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Etx Successor System

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$250k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
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States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
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What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Education$3.2MHealth$582kHuman Services$310kCrime & Legal$100kHousing & Shelter$60kFood & Nutrition$60kCommunity Improvement$25k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$250,000
Median grant
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States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT TYLER$250,000
02The need
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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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $155k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%St Paul Children's Services: $100k → 12%PATH: $25k → 12%East Texas Human Needs Network: $30k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your field

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.

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East Texas Community Health Services Inc

Operate a primary health care clinic for the care and treatment of sick, injured, afflicted, infirm, disabled or destitute.

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Your Health Clinic

Empowering north texans to optimize health through outreach, education, prevention, evidence-based interventions, integration, and quality measurement.

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Ellis County Coalition for Health Options Inc dba Hope Health

Provide health, dental and behavioral health care services along with educational information on these services to the local community and indigent citizens of ellis county, texas and surrounding areas regardless of ability to pay.

Health
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Mental Health Connection Tarrant Ct

The organization is a collaboration of agencies working to revolutionize the mental health services delivery system in tarrant county, tx by developing long-term plans and providing solutions.

Human Services
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Tapestry Counseling of East Texas Inc

Faith-based counseling and community education

Religion
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Tejas Health Care

To provide primary health and dental care to the underserved of fayette and lee counties, texas.

Health
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Health Center of Southeast Texas

Our mission is to provide accessible, compassionate, culturally competent, and quality health care, affordable for all, regardless of ability to pay.

Health
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Health Services of North Texas Inc

Hsnt is committed to providing quality, affordable healthcare for the entire family from newborns to seniors, including prenatal care, women's health, behavioral health, a robust pediatric program, prescription assistance and infectious…

Health
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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
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Texas Community Counseling

When care is within reach, lives change. Texas Community Counseling is a faith-based nonprofit committed to bringing hope and healing through mental health care to the communities that need it the most. We empower individuals to heal,…

Human Services
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South Central Houston Action Council Inc

The organization provides medical services in the form of primary and preventive care to underserved and underinsured residents of harris county.

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Eastland County Crisis Center Inc

To provide services designed to meet the physical, social, and emotional needs of domestic violence and sexual assault victims by providing for immediate, short, and long-term needs.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is East Texas Community Clinic Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kourage Health 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

19 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. 19 of the 26 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.

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Grantees still filing
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Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

The University of TX Health Science — $2,000,000 · OtherThe University of TX Health ScienceTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT TYLER — $1,076,200 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT TYLERNortheast Texas Public Health Distr — $129,000 · Other+7 more — $310,268 · Other+7 moreBETHESDA HEALTH CLINIC — $100,000 · HealthMOSAIC COUNSELING CENTERS OF EAST TEXAS INC — $100,000 · HealthNEXT STEP COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS — $100,000 · HealthFORM COMMUNITIES INC — $37,500 · Health+1 more — $5,000 · HealthEAST TEXAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY — $100,000 · EducationSMITH COUNTY CHAMPIONS FOR CHILDREN INC — $39,000 · EducationTYLER JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $10,000 · EducationTEXAS COLLEGE — $10,000 · EducationST PAUL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — $99,936 · Human ServicesEAST TEXAS HUMAN NEEDS NETWORK — $30,000 · Human ServicesPATH - PEOPLE ATTEMPTING TO HELP — $25,000 · Human ServicesCHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER OF SMITH COUNTY — $100,000 · Crime & LegalMENTORING ALLIANCE — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentHabitat for Humanity of Smith County — $30,420 · Housing & ShelterMEALS ON WHEELS MINISTRY INC — $30,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$3,515,468Health$342,500Education$159,000Human Services$154,936Crime & Legal$100,000Youth Development$50,000Housing & Shelter$30,420Food & Nutrition$30,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBETHESDA HEALTH CLINIC — $100,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetEAST TEXAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY — $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEXT STEP COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS — $100,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetCHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER OF SMITH COUNTY — $100,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetST PAUL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — $99,936 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetEAST TEXAS COMMUNITY CLINIC INC — $83,333 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetMENTORING ALLIANCE — $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSMITH COUNTY CHAMPIONS FOR CHILDREN INC — $39,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetFORM COMMUNITIES INC — $37,500 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of Smith County — $30,420 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetEAST TEXAS CARES RESOURCE CENTER — $30,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetEAST TEXAS HUMAN NEEDS NETWORK — $30,000 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetREGIONAL EAST TEXAS FOOD BANK — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS MINISTRY INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPATH - PEOPLE ATTEMPTING TO HELP — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTYLER JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTEXAS COLLEGE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKOURAGE HEALTH INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budget
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.

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.

Ben and Maytee Fisch …East Texas Communitie…The Junior League of …Riter Family Foundati…The Louis and Peaches…Bob L Herd FoundationThe Rogers FoundationA S Genecov FoundationJames I Perkins Famil…Womens Fund of Smith …United Way of Smith C…Hibbs Family Foundati…
Ben and Maytee Fisch FoundationTX32.6× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ben and Maytee Fisch Foundation · East Texas Communities Foundation · The Junior League of Tyler Inc · Riter Family Foundation · The Louis and Peaches Owen Family Foundation · Bob L Herd Foundation · The Rogers Foundation · A S Genecov Foundation · James I Perkins Family Foundation · Womens Fund of Smith County · United Way of Smith County · Hibbs Family 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 Etx Successor System 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.

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no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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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    How do I get to Etx Successor System?

    Find your warmest path to Etx Successor System through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 26 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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