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· Public charity
Food Bank of West Central Texas
To procure and distribute nutritional food to qualified agencies that feed the hungry of West Central Texas.
$5.9M
Granted FY2024
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01What you fund
01beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
abileneministryacademicskillsresponsiblecaringlove
2019
abilenesocialcaringloveministryacademicskills
2020
mealsacademicskillsresponsiblecaringsocialcisco
2021
church pannutrtionalmobile pantrychurch pantpantrministry
2022
nutrtionalchurch panpantrchurch pantmobile pantryministry
2023
nutrtionalpantrmobile pantrychurch panchurch pantministryacademic
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
02FY2024
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
Grant detail is referenced in an attached schedule not included in the e-file. Total reported in the filing: $5,915,561.
$0
Median grant
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States reached
$15M
Total assets
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.
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, United Way ALICE — 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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Christian Homes of Abilene Inc
To change lives and build Christian families through maternity, foster, and adoption services.
Human Services
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Texoma Family Shelter
Provide assistance to those in need of shelter and food and assist them to prevent homelessness.
Human Services
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Meals On Wheels of Odessa Inc
Meals on Wheels of Odessa enables people to live with dignity by offering community support and sustenance through coordinated services.
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Hays County Food Bank
To alleviate hunger by distributing food to families who are food deprived through a network of volunteers and other agencies within Hays County.
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Tarrant Area Food Bank
Tarrant area food bank empowers communities to alleviate hunger and improve health.
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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
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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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Tillman County Food Bank
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Bastrop County Emergency Food Pantry
The mission of the Bastrop County Emergency Food Pantry and Support Center is to serve Bastrop County residents going through periods of transition by providing emergency food assistance, education and support.
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Texas County Food Pantry Inc
To provide assistance to individuals in need with USDA Community/Senior Box/Community-donated food distribution,homeless prevention (rent, utilities,lodging), transporation, clothing, household and emergency supplies, precriptions, and…
Unclassified
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Senior Citizens Services of Texarkana
Support Services for the elderly through nutritional assistance
Human Services
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Hereford Food Pantry
To provide food for less fortunate citizens of deaf smith county, texas
Philanthropy
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Christian Service Center of Abilene and the most unlike its peers is Hendrick Home for Children. 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 26 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
0.0%0/93
the rest of the field
8%
81/974
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.
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.
Community Foundation of AbileneTX68.2× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Abilene · Shelton Family Foundation · Barber Foundation · Dian Graves Owen Foundation · Greathouse Foundation · United Way of Abilene Inc · Joe E Davis Foundation · Abilene Christian University · The Legett Foundation · The James Foundation Charitable Trust · The Massey Family Charitable Trust · Kickapoo Springs 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.
04Through Plinth
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Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines