· Private foundation
The Rider Family Fund
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $61k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $11,200 |
| ST VINCENTS HOUSE | $10,000 |
| GALVESTON URBAN MINISTRY | $10,000 |
| GALVESTON FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| GALVESTON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $9,700 |
| SUNSHINE CENTER | $5,000 |
| RESOURCE CRISIS CENTER | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| ALCOHOLDRUG ABUSE WOMEN'S CENTER | $5,000 |
| NIA CULTURAL CENTER | $2,500 |
| THE LUKE SOCIETY | $2,500 |
| GRAND 1894 OPERA HOUSE | $1,000 |
| VARIOUS SMALL DONATIONS | $950 |
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 (FY17–24, $34k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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.
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.
26 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 11 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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- 1I1894 INC7× · 2017–2024 · $84k · revenue +21%
- SVST VINCENTS HOUSE5× · 2017–2024 · $34k · revenue +457%
- AAALCOHOLDRUG ABUSE WOMENS CENTER5× · 2019–2024 · $25k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- GCGALVESTON CENTER FOR INOVATIONone grant, 2022 · $5k
- ACALACHUA COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $3k
- FFFOUNDATION FOR EQUAL JUSTICEone grant, 2022 · $3k
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
Build Galveston is a nonprofit community development corporation focused on developing attainable workforce housing for Galveston's first responders, teachers, healthcare and hospitality workers.
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.
The gisd educational foundation enriches the educational experience and prepares students for the future by providing financial support to educators, schools and students.
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…
Provide older adults compassionateassistance with daily living activities and caregiver support forgalveston, tx and the surrounding communities.
Galveston housing plus (gh+) is a new nonprofit organization committed to helping persons exit homelessness through transitional supportive housing and social services.
The pregnancy help center of galveston exists exclusively for charitable, religious, and educational purposes and is a faith-based organization to meet the emotional, physical, spiritual, moral, social, and economic needs of individuals…
Operation of museum of transportation with emphasis on railroad transportation andartifacts, including rolling stock.
Provide the first evangelical lutheran church of galveston texas with funds for operations and maintenance of the historical church.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Galveston Inc White and the most unlike its peers is Alcoholdrug Abuse Womens Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 41 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 1894 INC ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENTS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds ALCOHOLDRUG ABUSE WOMENS CENTER ↗
- Who funds GALVESTON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE LUKE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SUNSHINE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NIA CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds RAINBOW CONNECTION GALVESTON ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GALVESTON INC WHITE ↗
- Who funds Galveston College Foundation ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds OUR DAILY BREAD INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARTIST BOAT INC ↗
- Who funds GALVESTON HISTORICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BETTER PARKS FOR GALVESTON ↗
- Who funds HELPUSADOPTORG INC ↗
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 Mary Moody Northen Endowment · Ippolito Charitable Foundation of Galveston · Dr Leon Bromberg Charitable Trust · The Moody Foundation · Permanent Endowment Fund of Moody Methodist Church · The Grant Family Fund · Sasser Family Foundation Inc · Jf Seinsheimer Jr Charitable Foundation · United Way of Galveston Inc White · The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation · J B Earthman III Family Foundation
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 The Rider Family Fund 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.
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.
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