Texas · Nonprofit
GALVESTON ISLAND NATURE TOURISM COUNCIL
GALVESTON ISLAND NATURE TOURISM COUNCIL (Texas) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $294,309 to it, the largest being HARRIS & ELIZA KEMPNER FUND INC ($95,250). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $390k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $294k
- Net assets
- $312k
What Galveston Island Nature Tourism Council does
Mission
Connect people with galveston's natural environment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organization seeks to enhance the quality of life on galveston island for its citizens and visitors by developing nature based educational and recreational activities and promoting public awareness of the value of nature tourism and the value of natural habitats and resources
$255,995 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $255,995.
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 2019 to 2020, from $323k to $252k (−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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 17% · 2018 7% · 2019 6% · 2020 12% · 2021 17% · 2022 16% · 2023 14% · 2024 13% · 2025 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
58% of GALVESTON ISLAND NATURE TOURISM COUNCIL’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $3k → $48k.
1 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 ISLAND NATURE TOURISM COUNCIL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 8 of 9 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 ISLAND NATURE TOURISM COUNCIL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 67%; 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: 2017 100% · 2018 54% · 2019 41% · 2020 29% · 2021 43% · 2022 38% · 2023 37% — 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
63% of GALVESTON ISLAND NATURE TOURISM COUNCIL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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 GALVESTON ISLAND NATURE TOURISM COUNCIL's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $209 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
GALVESTON ISLAND NATURE TOURISM COUNCIL runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like GALVESTON ISLAND NATURE TOURISM COUNCIL
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.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 ISLAND NATURE TOURISM COUNCIL: 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 GALVESTON ISLAND NATURE TOURISM COUNCIL?
- GALVESTON ISLAND NATURE TOURISM COUNCIL (Texas) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $294,309 to it, the largest being HARRIS & ELIZA KEMPNER FUND INC ($95,250). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GALVESTON ISLAND NATURE TOURISM COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $294,309 in grants to GALVESTON ISLAND NATURE TOURISM COUNCIL, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GALVESTON ISLAND NATURE TOURISM COUNCIL?
- HARRIS & ELIZA KEMPNER FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $95,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GALVESTON ISLAND NATURE TOURISM COUNCIL 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 9 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