Texas · Nonprofit
The Arc of the Gulf Coast
The Arc of the Gulf Coast (Texas) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $440,806 to it, the largest being United Way of Brazoria County ($317,824). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $89k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $441k
- Net assets
- $115k
What The Arc of the Gulf Coast does
Mission
Arc of the Gulf Coast provides specific assistance to individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities to enable them to become self sufficient. They also provide public awareness of intellectual and developmental disabilities through newsletters and outreach programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The Arc of the Gulf Coast leases a home to third parties for the purpose of providing residential living quarters to individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities
$40,380 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $40,380.
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 2017 to 2018, from $293k to $236k (−19%).
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: 2021 16% · 2022 15% · 2023 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
31% of The Arc of the Gulf Coast’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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.
Chief executive
Melisa McNeil
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income fell $58k → $31k.
1 of 6 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 The Arc of the Gulf Coast’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
The Arc of the Gulf Coast leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 The Arc of the Gulf Coast.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 63% · 2019 64% · 2020 100% · 2021 65% · 2022 93% · 2023 82% — 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.
Where its funders are
98% of The Arc of the Gulf Coast's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $719 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
The Arc of the Gulf Coast's revenue fell 68% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,752 health nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like The Arc of the Gulf Coast
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.
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Arc of the Gulf Coast: 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 The Arc of the Gulf Coast?
- The Arc of the Gulf Coast (Texas) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $440,806 to it, the largest being United Way of Brazoria County ($317,824). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Arc of the Gulf Coast have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $440,806 in grants to The Arc of the Gulf Coast, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Arc of the Gulf Coast?
- United Way of Brazoria County is the largest funder on record, with $317,824 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Arc of the Gulf Coast 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 6 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing