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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.
Against its field
The Texas Surf Museum Texas Surf Museum receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- United Way of Galveston Inc Whiteshared funderslocal
- Humanities Texasportfolio match
- Texas Historical Foundationportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
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.
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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- United Way of Galveston Inc Whiteshared funderslocalTX · backs 29 organizations that share your funders · funds 43 organizations near you
- Humanities Texasportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Texas Historical Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Still Water Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hobby Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Laurie and Reed Morian Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Coastal Conservation Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tahoe Maritime Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Danny Kwock Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Susan Vaughan Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Jeanie Wyatt Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Summerfield G Roberts Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like The Texas Surf Museum Texas Surf Museum
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
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 1funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing