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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 FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$208k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$408kHuman Services$399kEducation$317kYouth Development$258kReligion$137kCommunity Improvement$122kPublic Safety & Disaster$102kPhilanthropy$58kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $326,899, the rows itemized in this filing. The $348,350 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $21,451 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.

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
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HIGHLAND COUNCIL FOR THE DEAF: $15k → 17%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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 16 repeat orgs$385k 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
16

Total granted

$1.7M
$362k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+60%

Still filing today

38%
13%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterPublic Safety & DisasterHuman ServicesOther
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

  • YM
    YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $586k · revenue +27% · 31% of their budget
  • BS
    BIG SPRING SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $108k · revenue +935% · 83% of their budget
  • HC
    HOWARD COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT
    4× · 2020–2023 · $102k · revenue +164%

Funded once

  • AI
    AMPHITHEATHER IMPROVEMENT
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • CO
    CITY OF BIG SPRINGS PARKS & RECREATION
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF BIG SPRING & HOWARD C
    one grant, 2022 · $33k
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
Developing Howard County

Promote economic developement

Community Improvement
2
Blue Springs Historical Society Inc

Preserving, promoting and fostering appreciation of local history.

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3
Howard County Historical Society

To collect, preserve and share the diverse history of all the peoples of howard county

Arts & Culture
4
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
5
Holt county historical society

Holt co history

Arts & Culture
6
Borden Springs Volunteer Fire Departmant
Public Safety & Disaster
7
United Way of Big Spring & Howard

Funding to tax-exempt organizations in big spring and howard county to assist with their individual programs.

Philanthropy
8
Swift County Historical Society
—
9
Washington County Historical Society

Discover, preserve, and celebrate the history of washington county, arkansas, and to share that heritage with others.

Arts & Culture
10
Big Horn County Memorial Hospital Auxiliary
Health
11
Heritage Society of Washington County

Preservation of histrical buildings

—
12
Huntington County Historical Society

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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Southwest Collegiate Institute for the Deaf Fo; 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.
04the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 33 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $585,778 · OtherYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIONHoward College - San Angelo: $170,788 · OtherHoward College - San AngeloHOWARD CO FAIR ASSOC BS COWBOY REUN: $138,725 · OtherHOWARD CO FAIR ASSOC BS COWBOY REUNST MARY'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $136,896 · OtherST MARY'S EPISCOPAL CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $55,511 · Other+21 more: $508,699 · Other+21 moreBIG SPRING SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $107,968 · Arts & CultureBIG SPRING S…HERITAGE MUSEUM OF BIG SPRING: $80,667 · Arts & CultureHERITAGE MUS…HANGAR 25 AIR MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $43,109 · Arts & CultureHANGAR 25 AI…HOWARD COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $101,949 · Public Safety & DisasterNORTH SIDE MOVEMENT: $73,850 · Community ImprovementCrossroads Housing Development Corp: $25,000 · Housing & ShelterHIGHLAND COUNCIL FOR THE DEAF: $15,000 · Human Services
Other$1,596,397Arts & Culture$231,744Public Safety & Disaster$101,949Community Improvement$73,850Housing & Shelter$25,000Human Services$15,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $585,778 over 4y, 31% of budgetBIG SPRING SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $107,968 over 4y, 83% of budgetHOWARD COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $101,949 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetHERITAGE MUSEUM OF BIG SPRING: $80,667 over 4y, 8.3% of budgetNORTH SIDE MOVEMENT: $73,850 over 3y, 47% of budgetHANGAR 25 AIR MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $43,109 over 4y, 18% of budgetCrossroads Housing Development Corp: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBIG SPRING CHAMBER OF COMMERCE CHARITABLE TRUST #1: $23,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetTHE SOUTHWEST COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF FO: $18,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetHIGHLAND COUNCIL FOR THE DEAF: $15,000 over 1y, 5.1% 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 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 ↗

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.

Broughton Foundation …Permian Basin Area Fo…
Broughton Foundation TrustTX13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Broughton Foundation Trust · Permian Basin Area 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 Big Spring Area Community Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Big Spring Area Community Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    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, FY20–25
    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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    How do I get to Big Spring Area Community Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Big Spring Area Community Foundation 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 33 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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