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Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative Inc

To provide quality and reliable electric service to members of the cooperative.

$515k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
10
Itemized grants FY2024
12
Organizations funded FY2023
42%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$107k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$9,619
Largest grant, FY2024
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 12
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$876M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 42% of the organizations Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthFood & NutritionArts & CulturePublic BenefitOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving10$107k20%
FY202312$90k42%
FY202211$99k36%
FY20214$25k100%
FY20203$24k100%
FY20195$57k80%
FY20184$77k100%
FY20175$64kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$159kCommunity Improvement$89kHealth$43kEducation$42kRecreation & Sports$38kEnvironment$36kYouth Development$33kPublic Benefit$31kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCombined Community Action Inc: $48,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBastrop Chamber of Commerce: $38,189 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetCrowe's Nest Farm Inc: $36,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetCommunity Action Inc of Central Texas: $36,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLee County Youth Center: $26,023 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetAscension Seton Hays Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetAmerican Youthworks: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLockhart Chamber of Commerce: $21,825 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetGaslight-Baker Theatre: $21,503 over 1y, 13% of budgetChildrens Advocacy Center of Bastrop County: $19,567 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetWashington County Fair Assoc: $18,998 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBrazos Valley Community Action Programs: $15,666 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHealing With Horses Ranch: $12,126 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCamp For All Foundation: $12,074 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBlinn College Foundation: $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSmithville Community Clinic: $6,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetDown Home Ranch Inc: $6,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSan Marcos Area Chamber of Commerce: $5,965 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBastrop County Women's Shelter: $5,450 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSmithville Area Chamber of Commerce: $5,400 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetGreater Elgin Chamber of Commerce: $5,400 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetBastrop County Emergency Food Pantry: $5,250 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBisd Education Foundation: $5,106 over 1y, 4.6% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 23.

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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.

St David's FoundationTX19.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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How do I get to Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative Inc?

Find your warmest path to Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative 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.

About Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative Inc

How much does Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative Inc give?
Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative Inc reported 10 itemized grants totaling $106,525, out of $515,489 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 12 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (29%), Community Improvement (16%), Health (8%).
Who are Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Combined Community Action Inc ($48k), County of Travis ($47k), Bastrop Chamber of Commerce ($38k).
Does Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 42% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include St David's Foundation, Austin Community Foundation Inc, United Way for Greater Austin.
Where is Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative Inc based?
Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative Inc is based in TX.

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 31 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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