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.
- Revenue FY2024
- $82k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $392k
- Net assets
- $193k
What Better Parks for Galveston does
Mission
Provide funding and volunteer services to the city of galveston, texas in order to improve its parks and recreation centers.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Provide donation for playground equipment for adoue park
$56,186 spentof which $58,186 as grants72% of program spendingProvide funding and volunteer services to the city ofgalveston, texas in order to improve its parks andrecreation centers.
$22,329 spent28% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $78,515.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $248k to $194k (−22%).
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.
Against its field
BETTER PARKS FOR GALVESTON has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,152 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,152 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like BETTER PARKS FOR GALVESTON
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the 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.
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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 10 funders 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing