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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.

$201k
Granted FY2023
6
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$100k
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, FY2022 to 2023.

Community Improvement$230kEducation$25kEmployment$17kPublic Safety & Disaster$14kEnvironment$11k
02FY2023 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $192,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $201,250 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $8,750 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $93k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$24,525
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 63% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Philanthropitch: $105k → 10%Build Galveston: $100k → 14%ToolBank USA Inc: $25k → 16%TOR Store - Galveston ISD: $25k → 14%SER - Jobs for Progress of the TX Gulf Coast: $17k → 16%4B Disaster Response Network: $14k → 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.
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.
03Its 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 Artist Residency
Arts & Culture
2
Sea Star Base Galveston
Recreation & Sports
3
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. Vision Galveston seeks to connect that vision with the resources needed for implementation.

Community Improvement
4
Galveston Reuse Governance Board

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…

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5
Galveston Historical Foundation

Historic preservation and education-galveston historical foundation preserves and revitalizes the architectural and maritime heritage of galveston island

Arts & Culture
6
Scenic Galveston Inc

This organization's mission is to provide permanent protection and restoration of the natural coastal wetlands and the scenic native prairie habitat preserves.

Environment
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
Galilee Community Development Corp

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

Housing & Shelter
9
Galveston Regional Chamber of Commerce

To promote and advocate for business

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10
Gulfcoast Housing Foundation Inc
Housing & Shelter
11
Center for Transportation and Commerce

Operation of museum of transportation with emphasis on railroad transportation andartifacts, including rolling stock.

Arts & Culture
12
Clean Galveston Inc

Litter abatement - Reduce litter through educational means and community involvement.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Galveston Arts Center; 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.
04the grantee network

11 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.

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

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
3/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PHILANTHROPITCH: $105,000 · OtherPHILANTHROPITCHGalveston ISD: $25,485 · OtherGalveston ISDBuild Galveston: $100,000 · Community ImprovementBuild GalvestonHOUSTON COMMUNITY TOOLBANK INC: $24,525 · Community ImprovementHOUSTON COMMUNITY TOOLBANK INCSER-JOBS FOR PROGRESS OF THE TEXAS GULF COAST INC: $17,364 · Employment4B DISASTER RESPONSE NETWORK: $13,879 · Public Safety & DisasterGALVESTON ISLAND TREE CONSERVANCY: $11,247 · Environment
Other$130,485Community Improvement$124,525Employment$17,364Public Safety & Disaster$13,879Environment$11,247

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPHILANTHROPITCH: $105,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetBuild Galveston: $100,000 over 2y, 83% of budgetHOUSTON COMMUNITY TOOLBANK INC: $24,525 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetSER-JOBS FOR PROGRESS OF THE TEXAS GULF COAST INC: $17,364 over 1y, 0.2% of budget4B DISASTER RESPONSE NETWORK: $13,879 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetGALVESTON ISLAND TREE CONSERVANCY: $11,247 over 1y, 6.6% 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.

Ippolito Charitable Foundation of GalvestonTX22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
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no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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 7 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $117k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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