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Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative Inc

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

$515k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $106,525, the rows itemized in this filing. The $515,489 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $408,964 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 $10k6 grants · $46k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $61k
$9,619
Median grant
1
States reached
$876M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE SETON HAYS FOUNDATION$25,000
COMBINED COMMUNITY ACTION INCORPORATED$12,000
COMMUNITY ACTION INC OF CENTRAL TEXAS$12,000
TRAVIS COUNTY HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES$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
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%DOWN HOME RANCH: $7k → 12%BRAZOS VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $8k → 22%COMMUNITY ACTION INC OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $12k → 10%BRAZOS VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $7k → 22%COMMUNITY ACTION INC OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $12k → 10%COMBINED COMMUNITY ACTION INCORPORATED: $12k → 12%COMMUNITY ACTION INC OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $12k → 10%COMBINED COMMUNITY ACTION INCORPORATED: $12k → 12%HEALING WITH HORSES RANCH: $7k → 10%COMBINED COMMUNITY ACTION INCORPORATED: $12k → 12%COMBINED COMMUNITY ACTION INCORPORATED: $12k → 12%HEALING WITH HORSES RANCH: $5k → 10%FAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $5k → 12%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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 10% of Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in TX; by stated purpose, 90%.

Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

52%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$280k · 11 repeat orgs$262k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +14% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
18

Total granted

$280k
$231k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+14%

Still filing today

82%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthPublic BenefitFood & NutritionArts & CultureOther
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

  • CC
    COMBINED COMMUNITY ACTION INC
    4× · 2019–2024 · $48k · revenue +143%
  • BC
    BASTROP CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
    5× · 2018–2024 · $38k · revenue +131%
  • CA
    COMMUNITY ACTION INC OF CENTRAL TEXAS
    3× · 2022–2024 · $36k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • CN
    Crowe's Nest Farm Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $36k · revenue +38%
  • LC
    LEE COUNTY YOUTH CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $26k · revenue -73%
  • WC
    WASHINGTON COUNTY HEALTHY LIVING ASSOCIA
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue -2%
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
Corsicana Area Chamber of Commerce

To promote Corsicana and the surrounding area.

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2
Lubbock Chamber of Commerce

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.

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3
Catoosa County Chamber of Commerce

Promote business and tourism in catoosa county and surrounding counties

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4
Brazoria County Hispanic Chamber of Commerce

Promote hispanic business in brazoria county, texas by increasing opportunities, networking and providing access to resources.

Community Improvement
5
Boone Area Chamber of Commerce

To enhance the economic vitality and quality of life in boone county

Community Improvement
6
Clear Lake Area Chamber of Commerce

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.

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7
Caldwell County Chamber of Commerce

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.

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8
Galveston Regional Chamber of Commerce

To promote and advocate for business

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9
Mineral Wells Area Chamber of Commerce

To promote economic growth, tourism and leadership development in the city of mineral wells, texas, and surrounding areas

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10
Yadkin Valley Chamber of Commerce

The Yadkin Valley Chamber of Commerce is an organization that promotes a positive business environment, community betterment and supports economic development

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11
Conroe-Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce

To strengthen the economic environment and quality of life in Montgomery county.

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12
The Chamber of Commerce of Walker 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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Washington County Fair Assoc; 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.
05the grantee network

27 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. 27 of the 31 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
20/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COUNTY OF TRAVIS: $46,735 · OtherCOUNTY OF TRAVISBASTROP CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $38,189 · OtherBASTROP CHAMBER OF COMMERCEASCENSION SETON HAYS FOUNDATION: $25,000 · OtherASCENSION SETON HAYS FOUNDATIONAMERICAN YOUTHWORKS: $25,000 · OtherAMERICAN YOUTHWORKSLockhart Chamber of Commerce: $21,825 · OtherLockhart Chamber of CommerceBLINN COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $12,000 · OtherCITY OF MANOR: $11,050 · OtherLEE COUNTY TX VETERANS ASSOCIATION: $20,000 · OtherLEE COUNTY TX VETERANS ASSOCIATIONWASHINGTON COUNTY FAIR ASSOC: $18,998 · OtherWASHINGTON COUNTY FAIR ASSOC+9 more: $53,459 · Other+9 moreCOMBINED COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $48,000 · Human ServicesCOMBINED COMMUNITY ACTION…COMMUNITY ACTION INC OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $36,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY ACTION INC OF C…BRAZOS VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS: $15,666 · Human ServicesBRAZOS VALLEY COMMUNITY A…HEALING WITH HORSES RANCH: $12,126 · Human ServicesHEALING WITH HORSES RANCHDOWN HOME RANCH INC: $6,500 · Human ServicesBASTROP COUNTY WOMEN'S SHELTER: $5,450 · Human ServicesLEE COUNTY YOUTH CENTER: $26,023 · Youth DevelopmentCamp For All Foundation: $12,074 · Youth DevelopmentCrowe's Nest Farm Inc: $36,000 · EnvironmentCHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER OF BASTROP COUNTY: $19,567 · HealthSMITHVILLE COMMUNITY CLINIC: $6,500 · HealthWASHINGTON COUNTY HEALTHY LIVING ASSOCIA: $25,000 · Food & NutritionGASLIGHT-BAKER THEATRE: $21,503 · Arts & Culture
Other$272,256Human Services$123,742Youth Development$38,097Environment$36,000Health$26,067Food & Nutrition$25,000Arts & Culture$21,503

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

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
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.

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 FoundationAustin Community Foun…United Way for Greate…Enterprise Holdings F…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    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.

    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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