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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
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2023 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $184,804, the rows itemized in this filing. The $12,348,360 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $12,163,556 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k3 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $165k
$20,520
Median grant
1
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KILGORE COLLEGE$49,942
CASS COUNTY TREASURER$40,462
NEW BOSTON NEIGHBORHOODS PUBLIC FACILITY CORP$37,101
GLADEWATER HOUSING AUTHORITY$20,520
MOUNT PLEASANT PUBLIC FACILITY CORP$16,834
HOPKINS COUNTY JUVENILE PROBATION$7,260
DELTA COUNTY$7,250
BOWIE COUNTY JUVENILE PROBATION DEPARTMENT$5,435
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 24% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 16%FRANKLIN COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT: $15k → 14%LAMAR COUNTY: $17k → 15%NEW BOSTON NEIGHBORHOODS PUBLIC FACILITY CORP: $37k → 16%GLADEWATER HOUSING AUTHORITY: $21k → 16%DELTA COUNTY: $7k → 17%CASS COUNTY TREASURER: $40k → 17%BOWIE COUNTY JUVENILE PROBATION DEPARTMENT: $16k → 19%RED RIVER COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE: $14k → 19%LAMAR COUNTY: $10k → 15%MOUNT PLEASANT PUBLIC FACILITY CORP: $17k → 16%KILGORE COLLEGE: $74k → 16%CASS COUNTY JUVENILE PROBATION: $6k → 17%BOWIE COUNTY JUVENILE PROBATION DEPARTMENT: $13k → 19%RED RIVER COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE: $7k → 19%LAMAR COUNTY: $10k → 15%TITUS COUNTY: $7k → 16%KILGORE COLLEGE: $59k → 16%CASS COUNTY JUVENILE PROBATION: $4k → 17%BOWIE COUNTY TX JUVENILE PROBATION DEPT: $13k → 19%RED RIVER COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE: $5k → 19%LAMAR COUNTY: $8k → 15%TITUS COUNTY: $7k → 16%KILGORE COLLEGE: $56k → 16%BOWIE COUNTY JUVENILE PROBATION DEPARTMENT: $12k → 19%TITUS COUNTY: $5k → 16%KILGORE COLLEGE: $50k → 16%BOWIE COUNTY JUVENILE PROBATION DEPARTMENT: $8k → 19%TITUS COUNTY: $4k → 16%KILGORE COLLEGE: $46k → 16%BOWIE COUNTY JUVENILE PROBATION DEPARTMENT: $5k → 19%KILGORE COLLEGE: $28k → 16%KILGORE COLLEGE: $10k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$589k · 7 repeat orgs$97k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2023, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
1

Total granted

$589k
$15k

Still filing today

0%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • KC
    Kilgore College
    7× · 2017–2023 · $323k
  • BC
    BOWIE COUNTY JUVENILE PROBATION DEPARTMENT
    6× · 2017–2023 · $68k
  • HC
    HOPKINS COUNTY ELECTIONS
    5× · 2017–2023 · $55k

Funded once

  • FC
    FRANKLIN COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT
    one grant, 2018 · $15k
How this is measured

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

04Its field
04the grantee network

0 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2023.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2023, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 0 of the 12 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
0/0
Grantees still filing
0/0
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Kilgore College: $322,524 · OtherKilgore CollegeBOWIE COUNTY JUVENILE PROBATION DEPARTMENT: $67,688 · OtherBOWIE COUNTY JUVENILE PROBATION DEPARTMENTHOPKINS COUNTY ELECTIONS: $55,050 · OtherHOPKINS COUNTY ELECTIONSCASS COUNTY TREASURER: $50,913 · OtherCASS COUNTY TREASURERPARIS: $44,669 · OtherPARISNEW BOSTON NEIGHBORHOODS PUBLIC FACILITY CORP: $37,101 · OtherNEW BOSTON NEIGHBORHOODS PUBLIC FACILITY CORPRED RIVER COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE: $25,919 · Other+5 more: $82,087 · Other+5 more
Other$685,951

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

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.

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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.

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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