· Private foundation
Central Texas Foundation Inc
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 $10k12 grants · $53k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $181k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRIES | $40,000 |
| ALDERSGATE ENRICHMENT CENTER | $30,000 |
| HOWARD PAYNE UNIV-BLDG PROJECT | $25,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $20,000 |
| HOWARD PAYNE UNIV-SCHOLARSHIPS | $18,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS BIG COUNTRY CHAP | $15,000 |
| CORINNE T SMITH ANIMAL SHELTER | $12,000 |
| ARK DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTER | $11,000 |
| LYRIC PERFORMING ARTS CO | $10,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA TEXAS TRAILS | $7,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| BOYS GIRLS CLUB OF BROWN COUNTY | $5,000 |
| HOWARD PAYNE UNIV-NURSE'S FUND | $5,000 |
| PEARL GRIFFIN LATCH KEY | $5,000 |
| BROWNWOOD COMMUNITY PUBLIC LIBRARY | $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 (FY17–24, $119k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 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.
32 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 2 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
HOWARD PAYNE UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2024 · $167k · revenue +26%- TAThe Ark Domestic Violence Shelter Inc7× · 2018–2024 · $77k · revenue +33%
- LPLYRIC PERFORMING ARTS COMPANY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $63k · revenue +269%
Funded once
- TATHE ARKone grant, 2017 · $11k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $5k
- HOHEART OF TEXAS CRIME STOPPERS INCone grant, 2017 · $4k
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 assist sexual assault and domestic violence victims. To operate a safe shelter and provide counseling services.
A state of texas licensed foster care and adoption agency that identifies and provides approved healing foster homes for children.
Volunteer fire department organized to contain fires in and around the city of tolar, county of hood, texas
Provide fire fighting & ambulance service to hankamer, texas and surrounding areas.
Provide library services to a three county area in rural east texas.
Provide Volunteer Fire Fighting Service To Rural Portions of Midland County, TX: Extinguish Grass Fires, Residential Fires, Farm Building Fires, And Rural Industrial Fires, Etc.
Volunteer fire department for rural community centered in industry, tx
Care for abandoned animals in vernon and wilbarger county, tx including spay, neuter, adoption and education.
To provide fire and medical emergency services for the city of garrison, tx and the surrounding districts.
Volunteer fire department
Firefighter & emergency medical services for the waskom, tx area.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Brown County United Way and the most unlike its peers is Central Texas Pregnancy Care Center. 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 43 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 ALDERSGATE ENRICHMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOWARD PAYNE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BROWN COUNTY HOME SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds The Ark Domestic Violence Shelter Inc ↗
- Who funds LYRIC PERFORMING ARTS COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BROWN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL TEXAS PREGNANCY CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds WINCHELL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds W A V PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds ZEPHYR VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds CHEROKEE HOME FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds BROWN COUNTY UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds BROWN COUNTY TOYS FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds ARTS COUNCIL OF BROWNWOOD ↗
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: E P Woodruff Trust · B C and Gladys L Drinkard Foundation Inc · Thomas B Shoemake Trust · Tom & Lilian Grinnan Wilkinson Trust · Harriett Gully Beadel Foundation Inc · Brown County United Way · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Central Texas Foundation Inc 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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