How much did APACHE FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 68% of APACHE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2021

parks activitiesenergyrecreational parksactivities establishestablish maintainmaintain infrastructureinfrastructure economic

2022

foodmedicalcomprehensive educationalexperience high-qualifyhigh-qualify challengingchallenging inspiresinspires students

2023

privateeconomic growthsignificantrestore enhancerecyclingofferingbusinesses

2024

agriculturalgreen spacesnichollspasadenamunicipal excellencefort stocktonconservation research

2025

exceptional municipalgrowth preservingmunicipal fostersustainable growthenrich livesdeliversafe welcoming

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 61 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k52 grants · $135k
$10k–50k9 grants · $136k

$2,159

Median grant

States reached

$2.8M

Total assets

Largest grants

Houston Wilderness$35,989
Keep Odessa Beautiful$14,996
City of Houston$14,396
Keep Levelland Beautiful Levelland$13,497
NOLA Tree Project$12,367
Friends of the Wildlife Corridor$11,970
Harris County Precinct 3$11,517
Scenic Texas$10,797
Tree New Mexico$10,076
The City Of Shamrock Texas$9,896
Houston Botanic Garden$6,478
Texas Parks and Wildlife$6,369
Keep Midland Beautiful$5,998
Big Lake Economic Development Corp$5,998
City of Pharr$5,998

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 13%. 42% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 11% of APACHE FOUNDATION’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 65% of the giving stays in TX; read by stated purpose it is 71% — more of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

APACHE FOUNDATIONlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 3.4% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$665k · 43 repeat orgs$467k to everyone else

43 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 31 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$665k

$386k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%

+151%

Still filing today

49%

12%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $81k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EnvironmentRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

TI
TreeFolks Inc
4× · 2021–2024 · $67k · revenue +56%
KO
Keep Odessa Beautiful
4× · 2021–2024 · $47k · revenue +100% · 32% of their budget
HW
Houston Wilderness Inc
3× · 2022–2024 · $46k · revenue +69%

Funded once

CO
City of Houston Parks and Recreatio
one grant, 2023 · $63k
TL
Texas Longleaf Team
one grant, 2023 · $55k
TF
Trees for Houstongraduated
one grant, 2021 · $22k · revenue +181%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Downtown Dallas Parks Conservancy

Community Improvement

Memorial Park Conservancy Inc

The mission of the Memorial Park Conservancy (MPC) is to restore, preserve and enhance Memorial Park for the enjoyment of all Houstonians, today and tomorrow.

Environment

Houston Parks Board

To expand, improve, and protect parks and greenspace in the Houston region.

Philanthropy

Brackenridge Park Conservancy

The Brackenridge Park Conservancy is a steward and advocate for Brackenridge Park, a 344 acre park that was started with a 199 acre bequest in the year 1899.

Recreation & Sports

Bexar Land Trust Inc dba

Protect undeveloped land and urban green spaces. Educate the public about the environment.

Environment

Houston Arboretum & Nature Center

The mission of te Houston Arboretum & Nature Center is to provide education about the natural environment to people of all ages and to protect and enhance the Arboretum as a haven and sanctuary for native plants and animals.

Environment

Keep Rowlett Beautiful Inc

Provide environmental beautification and education for local community

Environment

Big Thicket Natural Heritage Trust

We acquire properties to be donated to the National Park Service and state entities and advocate for protection of Big Thicket natural resources.

Environment

Botanical Research Institute of Texas

Explore, discover, engage: we explore the critically important world of plants, collaborate to discover the role they play in our cultural and natural environments, and engage people to conserve nature and improve the human experience.

Science & Tech

Guadalupe River Park Conservancy

Guadalupe River Park Conservancy promotes the development and active use of the Guadalupe River Park and Gardens through education, advocacy, and stewardship.

Environment

Houston Museum of Natural Science

The Houston Museum of Natural Science (HMNS) serves as a valuable resources for the Houston community, offering extensive collections, exciting interactive exhibits, immersive environments, engaging films, compelling traveling exhibitions,…

Arts & Culture

Ecology Action of Texas Inc

Ecology Action's mission is to protect, reclaim, and connect communities to neglected or damaged remnants of the urban wilderness. We work to accelerate ecosystem recovery through biodiversity enhancement, water quality improvements,…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Houston Wilderness Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pontchartrain Conservancy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/45

the rest of the field

14%

8,467/62,655

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

06the grantee network

39 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

38/39

Grantees still filing

28/39

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$780,297Environment$262,003Arts & Culture$46,470Community Improvement$21,040Recreation & Sports$11,178Public Benefit$6,955Housing & Shelter$4,726

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Jacob and Terese Hershey FoundationTX17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jacob and Terese Hershey Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Albert & Ethel Herzstein · Tc Energy Foundation · The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Union Pacific Foundation · John P McGovern Foundation · The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation · Meadows Foundation Inc · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Austin Community Foundation Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation APACHE FOUNDATION funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Keep Odessa Beautiful.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.0× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 752244319 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Keep Odessa Beautiful, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 32% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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Find your warmest path to Apache Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

APACHE FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

39 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Apache Foundation?

More from the funding graph

APACHE FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

39 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Apache Foundation?

More from the funding graph