· Private foundation
BetsWest Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $74k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Camp for All | $25,000 |
| Washington on the Brazos Historical Foundation | $16,500 |
| Chappell Hill United Methodist Church | $12,000 |
| Washington County Healthy Living Association | $10,000 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Washington County | $10,000 |
| Brenham Animal Services | $5,000 |
| Margaret Blizzard Senior Activity Center | $2,500 |
| Animal Friends of Washington County | $2,500 |
| Chappell Hill Historical Society | $2,500 |
| Chappell Hill Volunteer Fire Department | $2,000 |
| Bassett Buddies Rescue of Texas | $1,000 |
| Brenham Children's Chorus | $1,000 |
| Unity Theatre | $1,000 |
| True Blue Animal Rescue | $1,000 |
| Healthy World Healthy Children | $500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–22, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein 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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
Camp For All Foundation8× · 2017–2024 · $193k · revenue +280%- BHBRENHAM HERITAGE MUSEUM3× · 2021–2023 · $45k · revenue +7%
- WOWASHINGTON ON THE BRAZOS HISTORICAL FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2024 · $39k · revenue ×15
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $5k
- COCity of Austinone grant, 2021 · $5k
- THTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF AUSTIN & TRAVIS COUNTY INCone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +20%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Throw a Dog a Bone is an all-breed dog rescue located in Austin, TX. We focus on saving dogs primarily in the rural shelters in South Texas. Many of these shelters have no exposure and very few resources. Our mission is to rescue as many…
Saving unwanted, abandoned, abused and neglected dogs in Texas. Also to promote proper pet ownership, community educational programs and to support spaying/neutering as a means to control unwanted pets. We provide complete vetting prior to…
To provide humane shelter, care and placement for stray and unwanted animals, and to promote the human-animal bond and responsible pet ownership to enhance the quality of life for the people and animals in our community.
PAWS' purpose is to provide refuge to stray and unwanted animals. PAWS' mission is to prevent cruelty to all animals by promoting humane standards through education and example, to provide care and shelter for homeless animals, aid in the…
Rescue dogs and other small domestic animals, care for them until they are healthy and adopt them to loving families.
Animal Rescue
NTASR helps rescue and rehabilitate Australian Shepherds, Border Collies, and mixes of the two.Thus far, several other breeds have made their way through the rescue including a doodle, a dachshund, a frenchie, and a shar pei. NTASR takes…
Furever Home Pet Rescue is an all-breed all-volunteer 501c3 non-profit organization based in the DallasFt Worth area We receive no government funding and are not funded nor assisted by any outside agency such as United Way Our life-saving…
Animal Humane Society (AHS) established in 1878 and incorporated as a nonprofit charitable organization in 1891 works to engage the hearts, hands, and minds of the community to help animals. AHS's vision is to compassionately and…
Love And Puppy Paws Dog Rescue (LAPP Dog Rescue) was formed to help alleviate the stress of city and county animal control facilities around South and Central Texas. We accept dogs into our rescue that are in overpopulated animal control…
This organization has provided rescue for hundreds of Boston Terriers from owner surrenders and pulling dogs from local animal shelters, provided vet care to ensure they are in good health, and adopted them out to new families/owners. We…
Texas Ferret Lovers Rescue is a no-kill organization dedicated to providing a safe and healthy environment along with quality care until loving homes can be found. We also provide sanctuary care for ferrets that are not adoptable due to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Austin Pets Alive Inc and the most unlike its peers is Chappell Hill Volunteer Fire Department. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
31 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 31 of the 49 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds BLINN COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Camp For All Foundation ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BRENHAM HERITAGE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON ON THE BRAZOS HISTORICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL FRIENDS OF WASHINGTON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds DENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds OREGON MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITY THEATRE CO ↗
- Who funds CHAPPELL HILL HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CHAPPELL HILL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON COUNTY HEALTHY LIVING ASSOCIA ↗
- Who funds BRENHAM CHILDRENS CHORUS INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF AUSTIN & TRAVIS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BRENHAM PREGNANCY CENTER ↗
- Who funds GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds CASA for Kids of South Central Texas Inc ↗
- Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc ↗
- Who funds GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds BASSET BUDDIES RESCUE OF TEXAS ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Bob & Cathleen Davis Foundation · Kolkhorst Family Foundation · Christ Lutheran Foundation Inc · The Andras Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 organization BetsWest 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.
- Oregon Museum of Science and Industry — 4% of income from government
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 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.