· Public charity
Farmers Electric Charitable Foundation
The accumulation of and disbursement of funds for charitable purposes in the counties comprising the service territory of farmers electric cooperative, inc.
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 18 grants below total $265,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $517,066 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $251,566 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 $10k7 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $210k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROCKWALL COUNTY HELPING HANDS INC | $45,000 |
| WYLIE CHRISTIAN CARE CENTER | $35,000 |
| LAKE AREA SHARED MINISTRIES | $25,000 |
| HUNT COUNTY SHARED MINISTRIES INC | $22,500 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY OF KAUFMAN | $15,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS ROCKWALL COUNTY | $14,500 |
| COVENTRY RESERVE | $13,000 |
| RAINS YOUTH SPORTS ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| RAINS CO GOOD SAMARITANS | $10,000 |
| HOPE FOR THE CITIES | $10,000 |
| FARMERS ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC | $10,000 |
| SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT PAUL | $9,000 |
| AMAZING GRACE FOOD PANTRY | $9,000 |
| COMMUNITY SEEDS | $8,000 |
| EMPOWER 7 INC | $8,000 |
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, $373k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 27% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +67% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 3 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- LALAKE AREA SHARED MINISTRIES8× · 2017–2024 · $193k · revenue +56% · 31% of their budget
- HCHUNT COUNTY SHARED MINISTRIES INC7× · 2017–2024 · $123k · revenue +33%
- RCROCKWALL COUNTY HELPING HANDS INC5× · 2018–2024 · $113k · revenue +97%
Funded once
- HCHOPKINS COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK INC DBA CANHELPgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +60%
- HCHUNT COUNTY KIDS INCone grant, 2018 · $6k · revenue +14%
- HAHELP A CHILD BENEFITone grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue +22%
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 food and clothing to homeless in Dallas and Carrolton area
Assist residents and transients of Smith County with basic needs, including food, clothing, and emergency utility assistance
Benevolence to community families
Provide assistance to residents of Kaufman County, Texas particularly focused in the Crandall area. We provide food, clothing, household items, and faith based counseling and intercessory prayer.
Provide basic food essentials to individuals and families in need in local community through voluntary contributions from individuals and organiztions.
To share Christ with others through serving those in need in the brazos valley and surrounding areas or wherever God leads and to bridge the gap by joining churches and other groups in serving together.
Assisting the poor and needy with food, clothing, medical , rent, and utilites.
Provide nutrition meals for communities in the Dallas/Ft Worth, Texas areas
North Dallas Food Pantry (DBA NTX Community Food Pantry) is dedicated to building relationships by sharing resources, hope and faith in a welcoming environment, with love and dignaty.
Food distribution to the needy
Meals for the elderly of crockett county, texas
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hunt County Shared Ministries Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wilbur J & Zelma M Smith Fbo Salvation Army. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 20 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 31% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 24 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 LAKE AREA SHARED MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds HUNT COUNTY SHARED MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKWALL COUNTY HELPING HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS SENIOR SERVICES ↗
- Who funds HOPKINS COUNTY COMMUNITY CHEST INC ↗
- Who funds COVENTRY RESERVE ↗
- Who funds RAINS COUNTY GOOD SAMARITANS ↗
- Who funds WILBUR J & ZELMA M SMITH FBO SALVATION ARMY ↗
- Who funds Amazing Grace Food Pantry ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESAN COUNCIL OF DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds FARMERS ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SEEDS ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COMMUNITY OUTREACH OF NORTH TEXAS ↗
- Who funds Hope For The Cities Inc ↗
- Who funds EMPOWER 7 INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER FOR ROCKWALL COUNTY ↗
- Who funds RAINS YOUTH SPORTS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HOPKINS COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK INC DBA CANHELP ↗
- Who funds ARK-TEX COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS ↗
- Who funds HUNT COUNTY KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds HELP A CHILD BENEFIT ↗
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: North Texas Food Bank · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Farmers Electric Charitable 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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