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Estill Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $215k
Largely a single collection — about 94% of reported assets are Mineral Interests.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOOD BANK OF THE GOLDEN CRESCENT | $30,000 |
| COASTAL BEND FOOD BANK | $30,000 |
| TEXSAR | $25,000 |
| GOOD SAMARITAN RESCUE MISSION | $20,000 |
| CORPUS CHRISTI HOPE HOUSE | $20,000 |
| CORPUS CHRISTI PREGNANCY CENTER | $20,000 |
| COMPASSIONATE CARE | $15,000 |
| FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE | $15,000 |
| COASTAL BEND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF THE COASTAL BEND | $10,000 |
| CAMP ARANZAZU | $10,000 |
| SCOUTING AMERICA - SO TEX COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| CORPUS CHRISTI EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CORPUS CHRISTI SAILING FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| ART MUSEUM OF SOUTH TEXAS | $1,500 |
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 (FY19–25, $130k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 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.
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 +32% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k 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
- CBCOASTAL BEND FOOD BANK7× · 2018–2025 · $258k · revenue +47%
- TCTHE COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF VICTORIA DBA FOOD BANK OF THE GOLDEN CRESCENT6× · 2018–2025 · $243k · revenue +97%
- UWUNITED WAY OF THE COASTAL BEND INC6× · 2020–2025 · $133k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- CICOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLSone grant, 2023 · $30k
- RWROCKPORT WARRIORS UNITEDone grant, 2020 · $25k
- TMTIMON'S MINISTRIESone grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue +12%
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.
To provide service to people in need and to address social ills that undermind the dignity of the person. the ultimate goal of catholic charities is to create positive life changing opportunities for those in need without regard to color,…
The united corpus christi chamber of commerce is a member-driven organization whose principal mission is to foster business growth by advocating business issues, enhancing the business climate, and providing services to its members.
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 emergency/supplemental assistance in the form of food, clothing, household items, utility, rent and mortgage aid to people in need in the waco community.also provides case management assistance to people wanting to become…
To provide a home away from home for the thousands of foreign and domestic seafarers who call on the port of corpus christi.
The WTFB exists to collect, purchase, and distribute food to feed the hungry in 19 counties in West Texas in partnership with volunteers and community organizations and to educate these partners and the public at large about the real face…
To lead a unified effort for a hunger-free texas.
To procure and distribute nutritional food to qualified agencies that feed the hungry of West Central Texas.
Ywca corpus christi is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.
To serve as a clerainghouse for salvage and surplus food that otherwise might be wasted.
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.
Rescue neglected, unwanted homeless dogs and cats nurture and provide shelter until they are placed with a forever family strive to reduce animal overpopulation prevent cruelty to animals teach responsible pet ownership through an outreach…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Corpus Christi Hope House Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cattery Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
21 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. 21 of the 38 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 COASTAL BEND FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF VICTORIA DBA FOOD BANK OF THE GOLDEN CRESCENT ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE COASTAL BEND INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds COASTAL BEND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DEL MAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CORPUS CHRISTI HOPE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MISSION OF MERCY INC ↗
- Who funds MOTHER TERESA SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE ↗
- Who funds Camp Aranzazu Inc ↗
- Who funds TEXSAR INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKPORT WARRIORS UNITED ↗
- Who funds CORPUS CHRISTI PREGNANCY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TIMON'S MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds CORPUS CHRISTI EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CORPUS CHRISTI SAILING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TEXAS A&M-CORPUS CHRISTI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CATTERY INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S SHELTER OF SOUTH TEXAS ↗
- Who funds RISE SCHOOL OF CORPUS CHRISTI ↗
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: Ed Rachal Foundation · Coastal Bend Community Foundation · The John G and Marie Stella Kenedy Memorial Foundation · Behmann Brothers Foundation · Puente de Maravillas Foundation · Allen Lovelace Moore and Blanche Davis Moore Foundation · Laverne & Thomas Howell Foundation · Susser Family Foundation · United Way of the Coastal Bend Inc · Tres Grace Family Foundation · James R Dougherty Jr Foundation Inc · Gil and Dody Weaver 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 Estill 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.
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