Texas · Nonprofit
BETTER PARKS FOR GALVESTON
BETTER PARKS FOR GALVESTON (Texas) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $392,430 to it, the largest being SASSER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($134,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
BETTER PARKS FOR GALVESTON has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,146 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,146 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Ippolito Charitable Foundation of Galvestonshared funderslocalportfolio match
- The Mary Moody Northen Endowmentshared funderslocalportfolio match
- McDaniel Charitable Foundationlocalportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
76% of BETTER PARKS FOR GALVESTON’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (92% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $4k → $90k.
2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of BETTER PARKS FOR GALVESTON’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
BETTER PARKS FOR GALVESTON leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 63% · 2019 85% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 99% · 2023 56% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
0% of BETTER PARKS FOR GALVESTON's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
100% of BETTER PARKS FOR GALVESTON's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 10 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Ippolito Charitable Foundation of Galvestonshared funderslocalportfolio matchTX · backs 52 organizations that share your funders · funds 51 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Mary Moody Northen Endowmentshared funderslocalportfolio matchTX · backs 40 organizations that share your funders · funds 52 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- McDaniel Charitable Foundationlocalportfolio matchTX · funds 13 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Alice Taylor Gray Foundation Acct #G02992localportfolio matchTX · funds 9 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Galveston Inc Whiteshared funderslocalTX · backs 37 organizations that share your funders · funds 43 organizations near you
- Apache Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Elliott Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Gvec Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- First Federal Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Keep America Beautiful Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Recreation and Park Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Permanent Endowment Fund of Moody Methodist Churchshared funderslocalTX · backs 45 organizations that share your funders · funds 55 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like BETTER PARKS FOR GALVESTON
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
47%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BETTER PARKS FOR GALVESTON: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BETTER PARKS FOR GALVESTON?
- BETTER PARKS FOR GALVESTON (Texas) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $392,430 to it, the largest being SASSER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($134,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BETTER PARKS FOR GALVESTON have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $392,430 in grants to BETTER PARKS FOR GALVESTON, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BETTER PARKS FOR GALVESTON?
- SASSER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $134,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BETTER PARKS FOR GALVESTON find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 10funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing