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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.
$348k
Granted FY2024
7
Grants
1
Communities
$208k
Largest
01What you fund
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What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 78% of BIG SPRING AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2020
scholarship
2021
westscholarshipssymphonyexhibits
2022
scholarshipsexhibitssymphony
2023
symphonyexhibits
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 7 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $113k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $208k
$23,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
- 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
02The need
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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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY23–23, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.6M · 16 repeat orgs$435k to everyone else
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
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
16
17
Total granted
$1.6M
$412k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+18%
+1901%
Still filing today
38%
12%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Arts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterPublic Safety & DisasterHuman ServicesOther
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
- YYMCA4× · 2021–2024 · $536k · revenue +43%
- HCHOWARD COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT4× · 2020–2023 · $102k · revenue +316%
- HMHERITAGE MUSEUM OF BIG SPRING4× · 2021–2024 · $81k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- BSBIG SPRING YMCA KIDS ACADEMYone grant, 2022 · $50k
- AIAMPHITHEATHER IMPROVEMENTone grant, 2021 · $50k
- COCITY OF BIG SPRINGone grant, 2020 · $50k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
1
Howard County Fair Association
Provide an exhibition of various agricultural products, art work and homemaking skills.
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2
Museum of South Texas History
To preserve and present the borderland heritage of south texas and northeastern mexico.
Arts & Culture
3
Blue Springs Historical Society Inc
Dedicated to preserving, promoting, and fostering appreciation of local history.
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4
Holt county historical society
Holt co history
Arts & Culture
5
Hayward Area Historical Society
Arts & Culture
6
Museum of East Texas
Developing and maintaining a museum devoted to the procurement, care, and display of objects of lasting historical and cultural interest. The museum offers a variety of public programs throughout the year and is committed to visual arts…
Arts & Culture
7
Whitehead Memorial Museum
The organization and maintenance of an historical museum depicting the life and times of early southwest texas and mexico residents.
Arts & Culture
8
The Texarkana Historical Society
The mission of the museum is to provide historical and educational values of the city of texarkana and its surrounding featuers the city has experienced in the past and its forward process into the future.
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9
Huntington County Historical
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.
Arts & Culture
10
Swift County Historical Society
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11
Crow Wing County Historical Society
Crow wing county historical society is committed to preserving the history and telling the story of crow wing county
Arts & Culture
12
Heritage Society of Washington County
Preservation of historical buildings
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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 North Side Movement. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$1,596,397Arts & Culture$231,744Public Safety & Disaster$101,949Community Improvement$73,850Housing & Shelter$25,000Human Services$15,000
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 YMCA ↗
- Who funds BIG SPRING SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds HOWARD COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE MUSEUM OF BIG SPRING ↗
- Who funds NORTHSIDE MOVEMENT ↗
- Who funds HANGAR 25 AIR MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds BIG SPRING AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE CHARITABLE TRUST 1 ↗
- Who funds SWCID ↗
- 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Permian Basin Area FoundationTX13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
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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 organisation 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: BIG SPRING SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
5 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 752162301 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on BIG SPRING SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 83% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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Find your warmest path to Big Spring Area Community Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines