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Asco Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$919k
Granted FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$1.3MCrime & Legal$451kEducation$383kHuman Services$283kYouth Development$233kPhilanthropy$179kReligion$162kFood & Nutrition$84kOther$0
02FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $43k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $176k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $400k
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$30M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALL SAINTS SCHOOL$300,000
UNBOUND NOW$173,446
HARVEST HOUSE MINISTRY$100,000
CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER$76,565
BREEDLOVE FOODS INC$50,000
FOR THE SILENT$39,500
ERNEST CECIL FOUNDATION$33,100
AMARILLO FAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES$31,197
ONEVOICEHOME$25,613
WEST TEXAS FOOTBALL CLASSIC$25,000
BCFS HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES$11,518
HEART GALLERY OF THE PANHANDLE PLAI$10,000
SOUTH PLAINS FOOD BANK$7,500
JR LEAGUE OF LUBBOCK$7,500
LUBBOCK COUNTY JUNIOR LIVESTOCK SHO$6,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $387k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%VAULT FOSTERING COMMUNITY: $25k → 16%THE GARTH HOUSE: $120k → 19%FOSTER LOVE BELL COUNTY: $18k → 14%BCFS HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES: $12k → 16%HIGH POINT VILLAGE: $6k → 17%THE GARTH HOUSE: $108k → 19%HIGH POINT VILLAGE: $6k → 17%HIGH POINT VILLAGE: $5k → 17%HIGH POINT VILLAGE: $5k → 17%ONEVOICEHOME: $26k → 17%BREEDLOVE FOODS INC: $50k → 17%COMMUNITY PARTNERS OF LUBBOCK: $3k → 17%COMMUNITY PARTNERS OF LUBBOCK: $3k → 17%COMMUNITY PARTNERS OF LUBBOCK: $3k → 17%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.

34%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 19 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

19 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
26

Total granted

$1.1M
$1.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+10%

Still filing today

58%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $539k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationCrime & LegalPublic BenefitArts & CulturePublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • CO
    CASA OF THE SOUTH PLAINS INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $68k · revenue +6%
  • ER
    EDUCATIONAL RADIO FOUNDATION OF EAST TEXAS
    2× · 2022–2023 · $66k · revenue +39%
  • WT
    WEST TEXAS FOOTBALL CLASSIC INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $65k · revenue +0% · 25% of their budget

Funded once

  • MA
    MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $1.0M
  • UF
    UMC FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue -2%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $88k
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

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Lubbock Family Outreach Center Inc Dba Family Guidance & Outreach Center

The Family Guidance & Outreach Center of Lubbock is dedicated to the prevention of child abuse and neglect and supporting, mentoring, and educating parents.

Human Services
2
Food Bank of West Central Texas

To procure and distribute nutritional food to qualified agencies that feed the hungry of West Central Texas.

Food & Nutrition
3
Children's Home of Lubbock and Family Service Agency Inc

Working in creative collaboration to provide quality care that transforms the lives of at-risk children and their families through the active compassion of christ.

Human Services
4
Safe City Commission

Support law enforcement and promote public safety awareness and crime prevention in Fort Worth.

Crime & Legal
5
Feeding Texas

To lead a unified effort for a hunger-free texas.

Community Improvement
6
Texas Bar Foundation

The Foundation solicits charitable contributions and provides funding to enhance the rule of law and the system of justice in Texas, especially for programs that relate to the administration of justice; ethics in the legal profession;…

Crime & Legal
7
Lone Star Casa Inc

Lone Star CASA elevates the voices of children in Kaufman and Rockwall County who have experienced abuse and neglect by providing trained volunteer advocates to work alongside children and families so they can achieve safety and stability…

Civil Rights
8
South Texas Food Bank

To alleviate hunger in the immediate service area through the distribution of food products donated by the usda, feeding america, area grocery stores, etc. which are distributed to the needy by way of area food banks and other qualified…

Community Improvement
9
The Bair Foundation of Texas

To provide services to children, youth, and families along with a child-placing agency. to provide therapeutic foster care.

Human Services
10
Texprotects-the Texas Association for the Protection of Children

TexProtects advances public policy and local implementation to strenghten families to prevent child abuse and neglect.

Youth Development
11
Children's Advocacy Center of the South Plains

To bring together community resources to speed the healing of child victims of abuse and trauma.

Crime & Legal
12
Texas Girls and Boys Ranch

Sharing jesus, healing hearts, transforming lives.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Casa of the South Plains Inc; the most unlike its peers is A Cause to Give Us Paws. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 61 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
16/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $1,000,000 · OtherMD ANDERSON CANCER CENTERALL SAINTS SCHOOL: $320,000 · OtherALL SAINTS SCHOOLADAMS ANGELS MINISTRIES: $94,364 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $88,263 · OtherCHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER: $76,565 · Other+38 more: $516,885 · Other+38 moreGarth House Mickey Mehaffy Childrens Advocacy Program Inc: $228,335 · Human ServicesGarth House …BREEDLOVE FOODS INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesBREEDLOVE FO…ONE VOICE HOME: $25,613 · Human ServicesONE VOICE HO…VAULT FOSTERING COMMUNITY: $25,382 · Human ServicesVAULT FOSTER…HIGH POINT VILLAGE INC: $21,000 · Human ServicesHIGH POINT V…FOSTER LOVE BELL COUNTY INC: $18,124 · Human Services+3 more: $20,018 · Human ServicesUMC FOUNDATION: $250,000 · HealthEMBRACING FREEDOM MINISTRY: $100,000 · Crime & LegalCASA OF THE SOUTH PLAINS INC: $68,173 · Crime & LegalFor the Silent: $39,500 · Crime & LegalSAN ANGELO AREA FOUNDATION: $118,669 · PhilanthropyGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $64,870 · PhilanthropyUNBOUND NOW: $173,446 · Youth DevelopmentWEST TEXAS FOOTBALL CLASSIC INC: $65,000 · Public BenefitOPERATION SUPPORT A HERO: $58,159 · Public Benefit
Other$2,096,077Human Services$388,472Health$250,000Crime & Legal$207,673Philanthropy$183,539Youth Development$173,446Public Benefit$123,159

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUMC FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetGarth House Mickey Mehaffy Childrens Advocacy Program Inc: $228,335 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetUNBOUND NOW: $173,446 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSAN ANGELO AREA FOUNDATION: $118,669 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEMBRACING FREEDOM MINISTRY: $100,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetCASA OF THE SOUTH PLAINS INC: $68,173 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetEDUCATIONAL RADIO FOUNDATION OF EAST TEXAS: $66,163 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetWEST TEXAS FOOTBALL CLASSIC INC: $65,000 over 3y, 25% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $64,870 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION SUPPORT A HERO: $58,159 over 2y, 73% of budgetBREEDLOVE FOODS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFor the Silent: $39,500 over 1y, 15% of budgetVAULT FOSTERING COMMUNITY: $25,382 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetHIGH POINT VILLAGE INC: $21,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetA Cause to Give Us Paws: $18,658 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetFOSTER LOVE BELL COUNTY INC: $18,124 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetBCFS Health and Human Services: $11,518 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLUBBOCK WOMEN'S CLUB: $11,200 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA COUNCIL 694 SOUTH PLAINS: $11,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetK9S4COPS INC: $10,043 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetWEST TEXAS FOOD BANK: $9,720 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIGH PLAINS FOOD BANK: $8,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS OF LUBBOCK: $7,500 over 3y, 8.0% of budgetSOUTH PLAINS FOOD BANK INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBELTON CHRISTIAN YOUTH CENTER: $7,451 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSHALLOWATER EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetLamar University Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE OF LUBBOCK INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Diekemper Family Foun…Community Foundation …Ch Foundation IncTexas Instruments Fou…Welborn-Payne Endowme…Rc Johnson Jr Foundat…HDS FoundationTexas Mutual Insuranc…Kuykendall FoundationThe Ware FoundationEnterprise Holdings F…Greater Houston Commu…
Diekemper Family Foundation IncTX22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Diekemper Family Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of West Texas · Ch Foundation Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · Welborn-Payne Endowment Trust · Rc Johnson Jr Foundation Inc · HDS Foundation · Texas Mutual Insurance Company · Kuykendall Foundation · The Ware Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Asco Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Asco Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 61 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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