· Community foundation
East Texas Communities Foundation
Philanthropy builds community and changes lives.
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.
The 253 grants below total $15,421,546 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $17,333,866 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,912,320 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k62 grants · $443k
- $10k–50k142 grants · $2.7M
- $50k–250k41 grants · $4.2M
- $250k+8 grants · $8.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Bethesda Health Clinic | $4,075,236 |
| UT Tyler Office of Advancemen | $1,898,512 |
| St Paul Lutheran Church | $440,692 |
| THE MENTORING ALLIANCE | $401,480 |
| The Xtra Mile Recov Assistanc | $380,000 |
| Encouragement Media Group | $375,457 |
| Texas Wesleyan University | $263,282 |
| Grace Community Church | $262,100 |
| Azleway Inc | $232,111 |
| Starbrite Therapeutic Equestr | $194,154 |
| Discovery Science Place | $191,766 |
| YOUNG LIFE TYLER | $158,522 |
| TJC Foundation | $157,267 |
| Marvin Methodist Churc | $145,065 |
| PATH | $141,496 |
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, $6.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
307 repeat relationships — 205 still active in FY2024, 102 since wound down; 44 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $834k 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
- BHBETHESDA HEALTH CLINIC8× · 2017–2024 · $5.1M · revenue +286% · 38% of their budget
- MAMENTORING ALLIANCE8× · 2017–2024 · $5.0M · revenue +287% · 34% of their budget
- TWTEXAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +56%
Funded once
- ALALCOR LIFE EXTENSION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $5.0M · revenue -44% · 70% of their budget
- KAKHAN ACADEMY INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $1.0M · revenue +98%
- ACAUSTIN COLLEGEone grant, 2018 · $865k · revenue -10%
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.
Texas Christian Foundations mission is to mobilize resources by inspiring biblical generosity and educating Texans on ways their generosity can impact their community, Texas and the world.
To provide family services and to provide residential child care for dependent children where there is a need to assist children and families disrupted by problems.
To provide educational and humanitarian services to those in need for the purpose of advancing Christian values in the United States and other nations
A local united christian organization and ministry dedicated to providing love, hope, respect and a new beginning for the homeless, offering a holistic care program that leads to true lasting healing.
Sharing jesus, healing hearts, transforming lives.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Our mission is to show the love of christ to each and every child and family towhom we serve and beyond. we do this by creating a culture where the needs of children,families, and staff are seen and met in creative and innovative ways.
Provides housing and spiritual development for Christians reintegrating into society upon exiting the criminal justice system.
Care of neglected children
A state of texas licensed foster care and adoption agency that identifies and provides approved healing foster homes for children.
The church exists to glorify God and make disciples of Jesus Christ
To educate students with the transforming truth of christ, inspiring academic excellence, godly character, and integrity in life pursuits.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas Baptist Home for Children and the most unlike its peers is The Patricia Arscott La Farge Foundation for Folk Art Inc. 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.
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 field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
378 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. 378 of the 541 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 BETHESDA HEALTH CLINIC ↗
- Who funds ALCOR LIFE EXTENSION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MENTORING ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds BETTERHUMANS INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds EAST TEXAS CRISIS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER OF SMITH COUNTY ↗
- Who funds PATH - PEOPLE ATTEMPTING TO HELP ↗
- Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
- Who funds KHAN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL EAST TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds CHRISTUS-TRINITY MOTHER FRANCES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Tyler Achievement Center for Kids Starbrite Therapeutic Equestrian Center ↗
- Who funds EDUCATIONAL RADIO FOUNDATION OF EAST TEXAS ↗
- Who funds EAST TEXAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds XTRA MILE RECOVERY ASSISTANCE ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY PLACE INC DBA THE DISCOVERY SCIENCE PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds EAST TEXAS VETERANS COMMUNITY COUNCIL CAMP V ↗
- Who funds MICHAEL GOTT INTERNATIONAL EVANGELISTIC MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds AZLEWAY INC ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds PROMISE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF EAST TEXAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EAST TEXAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds WOMENS FUND OF SMITH COUNTY ↗
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: Ben and Maytee Fisch Foundation · A S Genecov Foundation · Hibbs Family Foundation · The Rogers Foundation · James I Perkins Family Foundation · Mother Frances Hospital Regional Health Care Center · The Louis and Peaches Owen Family Foundation · Riter Family Foundation · The Crain Foundation · Rosa May Griffin Foundation · Womens Fund of Smith County · The Junior League of Tyler Inc
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 East Texas Communities 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.
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.