· Private foundation
Charles & Lois Marie Bright Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 80% of CHARLES & LOIS MARIE BRIGHT FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k25 grants · $93k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $388k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $996k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $250,000 |
| THE VILLAGE NAC | $200,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $144,795 |
| Individual grant recipient | $110,000 |
| NACOGDOCHES BOYS YOUTH BASEBALL | $109,365 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DEEP EAST TX | $100,000 |
| NACOGDOCHES COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE | $80,431 |
| NACOGDOCHES COUNTY HOSPITAL | $51,077 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| LOVE INC | $50,000 |
| FRIENDS OF HISTORIC NACOGDOCHES | $50,000 |
| GLORY GANG MINISTRIES | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $45,551 |
| NACOGDOCHES HERO FOUNDATION | $34,677 |
| STEPHEN F AUSTIN STATE UNIVERSITY | $30,608 |
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 (FY17–25, $84k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 46% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +12% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
70 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $113k 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
- TVThe Village Nac Inc5× · 2020–2025 · $800k · revenue +146% · 43% of their budget
- THTHE HELPING HOUSE3× · 2017–2025 · $158k · revenue +47%
- GGGLORY GANG MINISTRIES INC6× · 2018–2025 · $150k · revenue +14% · 31% of their budget
Funded once
- NFNACOGDOCHES FEDERATION OF WOMENSone grant, 2022 · $300k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $150k
- KNKeep Nacogdoches Beautifulone grant, 2021 · $140k · revenue -88% · 34% of their budget
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.
Texas christian university is an institution of higher education which includes nine major academic units: liberal arts, science and engineering, business, education, fine arts, communication, honors, nursing and health sciences, and the…
Helping people to get high school diplomas
The church exists to glorify God and make disciples of Jesus Christ
To improve the health and quality of life for the people of texas and beyond through excellence in education, research, clinical care, community engagement and to provide national leadership in primary care.
Working togther to produce good fruit by reaching outdoors into god's creation.
Howard payne university is a christ-centered academic community dedicated to excellence by developing and equipping the whole person for intellectual inquiry, personal and professional integrity, and service to god and humanity.
The mission of hardin-simmons university is to be a community dedicated to providing excellence in education enlightened by christian faith and values.
Lubbock christian university is a christ-centered, academic community of learners, transforming the hearts, minds, and hands of students for lives of purpose and service.
The convencion bautista hispana de texas - the hispanic baptist convention of texas - convencion exists to serve its congregations and members to fulfill their god-inspired mission and vision. the vision of convencion is to become a family…
Equip women and men to be ministers and messengers of God's mission of reconciliation through academic excellence, personal transformation, and leadership development.
The university of mary hardin-baylor prepares students for leadership, service, and faith-informed discrenment in a global society. academic excellence, personal attention, broad-based scholarship and a commitment to a baptist vision for…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Regents Academy of Nacogdoches Inc and the most unlike its peers is Garrison Volunteer Fire Department. 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 35 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 18% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 133 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 The Village Nac Inc ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF NACOGDOCHES COUNT ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN WOMENS JOB CORP ↗
- Who funds SOLID FOUNDATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NACOGDOCHES BOYS YOUTH BASEBALL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE HELPING HOUSE ↗
- Who funds GLORY GANG MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Keep Nacogdoches Beautiful ↗
- Who funds CAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH ↗
- Who funds LeTourneau University ↗
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: East Texas Communities Foundation · The Callaway Foundation · Nacogdoches County United Way · Thurman Crawford Charitable Trust · The Elliott Family Foundation · Hood Family Foundation · San Antonio Livestock Exposition Educational Fund Inc · James I Perkins Family Foundation · Folds of Honor Foundation · The Pineywoods Foundation · Texas Higher Education Foundation · Greater Houston Community 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 Charles & Lois Marie Bright 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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