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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 7 grants below total $326,899 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $348,350 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $21,451 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $113k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $208k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BIG SPRING YMCA | $208,493 |
| BIG SPRING SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED | $27,615 |
| HOWARD COUNTY JUNIOR COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| BIG SPRING AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE CHARITABLE TRUST 1 | $23,000 |
| ST MARY'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $22,666 |
| HERITAGE MUSEUM OF BIG SPRING | $14,400 |
| HANGAR 25 AIR MUSEUM ASSOCIATION | $5,725 |
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 (FY23–23, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
16 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 10 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
- YMYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION4× · 2021–2024 · $586k · revenue +133% · 31% of their budget
- BSBIG SPRING SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION4× · 2021–2024 · $108k · revenue +935% · 83% of their budget
- HCHOWARD COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT4× · 2020–2023 · $102k · revenue +164%
Funded once
- AIAMPHITHEATHER IMPROVEMENTone grant, 2021 · $50k
- COCITY OF BIG SPRINGS PARKS & RECREATIONone grant, 2020 · $50k
- UWUNITED WAY OF BIG SPRING & HOWARD Cone grant, 2022 · $33k
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.
Promote economic developement
Preserving, promoting and fostering appreciation of local history.
To collect, preserve and share the diverse history of all the peoples of howard county
The organization and maintenance of an historical museum depicting the life and times of early southwest texas and mexico residents.
Holt co history
Funding to tax-exempt organizations in big spring and howard county to assist with their individual programs.
Discover, preserve, and celebrate the history of washington county, arkansas, and to share that heritage with others.
Preservation of histrical buildings
To collect, preserve, interpret and promote interest in the history of huntington county, indiana. the society presents its collection to the public through exhibitions, educational programs and publications.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Southwest Collegiate Institute for the Deaf Fo and the most unlike its peers is Hangar 25 Air Museum Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 33 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 YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BIG SPRING SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HOWARD COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE MUSEUM OF BIG SPRING ↗
- Who funds NORTH SIDE MOVEMENT ↗
- Who funds HANGAR 25 AIR MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Crossroads Housing Development Corp ↗
- Who funds BIG SPRING CHAMBER OF COMMERCE CHARITABLE TRUST #1 ↗
- Who funds THE SOUTHWEST COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF FO ↗
- Who funds HIGHLAND COUNCIL FOR THE DEAF ↗
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.
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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 Big Spring Area Community Foundation Inc 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.
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.
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