,000 · EnvironmentGALVESTON ISLAND NATURE TOURISM COUNCIL: $52,850 · EnvironmentGalveston Bay Foundation Inc: $50,000 · EnvironmentTURTLE ISLAND RESTORATION NETWORK: $36,000 · EnvironmentGALVESTON ISLAND TREE CONSERVANCY: $26,800 · EnvironmentTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION: $20,318 · Environment+2 more: $7,000 · Environment
Community Improvement$1,119,507Human Services$912,501Other$1,346,480Education$609,878Arts & Culture$370,304Health$352,300Environment$272,968

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 budgetVision Galveston: $675,757 over 5y, 20% of budgetGalveston Urban Ministries: $325,000 over 6y, 12% of budgetCHRISTUS Foundation for HealthCare: $195,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Inc: $170,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GALVESTON INC WHITE: $160,500 over 6y, 5.4% of budgetGALVESTON ISLAND MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $132,514 over 6y, 7.0% of budgetMOODY EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER: $125,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetTexas A&M Foundation: $118,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGALVESTON HISTORICAL FOUNDATION: $115,004 over 5y, 0.4% of budget1894 INC: $110,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetST VINCENTS HOUSE: $100,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetUPWARD HOPE ACADEMY INC: $100,000 over 6y, 8.8% of budgetSmart Family Literacy Inc: $95,350 over 6y, 6.2% of budgetGALVESTON INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $93,500 over 6y, 7.2% of budgetTEEN HEALTH CENTER INC: $90,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetRESOURCE & CRISIS CENTER OF GALVESTON COUNTY TEXAS: $87,596 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetFamily Service Center of Galveston County Texas: $86,905 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetTHE ARTIST BOAT INC: $80,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetGALVESTON COUNTY FOOD BANK: $75,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON - HOUSTON: $70,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCASA OF GALVESTON COUNTY: $62,500 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetALCOHOLDRUG ABUSE WOMENS CENTER: $57,500 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetNAMI Gulf Coast: $55,000 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetSUNSHINE CENTER INC: $53,000 over 6y, 4.1% of budgetGALVESTON ISLAND NATURE TOURISM COUNCIL: $52,850 over 6y, 4.8% of budgetNIA CULTURAL CENTER: $52,500 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetGalveston Bay Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE JESSE TREE INC: $45,000 over 5y, 5.2% of budgetGALVESTONS OWN FARMERS MARKET INC: $40,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetMEADOWS MENTAL HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE FOR TEXAS: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSER-JOBS FOR PROGRESS OF THE TEXAS GULF COAST INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGalveston-Houston Immigrant Representation Project: $40,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetGALVESTON ARTS CENTER: $40,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetTURTLE ISLAND RESTORATION NETWORK: $36,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetBRYAN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE: $35,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetGALVESTON CHAMBER PARTNERSHIP INC: $35,000 over 4y, 9.4% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGALVESTON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $32,500 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetPROJECT GRADUATION INC BALL HIGH SCHOOL: $32,500 over 4y, 10% of budgetGALVESTON ISLAND SWIM TEAM: $30,000 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetGALVESTON DIAPER BANK: $30,000 over 4y, 8.5% of budgetGALVESTON ISLAND TREE CONSERVANCY: $26,800 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetLa Izquierda Fest Inc: $25,000 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION: $20,318 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetROSENBERG LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGULF COAST BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetBolivar Point Lighthouse Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetGALVESTON HISTORIC DOWNTOWN CULTURAL ARTS DISTRICT: $20,000 over 1y, 28% 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.

Harris & Eliza Kempner Fund IncTX89.4× affinity42 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Ippolito Charitable Foundation of Galveston funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ippolito Charitable Foundation of Galveston. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 130 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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