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United Way Galveston County Mainland Inc

Texas City, TX · EIN 74-1257159. Reported 67 grants totalling $3,785,820 to 31 organizations across tax years 2021-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.

31organizations funded
$46,000median reported grant
$3,785,820granted, 2021-2023
80%of grantees funded again the next year
14%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 31 distinct organizations, with 14% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
  3. How much its list changes. 80% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 2 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $46,000. Half of what it reported fell between $30,000 and $78,000; the smallest was $9,291 and the largest $195,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
1 grant
$10,000 - $25,000
13 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
24 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
17 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
12 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Mi Lewis Social Service CenterDickinson, TX$537,500332023
Galveston County Food BankTexas City, TX$325,000332023
Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Galveston-HoustonHouston, TX$300,000332023
Hitchcock Family Welfare ServiceHitchcock, TX$258,000332023
Family Service CenterGalveston, TX$250,000222023
The Salvation ArmyBrookhaven, GA$239,200332023
The Children's CenterGalveston, TX$181,000332023
Interfaith Caring Ministries IncLeague City, TX$163,000332023
Sunshine Center IncGalveston, TX$150,000332023
Gulf Coast Big Brothers & Big Sisters IncGalveston, TX$147,000332023
Family Service Center of Galveston County TexasGalveston, TX$125,000112021
Santa Fe Family ServiceSanta Fe, TX$120,000332023
Hra Village IncorporatedTexas City, TX$115,000332023
Boy Scouts of AmericaGalveston, TX$105,000332023
City of Texas City Senior PrgTexas City, TX$102,000332023
NAMI Gulf CoastHouston, TX$85,000332023
CASA of Galveston CountyTexas City, TX$80,000222023
Hospice Care Team IncTexas City, TX$77,000332023
Advocacy Center for Children of Galveston CountyGalveston, TX$60,000332023
Alcohol Drug Abuse Womens Center IncGalveston, TX$57,000112021
American Red CrossTexas City, TX$53,000332023
ServerLeague City, TX$50,000112023
Resource and Crisis Center of Galveston CountyGalveston, TX$46,000112021
Court Appointed Special Advocates CASATexas City, TX$37,000112021
NAMI Gulf CoastTexas City, TX$35,000112023
Special Allocations to Other UwTexas City, TX$21,329112021
The Arc of the Gulf CoastAlvin, TX$17,000112021
Mainland Childrens PartnershipTexas City, TX$15,000112021
Special Friends IncFriendswood, TX$13,500112021
Girl Scouts of San Jacinto CouncilHouston, TX$12,000112021
Various Other OrganizationsTexas City, TX$9,291112022

19 of 31 (61%) received money in more than one year over the 3 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 14 of 31 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Human Services
8 orgs
Youth Development
2 orgs
Crime & Legal
2 orgs
Mental Health
2 orgs

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202126$1,334,329$41,500
202220$1,185,491$44,500
202321$1,266,000$48,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

94% of its giving went to organizations in Texas. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

Texas
$3.5M
Georgia
$239K

Down to the city

Galveston, TX
$1.1M
Texas City, TX
$870K
Dickinson, TX
$538K
Houston, TX
$397K
Hitchcock, TX
$258K
Brookhaven, GA
$239K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Permanent Endowment Fund of13 shared recipientsIppolito Charitable Foundation11 shared recipientsThe Moody Foundation9 shared recipientsHarris & Eliza Kempner Fund Inc9 shared recipientsDr Leon Bromberg Charitable Trust8 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc7 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $46,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Texas.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from United Way Galveston County Mainland Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: Po Box Drawer 3098, Texas City, TX, 77592.

EIN 74-1257159 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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