· Private foundation
Lynn & Armin Cantini Friendship Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $1,000 |
| GALVESTON ARTS CENTER | $1,000 |
| GALVESTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $1,000 |
| GALVESTON ISLAND HUMANE SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| GALVESTON COUNTY FOOD BANK | $1,000 |
| THE 1894 GRAND OPERA HOUSE | $1,000 |
| TEMPLE B'NAI ISRAEL | $1,000 |
| ST VINCENT'S EPISCOPAL HOUSE | $1,000 |
| FAMILY SERVICE CENTER | $1,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS OF GALVESTON | $1,000 |
| GISD EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| GALVESTON COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GCGalveston College Foundation3× · 2017–2025 · $21k · revenue +118%
GALVESTON ISLAND HUMANE SOCIETY INC2× · 2024–2025 · $3k · revenue 0%- GCGALVESTON COUNTY FOOD BANK2× · 2024–2025 · $2k · revenue 0%
Funded once
- RLROSENBERG LIBRARYone grant, 2024 · $500
- RCRESOURCE & CRISIS CENTER OF GALVESTON COUNTY TEXASone grant, 2024 · $500 · revenue 0%
- MOMEAL ON WHEELS OF GALVESTONone grant, 2024 · $500
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.
7 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. 7 of the 15 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
Open a dossier: The Mary Moody Northen Endowment · Dr Leon Bromberg Charitable Trust · Harris & Eliza Kempner Fund Inc · The Moody Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Trube Foundation · Jf Seinsheimer Jr Charitable Foundation · United Way of Galveston Inc White · Ippolito Charitable Foundation of Galveston · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lynn & Armin Cantini Friendship Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lynn & Armin Cantini Friendship Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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