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Cocanougher Foundation at a glance

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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.

$337k
Granted FY2024still arriving
34
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Human Services$415kEducation$185kHealth$176kInternational$175kHousing & Shelter$150kPhilanthropy$111kReligion$86kFood & Nutrition$67kOther$0
02FY2024 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k14 grants · $41k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $296k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$5.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CASA HOGAR ORPHANAGE INC: $5k → 14%BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL: $15k → 14%CORAZON MINISTRIES: $1k → 16%ECHO: $1k → 6%BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL: $15k → 14%CORAZON MINISTRIES: $1k → 16%ECHO: $1k → 6%BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL: $15k → 14%FAMILY ELDERCARE: $1k → 10%BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 14%FAMILY ELDERCARE: $1k → 10%BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 14%WISE AREA RELIEF MISSION: $50k → 8%WISE AREA RELIEF MISSION: $25k → 8%WISE AREA RELIEF MISSION: $25k → 8%WISE AREA RELIEF MISSION: $20k → 8%CAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH: $250 → 11%SAFE HAVEN OF TARRANT COUNTY: $15k → 11%SAFE HAVEN OF TARRANT COUNTY: $10k → 11%WISE AREA RELIEF MISSION: $15k → 8%SAFE HAVEN OF TARRANT COUNTY: $6k → 11%SAFE HAVEN OF TARRANT COUNTY: $5k → 11%WISE COUNTY COMMITTE ON AGING: $15k → 8%WISE COUNTY COMMITTE ON AGING: $15k → 8%MHMR FOUNDATION: $15k → 11%MHMR FOUNDATION: $11k → 11%MHMR FOUNDATION: $11k → 11%MHMR FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%WISE COUNTY COMMITTE ON AGING: $15k → 8%MHMR FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%WISE COUNTY COMMITTE ON AGING: $10k → 8%WISE AREA RELIEF MISSION: $10k → 8%MHMR FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%Wise Area Relief Mission: $10k → 8%RAQUEL'S WINGS FOR LIFE: $10k → 8%WISE COUNTY COMMITTE ON AGING: $10k → 8%RAQUEL'S WINGS FOR LIFE: $10k → 8%RAQUEL'S WINGS FOR LIFE: $10k → 8%RAQUEL'S WINGS FOR LIFE: $5k → 8%RAQUEL'S WINGS FOR LIFE: $5k → 8%RAQUEL'S WINGS FOR LIFE: $5k → 8%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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 35 repeat orgs$121k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
10

Total granted

$1.3M
$61k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+28%

Still filing today

77%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionCivil RightsInternationalPhilanthropyOther
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

  • WA
    WISE AREA RELIEF MISSION
    7× · 2018–2024 · $155k · revenue +10%
  • TH
    TRINITY HOPE INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $100k · revenue +262%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF WISE COUNTY INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $95k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • TC
    Texas Children's Hospitalgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +69%
  • FU
    First United Methodist Church - Dec
    one grant, 2018 · $15k
  • PA
    PORT ARANSAS EDUCATION FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +220%
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
West Texas Food Bank

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…

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2
Food Bank of West Central Texas

To procure and distribute nutritional food to qualified agencies that feed the hungry of West Central Texas.

Food & Nutrition
3
Feeding America 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…

Food & Nutrition
4
South Texas Food Bank

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…

Community Improvement
5
Hays County Food Bank

To alleviate hunger by distributing food to families who are food deprived through a network of volunteers and other agencies within Hays County.

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6
Southeast Texas Food Bank Inc

Food distribution to the hungry throughout an eight county service territory in Southeast Texas.

Human Services
7
Target Hunger Inc

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…

Human Services
8
Casa of South Texas Inc

Child Advocacy

Human Services
9
Pleasant Grove Food Pantry Inc

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…

Food & Nutrition
10
Bastrop County Emergency Food Pantry

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.

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11
Regional East Texas Food Bank

Etfb's mission is to fight hunger and feed hope in east texas.

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12
Tarrant Area Food Bank

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Casa of Tarrant County Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

37 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. 37 of the 59 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/37
Grantees still filing
25/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DECATUR HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $105,000 · OtherDECATUR HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP FUNDWEST TEXAS BOYS RANCH: $70,000 · OtherWEST TEXAS BOYS RANCHFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF DECATUR TX: $65,600 · OtherFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF DECATUR TXUnion Gospel Mission of Tarrant County: $65,200 · OtherUnion Gospel Mission of Tarrant CountyCASA OF WISE & JACK COUNTIES: $65,000 · OtherCASA OF WISE & JACK COUNTIESUNT HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER: $60,000 · OtherUNT HEALTH SCIENCE CENTERDHS FOUNDATION: $45,000 · OtherDHS FOUNDATION+28 more: $129,450 · Other+28 moreWISE AREA RELIEF MISSION: $155,000 · Human ServicesWISE AREA RELIEF MISSIONWISE COUNTY COMMITTEE ON AGING INC: $65,000 · Human ServicesWISE COUNTY COMMITTEE ON AGING INCBUCKNER INTERNATIONAL: $65,000 · Human ServicesBUCKNER INTERNATIONALMHMR VISIONS DBA MHMR FOUNDATION: $56,000 · Human ServicesMHMR VISIONS DBA MHMR FOUNDATIONRAQUELS WINGS FOR LIFE: $45,000 · Human ServicesRAQUELS WINGS FOR LIFESAFEHAVEN OF TARRANT COUNTY: $36,250 · Human ServicesSAFEHAVEN OF TARRANT COUNTY+6 more: $23,250 · Human ServicesUNITED WAY OF WISE COUNTY INC: $95,000 · PhilanthropyJUST KEEP LIVIN FOUNDATION: $16,250 · PhilanthropyTRINITY HOPE INC: $100,000 · InternationalRaising Haiti Foundation: $10,000 · InternationalWise Health Foundation: $45,000 · HealthTexas Children's Hospital: $25,000 · HealthCASA OF TARRANT COUNTY INC: $25,000 · Civil RightsCASA OF WEST TEXAS: $25,000 · Civil RightsCASA OF GRAYSON COUNTY INC: $5,000 · Civil RightsFEEDING WISE KIDS: $50,000 · Food & NutritionBRIDGE STEPS: $2,250 · Food & NutritionCentral Texas Food Bank Inc: $2,250 · Food & Nutrition
Other$605,250Human Services$445,500Philanthropy$111,250International$110,000Health$70,000Civil Rights$55,000Food & Nutrition$54,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWISE AREA RELIEF MISSION: $155,000 over 7y, 4.2% of budgetTRINITY HOPE INC: $100,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WISE COUNTY INC: $95,000 over 6y, 6.4% of budgetWEST TEXAS BOYS RANCH: $70,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetUnion Gospel Mission of Tarrant County: $65,200 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWISE COUNTY COMMITTEE ON AGING INC: $65,000 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetBUCKNER INTERNATIONAL: $65,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMHMR VISIONS DBA MHMR FOUNDATION: $56,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetFEEDING WISE KIDS: $50,000 over 5y, 18% of budgetRAQUELS WINGS FOR LIFE: $45,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetWise Health Foundation: $45,000 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetSAFEHAVEN OF TARRANT COUNTY: $36,250 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCASA OF TARRANT COUNTY INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTexas Children's Hospital: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASA OF WEST TEXAS: $25,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetDECATUR ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetJUST KEEP LIVIN FOUNDATION: $16,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Family Place: $11,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AWARENESS PROJECT: $11,250 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetTHE PRESBYTERIAN NIGHT SHELTER OF TARRANT COUNTY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRaising Haiti Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCASA HOGAR ORPHANAGE: $5,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetPORT ARANSAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetPort Aransas Preservation and Historical Association: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetPORT ARANSAS POLICE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetCASA OF GRAYSON COUNTY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFEEDING TEXAS: $2,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $2,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY ELDERCARE INC: $2,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCorazon Ministries Inc: $2,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $2,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetECHO INC: $2,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD BANK OF RIO GRANDE VALLEY INC: $2,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRIDGE STEPS: $2,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Texas Food Bank Inc: $2,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NET FW INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH: $250 over 1y, 0.0% 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 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 RAQUELS WINGS FOR LIFE ↗
  • Who funds Wise Health Foundation ↗
  • Who funds SAFEHAVEN OF TARRANT COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds CASA OF TARRANT COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds Texas Children's Hospital ↗
  • Who funds CASA OF WEST TEXAS ↗
  • Who funds DECATUR ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JUST KEEP LIVIN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds The Family Place ↗
  • Who funds THE AWARENESS PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds THE PRESBYTERIAN NIGHT SHELTER OF TARRANT COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds Raising Haiti Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CASA HOGAR ORPHANAGE ↗
  • Who funds PORT ARANSAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Port Aransas Preservation and Historical Association ↗
  • Who funds PORT ARANSAS POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CASA OF GRAYSON COUNTY INC ↗

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.

Community Foundation …The Moody FoundationStanley W Ekstrom Fou…Communities Foundatio…Meadows Foundation IncBnsf Railway Foundati…The Plymouth Rock Ass…Rainwater Charitable …Ch Robinson Worldwide…Texas Instruments Fou…Shell USA Company Fou…United Way Worldwide
Community Foundation of North Texas (TaxTX20× affinity8 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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 Cocanougher Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Cocanougher Foundation 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 59 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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