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Ark-Tex Council of Governments

To improve the quality of life of the ARK-TEX COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS area on behalf of its member governmental organizations by providing a regional perspective on information and problem solving and by coordinating funding, resources, programs and services.

$12M
Granted FY2023
8
Itemized grants FY2023
8
Organizations funded FY2023
50%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2023
$185k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2023
$20,520
Largest grant, FY2023
$49,942
Organizations funded a year
3 to 8
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1
Total assets, FY2023
$14M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Ark-Tex Council of Governments funded were first-time grantees, receiving 44% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $82k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20238$185k50%
FY20223$44k0%
FY20213$96k0%
FY20207$59k0%
FY20196$92k0%
FY20184$93k50%
FY20176$117kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Public Safety & Disaster$363kCrime & Legal$200kHousing & Shelter$74kEnvironment$48k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Kilgore College$322,5247n/a
Bowie County Juvenile Probation Department$67,6886n/a
Hopkins County Elections$55,0505n/a
Cass County Treasurer$50,9133n/a
Paris$44,6694n/a
New Boston Neighborhoods Public Facility Corp$37,1011n/a
Red River County Sheriff's Office$25,9193n/a
Titus County$22,4834n/a
Gladewater Housing Authority$20,5201n/a
Mount Pleasant Public Facility Corp$16,8341n/a
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All grantees of Ark-Tex Council of Governments by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Kilgore College$322,5247n/a
Bowie County Juvenile Probation Department$67,6886n/a
Hopkins County Elections$55,0505n/a
Cass County Treasurer$50,9133n/a
Paris$44,6694n/a
New Boston Neighborhoods Public Facility Corp$37,1011n/a
Red River County Sheriff's Office$25,9193n/a
Titus County$22,4834n/a
Gladewater Housing Authority$20,5201n/a
Mount Pleasant Public Facility Corp$16,8341n/a
Franklin County Sheriff's Department$15,0001n/a
Delta County$7,2501n/a

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Center for Technology and Civic LifeIL12.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Ark-Tex Council of Governments

How much does Ark-Tex Council of Governments give?
Ark-Tex Council of Governments reported 8 itemized grants totaling $184,804, out of $12,348,360 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 8 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Ark-Tex Council of Governments fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Public Safety & Disaster (53%), Crime & Legal (29%), Housing & Shelter (11%).
Who are Ark-Tex Council of Governments's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Kilgore College ($323k), Bowie County Juvenile Probation Department ($68k), Hopkins County Elections ($55k).
Does Ark-Tex Council of Governments fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Ark-Tex Council of Governments?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Center for Technology and Civic Life.
Where is Ark-Tex Council of Governments based?
Ark-Tex Council of Governments is based in TX.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $13M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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