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East Texas Communities Foundation

Philanthropy builds community and changes lives.

$17M
Granted FY2024still arriving
253
Grants FY2024still arriving
17
States reached
$4.1M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$23MReligion$20MEducation$17MHuman Services$7.4MYouth Development$7.2MArts & Culture$4.5MInternational$2.1MFood & Nutrition$2.0MOther$0
02FY2024 · 253 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 253 grants below total $15,421,546, the rows itemized in this filing. The $17,333,866 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,912,320 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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
$15,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$130M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Pleasant Hills Child Home AOG: $34k → 16%The Evangel Luth Gd Samar Soc: $160k → 14%Our Calling: $80k → 14%Our Calling: $50k → 14%Our Calling: $50k → 14%Our Calling: $40k → 14%Buckner Children & Family Svc: $58k → 16%Buckner Children & Family Svc: $40k → 16%BUCKNER FOUNDATION: $205k → 14%Buckner Children & Family Svc: $30k → 16%Azleway Inc: $232k → 12%Azleway Inc: $137k → 12%Azleway Inc: $109k → 12%Azleway Inc: $48k → 12%Azleway Inc: $39k → 12%PATH: $290k → 12%PATH: $207k → 12%PATH: $158k → 12%PATH: $141k → 12%PATH: $110k → 12%PATH: $108k → 12%St Paul Childrens Services: $55k → 12%St Paul Childrens Foundatio: $42k → 12%PATH: $37k → 12%PATH: $37k → 12%St Paul Childrens Foundatio: $33k → 12%St Paul Childrens Foundatio: $29k → 12%St Paul Childrens Services: $28k → 12%East Texas Crisis Center: $351k → 12%East Texas Crisis Center: $325k → 12%East Texas Crisis Center: $285k → 12%East Texas Crisis Center: $260k → 12%East Texas Crisis Center: $243k → 12%Selah Life Choices: $125k → 12%Selah Life Choices: $88k → 12%Miracle League of Tyler: $70k → 12%East Texas Crisis Center: $42k → 12%East Texas Crisis Center: $40k → 12%East Texas Crisis Center: $37k → 12%Rock of Living Waters Ministr: $28k → 12%Breckenridge Village of Tyler: $123k → 12%Breckinridge Village of Tyler: $123k → 12%Breckinridge Village of Tyler: $39k → 12%Young Audiences of NE Tex: $39k → 12%Young Audiences of NE Tex: $37k → 12%Young Audiences of NE Tex: $34k → 12%Young Audiences of NE TX Inc: $32k → 12%Young Audiences of NE Tex: $28k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MT
MN
IL
MI
NY
OR
NV
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
LA
MS
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$78M · 307 repeat orgs$12M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +13% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

307
185

Total granted

$78M
$11M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+13%

Still filing today

71%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $834k 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 ServicesEducationHealthReligionArts & CultureAnimalsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • BH
    BETHESDA HEALTH CLINIC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $5.1M · revenue +286% · 38% of their budget
  • MA
    MENTORING ALLIANCE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $5.0M · revenue +287% · 34% of their budget
  • TW
    TEXAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • AL
    ALCOR LIFE EXTENSION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $5.0M · revenue -44% · 70% of their budget
  • KA
    KHAN ACADEMY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $1.0M · revenue +98%
  • AC
    AUSTIN COLLEGE
    one grant, 2018 · $865k · revenue -10%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Texas Christian Foundation

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.

Philanthropy
2
Central Texas Children's Home

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.

Human Services
3
Union Gospel Mission of Tarrant County

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.

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4
The Learning Institute of Texas

To provide educational and humanitarian services to those in need for the purpose of advancing Christian values in the United States and other nations

Education
5
The Retreat Home for Children

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.

Crime & Legal
6
Texas Foster Care & Adoption Serv

A state of texas licensed foster care and adoption agency that identifies and provides approved healing foster homes for children.

Human Services
7
Texas Girls and Boys Ranch

Sharing jesus, healing hearts, transforming lives.

Human Services
8
Texas Reach Out Inc

Provides housing and spiritual development for Christians reintegrating into society upon exiting the criminal justice system.

Health
9
Texarkana Baptist Orphanage

Care of neglected children

Human Services
10
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
11
Faith Bible Church Atx

The church exists to glorify God and make disciples of Jesus Christ

Religion
12
Texas Baptist Children's Home Inc

Texas baptist children's home embraces children and families in need in order to empower and equip them for a promising future.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas Baptist Home for Children; 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.
04the grantee network

378 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

29
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
88
Early backer (in before they grew)
361/378
Grantees still filing
245/378
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT TYLER: $5,877,790 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT TYLERSAINT PAUL LUTHERAN CHURCH: $3,222,368 · OtherSAINT PAUL LUTHERAN CHURCHGRACE COMMUNITY: $1,855,919 · Other+117 more: $31,543,465 · Other+117 moreBETHESDA HEALTH CLINIC: $5,052,073 · HealthBETHESDA HEALTH C…BETTERHUMANS INC: $4,550,000 · HealthBETTERHUMANS INCXTRA MILE RECOVERY ASSISTANCE: $810,000 · HealthXTRA MILE RECOVER…HOSPICE OF EAST TEXAS FOUNDATION: $532,029 · HealthNYU LANGONE HOSPITALS: $450,000 · Health+13 more: $1,557,048 · Health+13 moreTEXAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $2,257,932 · EducationTEXAS WESLE…Southern Methodist University: $1,047,000 · EducationSouthern Me…KHAN ACADEMY INC: $1,001,000 · EducationKHAN ACADEM…AUSTIN COLLEGE: $864,861 · EducationAUSTIN COLL…PROMISE ACADEMY: $551,472 · EducationPROMISE ACA…EAST TEXAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $526,237 · EducationEAST TEXAS …TYLER JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $389,917 · Education+18 more: $2,281,172 · Education+18 moreMENTORING ALLIANCE: $4,998,691 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG LIFE: $988,310 · Youth Development+2 more: $200,541 · Youth DevelopmentEAST TEXAS CRISIS CENTER INC: $1,582,702 · Human ServicesPATH - PEOPLE ATTEMPTING TO HELP: $1,088,128 · Human ServicesAZLEWAY INC: $616,604 · Human ServicesBreckenridge Village: $312,628 · Human ServicesST PAUL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $278,248 · Human ServicesOURCALLING INC: $250,000 · Human ServicesBUCKNER FOUNDATION INC: $227,386 · Human ServicesYoung Audiences of Northeast Texas Inc: $219,080 · Human ServicesSELAH LIFE CHOICES INC: $213,223 · Human ServicesEAST TEXAS ORPHAN CARE NETWORK INC DBA THE FOSTERING COLLECTIVE: $206,235 · Human Services+11 more: $1,178,281 · Human ServicesALCOR LIFE EXTENSION FOUNDATION: $5,000,000 · Science & TechEDUCATIONAL RADIO FOUNDATION OF EAST TEXAS: $840,500 · Arts & CultureEAST TEXAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC: $820,215 · Arts & CultureDISCOVERY PLACE INC DBA THE DISCOVERY SCIENCE PLACE INC: $795,394 · Arts & CultureTYLER MUSEUM OF ART: $371,849 · Arts & CultureTyler Civic Theatre Inc: $214,696 · Arts & CultureTEXAS SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL FOUNDATION: $145,130 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $436,896 · Arts & Culture
Other$42,499,542Health$12,951,150Education$8,919,591Youth Development$6,187,542Human Services$6,172,515Science & Tech$5,000,000Arts & Culture$3,624,680

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBETHESDA HEALTH CLINIC: $5,052,073 over 8y, 38% of budgetALCOR LIFE EXTENSION FOUNDATION: $5,000,000 over 1y, 70% of budgetMENTORING ALLIANCE: $4,998,691 over 8y, 34% of budgetBETTERHUMANS INC: $4,550,000 over 5y, 70% of budgetTEXAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $2,257,932 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetEAST TEXAS CRISIS CENTER INC: $1,582,702 over 8y, 19% of budgetCHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,334,573 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER OF SMITH COUNTY: $1,240,267 over 8y, 11% of budgetPATH - PEOPLE ATTEMPTING TO HELP: $1,088,128 over 8y, 13% of budgetSouthern Methodist University: $1,047,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetKHAN ACADEMY INC: $1,001,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $988,310 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetREGIONAL EAST TEXAS FOOD BANK: $964,243 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetCHRISTUS-TRINITY MOTHER FRANCES FOUNDATION: $954,444 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetAUSTIN COLLEGE: $864,861 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTyler Achievement Center for Kids Starbrite Therapeutic Equestrian Center: $861,169 over 5y, 41% of budgetEDUCATIONAL RADIO FOUNDATION OF EAST TEXAS: $840,500 over 7y, 6.7% of budgetEAST TEXAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC: $820,215 over 8y, 14% of budgetXTRA MILE RECOVERY ASSISTANCE: $810,000 over 4y, 72% of budgetDISCOVERY PLACE INC DBA THE DISCOVERY SCIENCE PLACE INC: $795,394 over 8y, 51% of budgetEAST TEXAS VETERANS COMMUNITY COUNCIL CAMP V: $676,578 over 6y, 26% of budgetMICHAEL GOTT INTERNATIONAL EVANGELISTIC MINISTRIES: $620,000 over 7y, 13% of budgetAZLEWAY INC: $616,604 over 8y, 5.9% of budgetNorthwestern University: $600,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROMISE ACADEMY: $551,472 over 8y, 12% of budgetHOSPICE OF EAST TEXAS FOUNDATION: $532,029 over 8y, 7.6% of budgetEAST TEXAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $526,237 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $515,535 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWOMENS FUND OF SMITH COUNTY: $506,447 over 8y, 20% of budgetNORTHEAST TEXAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $490,191 over 8y, 4.4% of budgetNYU LANGONE HOSPITALS: $450,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE OF EAST TEXAS: $445,160 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetHIWAY 80 RESCUE MISSION: $439,797 over 8y, 5.0% of budgetHUMAN AGE REVERSAL PROJECT INC: $410,000 over 1y, 60% of budgetTITUS COUNTY CARES INC DBA TITUS COUNTY CARES: $406,330 over 8y, 13% of budgetTYLER JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $389,917 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetTYLER MUSEUM OF ART: $371,849 over 8y, 8.8% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS MINISTRY INC: $333,320 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT TYLER FOUNDATION: $319,545 over 6y, 43% of budgetBreckenridge Village: $312,628 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetDiboll Christian Outreach: $305,000 over 5y, 71% of budgetMOSAIC COUNSELING CENTERS OF EAST TEXAS INC: $280,879 over 8y, 4.5% of budgetST PAUL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $278,248 over 8y, 4.4% of budgetALZHEIMERS ALLIANCE OF NORTHEAST TEXAS dba ALZHEIMERS ALLIANCE OF SMITH COUNTY: $266,399 over 8y, 9.3% of budgetOURCALLING INC: $250,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetBaylor Health Care System Foundation: $249,550 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BROOK HILL SCHOOL INC: $249,081 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetKINGS ACADEMY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC: $242,172 over 5y, 6.5% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗

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.

Ben and Maytee Fisch …A S Genecov FoundationHibbs Family Foundati…The Rogers FoundationJames I Perkins Famil…Mother Frances Hospit…The Louis and Peaches…Riter Family Foundati…The Crain FoundationRosa May Griffin Foun…Womens Fund of Smith …The Junior League of …
Ben and Maytee Fisch FoundationTX94.2× affinity46 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization East Texas Communities Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from East Texas Communities Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    5get no government money at all
    38report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 541 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 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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