Texas · Nonprofit
Galveston Bay Foundation Inc
Galveston Bay Foundation Inc (Texas) receives grants from 135 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,747,045 to it, the largest being National Fish and Wildlife Foundation ($23,492,748). 81 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Galveston Bay Foundation Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 329 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 329 environment nonprofits $10M–$100M, 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 Wt & Louise J Moran Foundationshared funders
- The Duncan Fundportfolio 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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 14% · 2018 44% · 2019 16% · 2020 37% · 2021 14% · 2022 12% · 2023 9% · 2024 42%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of Galveston Bay Foundation Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 22 funders to 63 funders, grant income rose $1.7M → $9.1M.
19 of 135 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 Galveston Bay Foundation Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 135 funders by total. 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
Galveston Bay Foundation Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
71% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Galveston Bay Foundation Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 55% · 2019 66% · 2020 37% · 2021 71% · 2022 88% · 2023 73% — growing more concentrated.
“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
49% of Galveston Bay Foundation Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
Galveston Bay Foundation Inc draws 68% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 21 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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 135 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- United Way of Galveston Inc Whitelocalportfolio matchTX · funds 49 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Wt & Louise J Moran Foundationshared fundersTX · backs 50 organizations that share your funders
- The Duncan Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Educational Fundshared funderslocalTX · backs 51 organizations that share your funders · funds 72 organizations near you
- John S Dunn Foundationshared fundersTX · backs 44 organizations that share your funders
- Hamill Foundationshared fundersTX · backs 53 organizations that share your funders
- MD Anderson Foundationshared fundersTX · backs 86 organizations that share your funders
- Wayne Duddlesten Foundationshared fundersTX · backs 43 organizations that share your funders
- Sterling-Turner Foundationshared fundersTX · backs 88 organizations that share your funders
- The Methodist Hospitalshared funderslocalTX · backs 91 organizations that share your funders · funds 161 organizations near you
- Charity Guild of Catholic Women of Harris County Incshared funderslocalTX · backs 63 organizations that share your funders · funds 135 organizations near you
- The Junior League of Houston Incshared funderslocalTX · backs 61 organizations that share your funders · funds 98 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.
Government funding Galveston Bay Foundation Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $8.1M on record.
- Department of the Interior$6.7M
- Department of Commerce$703k
- Environmental Protection Agency$697k
- Department of Agriculture$7k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Galveston Bay Foundation Inc
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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 Galveston Bay Foundation Inc: 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 Galveston Bay Foundation Inc?
- Galveston Bay Foundation Inc (Texas) receives grants from 135 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,747,045 to it, the largest being National Fish and Wildlife Foundation ($23,492,748). 81 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Galveston Bay Foundation Inc have?
- IRS filings report 135 organizations giving $39,747,045 in grants to Galveston Bay Foundation Inc, 81 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Galveston Bay Foundation Inc?
- National Fish and Wildlife Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $23,492,748 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Galveston Bay Foundation Inc 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 135funders 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