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Farmers Electric Charitable Foundation at a glance

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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.

$517k
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$45k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

Human Services$777kFood & Nutrition$277kReligion$147kHealth$27kCommunity Improvement$20kYouth Development$15kCrime & Legal$13kRecreation & Sports$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 18 grants below total $265,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $517,066 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $251,566 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 $10k7 grants · $56k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $210k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$234k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ROCKWALL COUNTY HELPING HANDS INC: $45k → 5%MEALS ON WHEELS ROCKWALL COUNTY: $35k → 5%HOPKINS COUNTY COMMUNITY CHEST: $15k → 13%ROCKWALL COUNTY HELPING HANDS INC: $30k → 5%HOPKINS COUNTY COMMUNITY CHEST: $15k → 13%ROCKWALL COUNTY HELPING HANDS INC: $18k → 5%HOPKINS COUNTY COMMUNITY CHEST: $15k → 13%RAINS COUNTY GOOD SAMARITANS: $10k → 14%MEALS ON WHEELS ROCKWALL COUNTY: $15k → 5%RAINS COUNTY GOOD SAMARITANS: $10k → 14%MEALS ON WHEELS ROCKWALL COUNTY: $14k → 5%RAINS CO GOOD SAMARITANS: $10k → 14%MEALS ON WHEELS ROCKWALL COUNTY: $13k → 5%RAINS COUNTY GOOD SAMARITANS: $10k → 14%MEALS ON WHEELS ROCKWALL COUNTY: $10k → 5%ROCKWALL COUNTY HELPING HANDS: $10k → 5%HUNT COUNTY KIDS INC: $6k → 13%RAINS CO GOOD SAMARITANS: $10k → 14%ROCKWALL COUNTY HELPING HANDS: $10k → 5%MEALS ON WHEELS ROCKWALL COUNTY: $7k → 5%HOPE FOR THE CITIES: $10k → 5%AMAZING GRACE FOOD PANTRY: $10k → 5%AMAZING GRACE FOOD PANTRY: $9k → 5%MEALS ON WHEELS ROCKWALL COUNTY: $6k → 5%MEALS ON WHEELS ROCKWALL COUNTY: $6k → 5%AMAZING GRACE FOOD PANTRY: $7k → 5%HOPE FOR THE CITIES: $7k → 5%AMAZING GRACE FOOD PANTRY: $6k → 5%AMAZING GRACE FOOD PANTRY: $6k → 5%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.
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 18 repeat orgs$47k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +67% since the first grant, against +22% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
3

Total granted

$1.2M
$22k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+67%
+22%

Still filing today

89%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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 ServicesPhilanthropyReligionEmploymentFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • LA
    LAKE AREA SHARED MINISTRIES
    8× · 2017–2024 · $193k · revenue +56% · 31% of their budget
  • HC
    HUNT COUNTY SHARED MINISTRIES INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $123k · revenue +33%
  • RC
    ROCKWALL COUNTY HELPING HANDS INC
    5× · 2018–2024 · $113k · revenue +97%

Funded once

  • HC
    HOPKINS COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK INC DBA CANHELPgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +60%
  • HC
    HUNT COUNTY KIDS INC
    one grant, 2018 · $6k · revenue +14%
  • HA
    HELP A CHILD BENEFIT
    one grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue +22%
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
Homeless Coalition of Dallas

Provide food and clothing to homeless in Dallas and Carrolton area

Human Services
2
Smith County Help Center Inc

Assist residents and transients of Smith County with basic needs, including food, clothing, and emergency utility assistance

Human Services
3
Lamar Area Christian Ministries Association

Benevolence to community families

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4
Jasons Center of Hope Inc

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.

Human Services
5
Tillman County Food Bank Foundation
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6
North East Texas Benevolence Inc

Provide basic food essentials to individuals and families in need in local community through voluntary contributions from individuals and organiztions.

Food & Nutrition
7
Bridge Ministries of Bryan Texas

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.

Religion
8
Dallas-High Shoals Christian Social Ministry Inc

Assisting the poor and needy with food, clothing, medical , rent, and utilites.

Human Services
9
Bread for Our Children

Provide nutrition meals for communities in the Dallas/Ft Worth, Texas areas

—
10
North Dallas Food Pantry

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.

Human Services
11
Hickory County Cares

Food distribution to the needy

Human Services
12
Helping Hands for the Elderly

Meals for the elderly of crockett county, texas

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hunt County Shared Ministries Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 24 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
16/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ROCKWALL COUNTY HELPING HANDS INC: $113,000 · Human ServicesROCKWALL COUNTY HELPING HANDS INCMEALS ON WHEELS SENIOR SERVICES: $104,500 · Human ServicesMEALS ON WHEELS SENIOR SERVICESHOPKINS COUNTY COMMUNITY CHEST INC: $88,188 · Human ServicesHOPKINS COUNTY COMMUNITY CHEST INCRAINS COUNTY GOOD SAMARITANS: $50,000 · Human ServicesRAINS COUNTY GOOD SAMARITANSAmazing Grace Food Pantry: $37,500 · Human ServicesAmazing Grace Food PantryHope For The Cities Inc: $17,000 · Human Services+1 more: $6,000 · Human ServicesWYLIE MINISTERIAL ALLIANCE: $260,000 · OtherWYLIE MINISTERIAL ALLIANCESOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESAN COUNCIL OF DALLAS INC: $31,000 · OtherSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOC…THE SALVATION ARMY: $30,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYFARMERS ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC: $20,000 · OtherTHE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER FOR ROCKWALL COUNTY: $13,000 · Other+4 more: $34,500 · Other+4 moreLAKE AREA SHARED MINISTRIES: $193,188 · ReligionLAKE AREA SHARED MINISTRIESHUNT COUNTY SHARED MINISTRIES INC: $122,688 · ReligionHUNT COUNTY SHARED MINISTRI…WILBUR J & ZELMA M SMITH FBO SALVATION ARMY: $45,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY SEEDS: $19,500 · PhilanthropyHELP A CHILD BENEFIT: $6,000 · PhilanthropyCOVENTRY RESERVE: $67,773 · EmploymentSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COMMUNITY OUTREACH OF NORTH TEXAS: $19,000 · Food & NutritionEMPOWER 7 INC: $15,000 · Youth Development
Human Services$416,188Other$388,500Religion$315,876Philanthropy$70,500Employment$67,773Food & Nutrition$19,000Youth Development$15,000

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 budgetLAKE AREA SHARED MINISTRIES: $193,188 over 8y, 31% of budgetHUNT COUNTY SHARED MINISTRIES INC: $122,688 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetROCKWALL COUNTY HELPING HANDS INC: $113,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS SENIOR SERVICES: $104,500 over 8y, 2.7% of budgetHOPKINS COUNTY COMMUNITY CHEST INC: $88,188 over 6y, 8.7% of budgetCOVENTRY RESERVE: $67,773 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetRAINS COUNTY GOOD SAMARITANS: $50,000 over 5y, 5.0% of budgetWILBUR J & ZELMA M SMITH FBO SALVATION ARMY: $45,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetAmazing Grace Food Pantry: $37,500 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESAN COUNCIL OF DALLAS INC: $31,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFARMERS ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY SEEDS: $19,500 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COMMUNITY OUTREACH OF NORTH TEXAS: $19,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetHope For The Cities Inc: $17,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetEMPOWER 7 INC: $15,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER FOR ROCKWALL COUNTY: $13,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetRAINS YOUTH SPORTS ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetHOPKINS COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK INC DBA CANHELP: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetARK-TEX COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHELP A CHILD BENEFIT: $6,000 over 1y, 4.4% 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.

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.

North Texas Food BankUnited Way of Metropo…Communities Foundatio…Texas Instruments Fou…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
North Texas Food BankTX19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Farmers Electric Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Farmers Electric Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Farmers Electric Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Farmers Electric Charitable Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 24 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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