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· Private foundation
CLOYDE AND ETHEL LEE TRACY
This foundation accepts unsolicited grant applications.
$135k
Granted FY2025
11
Grants
1
Communities
$35k
Largest
01What you fund
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What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 90% of CLOYDE AND ETHEL LEE TRACY’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
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2019
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2020
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2021
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2022
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2023
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2024
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2025
athletics
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2025 · 11 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $111k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
- HOSPICE OF SOUTH TEXAS$35,000
- YMCA OF THE GOLDEN CRESCENT$25,000
- VICTORIA BACH FESTIVAL$20,500
- BOYS GIRLS CLUB OF VICTORIA$20,000
- THE TEXAS ZOO$10,000
- CHRIST'S KITCHEN$5,000
- UHV - ATHLETICS$5,000
- VICTORIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION$5,000
- GRACE PRESBYTERIAN$5,000
- VICTORIA FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION$2,000
- SCHREINER UNIVERSITY$2,000
02The need
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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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 13%. 98% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 33% of CLOYDE AND ETHEL LEE TRACY’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in TX; read by stated purpose it is 70% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
CLOYDE AND ETHEL LEE TRACYlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient addressRecipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.2M · 15 repeat orgs$41k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +43% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
15
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Total granted
$1.2M
$26k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+47%
+43%
Still filing today
47%
25%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
PhilanthropyEducationFood & NutritionArts & CultureOther
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
- VCVICTORIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $56k · revenue +115%
- HOHOSPICE OF SOUTH TEXAS2× · 2018–2025 · $50k · revenue +28%
- FBFOOD BANK OF THE GOLDEN CRESCENT2× · 2020–2021 · $30k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- FUFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $10k
- HOHOPE OF SOUTH TEXASgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $8k · revenue +43%
- TVTHEATRE VICTORIAone grant, 2020 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
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Victoria Christian School
To establish and maintain christian education, training, and recreational facilities; and to provide instruction and training
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Victoria Foundation Inc
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Kiwanis Club of Victoria Texas
Kiwanis int'l believes that helping a child helps the world. our projects include community service activities and sponsored youth programs, especially scholarships and leadership training that promote good citizenship and individual…
Philanthropy
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Christ's Hospital
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Texas Christian University
Texas christian university is an institution of higher education which includes nine major academic units. instruction is for 12,785 students.
Education
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Christus Health Southeast Texas
Supporting the health care ministries of the sponsoring congregations in extending the healing ministry of jesus christ in conformity with the teachings of the catholic church.
Health
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Viera Hospital Inc
Our team improving the wellness and health of you and your family through excellent and compassionate health care.
Health
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The Christ Hospital
Improve the health of our community and create patient value by providing exceptional outcomes and the finest experiences, all in an affordable way.
Health
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Christus Health Gulf Coast
Supporting the health care ministries of the sponsoring congregations in extending the healing ministry of jesus christ in conformity with the roman catholic church.
Health
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Christus Continuing Care
Christus continuing care is a nonprofit corporation providing health care services, including home health, hospice, and long term acute care hospital services.
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Houston Christian University
To provide instruction for approximately 5,200 students in undergraduate and graduate courses.
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Victoria Regional Museum
To promote appreciation and access to visual arts and history.
Arts & Culture
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Food Bank of Victoria and the most unlike its peers is Childrens Discovery Museum Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
06the grantee network
8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$1,103,525Philanthropy$56,000Food & Nutrition$30,000Arts & Culture$21,000Education$18,000
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.
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.
The O'Connor & Hewitt FoundationTX18.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: The O'Connor & Hewitt Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · South Texas Charitable Foundation · York Albert E & Myrtle Gunn Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 organisation CLOYDE AND ETHEL LEE TRACY 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: VICTORIA FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 4.0× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 746076836 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on VICTORIA FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 16% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Cloyde and Ethel Lee Tracy?
Find your warmest path to Cloyde and Ethel Lee Tracy through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines