Texas · Nonprofit
Galveston Urban Ministries
Galveston Urban Ministries (Texas) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,808,084 to it, the largest being The Moody Foundation ($2,361,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $5.8M
- Net assets
- $5.5M
What Galveston Urban Ministries does
Mission
The mission of Galveston Urban Ministries (GUM) is to develop holistic relationships to transform the beloved Galveston community using GUM-E's: Engage, Equip and Empower. Continued on Sch O. By teaching kids to read, helping adult neighbors prepare to enter the workforce, or educating work groups all over Texas to alleviate poverty, GUM's goal is to see the North Broadway community thrive. GUM wants each of its Galveston neighbors to have healthy families, good-paying jobs, and above all else, to know the abundant love of Jesus. To achieve this, GUM 1) Engages in deep relationships and expresses the love of Christ, 2) Equips others with resources to fight poverty, and 3) Empowers everyone to be physically, mentally, and spiritually healthy and to create sustainable and God-honoring lives.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
STUDENTS - GUM Youth is an after-school mentoring program for students 5th grade through college. The goal is to raise the next generation of leaders by showing every student the love of Christ. Through mentoring, education, and fellowship, GUM equips its youth to not just survive but to thrive as children of God. The Youth program includes a variety of activities including after-school mentoring, field trips, community service projects, recreational sports, in-school tutoring, college preparation services, and Youth Art Collective workshops and art shows.
$442,987 spent$420 earned by the program57% of program spendingMISSION TEAMS - Groups that come to Galveston to assist GUM in its community outreach program. They are involved in Street Camps, Block Parties and other identified projects that assist our neighbors and neighborhood.
$221,882 spent$41,231 earned by the program29% of program spendingCHILDREN - The GUMDROPS Children's Program is our elementary age program where we connect with the whole child by holistically caring for their social, spiritual and mental development. In the GUMDROPS program, kids come together to learn about God, get homework help, develop teamwork skills, learn how to respect themselves and others, and participate in fun, educational field trips. GUM's goal is for children to internalize the gospel by teaching them how to communicate their feelings, showing them who they are as God's creation in Christ, providing a safe place for curiosity and creativity, and by developing healthy relationships.
$110,941 spent14% of program spendingADULTS - The Getting Ahead Program Well is a 24-week program that helps adults examine the impact of poverty in their communities and in their own lives while learning what God's word says about it. In order to create authentic community and provide support on the road to breaking the chains of poverty, participants walk side by side with mentors to tackle everything from budgeting and negotiation skills to how to cope with daily life and build hope for the future. This program was temporarily paused in 2024 with plans to resume in 2025.
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The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $775,810.
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 2023 to 2024, from $5.6M to $8.1M (+44%).
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: 2020 7% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of Galveston Urban Ministries’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Darwin VanDyke
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $18k → $1.1M.
8 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 Urban Ministries’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 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 Urban Ministries leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 58%; half comes from just 3 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 57% · 2019 57% · 2020 32% · 2021 33% · 2022 78% · 2023 45% — 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
58% of Galveston Urban Ministries's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
91% of Galveston Urban Ministries's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $76k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
Galveston Urban Ministries holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Galveston Urban Ministries
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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
56%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Galveston Urban Ministries?
- Galveston Urban Ministries (Texas) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,808,084 to it, the largest being The Moody Foundation ($2,361,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Galveston Urban Ministries have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $5,808,084 in grants to Galveston Urban Ministries, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Galveston Urban Ministries?
- The Moody Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $2,361,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Galveston Urban Ministries 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 32 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