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Carruth Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $133k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $350k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARINE REACH GLOBAL | $125,000 |
| KBC MINISTRIES INC | $125,000 |
| REACH THE REST INC | $100,000 |
| GILLESPIE COUNTY WILD GAME DINNER INC | $41,000 |
| GILLESPIE COUNTY YOUTH LIVESTOCK SHOW | $37,000 |
| GILLESPIE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY PIONEER MUSEUM | $35,000 |
| ANGEL FLIGHT INC | $10,000 |
| THE GOLDEN HUB MEALS ON WHEELS | $10,000 |
| BOOT RANCH SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $5,000 |
| ADMIRAL NIMITZ FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| TEXAS BAPTIST MEN | $5,000 |
| THE GOOD SAMARITAN CENTER | $2,000 |
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 (FY23–23, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +103% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 3 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k 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
- EIEpic International Corporation8× · 2017–2024 · $925k · revenue +105%
- KMKBC Ministries Inc7× · 2018–2024 · $720k · revenue +26%
- GCGILLESPIE COUNTY YOUTH LIVESTOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION3× · 2022–2024 · $77k · revenue ×28
Funded once
- MMMIDLAND MEMORIAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $25k
- LHLITTLE HEARTS CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTERone grant, 2023 · $10k
- CICHRISTMAS IN ACTION INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +125%
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.
Mobilizing resources by inspiring biblical generosity in the greater austin, texas area.
Leadership training and charitable work
The texas tribune promotes civic engagement and public education across the state by producing and sharing for free public data interactives, statewide events and intensive and daily reporting on texas public policy, politics and current…
Ariel ministries exists to bring the good news of the messiah to jewish people and to disciple believers through intensive bible teaching from a messianic jewish perspective and dispensational theological position. continued on schedule o
To educate and prepare men and women for christian leadership in ministry.
Hill country daily bread ministries is a faith based ministry whose mission is to help unite and equip the hill country community with food, resources and training necessary to transform our communities and the lives of those in poverty…
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
To reach the texas capitol community for christ
To propagate the gospel of our lord jesus christ by evangelization and discipleship through both home and foreign missions. impact global accomplishes this by supporting national missionaries who are preaching the gospel of jesus christ.
Lone Star Flight Museum (LSFM) celebrates flight and achievements in Texas aviation, engages youth through STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math), and believes aviation inspires achievement and endless possibilities.
Provide support and services for individuals impacted by domestic violence
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas Public Policy Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 12% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 41 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 Epic International Corporation ↗
- Who funds KBC Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds GILLESPIE COUNTY YOUTH LIVESTOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GILLESPIE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Gillespie County Wild Game Dinner Inc ↗
- Who funds ANGEL FLIGHT INC DBA ANGEL FLIGHT SOUTH CENTRAL ↗
- Who funds SENIOR LIFE MIDLAND INC ↗
- Who funds HILL COUNTRY COMMUNITY NEEDS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds ADMIRAL NIMITZ FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LITTLE HEARTS CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CHRISTMAS IN ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds SHERIFFS ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds THE TBMOPA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CROSS LINKS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds TEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JONI AND FRIENDS ↗
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: Adam R Scripps Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Permian Basin Area Foundation · The Robert P and Mariana R Scripps Family Foundation Inc · Dian Graves Owen Foundation · The Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country Inc · Abell-Hanger Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund
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 Carruth Family 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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