· Private foundation
Black Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARBLE FALLS CHURCH OF CHRIST | $10,000 |
| PHOENIX CENTER | $5,750 |
| NEW HORIZONS RANCH & CENTER INC | $5,750 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $5,750 |
| ROUND MOUNTAIN VFD | $5,750 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| WHITE ROCK LAKE CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
| FOREST HILLS SECURITY PROGRAM | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–20, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
13 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- FHForest Hills Security Program6× · 2019–2025 · $46k · revenue +16%
- RMROUND MTN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC5× · 2019–2025 · $23k · revenue +10%
- NHNEW HORIZONS RANCH & CENTER INC4× · 2022–2025 · $21k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- BSBAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $15k
- BCBLINN COLLEGE FINANCIAL AIDEone grant, 2019 · $6k
- TATEXAS A&M UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
To provide fire protection, education, emergency medical treatment and rescue services to approx 140 sq miles in guadalupe county texas.
Volunteer Fire Department, providing fire, rescue, and medical services to a population of approximately 22,000 residents, 24 hours per day, 365 days per year.
To protect lives and property
Supporting the Texas Intrastate Fire Mutual Aid System
Provides protection of property and preservation of life from and during fire or other emergencies within the area of its operation in hood and johnson counties, texas. also, provides rescue and various other emergency services in the…
Volunteer firefighting of all fires in the rural areas around nocona texas including assisting other fire departments during large fires in their areas.
To provide financial support and programs for fallen officer families. To raise awareness and advocate for national issues impacting officers.
To improve the health and quality of life for the people of texas and beyond through excellence in education, research, clinical care, community engagement and to provide national leadership in primary care.
Volunteer fire department
Indian creek volunteer fire department provides fire, rescue, and emergency medical services to the indian creek fire district in cooke county, texas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New Horizons Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Johnson City Vol Fire Dept. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 28 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 Forest Hills Security Program ↗
- Who funds ROUND MTN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HORIZONS RANCH & CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Texas A&M Foundation ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX CENTER ↗
- Who funds The New Horizons Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds WHITE ROCK LAKE CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HILL COUNTRY 100 CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST TRANSPLANT ALLIANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JOHNSON CITY VOL FIRE DEPT ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Hopefully Sow ↗
- Who funds NORTH BLANCO COUNTY EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES INC ↗
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 Black Family 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.
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.