· Public charity
Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative Inc
To provide quality and reliable electric service to members of the cooperative.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 10 grants below total $106,525 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $515,489 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $408,964 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 $10k6 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $61k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE SETON HAYS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| COMMUNITY ACTION INC OF CENTRAL TEXAS | $12,000 |
| TRAVIS COUNTY HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES | $12,000 |
| COMBINED COMMUNITY ACTION INCORPORATED | $12,000 |
| BASTROP CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $9,619 |
| WASHINGTON COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION | $8,640 |
| BRAZOS VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM | $8,466 |
| CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER | $7,800 |
| SAN MARCOS AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $5,965 |
| LOCKHART CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $5,035 |
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 (FY17–24, $124k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 13% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 10% of Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in TX; read by stated purpose it is 90% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 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, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k 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
- CCCOMBINED COMMUNITY ACTION INC4× · 2019–2024 · $48k · revenue +143%
- BCBASTROP CHAMBER OF COMMERCE5× · 2018–2024 · $38k · revenue +131%
- CACOMMUNITY ACTION INC OF CENTRAL TEXAS3× · 2022–2024 · $36k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- CNCrowe's Nest Farm Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $36k · revenue +38%
- LCLEE COUNTY YOUTH CENTERone grant, 2022 · $26k · revenue -73%
- WCWASHINGTON COUNTY HEALTHY LIVING ASSOCIAone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +15%
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 promote Corsicana and the surrounding area.
The lubbock chamber of commerce provides promotion of business and community growth and development as well as preserving the competitive business enterprise system in the lubbock and surrounding area.
Promote business and tourism in catoosa county and surrounding counties
Promote hispanic business in brazoria county, texas by increasing opportunities, networking and providing access to resources.
To enhance the economic vitality and quality of life in boone county
The mission of the Clear Lake Area Chamber of Commerce is to serve our membership and provide value through opportunities in networking, advocacy, and business resources.
The mission of the caldwell chamber of commerce is to encourage economic prosperity by promoting the business interests of caldwell county and enhancing the quality of life in the community.
To promote and advocate for business
To promote economic growth, tourism and leadership development in the city of mineral wells, texas, and surrounding areas
The Yadkin Valley Chamber of Commerce is an organization that promotes a positive business environment, community betterment and supports economic development
To strengthen the economic environment and quality of life in Montgomery county.
The Chamber is organized for the purpose of promoting the civic, economic, industrial, agricultural, educational, and social welfare of the citizens of Walker County without pecuniary profit to the individual members of this organization.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Washington County Fair Assoc and the most unlike its peers is Smithville Community Clinic. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
27 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. 27 of the 31 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 COMBINED COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds BASTROP CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds Crowe's Nest Farm Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION INC OF CENTRAL TEXAS ↗
- Who funds LEE COUNTY YOUTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds ASCENSION SETON HAYS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON COUNTY HEALTHY LIVING ASSOCIA ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN YOUTHWORKS ↗
- Who funds Lockhart Chamber of Commerce ↗
- Who funds GASLIGHT-BAKER THEATRE ↗
- Who funds LEE COUNTY TX VETERANS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER OF BASTROP COUNTY ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON COUNTY FAIR ASSOC ↗
- Who funds BRAZOS VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS ↗
- Who funds HEALING WITH HORSES RANCH ↗
- Who funds Camp For All Foundation ↗
- Who funds BLINN COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS CLUBS ↗
- Who funds SMITHVILLE COMMUNITY CLINIC ↗
- Who funds DOWN HOME RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds SAN MARCOS AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds BASTROP COUNTY WOMEN'S SHELTER ↗
- Who funds Smithville Area Chamber of Commerce ↗
- Who funds GREATER ELGIN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds Bastrop County Emergency Food Pantry ↗
- Who funds BISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: St David's Foundation · Austin Community Foundation Inc · United Way for Greater Austin · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative 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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