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Caldwell County Community Services Foundation
In 2024, CCCSF awarded 10 grants totalling $116,150, three 2-day grant writing workshops were conducted servicing non-profit in Caldwell.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $95k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATALYST COLLECTIVE STRATEGIC NONPROFIT COUNSELING | $25,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS S CENTR TX | $20,000 |
| RESURRECTION LIFE CHURCH | $20,000 |
| METHODIST HEALTHCARE MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| CONNECTIONS IND AND FAMILY S | $10,000 |
| WHERE WE THRIVE | $10,000 |
| MARTIN MEMORIAL CHURCH OF GOD | $8,150 |
| COMBINED COMMUNITY ACTION | $8,000 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL | $5,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
6 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 4 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, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k 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
- RLRESURRECTION LIFE CHURCH2× · 2023–2024 · $30k
- GAGolden Age Home2× · 2022–2023 · $25k · revenue -4%
- WWWHERE WE THRIVE INC2× · 2023–2024 · $18k
Funded once
- CCCALDWELL COUNTY CHRISTIAN FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $22k · revenue -86%
- MCMCMAHAN COMMUNITY WOMENS CLUBone grant, 2022 · $15k
- COCHURCH OF THE ANNUNCIATION 301 S WALNUTone grant, 2022 · $15k
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.
Animal Rescue
Save animals in a county with no animal services
Throw a Dog a Bone is an all-breed dog rescue located in Austin, TX. We focus on saving dogs primarily in the rural shelters in South Texas. Many of these shelters have no exposure and very few resources. Our mission is to rescue as many…
Community dog rescue focused on saving and rehoming street dogs in Houston.
Love And Puppy Paws Dog Rescue (LAPP Dog Rescue) was formed to help alleviate the stress of city and county animal control facilities around South and Central Texas. We accept dogs into our rescue that are in overpopulated animal control…
Provide quality of life for pets owners in our area
Saving unwanted, abandoned, abused and neglected dogs in Texas. Also to promote proper pet ownership, community educational programs and to support spaying/neutering as a means to control unwanted pets. We provide complete vetting prior to…
Rescue and care for unwanted dogs
We are dedicated to rescuig animals left homeless for whatever reason, animals in public shelters where they are at high risk of euthanasia, animals given up by their owners because of difficult circumstances, and those in danger of abuse…
Rescue dogs and other small domestic animals, care for them until they are healthy and adopt them to loving families.
Animal Welfare
Our mission at Second Chance Dog Rescue is to care for companion animals in need byoffering safe refuge, providing medical care (including sterilization) and facilitating adoptions.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Action Inc of Central Texas and the most unlike its peers is Education Foundation for Lockhart Isd. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 14 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 24% of your grantees by number, and just 15% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 6% 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.
16 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. 16 of the 30 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 Golden Age Home ↗
- Who funds Catalyst Teen Center Corp ↗
- Who funds CALDWELL COUNTY CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SAN MARCOS ↗
- Who funds WHERE WE THRIVE INC ↗
- Who funds TAKE ME HOME ADVOCATES FOR TRANSPORT ↗
- Who funds THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESAN COUNCIL OF AUSTIN ↗
- Who funds Ghetto Rescue FFoundation ↗
- Who funds LULING AREA OIL MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds CALDWELL COUNTY ANIMAL COALITION ↗
- Who funds Education Foundation for Lockhart ISD ↗
- Who funds COMBINED COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION INC OF CENTRAL TEXAS ↗
- Who funds MARTINDALE COMMUNITY LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds GASLIGHT-BAKER THEATRE ↗
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 · United Way for Greater Austin · Austin Community Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Caldwell County Community Services 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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