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Bethany Lutheran Foundation of Fredericksburg Texas Inc at a glance

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Bethany Lutheran Foundation of Fredericksburg Texas Inc

To augment the mission and ministry of bethany lutheran church of advancing and supporting the discipleship of jesus christ in three ways: community organizations, bethany lutheran church, and bethany preschool.

$39k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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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 2025.

Religion$92kEducation$81kHuman Services$40kHealth$24kYouth Development$13kRecreation & Sports$6kHousing & Shelter$6kEmployment$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $19,250, the rows itemized in this filing. The $38,500 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $19,250 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.
$9,625
Median grant
1
States reached
$797k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BETHANY LUTHERAN CHURCH$9,625
BETHANY PRESCHOOL$9,625
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 (FY17–24, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%THE GRACE CENTER: $2k → 10%THE GRACE CENTER: $2k → 10%THE GRACE CENTER: $2k → 10%MOM CENTER: $1k → 10%MOM CENTER: $1k → 10%MOM CENTER: $1k → 10%MOM CENTER: $1k → 10%MOM CENTER: $800 → 10%MOM CENTER: $800 → 10%MOM CENTER: $700 → 10%MOM CENTER: $500 → 10%THE GRACE CENTER: $500 → 10%THE GRACE CENTER: $500 → 10%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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$262k · 23 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

23 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
19

Total granted

$262k
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+13%

Still filing today

35%
21%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthReligionPublic BenefitEducationYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • FC
    Fredericksburg Community Health Center
    8× · 2017–2024 · $18k · revenue +229%
  • MC
    MOM CENTER
    8× · 2017–2024 · $7k · revenue +685%
  • HV
    HONOR VETERANS NOW
    6× · 2019–2024 · $4k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • CJ
    CHRISTIAN JOB CORP OF GILLESPIE CO (CMJC & CWJC)
    one grant, 2017 · $2k
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF TEXAS HILL COUNTRY
    one grant, 2018 · $2k
  • ST
    SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS SYNOD OUTDOOR AND RETREAT MINISTRIES INC
    one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +11%
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
East Texas Community Clinic Inc

To provide comprehensive primary care and preventive care to all persons regardless of their ability to pay.

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2
Still Water Christian Ministries Inc

To offer Kingdom partners a holy and unforgettable experience at our Texas Hill Country retreat and camp facility highlighting the still waters of God's majestic creation.

Recreation & Sports
3
Fort Bend Seniors Meals on Wheels and Much Much More

See Schedule OFort Bend Seniors Meals on Wheels provides comprehensive services, including Meals on Wheels, congregate meals, transportation, case management, health screenings, information and referral services, recreation, and more. Our…

Human Services
4
Tejas Health Care

To provide primary health and dental care to the underserved of fayette and lee counties, texas.

Health
5
Faith Bible Church Atx

The church exists to glorify God and make disciples of Jesus Christ

Religion
6
Central Texas Pregnancy Care Center

Pregnancy counseling

Human Services
7
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
8
West Texas Food Bank

The WTFB exists to collect, purchase, and distribute food to feed the hungry in 19 counties in West Texas in partnership with volunteers and community organizations and to educate these partners and the public at large about the real face…

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9
United Corpus Christi Chamber of Commerce

The united corpus christi chamber of commerce is a member-driven organization whose principal mission is to foster business growth by advocating business issues, enhancing the business climate, and providing services to its members.

Community Improvement
10
Leadership Austin

Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.

Youth Development
11
Texas Missions of Mercy

Sponsor local mission efforts in areas of texas with high levels of unmet oral health needs.

Health
12
Texas Tribune Inc

The texas tribune promotes civic engagement and public education across the state by producing and sharing for free public data interactives, statewide events and intensive and daily reporting on texas public policy, politics and current…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Grace Center; the most unlike its peers is Mision De Candelilla. 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

12 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. 12 of the 42 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BETHANY LUTHERAN CHURCH: $148,351 · OtherBETHANY LUTHERAN CHURCHHILL COUNTRY NEEDS COUNCIL: $13,750 · OtherHILL COUNTRY NEEDS COUNCILBOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $10,250 · OtherGillespie County Community on Aging (GOLDEN HUB): $8,870 · Other+30 more: $55,412 · Other+30 moreFredericksburg Community Health Center: $18,000 · HealthTHE GRACE CENTER: $7,000 · Human ServicesMOM CENTER: $6,800 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $500 · Human ServicesHONOR VETERANS NOW: $4,300 · Public BenefitSPECIAL OLYMPICS OF TEXAS INC: $1,500 · Recreation & SportsFREDERICKSBURG ACADEMIC BOOSTERS INC: $1,300 · EducationYOUNG LIFE: $1,000 · Youth Development
Other$236,633Health$18,000Human Services$14,300Public Benefit$4,300Recreation & Sports$1,500Education$1,300Youth Development$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFredericksburg Community Health Center: $18,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GRACE CENTER: $7,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMOM CENTER: $6,800 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetHONOR VETERANS NOW: $4,300 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetFREDERICKSBURG ROTARY CLUB: $1,800 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS OF TEXAS INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN TEXAS SYNOD OUTDOOR AND RETREAT MINISTRIES INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFREDERICKSBURG ACADEMIC BOOSTERS INC: $1,300 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMision De Candelilla: $920 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS RAMP PROJECT: $400 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.

  • Who funds Fredericksburg Community Health Center ↗
  • Who funds THE GRACE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds MOM CENTER ↗
  • Who funds HONOR VETERANS NOW ↗
  • Who funds FREDERICKSBURG ROTARY CLUB ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF TEXAS INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS SYNOD OUTDOOR AND RETREAT MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds FREDERICKSBURG ACADEMIC BOOSTERS INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
  • Who funds Mision De Candelilla ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS RAMP PROJECT ↗

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.

The Community Foundat…Create Healthy Manage…Hal & Charlie Peterso…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country IncTX17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country Inc · Create Healthy Management · Hal & Charlie Peterson Foundation & Fd Mgmt Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Bethany Lutheran Foundation of Fredericksburg Texas Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bethany Lutheran Foundation of Fredericksburg Texas Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Bethany Lutheran Foundation of Fredericksburg Texas Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 42 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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