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Brookshire Brothers Charitable Foundation
To support charitable, scientific, literary, or educational organizations.
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 1 grants below total $7,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $129,092 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $121,592 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Museum of East Texas | $7,500 |
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 (FY17–20, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 11 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 FY2024, 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
- FOFRIENDS OF THE ELLEN TROUT ZOO INC4× · 2017–2020 · $65k · revenue +84%
- AAANGELINA ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN INC4× · 2017–2020 · $35k · revenue +42%
- JLJUNIOR LEAGUE OF LUFKIN INC3× · 2018–2020 · $30k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +46%
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMYone grant, 2020 · $8k
- BCBUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC2× · 2019–2020 · $7k · 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 provide services designed to meet the physical, social, and emotional needs of domestic violence and sexual assault victims by providing for immediate, short, and long-term needs.
Assist in community programs.
Assist in adoption of animals, spay and neuter program, and present animal education programs through the city of lufkin and angelina county.
The Lullaby House missionis ot strengthen families by providing programs and services to teenage parents and familites in need which will inspire and promote generational change.
The Men's Sober House is a Recovery Residence for Chemically Dependent adult men who have successfully completed primary treatment and are in early, but active recovery. We exist to provide quality recovery housing and bridge the gap…
To provide shelter to abused families.
Crisis center of west texas' mission is to respond, shelter, and educate to end domestic and sexual violence in west texas.
Lone Star CASA elevates the voices of children in Kaufman and Rockwall County who have experienced abuse and neglect by providing trained volunteer advocates to work alongside children and families so they can achieve safety and stability…
The history center collects, preserves, and makes available the history of our region and its people for the educational use and benefit of present and future generations. geographically, this area includes but is not limited to angelina…
A state of texas licensed foster care and adoption agency that identifies and provides approved healing foster homes for children.
The children's advocacy center of van zandt county is committed to ensuring quality services and support to those children impacted by abuse while also building a future where no child in van zandt county experiences abuse.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Junior Achievement of East Texas Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Joseph House Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 20 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 FRIENDS OF THE ELLEN TROUT ZOO INC ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER SERVICES COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds ANGELINA ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF LUFKIN INC ↗
- Who funds ANGELINA ARTS ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds THE MOSAIC CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs of Deep East Texas ↗
- Who funds Museum of East Texas ↗
- Who funds LUFKIN ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF EAST TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds JDS CENTER OF HOPE Inc ↗
- Who funds Womens Sober House of Lufkin Inc ↗
- Who funds Twin City Mission ↗
- Who funds Angelina College Foundation ↗
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 Brookshire Brothers Charitable 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.
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