· Private foundation
Gilbert & Thyra Plass Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $104k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BRAZOS VALLEY FOOD BANK INC | $10,000 |
| HOSPICE BRAZOS VALLEY INC | $7,000 |
| HEALTH FOR ALL CLINIC INC | $7,000 |
| TWIN CITY MISSION | $7,000 |
| ST ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $6,000 |
| REACH PROJECT | $5,000 |
| VOICES FOR CHILDREN INC | $5,000 |
| SCOTTYS HOUSE BRAZOS VALLEY CHILD ADVOCA | $5,000 |
| A HOPEFUL HARVEST | $5,000 |
| YOUTH INC | $5,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES CENTRAL | $5,000 |
| BRAZOS VALLEY REHABILITATION CENTER INC | $5,000 |
| TEXAS A&M FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| BRAZOS VALLEY SYMPHONY SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| COLLEGE STATION ISD EDUCATION FOUND INC | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $51k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 18%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.
25 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 7 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BVBRAZOS VALLEY FOOD BANK INC9× · 2017–2025 · $155k · revenue +39%
- TCTwin City Mission9× · 2017–2025 · $69k · revenue +35%
- BVBrazos Valley Symphony Society8× · 2017–2025 · $66k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITYone grant, 2022 · $5k
- RMRONALD McDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER NORTH TEXAS INCone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +17%
- SAST ANDREWS EPISCOPAL CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $5k
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.
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.
To provide quality services and products to the residents and businesses of our community in such a way as to maximize the affordability of safe and decent housing, especially for the low income; and to serve as a vehicle and assist in any…
To provide guidance and support for persons affected by alcohol and substance abuse.
To provide quality services and products to the residents and businesses of our communities in such a way as to maximize the affordability of safe and decent housing, especially for the low income; and to serve as a vehicle and assist in…
To provide financial support for the charitable programs and activities of Voices for Children, Inc. a nonprofit corporation 501(c)(3) that provides advocacy services to children in the child welfare system due to abuse and/or neglect.
The United Way of the Brazos Valley brings the community together to find solutions that change people's lives. UWBV will be the community leader and trusted partner that proactively seeks solutions to community-wide issues.
To provide community, life-long learning, and meaningful work for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Comprehensive service to domestic violence and sexual assault victims
To educate, unite and focus our community's resources in order to efficiently address the most critical needs of Brazoria County
To protect and enhance the quality of life for abused and neglected children in Medina, Real and Uvalde Counties of 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.
To promote the health, social, educational, vocational and character development of youth in and around Lamar County, Texas.
Provide reliable transportation to people in need.
How this is measured
26 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. 26 of the 44 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds BRAZOS VALLEY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Health for All Inc ↗
- Who funds Twin City Mission ↗
- Who funds Brazos Valley Symphony Society ↗
- Who funds Hospice Brazos Valley Inc ↗
- Who funds BRAZOS VALLEY REHABILITATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds Boys Club of Brazos County Inc ↗
- Who funds Brazos Maternal and Child Health Clinic ↗
- Who funds Brazos County Rape Crisis Center Inc ↗
- Who funds College Station ISD Education Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Brazos Valley Museum of Natural History ↗
- Who funds The Reach Project ↗
- Who funds YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds Childrens Museum of the Brazos Valley ↗
- Who funds Voices for Children Inc ↗
- Who funds BRYAN-COLLEGE STATION HABITAT FOR HUMANI ↗
- Who funds Unity Partners ↗
- Who funds RONALD McDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER NORTH TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds Scottys House Brazos Valley Child Advocacy Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Texas A&M Foundation ↗
- Who funds Aggieland Humane Society ↗
- Who funds BCS Together ↗
- Who funds BLUEBONNET EQUINE HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds S O S Ministries INC ↗
- Who funds Unlimited Potential Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Edge Eugene III Charitable Trust · Winkler Nina Astin Trust · Lucille and John B Dougherty Trust · Nina Heard Astin Charitable Trust · Orr Waldon H and Adele Charitable Trust · M Bookman Peters Charitable Foundation · Virginia & Christian Groneman Charitable · United Way of the Brazos Valley · Marshall and Ellen Peters Family Foundation · Mervin and Annete Peters Family Foundation · Clifton C & Henrietta C Doak Charitable · Bubba Moore Memorial Group Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Gilbert & Thyra Plass Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gilbert & Thyra Plass Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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