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UNITED WAY GALVESTON COUNTY MAINLAND INC

UNITED WAY GALVESTON COUNTY MAINLAND INC (Texas) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,033,235 to it, the largest being THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND ($279,918). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$1.3M
Funders on record
22
Grants received
$1.0M
Net assets
$2.2M
9/22 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 10%
01What it does

What United Way Galveston County Mainland Inc does

Mission

To be a leader in the community by facilitating, promoting and ensuring the availablity of services that meet the needs of the community by priorizing needs in education, health, and basic needs, forming innovative and effective partnerships with other organizations and strategically raising and investing resources to make lasting change.

As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.

Program

  1. Not described on the e-filed return.

    $814,533 spent$1,342,723 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $814,533.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($1.9M) Expenses 100 ($2.4M) Net assets 100 ($2.2M)2020 Revenue 115 ($2.1M) Expenses 89 ($2.2M) Net assets 98 ($2.1M)2021 Revenue 116 ($2.1M) Expenses 98 ($2.4M) Net assets 88 ($1.9M)2022 Revenue 77 ($1.4M) Expenses 72 ($1.7M) Net assets 73 ($1.6M)2023 Revenue 118 ($2.2M) Expenses 79 ($1.9M) Net assets 86 ($1.9M)2024 Revenue 72 ($1.3M) Expenses 34 ($815k) Net assets 102 ($2.2M)
201920202021202220232024
Revenue (72)Expenses (34)Net assets (102)

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 $3.1M to $2.3M (−27%).

$3.9M
$3.5M
$3.3M
$2.9M
$3.1M
$2.3M
201920202021202220232024
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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 4% · 2024 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

−$577k
’19
−$49k
’20
−$227k
’21
−$317k
’22
$267k
’23
$528k
’24
24
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.

Chief executive

Leslie Ornelas

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

201920202021202220232024
Listed151516131615
Joined·+3+1+3+5+0
No longer listed·30621
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $33k → $111k.

8 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 UNITED WAY GALVESTON COUNTY MAINLAND INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 21 of 22 funders by total. 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

UNITED WAY GALVESTON COUNTY MAINLAND INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

67% 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 UNITED WAY GALVESTON COUNTY MAINLAND INC.

27%
largest funder
63%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 76% · 2018 82% · 2019 51% · 2020 37% · 2021 56% · 2022 50% · 2023 63% — 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.

How long its funders stay

22% of UNITED WAY GALVESTON COUNTY MAINLAND INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 41% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

64% of UNITED WAY GALVESTON COUNTY MAINLAND 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 $369k that is directly attributable, 60% of it comes from Texas funders.

PA
MO
NM
TN
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $664k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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

Organizations like UNITED WAY GALVESTON COUNTY MAINLAND INC

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

99% of spending goes to programs.

Program 99%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

99%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds UNITED WAY GALVESTON COUNTY MAINLAND INC?
UNITED WAY GALVESTON COUNTY MAINLAND INC (Texas) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,033,235 to it, the largest being THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND ($279,918). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does UNITED WAY GALVESTON COUNTY MAINLAND INC have?
IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $1,033,235 in grants to UNITED WAY GALVESTON COUNTY MAINLAND INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY GALVESTON COUNTY MAINLAND INC?
THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $279,918 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like UNITED WAY GALVESTON COUNTY MAINLAND 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 22 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