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Don G Kaspar 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.

$230k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
21
Grants FY2024
16
Organizations funded FY2023
69%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$6,155
Largest grant, FY2024
$70,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 16
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$2.4M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 69% of the organizations Don G Kaspar Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 43% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureReligionHousing & ShelterOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving21$230k76%
FY202316$100k69%
FY202214$118k93%
FY20212$64k50%
FY20202$60k50%
FY20193$23kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Religion$329kCommunity Improvement$126kArts & Culture$31kRecreation & Sports$30kHuman Services$30kHealth$23kEducation$15kHousing & Shelter$5kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Experience Excellence$154,530616%
USATransform$70,00010%
Gaslight Theatre Inc$25,000127%
Gatekeepers Fellowship Inc$13,8452n/a
Pine Cove Inc$11,9801n/a
Humanality$10,00015%
Hope of South Texas Inc$10,00011%
Shiner Band Boosters$9,9261n/a
Billy T Cattan Recovery Outreach$8,00010%
The Ambassadors for Christ Inc$6,15513%
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All grantees of Don G Kaspar Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Experience Excellence$154,530616%
USATransform$70,00010%
Gaslight Theatre Inc$25,000127%
Gatekeepers Fellowship Inc$13,8452n/a
Pine Cove Inc$11,9801n/a
Humanality$10,00015%
Hope of South Texas Inc$10,00011%
Shiner Band Boosters$9,9261n/a
Billy T Cattan Recovery Outreach$8,00010%
The Ambassadors for Christ Inc$6,15513%
The Signatry Corporation Inc$6,0001n/a
The Vine School$5,00010%
Texas Ramp Project$5,00010%
Lavaca Area Moms Inc$3,5001n/a
Spread the Faith Inc$3,000117%
Shiner Chamber of Commerce$2,05026%
Hallettsville Chamber of Commerce$1,00011%
Foster Tree$1,0001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($249k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Don G Kaspar Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 12 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetExperience Excellence: $154,530 over 6y, 16% of budgetUSATransform: $70,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGaslight Theatre Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetHumanality: $10,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetHope of South Texas Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBilly T Cattan Recovery Outreach: $8,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Ambassadors for Christ Inc: $6,155 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetThe Vine School: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTexas Ramp Project: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSpread the Faith Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetShiner Chamber of Commerce: $2,050 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetHallettsville Chamber of Commerce: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.

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.

York Albert E & Myrtle Gunn TrustMO13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: York Albert E & Myrtle Gunn Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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Find your warmest path to Don G Kaspar Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

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About Don G Kaspar Foundation

How much does Don G Kaspar Foundation give?
Don G Kaspar Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $229,513 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 16 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Don G Kaspar Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (55%), Community Improvement (21%), Arts & Culture (5%).
Who are Don G Kaspar Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Experience Excellence ($155k), USATransform ($70k), Gaslight Theatre Inc ($25k).
Does Don G Kaspar Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 69% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Don G Kaspar Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Don G Kaspar Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include York Albert E & Myrtle Gunn Trust, American Endowment Foundation, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Don G Kaspar Foundation based?
Don G Kaspar Foundation is based in TX.

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 45 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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