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David and Judy Norsworthy Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fund
0189% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20232025.

Animals$2.8MHealth$250kHuman Services$53kOther$400k
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $50k–250k11 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$100,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$25M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Red Arena$250,000
The Rescued Animals Second Chance I$150,000
Kerrville Pets Alive$102,500
Habitat for Horses Inc$100,000
TADSAW Inc$100,000
Hill Ctry Soc for Prev of Cruelty o$100,000
Living Grace Canine Ranch$100,000
The Joyful Horse Project$100,000
The Pegasus Project$100,000
Mission K9 Rescue Inc$100,000
Saving Hope Animal Rescue$100,000
Sunny Creek Ranch Equine Services$75,000
02The need
03

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:

Your human-services grants (FY23–23, $53k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SOHW Corp: $53k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.5M · 10 repeat orgs$962k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of 0% since the first grant, against -12% for the ones you funded once.

10 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
4

Total granted

$2.5M
$610k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
-12%

Still filing today

90%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $353k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
AnimalsHuman ServicesHealthOther

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

  • HC
    Hill Ctry Soc for Prev of Cruelty o
    3× · 2023–2025 · $400k
  • RA
    RESCUED ANIMALS-SECOND CHANCE INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $350k · revenue 0% · 67% of their budget
  • TI
    TADSAW INC
    2× · 2023–2025 · $350k · revenue -50% · 38% of their budget

Funded once

  • BE
    BLUEBONNET EQUINE HUMANE SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue -34% · 28% of their budget
  • TP
    The Public For Animal Welfare Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue -12%
  • TR
    TEXAS RESCUE INC
    one grant, 2024 · $57k · revenue 0%

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.

1
2nd Chance Ranch and Rescue

Sanctuary for abused or abandoned animals

Animals
2
Red Bucket Equine Rescue
Animals
3
Wolfe Ranch Rescue
Animals
4
Believe Ranch and Rescue
Animals
5
Fighting Chance Ranch & Rescue
Animals
6
Happy Acres Pet Rescue
Animals
7
Big Dog Rescue Inc co James & Cheryl Babcock
8
Purple Paws 2nd Chance Rescue
Animals
9
Rainfall Ranch Rescue

Equine rescue and rehabilitation

Animals
10
Where the Wild Things Are Rescue in

The rescue and rehabilitation of canines.

Animals
11
War Angel Farms Rescue and Rehabilitation Inc
Animals
12
Red Dog Ranch Animal Rescue Inc

We take in dogs, cats, donkeys, horses, and goats and provide them with care and training to assist them in finding a forever home.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rescued Animals-Second Chance Inc and the most unlike its peers is Texas Rescue Inc. 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

15 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 16 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
3/15
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

RESCUED ANIMALS-SECOND CHANCE INC — $350,000 · AnimalsRESCUED ANIMALS-SECOND CHANCE INCTADSAW INC — $350,000 · AnimalsTADSAW INCSAVING HOPE ANIMAL RESCUE FUND — $300,000 · AnimalsSAVING HOPE ANIMAL RESCUE FUNDBLUEBONNET EQUINE HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $250,000 · AnimalsBLUEBONNET EQUINE HUMANE SOCIETY INCThe Public For Animal Welfare Inc — $250,000 · AnimalsThe Public For Animal Welfare IncTHE JOYFUL HORSE PROJECT — $200,000 · AnimalsTHE JOYFUL HORSE PROJECTHABITAT FOR HORSES INC — $200,000 · AnimalsHABITAT FOR HORSES INCMission K9 Rescue Inc — $200,000 · AnimalsMission K9 Rescue IncTHE PEGASUS PROJECT INC — $200,000 · AnimalsTHE PEGASUS PROJECT INCLIVING GRACE CANINE RANCH — $200,000 · AnimalsLIVING GRACE CANINE RANCHSunny Creek Ranch Equine Services — $150,000 · AnimalsSunny Creek Ranch Equine ServicesKERRVILLE PETS ALIVE — $102,500 · Animals+1 more — $57,100 · AnimalsHill Ctry Soc for Prev of Cruelty o — $400,000 · OtherHill Ctry So…RED ARENA INC — $250,000 · HealthSOWW Corp — $52,500 · Human Services
Animals$2,809,600Other$400,000Health$250,000Human Services$52,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetRESCUED ANIMALS-SECOND CHANCE INC — $350,000 over 2y, 67% of budgetTADSAW INC — $350,000 over 2y, 38% of budgetSAVING HOPE ANIMAL RESCUE FUND — $300,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetBLUEBONNET EQUINE HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $250,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetThe Public For Animal Welfare Inc — $250,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetRED ARENA INC — $250,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetTHE JOYFUL HORSE PROJECT — $200,000 over 2y, 34% of budgetHABITAT FOR HORSES INC — $200,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetMission K9 Rescue Inc — $200,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetTHE PEGASUS PROJECT INC — $200,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetLIVING GRACE CANINE RANCH — $200,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetSunny Creek Ranch Equine Services — $150,000 over 2y, 58% of budgetSOWW Corp — $52,500 over 1y, 3.5% of budget
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.

Austin Community Foundation IncTX15× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Austin Community Foundation Inc · The Leo & Emogene Case Foundation · The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals · Shell USA Company Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust

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 David and Judy Norsworthy Charitable Trust 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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