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San Leon Oyster Fest INC

San Leon Oyster Fest INC (Texas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,674 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($11,080). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$85k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$18k
Net assets
$245k
1/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 8%
01What it does

What San Leon Oyster Fest INC does

Mission

Mission is to raise awareness of the importance and sustainability of oyster reefs and the oyster industry in the Galveston Bay Area. The San Leon Oyster Fest will educate and promte the importance of a strong industry for generations. An Oyster Public Fest will be held annually.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The organizations Annual Oyster Fest has been put on temporary hold since 2020 due to issues with such gatherings since Covid outbreak.

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 0 ($0) Expenses 0 ($0) Net assets 0 ($0)2020 Revenue 100 ($155k) Expenses 100 ($4k) Net assets 100 ($88k)2021 Revenue 40 ($62k) Expenses 96 ($4k) Net assets 166 ($147k)2022 Revenue 1 ($2k) Expenses 130 ($5k) Net assets 163 ($144k)2023 Revenue 33 ($52k) Expenses 326 ($12k) Net assets 207 ($183k)2024 Revenue 55 ($85k) Expenses 621 ($24k) Net assets 277 ($245k)
201820202021202220232024
Revenue (55)Expenses (621)Net assets (277)Peer revenue range

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 $187k to $252k (+35%).

$0
$196k
$147k
$144k
$187k
$252k
201820202021202220232024
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.

2018
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of San Leon Oyster Fest INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,734 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$0
’18
$151k
’20
$58k
’21
−$3k
’22
$39k
’23
$62k
’24
84
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.

201820202021202220232024
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Joined··+0+0+0+0
No longer listed··0000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $13k → $18.

2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 63% 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 San Leon Oyster Fest INC’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

San Leon Oyster Fest INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

63% 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 San Leon Oyster Fest INC.

63%
largest funder
99%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 88% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.

Where its funders are

63% of San Leon Oyster Fest INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $7k that is directly attributable, 77% of it comes from Texas funders.

UT
TX

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

San Leon Oyster Fest INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,230 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.

Operating margin72% · top quartile
Months of reserve83.5mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−14% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,230 food & nutrition nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

0% of spending goes to programs.

Program 0%Management 100%Fundraising 0%

Governance

3
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

TX

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for San Leon Oyster Fest 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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds San Leon Oyster Fest INC?
San Leon Oyster Fest INC (Texas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,674 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($11,080). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does San Leon Oyster Fest INC have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $17,674 in grants to San Leon Oyster Fest INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of San Leon Oyster Fest INC?
NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $11,080 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like San Leon Oyster Fest 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.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 4 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