· Public charity
Vision Galveston
Vision Galveston's mission is to help turn Galveston into the best place to raise a family, uncover new opportunities, and grow the economy.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 6 grants below total $192,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $201,250 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $8,750 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2023
- $10k–50k5 grants · $93k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Build Galveston | $100,000 |
| TOR Store - Galveston ISD | $25,485 |
| ToolBank USA Inc | $24,525 |
| SER - Jobs for Progress of the TX Gulf Coast | $17,364 |
| 4B Disaster Response Network | $13,879 |
| Galveston Island Tree Conservancy | $11,247 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 63% of your 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.
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.
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 mission of the Galveston Reuse Governance Board GRGB provides the greater Galveston community with practical accessible and sustainable solutions to plastic waste and pollution reduction. The GRGB will uphold its mission through…
Historic preservation and education-galveston historical foundation preserves and revitalizes the architectural and maritime heritage of galveston island
This organization's mission is to provide permanent protection and restoration of the natural coastal wetlands and the scenic native prairie habitat preserves.
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…
To provide and restore affordable housing for low to moderate income residents throughout the concho valley
To promote and advocate for business
Operation of museum of transportation with emphasis on railroad transportation andartifacts, including rolling stock.
Litter abatement - Reduce litter through educational means and community involvement.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Galveston Arts Center 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.
11 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.
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.
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: Ippolito Charitable Foundation of Galveston · The Mary Moody Northen Endowment · Harris & Eliza Kempner Fund Inc · Dr Leon Bromberg Charitable Trust · The Moody Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Vision 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.
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.