Texas · Nonprofit
Build Galveston
Build Galveston (Texas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $865,000 to it, the largest being The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation ($520,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Build Galveston's revenue fell 48% between 2022 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,946 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, 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.
- United Way of Galveston Inc Whitelocalportfolio match
- The Rider Family Fundlocalportfolio match
- Dr Leon Bromberg Charitable Trustlocalportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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.
98% of Build Galveston’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $445k → $45k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $100k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Vision Galveston). These are real filings, and they are not money Build Galveston raised.
From the IRS filings of Build 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
Build Galveston leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 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.
Where its funders are
100% of Build 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. 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 4 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- United Way of Galveston Inc Whitelocalportfolio matchTX · funds 43 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Rider Family Fundlocalportfolio matchTX · funds 16 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Dr Leon Bromberg Charitable Trustlocalportfolio matchTX · funds 45 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- High Tide Foundation Inclocalportfolio matchOR · funds 9 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Community Health Choice Texas Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Texas Dow Employees Credit Unionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Nancy and Clive Runnells Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The West Endowmentportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Texas Builders Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way Galveston County Mainland InclocalTX · funds 27 organizations near you
- Permanent Endowment Fund of Moody Methodist Churchshared funderslocalTX · backs 33 organizations that share your funders · funds 55 organizations near you
- Harris & Eliza Kempner Fund Incshared funderslocalTX · backs 64 organizations that share your funders · funds 218 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 Build 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.
Where the money goes
62% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Galveston Essential Workforce Housing Fund I LLC · disregarded
- Vision Galveston · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Build 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Build Galveston?
- Build Galveston (Texas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $865,000 to it, the largest being The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation ($520,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Build Galveston have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $865,000 in grants to Build Galveston, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Build Galveston?
- The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $520,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Build 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 2022–2024), and the filings of 4funders 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