· Public charity
Texas Sandfest
Is an organization that supports relief of the poor, support education,and awards scholarships to local high school seniors
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.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $155k
- $250k+1 grant · $280k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PORT ARANSAS ISD | $280,419 |
| THE HELPING HAND FOOD PANTRY | $25,000 |
| VFW POST 8967 | $25,000 |
| BACA TEXAS INC | $20,000 |
| TRINITY BY THE SEA CHURCH | $20,000 |
| YOUTH DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| PORT ARANSAS POLICE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE ARK | $10,000 |
| PA PRESERVATION & HISTORICAL ASSOC | $10,000 |
| PORT ARANSAS FIRE DEPARTMENT | $10,000 |
| PORT ARANSAS EMS | $10,000 |
| KEEP PORT ARANSAS BEAUTIFUL | $7,500 |
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 (FY22–25, $53k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 18%. 19% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against -26% for those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- VOVETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES DEPT OF TEXAS6× · 2018–2025 · $180k · revenue +74% · 68% of their budget
- PAPORT ARANSAS ART CENTER4× · 2017–2022 · $95k · revenue +76%
- PAPort Aransas Preservation and Historical Association5× · 2019–2025 · $75k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- PAPORT ARANSAS HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $62k
- AFANIMAL FRIENDS OF PORT ARANSAS INCone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -26% · 66% of their budget
- THTHE HELPING HAND FOOD PANTRYone grant, 2017 · $35k
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.
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.
To preserve the historical heritage of the city of port arthur, texas. the society operates the museum of the gulf coast and maintains an historical property: the pompeiian villa.
The core purpose of this organization is to drive a better quality of life for the residents and community of port aransas.
We support our community by advocating for sensible development and leading the marketing of port aransas & mustang island
None
Provide funding for the very best care to the many homeless animals that come to our local shelters. this includes medical procedures due to injuries, illness, heartworm treatments, foster support, and more.
Foster a balance of conservation and economically sustainable uses for port aransas while recognizing dependence of community and economy on tourism
Providing support and access for uninsured and under-insured Texas amputees to obtain quality prosthetics with comprehensive aftercare, as well as to generate public awareness for these individuals.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 20 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.
- Who funds VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES DEPT OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds PORT ARANSAS COMMUNITY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds PORT ARANSAS ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds Port Aransas Preservation and Historical Association ↗
- Who funds Friends of the ARK Inc ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL FRIENDS OF PORT ARANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds PORT ARANSAS POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Youth Development Foundation of Port Aransas ↗
- Who funds PORT ARANSAS GARDEN CLUB ↗
- Who funds NEW LIFE REFUGE MINISTRIES ↗
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: Coastal Bend Community Foundation · Mary Hobbs Griffith Foundation · Ed Rachal Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Texas Sandfest funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Texas Sandfest. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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