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Gulf Intracoastal Canal Association

Gulf Intracoastal Canal Association (Louisiana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $15,000 to it, the largest being HALL FAMILY FOUNDATION ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$389k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$15k
Net assets
$817k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Gulf Intracoastal Canal Association does

Mission

The mission of the Gulf Intracoastal Canal Association (GICA) is to facilitate commerce through ensuring safe, reliable, and efficient Gulf Coast waterways.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. GICA Initiatives: Maintain optimal situational awareness for membership regarding the status and conditions throughout the GIWW to facilitate safe and efficient cargo movements minimizing supply chain impacts. Maintain and implement the Gulf Inland Waterways Joint Hurricane Response Protocol optimizing interagency and whole of government response operations during tropical weather events facilitating rapid maritime transportation system recovery post-storm. Advocate for GIWW improvements with key stakeholders including the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Coast Guard, and various state departments of transportation. Ensure coastal protection and restoration initiatives and both commercial and private expansion along the GIWW consider the needs of the navigation industry during initial project development. Inform and educate the public regarding the value and importance of the GIWW and supporting Inland Waterways.

    $261,470 spent
    76% of program spending
  2. GICA Seminar: Planned and executed two day seminar to discuss key Gulf Intracoastal Waterway navigation safety issues for over 200 attendees. Participants included senior U.S. Coast Guard and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) leadership including all (6) U.S. Coast Guard captains of the port, all three (3) USACE district commanders, NOAA, LADOTD, TXDOTD, and numerous other state and local agencies as well as GICA membership. Agenda and attendee list available upon request.

    $82,969 spent
    24% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $344,439.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($386k) Expenses 100 ($341k) Net assets 100 ($1.1M)2018 Revenue 105 ($405k) Expenses 106 ($363k) Net assets 104 ($1.1M)2021 Revenue 106 ($409k) Expenses 146 ($497k) Net assets 98 ($1.0M)2022 Revenue 103 ($399k) Expenses 139 ($474k) Net assets 91 ($957k)2023 Revenue 107 ($414k) Expenses 131 ($446k) Net assets 88 ($926k)2024 Revenue 109 ($421k) Expenses 143 ($489k) Net assets 81 ($858k)2025 Revenue 101 ($389k) Expenses 126 ($430k) Net assets 77 ($817k)
2017201820212022202320242025
Revenue (101)Expenses (126)Net assets (77)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $1.0M to $959k (−8%).

$1.1M
$1.1M
$1.0M
$959k
$928k
$859k
$817k
2017201820212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$45k
’17
$42k
’18
−$88k
’21
−$75k
’22
−$31k
’23
−$68k
’24
−$41k
’25
23
months of
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

Patrick Morton

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2017201820212022202320242025
Listed13131314131413
Joined·+1·+4+1+1+3
No longer listed·1·3204
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of Gulf Intracoastal Canal Association’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.

Where its funders are

Gulf Intracoastal Canal Association draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Louisiana, across 1 state in all.

FL

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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like Gulf Intracoastal Canal Association

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 Louisiana

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 19%Fundraising 1%

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds Gulf Intracoastal Canal Association?
Gulf Intracoastal Canal Association (Louisiana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $15,000 to it, the largest being HALL FAMILY FOUNDATION ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Gulf Intracoastal Canal Association have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $15,000 in grants to Gulf Intracoastal Canal Association, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Gulf Intracoastal Canal Association?
HALL FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Gulf Intracoastal Canal Association find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Louisiana. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 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