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Cabe Cook Foundation at a glance

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Cabe Cook 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.

$262k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$438kReligion$263kHuman Services$257kArts & Culture$253kRecreation & Sports$105kHealth$105kCommunity Improvement$85kHousing & Shelter$81kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $39k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $163k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$6.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRIENDS OF TEXARKANA PARKS INC$60,000
FIRST METHODIST CHURCH$40,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
CHRISTIAN LIFE PREPARATORY SCHOOL$25,000
EPWORTH CHURCH ASSOCIATION$25,000
TEXARKANA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$23,000
FOCUS ON THE FAMILY$15,000
BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP$10,000
PASADENA COTTAGE SCHOOL$5,000
OPPORTUNITIES INC$5,000
LIGHTHOUSE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY$5,000
HOSPICE OF TEXARKANA$5,000
RANDY SAM'S OUTREACH SHELTER$5,000
WATERSPRINGS RANCH$5,000
TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY-TEXARKANA$5,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $44k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%RUNNIN' WJ RANCH: $11k → 19%RUNNIN' WJ RANCH: $10k → 19%RUNNIN' WJ RANCH: $10k → 19%RUNNIN' WJ RANCH: $4k → 19%RUNNIN' WJ RANCH: $2k → 19%FEARFULLY AND WONDERFULLY MADE: $5k → 19%ARKLATEX 100 CLUB: $3k → 19%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 24 repeat orgs$259k to everyone else

24 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
14

Total granted

$1.6M
$99k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+60%

Still filing today

63%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $160k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthReligionFood & NutritionOther
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

  • TS
    TEXARKANA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $169k · revenue +293%
  • SC
    SOUTHWEST CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $165k · revenue +63%
  • WR
    WATERSPRINGS RANCH INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $100k · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • TM
    TEXARKANA MUSEUMS SYSTEM
    one grant, 2024 · $20k
  • SJ
    ST JAMES EPISCOPAL CHURCH
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
  • CS
    CHRISTUS St Michael Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +82%
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
Central Texas Christian School Inc

To educate students with the transforming truth of christ, inspiring academic excellence, godly character, and integrity in life pursuits.

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2
Texas College

To ensure that the student body experiences balanced intellectual, psychological, social and spiritual development, aimed at enabling them to become active productive members of society where they live and work.

Education
3
University of Arkansas Hope-Texarkana Foundation Inc

The primary purpose of the University of Arkansas Hope - Texarkana Foundation is to advance higher education by securing private financial support for all units and activities of the University of Arkansas Hope Texarkana.

Unclassified
4
The Woodlands Christian Academy

TWCA is an independent, Christ-centered college preparatory school that integrates learning with biblical faith and challenges our students to reach their highest potential - intellectually, creatively, physically, and socially - for the…

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5
Texas Christian Foundation

Texas Christian Foundations mission is to mobilize resources by inspiring biblical generosity and educating Texans on ways their generosity can impact their community, Texas and the world.

Philanthropy
6
Foundation of the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame

To honor the legacy of Arkansas sports history

Arts & Culture
7
Texarkana College Foundation Inc

To enhance the overall reputation of Texarkana College, to provide external resources to fund College priorities, and to create opportunities for the College to build partnerships with alumni, friends, donors, corporations, and foundations.

Education
8
Tupelo Christian Preparatory School

Leading students, in partnership with Christian families, to know Christ and make Him known through rigorous academics, challenging athletics, stimulating arts, and servant-hood activities.

Education
9
Texas Christian Education Foundation Inc

The foundation was founded for the purpose of providing the opportunity for a quality christian education and strives for excellence in academic, physical, spiritual, and social development.

—
10
Colleyville Covenant Christian

The mission is to provide a biblically based classical college preparatory education that inspires a passion for excellence a heart of grace and the character of Christ.

Education
11
Texas a&M-Corpus Christi Foundation

For the benefit of texas a&m university - corpus christi

Education
12
Tulsa Legacy Charter School

To prepare students for college through a rigorous arts infused program.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Christus St Michael Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Cass City Promise. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

29 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. 29 of the 45 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
19/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $101,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientWATERSPRINGS RANCH INC: $100,000 · OtherWATERSPRINGS RANCH INCEPWORTH CHURCH ASSOCIATION: $95,000 · OtherEPWORTH CHURCH ASSOCIATIONTEXARKANA COLLEGE: $95,000 · OtherTEXARKANA COLLEGETEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY-TEXARKANA: $87,500 · OtherTEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY-TEXARKANAOPPORTUNITIES INC: $83,000 · OtherOPPORTUNITIES INCWATERMARK COMMUNITY CHURCH: $80,000 · OtherWATERMARK COMMUNITY CHURCHFRIENDS OF TEXARKANA PARK INC: $60,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF TEXARKANA PARK INCHAVEN HOMES: $55,000 · OtherCLAY EICHLER MEMORIAL FUND: $47,500 · OtherFELLOWSHIP(INTERNATIONAL)FOUNDATION: $42,500 · OtherFIRST METHODIST CHURCH: $40,000 · OtherPARTNERSHIP FOR THE PATHWAY: $45,000 · Other+14 more: $154,000 · Other+14 moreSOUTHWEST CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC: $165,000 · EducationSOUTHWEST CHRIS…CASS CITY PROMISE: $52,500 · EducationCASS CITY PROMI…Christian Life Preparatory School: $25,000 · EducationChristian Life …+4 more: $13,000 · EducationTEXARKANA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $168,500 · Arts & CultureTEXARKANA SYMP…TEXARKANA REGIONAL ARTS & HUMANIT: $62,500 · Arts & CultureTEXARKANA REGI…+1 more: $2,000 · Arts & CultureMISSION TEXARKANA INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesRunnin WJ Therapeutic Center Inc: $36,500 · Human ServicesFearfully and Wonderfully Made Inc: $5,000 · Human Services+1 more: $2,500 · Human ServicesMAIN STREET TEXARKANA BUSINESS ORGANIZATION FOR A NEW DOWNTOWN: $74,500 · Community ImprovementTEMPLE MEMORIAL PEDIATRIC CENTER INC: $28,000 · HealthHOSPICE OF TEXARKANA: $25,000 · HealthHarvest Texarkana Regional Food Bank Inc: $47,500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$1,086,000Education$255,500Arts & Culture$233,000Human Services$94,000Community Improvement$74,500Health$53,000Food & Nutrition$47,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTEXARKANA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $168,500 over 7y, 5.6% of budgetSOUTHWEST CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC: $165,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetWATERSPRINGS RANCH INC: $100,000 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetOPPORTUNITIES INC: $83,000 over 6y, 35% of budgetMAIN STREET TEXARKANA BUSINESS ORGANIZATION FOR A NEW DOWNTOWN: $74,500 over 6y, 11% of budgetTEXARKANA REGIONAL ARTS & HUMANIT: $62,500 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetCASS CITY PROMISE: $52,500 over 5y, 24% of budgetMISSION TEXARKANA INC: $50,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetCLAY EICHLER MEMORIAL FUND: $47,500 over 4y, 10% of budgetHarvest Texarkana Regional Food Bank Inc: $47,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR THE PATHWAY: $45,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetRunnin WJ Therapeutic Center Inc: $36,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTEMPLE MEMORIAL PEDIATRIC CENTER INC: $28,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetRandy Sams Outreach Shelter: $26,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetHOSPICE OF TEXARKANA: $25,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCHRISTUS St Michael Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTEXARKANA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetBIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF TEXAS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFELLOWSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPASADENA COTTAGE SCHOOL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetARKANSAS FFA FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFearfully and Wonderfully Made Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetArklatex 100 Club: $2,500 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetPERFORMING ARTS BUILDING FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHENDRIX COLLEGE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds TEXARKANA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHWEST CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds WATERSPRINGS RANCH INC ↗
  • Who funds OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds MAIN STREET TEXARKANA BUSINESS ORGANIZATION FOR A NEW DOWNTOWN ↗
  • Who funds TEXARKANA REGIONAL ARTS & HUMANIT ↗
  • Who funds CASS CITY PROMISE ↗
  • Who funds MISSION TEXARKANA INC ↗
  • Who funds CLAY EICHLER MEMORIAL FUND ↗
  • Who funds Harvest Texarkana Regional Food Bank Inc ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR THE PATHWAY ↗
  • Who funds Runnin WJ Therapeutic Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds TEMPLE MEMORIAL PEDIATRIC CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Randy Sams Outreach Shelter ↗
  • Who funds HOSPICE OF TEXARKANA ↗
  • Who funds Christian Life Preparatory School ↗
  • Who funds CHRISTUS St Michael Foundation ↗
  • Who funds TEXARKANA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
  • Who funds BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP ↗
  • Who funds PARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF TEXAS ↗
  • Who funds LIGHTHOUSE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds FELLOWSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PASADENA COTTAGE SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds ARKANSAS FFA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Fearfully and Wonderfully Made Inc ↗

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.

Patterson Troike Foun…The Bobbie a Atkinson…Kelley & Morgan Famil…Ledwell Family Founda…Yates FoundationWayne H Garrison Char…Horace C Cabe Foundat…Vasco McCoy Jr Founda…United Way of Greater…James I Freeman Chari…The Morriss Family Fo…Arkansas Community Fo…
Patterson Troike Foundation IncTX32.6× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Patterson Troike Foundation Inc · The Bobbie a Atkinson Foundation · Kelley & Morgan Families Foundation · Ledwell Family Foundation · Yates Foundation · Wayne H Garrison Charitable Tr · Horace C Cabe Foundation · Vasco McCoy Jr Foundation · United Way of Greater Texarkana Inc · James I Freeman Charitable Trust · The Morriss Family Foundation · Arkansas Community Foundation Inc

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 Cabe Cook Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cabe Cook Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.

    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 45 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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