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David B Terk 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.

$29k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Health$45kReligion$41kHuman Services$34kAnimals$25kCommunity Improvement$15kEducation$11kFood & Nutrition$10kRecreation & Sports$7kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
$850
Median grant
6
States reached
$970k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHRISTIAN OUTDOOR ALLIANCE$20,000
BABY2BABY$4,225
DEL RIO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE$1,000
MILITARY ORDER OF THE PURPLE HEART$1,000
CONSTRUCT A KIDS CHRISTMAS GALA$850
HUNTER NATION$790
Individual grant recipient$732
COLEL CHABAD$500
TORAH ACADEMY$345
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 (FY17–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 66% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HUNTER NATION: $790 → 5%4 PAWS FOR ABILITY INC: $500 → 9%HUNTER NATION: $300 → 5%THE CHILDRENS BEREAVEMENT CENTER OF S TEXAS: $100 → 16%GREEN BERET FOUNDATION: $2k → 16%GREEN BERET FOUNDATION: $1k → 16%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.

Which US states your grants reach

ME
MN
NY
MA
OR
IA
IN
OH
CT
CA
CO
VA
AZ
KS
TN
NC
DC
HI
OK
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL

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.

47%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$99k · 12 repeat orgs$111k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
54

Total granted

$99k
$103k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+68%

Still filing today

75%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesAnimalsHealthEducationPublic BenefitArts & 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

  • CO
    CHRISTIAN OUTDOOR ALLIANCE INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $40k · revenue +10%
  • TW
    TBI WARRIOR FOUNDATION
    3× · 2018–2021 · $16k · revenue ×12
  • RT
    REEL THANX INC
    3× · 2017–2021 · $5k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • WO
    WOMEN ORTHOPAEDIST GLOBAL OUTREACH
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • SA
    SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +18%
  • SA
    SAN ANTONIO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +84%

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
Worldwide Vets Incorporated

Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…

Animals
2
Troops First Foundation Incorporated

To develop, operate, and support a synergistic group of wellness, quality of life, and event-based initiatives in support of today's combat-wounded military personnel and their families, while facilitating a greater recognition and…

Public Benefit
3
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.

Animals
4
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
5
Uso Foundation

The mission of the uso foundation (foundation) is to support uso inc.'s (uso) mission to strengthen the well-being of the people serving in america's military and their families.

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6
Medal of Honor Foundation Inc

The Medal of Honor Foundation's mission and purpose is to provide funds to support the Congressional Medal of Honor Society. In doing so, the Foundation supports the Society in advancing their mission to perpetuate the Medal of Honor's…

Arts & Culture
7
Special Forces Foundation

The special forces foundation provides immediate and ongoing support to the special forces community and their families.

Philanthropy
8
The Marine Mammal Center

The marine mammal center advances global ocean conservation through marine mammal rescue and rehabilitation, scientific research, and education. the center's work is guided and inspired by a shared vision of a healthy ocean for marine…

Animals
9
Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology Foundation

To aid the alliance for clinical trials in oncology national clinical trials cooperative group and support the clinical trials and laboratory research of the alliance, as well as efforts to educate the medical community on methods of…

Health
10
Cancer Research and Biostatistics

To help conquer cancer and other diseases through the application of biostatistical principles and innovative data management methods.

Health
11
Parks and Wildlife Foundation of Texas

Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation (TPWF) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization thatadvances Texas proud outdoor traditions through meaningful, high-impact programs,partnerships, and a wide range of projects that conserve and enhance our…

Environment
12
Shield of Faith Missions

Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.

Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Green Beret Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Little Trooper Ranch. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyAnimal Rescue and ShelterHealth Access Advocacy and …Environmental Conservation …Cancer Support ServicesChristian Youth CampsDomestic Violence ServicesCommunity FoundationsVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Community Arts CentersFood Banks and PantriesMilitary Veterans Support
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%5%<5yr16%5%5–10yr20%24%10–20yr16%22%20–35yr10%24%35–55yr13%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%1%<5yr16%12%5–10yr20%21%10–20yr16%35%20–35yr10%17%35–55yr13%14%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%
2/47
the rest of the field
15%
20,232/136,757

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.

04the grantee network

44 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. 44 of the 74 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/44
Grantees still filing
31/44
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE PORT MANSFIELD — $12,161 · OtherCHAMBER OF COMMERCE PORT MANSFIELDWOMEN ORTHOPAEDIST GLOBAL OUTREACH — $10,000 · OtherWOMEN ORTHOPAEDIST GLOBAL OUTREACHSAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK — $10,000 · OtherSAN ANTONIO FOOD BANKABILITY CONNECTION — $5,000 · OtherCHRISTIAN OUTDOOR ALLIANCE INC — $5,000 · OtherBABY2BABY — $4,225 · OtherCOASTAL CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $3,525 · Other+45 more — $52,682 · Other+45 moreCHRISTIAN OUTDOOR ALLIANCE INC — $40,000 · ReligionCHRISTIAN OUTDOOR ALL…SAN ANTONIO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $10,000 · AnimalsSAN ANTONIO…SAFARI CLUB INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION — $3,190 · AnimalsSAFARI CLUB…CONSERVATION FORCE INC — $3,000 · AnimalsCONSERVATIO…Little Trooper Ranch — $2,500 · AnimalsLittle Troo…OPERATION KINDNESS — $2,500 · AnimalsOPERATION K…+1 more — $500 · AnimalsTBI WARRIOR FOUNDATION — $15,650 · EducationTBI WARRIO…STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $2,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SI…SOLDIER STRONG INC — $1,000 · EducationFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION — $1,000 · EducationREEL THANX INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesGREEN BERET FOUNDATION — $3,000 · Human ServicesHUNTER NATION INC — $1,090 · Human ServicesConstruct A Kids Christmas — $850 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S HOME OF LUBBOCK AND FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY INC — $500 · Human Services4 PAWS FOR ABILITY INC — $500 · Human Services+1 more — $100 · Human ServicesTRINITY OAKS ENTERPRISES — $11,000 · PhilanthropyWISH FOR OUR HEROES INC — $3,500 · Public BenefitMARINE RECONNAISSANCE FOUNDATION — $2,000 · Public BenefitMILITARY ORDER OF THE PURPLE HEART OF THE USA INC — $1,000 · Public Benefit
Other$102,593Religion$40,000Animals$21,690Education$19,650Human Services$11,040Philanthropy$11,000Public Benefit$6,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCHRISTIAN OUTDOOR ALLIANCE INC — $40,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTBI WARRIOR FOUNDATION — $15,650 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetTRINITY OAKS ENTERPRISES — $11,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN ANTONIO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREEL THANX INC — $5,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetBABY2BABY — $4,225 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOASTAL CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $3,525 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWISH FOR OUR HEROES INC — $3,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSAFARI CLUB INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION — $3,190 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCONSERVATION FORCE INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGREEN BERET FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD — $2,565 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION KINDNESS — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARTIN TRUEX JR FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWOODSON CENTER — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER RESEARCH FUND OF THE DAMON RUNYON-WALTER WINCHELL FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE RECONNAISSANCE FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Ships International — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Orange Show Foundation — $1,300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHUNTER NATION INC — $1,090 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHEATRE ASPEN — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOONLIGHT FUND INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOLDIER STRONG INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDEL RIO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMILITARY ORDER OF THE PURPLE HEART OF THE USA INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIRE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetConstruct A Kids Christmas — $850 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHILL COUNTRY CRISIS COUNCIL INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget4 PAWS FOR ABILITY INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS LIONS CAMP INC — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDRENS BEREAVEMENT CENTER OF SOUTH TEXAS — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCook Children's Health Care System — $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Greater Houston Commu…Union Pacific Foundat…Shell USA Company Fou…Enterprise Holdings F…Natl Christian Charit…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Morgan Stanley Global…The Blackbaud Giving …American Endowment Fo…The Pfizer Foundation…Network for GoodCharities Aid Foundat…
Greater Houston Community FoundationTX15.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Union Pacific Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Charities Aid Foundation America

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 B Terk 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get 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 · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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 74 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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