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Cocanougher Foundation
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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $296k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DECATUR HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $30,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF WISE COUNTY | $30,000 |
| FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH DECATUR TX | $15,300 |
| BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL | $15,000 |
| CASA OF WISE & JACK COUNTIES | $15,000 |
| WISE AREA RELIEF MISSION | $15,000 |
| TRINITY HOPE | $15,000 |
| WISE COUNTY COMMITTE ON AGING | $15,000 |
| WEST TEXAS BOYS RANCH | $15,000 |
| FEEDING WISE KIDS | $15,000 |
| CASA OF TARRANT COUNTY | $15,000 |
| CASA OF WEST TEXAS | $15,000 |
| SAFE HAVEN OF TARRANT COUNTY | $15,000 |
| MHMR FOUNDATION | $10,500 |
| DECATUR ISD EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $434k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 17% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
35 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 14 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k 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
- WAWISE AREA RELIEF MISSION7× · 2018–2024 · $155k · revenue +10%
- THTRINITY HOPE INC6× · 2019–2024 · $100k · revenue +262%
- UWUNITED WAY OF WISE COUNTY INC6× · 2019–2024 · $95k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- TCTexas Children's Hospitalgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +47%
- FUFirst United Methodist Church - Decone grant, 2018 · $15k
- PAPORT ARANSAS POLICE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -50%
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.
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…
To procure and distribute nutritional food to qualified agencies that feed the hungry of West Central Texas.
Feeding America Texas operates exclusively for charitable purposes by supporting food assistance, hunger relief, and community aid initiatives for individuals and families experiencing food insecurity throughout Texas. The organization…
To alleviate hunger in the immediate service area through the distribution of food products donated by the usda, feeding america, area grocery stores, etc. which are distributed to the needy by way of area food banks and other qualified…
To alleviate hunger by distributing food to families who are food deprived through a network of volunteers and other agencies within Hays County.
Food distribution to the hungry throughout an eight county service territory in Southeast Texas.
The mission of Target Hunger is to alleviate hunger and its root causes in the Houston neighborhoods we serve. Target Hunger is on the front lines of hunger every day through its food distribution system that includes multiple food…
Child Advocacy
Pleasant Grove Food Pantry provides nutritious food to qualified residents of Pleasant Grove in southeast Dallas who are food insecure. Fighting food insecurity is the mission and intent of the organization. Services are provided by…
The mission of the Bastrop County Emergency Food Pantry and Support Center is to serve Bastrop County residents going through periods of transition by providing emergency food assistance, education and support.
Etfb's mission is to fight hunger and feed hope in east texas.
Tarrant Area Food Bank's (TAFB) mission is empowering our community to alleviate hunger and improve health. We value and embrace a culture of fairness and inclusion as fundamental to our vision of empowering communities where no one has to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Casa of Tarrant County Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Awareness Project. 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 27 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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 59 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 WISE AREA RELIEF MISSION ↗
- Who funds TRINITY HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF WISE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds WEST TEXAS BOYS RANCH ↗
- Who funds Union Gospel Mission of Tarrant County ↗
- Who funds WISE COUNTY COMMITTEE ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds MHMR VISIONS DBA MHMR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FEEDING WISE KIDS ↗
- Who funds Wise Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds RAQUELS WINGS FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds SAFEHAVEN OF TARRANT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Texas Children's Hospital ↗
- Who funds CASA OF WEST TEXAS ↗
- Who funds CASA OF TARRANT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds DECATUR ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JUST KEEP LIVIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE AWARENESS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds The Family Place ↗
- Who funds Raising Haiti Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE PRESBYTERIAN NIGHT SHELTER OF TARRANT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CASA OF GRAYSON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds PORT ARANSAS POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CASA HOGAR ORPHANAGE ↗
- Who funds PORT ARANSAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Port Aransas Preservation and Historical Association ↗
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: Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · The Moody Foundation · Stanley W Ekstrom Foundation Inc · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Meadows Foundation Inc · Bnsf Railway Foundation · The Plymouth Rock Assurance Foundation · Rainwater Charitable Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · United Way Worldwide
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 Cocanougher 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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