Texas · Community foundation
Big Spring Area Community Foundation Inc
Receive gifts, bequests and donations to be held as endowments that will provide charitable, cultural and educational benefits to the big spring and howard county areas.
- $348k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 7
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $327k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $23,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $208,493
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 21
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $22M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 18% of the organizations Big Spring Area Community Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 7 | $327k | 14% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $578k | 18% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $621k | 52% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $369k | 80% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $149k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Young Mens Christian Association | $585,778 | 4 | 31% |
| Howard College - San Angelo | $170,788 | 5 | n/a |
| St Mary's Episcopal Church | $136,896 | 5 | n/a |
| Big Spring Symphony Association | $107,968 | 4 | 83% |
| Howard County Volunteer Fire Department | $101,949 | 4 | 5% |
| Heritage Museum of Big Spring | $80,667 | 4 | 8% |
| North Side Movement | $73,850 | 3 | 47% |
| City of Big Springs Parks & Recreation | $49,542 | 1 | n/a |
| Hangar 25 Air Museum Association | $43,109 | 4 | 18% |
| Big Spring Isd | $27,470 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 18 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Young Mens Christian Association | $585,778 | 4 | 31% |
| Howard College - San Angelo | $170,788 | 5 | n/a |
| St Mary's Episcopal Church | $136,896 | 5 | n/a |
| Big Spring Symphony Association | $107,968 | 4 | 83% |
| Howard County Volunteer Fire Department | $101,949 | 4 | 5% |
| Heritage Museum of Big Spring | $80,667 | 4 | 8% |
| North Side Movement | $73,850 | 3 | 47% |
| City of Big Springs Parks & Recreation | $49,542 | 1 | n/a |
| Hangar 25 Air Museum Association | $43,109 | 4 | 18% |
| Big Spring Isd | $27,470 | 1 | n/a |
| Crossroads Housing Development Corp | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Big Spring Chamber of Commerce Charitable Trust #1 | $23,000 | 1 | 22% |
| The Southwest Collegiate Institute for the Deaf Fo | $18,000 | 2 | 11% |
| Highland Council for the Deaf | $15,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Texas State Technical College | $14,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Texas Tech University System | $11,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Big Spring Main Street Inc | $7,586 | 1 | n/a |
| West Texas Centers for Mental Health and Mental Retardation | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($545k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Big Spring Area Community Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 10 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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About Big Spring Area Community Foundation Inc
- How much does Big Spring Area Community Foundation Inc give?
- Big Spring Area Community Foundation Inc reported 7 itemized grants totaling $326,899, out of $348,350 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 21 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Big Spring Area Community Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (20%), Human Services (20%), Education (16%).
- Who are Big Spring Area Community Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Young Mens Christian Association ($586k), Howard College - San Angelo ($171k), St Mary's Episcopal Church ($137k).
- Does Big Spring Area Community Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Big Spring Area Community Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Broughton Foundation Trust, Permian Basin Area Foundation.
- Where is Big Spring Area Community Foundation Inc based?
- Big Spring Area Community Foundation Inc is based in TX.
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