· Private foundation
E P Woodruff Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BCYFR SUPPORTERS | $8,000 |
| LYRIC PERFORMING ARTS COMPANY | $7,500 |
| HOWARD PAYNE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| TEXAS RAMP PROJECT | $5,000 |
| BANGS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $5,000 |
| BROWNWOOD ART ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE | $5,000 |
| ALDERSGATE ENRICHMENT CENTER | $5,000 |
| CORINNE T SMITH ANIMAL SHELTER | $5,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY - BROWNWOOD | $5,000 |
| PEARL GRIFFIN MEMORIAL LATCH KEY PR | $5,000 |
| ARK DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER | $5,000 |
| BROWN COUNTY PRISON MINISTRY | $3,500 |
| BROOKESMITH VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTME | $3,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $57k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of E P Woodruff Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
29 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 4 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
- LPLYRIC PERFORMING ARTS COMPANY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $53k · revenue +269%
HOWARD PAYNE UNIVERSITY5× · 2017–2024 · $35k · revenue +26%- TAThe Ark Domestic Violence Shelter Inc6× · 2018–2024 · $28k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- LKLATCH KEYone grant, 2017 · $5k
- CTCENTRAL TEXAS VETERANS MEMORIAL INCone grant, 2017 · $5k
- CTCORRINE T SMITH ANIMAL SHELTERone grant, 2023 · $3k
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.
Provide Volunteer Fire Fighting Service To Rural Portions of Midland County, TX: Extinguish Grass Fires, Residential Fires, Farm Building Fires, And Rural Industrial Fires, Etc.
Hays County Brown Santa is dedicated to supporting families in need during the holiday season through acts of kindness, volunteerism, and community-ensuring families in Hays County feel remembered, cared for, and valued.
To provide nutrition and home essentials to low income families
The associations mission is to provide a free public library for the residents of brownwood and brown county, texas
Provide library services to a three county area in rural east texas.
Volunteer Fire Department, providing fire, rescue, and medical services to a population of approximately 22,000 residents, 24 hours per day, 365 days per year.
To provide immediate response to fire and emergency needs in the brazos area of palo pinto county, tx and surrounding areas.
Fire, medical and other emergency first responders servicing rural brooks county in south texas
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bcyfr Supporters Brown County Fair Association and the most unlike its peers is Central Texas Pregnancy Care Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 44 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 LYRIC PERFORMING ARTS COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds HOWARD PAYNE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ALDERSGATE ENRICHMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds The Ark Domestic Violence Shelter Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL TEXAS PREGNANCY CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds BROWN COUNTY TOYS FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds TEXAS RAMP PROJECT ↗
- Who funds BROWN COUNTY HOME SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds BANGS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds HOPE HOME MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds BCYFR SUPPORTERS BROWN COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ARTS COUNCIL OF BROWNWOOD ↗
- Who funds BROWNWOOD ART ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL TEXAS VETERANS MEMORIAL INC ↗
- Who funds DAM VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL TEXAS ↗
- Who funds BROWNWOOD EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: Central Texas Foundation Inc · Tom & Lilian Grinnan Wilkinson Trust · B C and Gladys L Drinkard Foundation Inc · Harriett Gully Beadel Foundation Inc · Thomas B Shoemake Trust · The 1687 Foundation · Kelly Family Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 E P Woodruff 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.
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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