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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.

$234k
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$40k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$496kHuman Services$384kEducation$350kPublic Safety & Disaster$134kYouth Development$111kHousing & Shelter$101kAnimals$86kArts & Culture$69kOther$0
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $53k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $181k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
HOWARD PAYNE UNIV-NURSE'S FUND$5,000
BOYS GIRLS CLUB OF BROWN COUNTY$5,000
WINCHELL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT$5,000
BROWNWOOD COMMUNITY PUBLIC LIBRARY$5,000
Individual grant recipient$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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%WAV PROJECT: $5k → 15%CHEROKEE HOME FOR CHILDREN: $5k → 19%WAV PROJECT: $5k → 15%CHEROKEE HOME FOR CHILDREN: $3k → 19%WAV PROJECT: $2k → 15%WAV PROJECT: $2k → 15%BROWN COUNTY TOYS FOR KIDS: $3k → 17%ARK DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTER: $11k → 17%ARK DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTER: $11k → 17%ARK DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTER: $11k → 17%ARK DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTER: $11k → 17%ARK DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTER: $11k → 17%ARK DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTER: $11k → 17%ARK DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTER: $11k → 17%CENTRAL TEXAS PREGNANCY CARE CENTER: $3k → 17%CENTRAL TEXAS PREGNANCY CARE CENTER: $3k → 17%CENTRAL TEXAS PREGNANCY CARE CENTER: $2k → 17%CENTRAL TEXAS PREGNANCY CARE CENTER: $2k → 17%CENTRAL TEXAS PREGNANCY CARE CENTER: $2k → 17%CENTRAL TEXAS PREGNANCY CARE CENTER: $2k → 17%CENTRAL TEXAS PREGNANCY CARE CENTER: $2k → 17%CENTRAL TEXAS PREGNANCY CARE CENTER: $2k → 17%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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 32 repeat orgs$38k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
9

Total granted

$1.8M
$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+69%

Still filing today

44%
11%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationPublic Safety & DisasterArts & CultureReligionHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • HOWARD PAYNE UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $167k · revenue +26%
  • TA
    The Ark Domestic Violence Shelter Inc
    7× · 2018–2024 · $77k · revenue +33%
  • LP
    LYRIC PERFORMING ARTS COMPANY INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $63k · revenue +269%

Funded once

  • TA
    THE ARK
    one grant, 2017 · $11k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
  • HO
    HEART OF TEXAS CRIME STOPPERS INC
    one grant, 2017 · $4k
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
Wise County Domestic Violence Task Force

To assist sexual assault and domestic violence victims. To operate a safe shelter and provide counseling services.

Crime & Legal
2
Texas Foster Care & Adoption Serv

A state of texas licensed foster care and adoption agency that identifies and provides approved healing foster homes for children.

Human Services
3
Tolar Volunteer Fire Department

Volunteer fire department organized to contain fires in and around the city of tolar, county of hood, texas

Human Services
4
Hankamer Volunteer Fire Department

Provide fire fighting & ambulance service to hankamer, texas and surrounding areas.

Public Safety & Disaster
5
The Library At Cedar Creek Lake

Provide library services to a three county area in rural east texas.

Education
6
Greenwood Volunteer Fire Department

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.

Public Safety & Disaster
7
Industry Volunteer Fire Department

Volunteer fire department for rural community centered in industry, tx

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8
Wilbarger Humane Society

Care for abandoned animals in vernon and wilbarger county, tx including spay, neuter, adoption and education.

Animals
9
Garrison Volunteer Fire Department

To provide fire and medical emergency services for the city of garrison, tx and the surrounding districts.

Public Safety & Disaster
10
Melvin Volunteer Fire Department Inc

Volunteer fire department

Public Safety & Disaster
11
Waskom Volunteer Fire Department & Ems Services Inc

Firefighter & emergency medical services for the waskom, tx area.

Public Safety & Disaster
12
Keep Brown County Beautiful
Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Brown County United Way; 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.
04the grantee network

17 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. 17 of the 43 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRIES: $295,000 · OtherGOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRIESSALVATION ARMY: $170,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMYAMERICAN RED CROSS BIG COUNTRY CHAP: $110,000 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS BIG COUNTRY CHAPCORINNE T SMITH ANIMAL SHELTER: $86,000 · OtherCORINNE T SMITH ANIMAL SHELTERBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA TEXAS TRAILS: $72,000 · OtherBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA TEXAS TRAILSRANGER COLLEGE-NURSES PROGRAM: $55,000 · OtherRANGER COLLEGE: $50,000 · OtherPEARL GRIFFIN LATCH KEY: $45,000 · Other+22 more: $193,200 · Other+22 moreALDERSGATE ENRICHMENT CENTER INC: $240,000 · ReligionALDERSGATE ENR…HOWARD PAYNE UNIVERSITY: $167,200 · EducationHOWARD PAYNE U…LYRIC PERFORMING ARTS COMPANY INC: $62,500 · EducationLYRIC PERFORMI…The Ark Domestic Violence Shelter Inc: $77,000 · Human ServicesCENTRAL TEXAS PREGNANCY CARE CENTER: $18,000 · Human ServicesW A V PROJECT INC: $13,800 · Human ServicesMEALS ON WHEELS: $11,000 · Human ServicesCHEROKEE HOME FOR CHILDREN: $7,700 · Human Services+1 more: $2,500 · Human ServicesBROWN COUNTY HOME SOLUTIONS INC: $85,000 · Housing & ShelterBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BROWN COUNTY: $41,000 · Youth DevelopmentWINCHELL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $16,000 · Public Safety & DisasterZEPHYR VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $7,800 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$1,076,200Religion$240,000Education$229,700Human Services$130,000Housing & Shelter$85,000Youth Development$41,000Public Safety & Disaster$23,800

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetALDERSGATE ENRICHMENT CENTER INC: $240,000 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetHOWARD PAYNE UNIVERSITY: $167,200 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBROWN COUNTY HOME SOLUTIONS INC: $85,000 over 6y, 26% of budgetThe Ark Domestic Violence Shelter Inc: $77,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetLYRIC PERFORMING ARTS COMPANY INC: $62,500 over 8y, 5.9% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BROWN COUNTY: $41,000 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetCENTRAL TEXAS PREGNANCY CARE CENTER: $18,000 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetWINCHELL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $16,000 over 3y, 8.6% of budgetW A V PROJECT INC: $13,800 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS: $11,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetCHEROKEE HOME FOR CHILDREN: $7,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN COUNTY UNITED WAY: $6,200 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS OF TEXAS INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARTS COUNCIL OF BROWNWOOD: $1,900 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCENTRAL TEXAS VETERANS MEMORIAL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 1.7% 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 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 ↗

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.

E P Woodruff TrustB C and Gladys L Drin…Thomas B Shoemake Tru…Tom & Lilian Grinnan …Harriett Gully Beadel…Brown County United W…National Philanthropi…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
E P Woodruff TrustTX24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 Central Texas Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Central Texas Foundation Inc 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 43 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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