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The Texas Surf Museum Texas Surf Museum

The Texas Surf Museum Texas Surf Museum (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being Ippolito Charitable Foundation of Galveston ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$109k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$10k
Net assets
$22k
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What The Texas Surf Museum Texas Surf Museum does

Mission

Enlighten: Showcase the unique culture and history of Texas surfing. Encourage: Promote a healthy, accessible lifestyle through board sports. Educate: Teach conservation of the Texas Gulf Coast and marine ecosystems.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Operated the Texas Surfing Museum to enlighten, encourage, and educate the public through maritime exhibits, community board sports outreach, and Gulf Coast conservation programs.

    $74,504 spent$62,967 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $74,504.

02The organization over time
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

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

Funder
'24*
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of The Texas Surf Museum Texas Surf Museum’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

100% of The Texas Surf Museum Texas Surf Museum's grant income comes from Texas funders.

TX

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

Against its field

The Texas Surf Museum Texas Surf Museum receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10k to it.

Operating margin0% · below the median
Months of reserve1.8mo · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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In Texas

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

68% of spending goes to programs.

Program 68%Management 16%Fundraising 16%

Governance

5
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 The Texas Surf Museum Texas Surf Museum: 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 Texas Surf Museum Texas Surf Museum?
The Texas Surf Museum Texas Surf Museum (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being Ippolito Charitable Foundation of Galveston ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does The Texas Surf Museum Texas Surf Museum have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $10,000 in grants to The Texas Surf Museum Texas Surf Museum.
Who is the largest funder of The Texas Surf Museum Texas Surf Museum?
Ippolito Charitable Foundation of Galveston is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like The Texas Surf Museum Texas Surf Museum 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 2025–2025), 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