· Private foundation
Clara B & W Aubrey Smith Charitable
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $332k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $560k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEXOMA FAMILY SHELTER | $200,000 |
| JUNIOR LEAGUE OF GRAYSON COUNTY | $160,000 |
| CHILD & FAMILY GUIDANCE CENTER OF TEXOMA | $75,000 |
| TRI COUNTY SENIOR NUTRITION PROJECT | $75,000 |
| DENISON ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| DENISON ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| CITY OF DENISON | $35,000 |
| MASTERKEY MINISTRIES OF GRAYSON COUNTY | $32,000 |
| AUSTIN COLLEGE | $31,000 |
| CASA OF GRAYSON COUNTY | $30,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC | $25,000 |
| NEW BEGINNING FELLOWSHIP CHURCH | $21,000 |
| GRANT HALLIBURTON FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| RED RIVER RAILROAD MUSEUM | $20,000 |
| DENISON PERFORMING ARTS INC | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $769k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
37 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 3 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $240k 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
- TSTRI-COUNTY SENIOR NUTRITION PROJECT INC6× · 2019–2025 · $540k · revenue +39%
- TFTexoma Family Shelter6× · 2017–2025 · $470k · revenue +31%
- MMMASTERKEY MINISTRIES OF GRAYSON COUNTY9× · 2017–2025 · $216k · revenue +302%
Funded once
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $168k · revenue 0%- FOFRIENDS OF TEXAS HISTORICAL COMMISSIONone grant, 2021 · $100k
- GVGRAYSON VOLUNTEER HEALTH CLINICone grant, 2021 · $50k
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.
Provide meals on wheels, congregate meals, and recreational facility for elderly and low income persons of dawson county texas.
The denison service league is an organization of women whose mission is to advance women's leadership for meaningful community impact through volunteer action, collaboration and training.
To provide for children in the custody of the Texas Department of Regulatory Services.
The WTFB exists to collect, purchase, and distribute food to feed the hungry in 19 counties in West Texas in partnership with volunteers and community organizations and to educate these partners and the public at large about the real face…
Support Services for the elderly through nutritional assistance
A state of texas licensed foster care and adoption agency that identifies and provides approved healing foster homes for children.
To complement the state of texas' support of the colleges by providing financial support for new and ongoing projects and activities in the areas of research, education and community service.
To provide a place for children to go where they will have supervised activities, arts, crafts, and recreation.
To provide fire and medical emergency services for the city of garrison, tx and the surrounding districts.
Treatment of handicapped and disabled children and adults and providing job training for disabled persons. Providing activities for Alzheimer's Disease patients.
To provide comprehensive primary care and preventive care to all persons regardless of their ability to pay.
The Organization's mission is to provide a multidisciplinary collaboration of services for the purpose of prevention, intervention, investigation, prosecution and treatment of child abuse. This effort reduces the potential for additional…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texoma Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Southeast Grayson Senior Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 34 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 63 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 TRI-COUNTY SENIOR NUTRITION PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Texoma Family Shelter ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds DENISON ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MASTERKEY MINISTRIES OF GRAYSON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of Denison Texas ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GRAYSON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF GRAYSON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds DENISON HELPING HANDS ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GRAYSON COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DENISON MAIN STREET INC ↗
- Who funds GRANT HALLIBURTON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Rehabilitation Center ↗
- Who funds CHILD AND FAMILY GUIDANCE CENTER OF TEXOMA ↗
- Who funds HOMELESS EMPOWERMENT ACTION TEAM ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF GRAYSON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF ELI INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER TEXOMA HEALTH CLINIC ↗
- Who funds TEXOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SHERMAN INC ↗
- Who funds MULTICULTURAL FAMILY CENTER ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS RAMP PROJECT ↗
- Who funds RED RIVER RAILROAD MUSEUM ↗
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: W B Munson Foundation Xxxxx5008 · Elias & Hanna Regensburger Foundation · The Oliver Dewey Mayor Foundation · Texoma Community Foundation · United Way of Grayson County Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · Thelma Braun & Bocklett Family Foundation · Dorset Foundation Inc Attn Marty Sanderson · Wilson N Jones Community Foundation · Texoma Medical Center Volunteers · Dr & Mrs Paul Pierce Memorial Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc
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 Clara B & W Aubrey Smith Charitable 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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