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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.

$116k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
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, FY2022 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$115kYouth Development$60kEducation$59kAnimals$40kHuman Services$40kArts & Culture$30kReligion$18kHealth$15kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $95k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$24k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CATALYST COLLECTIVE STRATEGIC NONPROFIT COUNSELING$25,000
RESURRECTION LIFE CHURCH$20,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS S CENTR TX$20,000
WHERE WE THRIVE$10,000
CONNECTIONS IND AND FAMILY S$10,000
METHODIST HEALTHCARE MINISTRIES$10,000
MARTIN MEMORIAL CHURCH OF GOD$8,150
COMBINED COMMUNITY ACTION$8,000
ST VINCENT DE PAUL$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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%COMBINED COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $8k → 12%COMBINED COMMUNITY ACTION: $8k → 15%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.

30%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$118k · 6 repeat orgs$276k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
20

Total granted

$118k
$215k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+4%

Still filing today

33%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
AnimalsEducationHuman ServicesFood & 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

  • RL
    RESURRECTION LIFE CHURCH
    2× · 2023–2024 · $30k
  • GA
    Golden Age Home
    2× · 2022–2023 · $25k · revenue -18%
  • WW
    WHERE WE THRIVE INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $18k

Funded once

  • CC
    CALDWELL COUNTY CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $22k · revenue -86%
  • CO
    CHURCH OF THE ANNUNCIATION 301 S WALNUT
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
  • TM
    TAKE ME HOME ADVOCATES FOR TRANSPORTgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +77%
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
River Run Ranch and Animal Rescue

Animal Rescue

Animals
2
Twiggs County Animal Rescue

Save animals in a county with no animal services

Animals
3
Throw a Dog a Bone Dog Rescue

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…

Animals
4
Sunnyside Street Dogs I

Community dog rescue focused on saving and rehoming street dogs in Houston.

Animals
5
Love and Puppy Paws Dog Rescue

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…

Animals
6
Animal Allies of Texas Inc

Provide quality of life for pets owners in our area

Animals
7
Allies Haven Animal Rescue

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…

Animals
8
Texas Best Choices Animal Rescue

Rescue and care for unwanted dogs

Animals
9
Angies Dog House

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…

Animals
10
West Houston Animal Rescue

Rescue dogs and other small domestic animals, care for them until they are healthy and adopt them to loving families.

Animals
11
Heart of Texas Spca

Animal Welfare

Animals
12
Second Chance Dog Rescue

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.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Action Inc of Central Texas; 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.
04the grantee network

16 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. 16 of the 30 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
7/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RESURRECTION LIFE CHURCH: $30,000 · OtherRESURRECTION LIFE CHURCHCatalyst Teen Center Corp: $25,000 · OtherCatalyst Teen Center CorpGolden Age Home: $25,000 · OtherGolden Age HomeBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SAN MARCOS: $20,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SAN MARCOSWHERE WE THRIVE INC: $17,500 · OtherWHERE WE THRIVE INCCONNECTIONS IND AND FAMILY S: $15,000 · OtherCHURCH OF THE ANNUNCIATION 301 S WALNUT: $15,000 · OtherMETHODIST HEALTHCARE MINISTRIES: $15,000 · OtherTHE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESAN COUNCIL OF AUSTIN: $15,000 · OtherMCMAHAN COMMUNITY WOMENS CLUB: $15,000 · OtherREADING IS FUNDAMENTAL OF LOCKHART: $14,228 · OtherLULING ISD HS STUDENT COUNCIL: $12,500 · OtherTHE EYES OF THE SAN MARCOS RIVER: $12,000 · OtherLULING AREA OIL MUSEUM INC: $12,000 · Other+7 more: $49,669 · Other+7 moreTAKE ME HOME ADVOCATES FOR TRANSPORT: $15,000 · AnimalsTAKE ME HOM…Ghetto Rescue FFoundation: $15,000 · AnimalsGhetto Resc…CALDWELL COUNTY ANIMAL COALITION: $10,000 · AnimalsCALDWELL CO…CALDWELL COUNTY CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION: $22,000 · Food & NutritionEducation Foundation for Lockhart ISD: $10,000 · EducationMARTINDALE COMMUNITY LIBRARY: $7,216 · EducationCOMBINED COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $8,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY ACTION INC OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $8,000 · Human ServicesGASLIGHT-BAKER THEATRE: $5,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$292,897Animals$40,000Food & Nutrition$22,000Education$17,216Human Services$16,000Arts & Culture$5,500

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 budgetCatalyst Teen Center Corp: $25,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetGolden Age Home: $25,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetCALDWELL COUNTY CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION: $22,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SAN MARCOS: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTAKE ME HOME ADVOCATES FOR TRANSPORT: $15,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetGhetto Rescue FFoundation: $15,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetTHE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESAN COUNCIL OF AUSTIN: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLULING AREA OIL MUSEUM INC: $12,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetEducation Foundation for Lockhart ISD: $10,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetCOMBINED COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION INC OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARTINDALE COMMUNITY LIBRARY: $7,216 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetGASLIGHT-BAKER THEATRE: $5,500 over 1y, 3.1% 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 FoundationUnited Way for Greate…Austin Community Foun…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
St David's FoundationTX19.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Caldwell County Community Services Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Caldwell County Community Services Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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 Caldwell County Community Services Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Caldwell County Community Services Foundation 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 30 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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