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Good Bourbon for a Good Cause

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$422k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$114k
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, FY2020 to 2025.

Public Safety & Disaster$292kArts & Culture$246kPhilanthropy$114kEnvironment$102kEducation$73kEmployment$69kFood & Nutrition$24kInternational$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $36k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $387k
$68,926
Median grant
1
States reached
$138k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITY FOUNATION OF TEXAS$113,525
TEXAS PARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION$80,000
STONEWALL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT$68,926
JOHNSON CITY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT$68,926
TEXAS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION$55,539
THE UNIVERSTITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC$35,500
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 42% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 12%TEAM RUBICON: $128k → 14%JOHNSON CITY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $69k → 8%CANDLE LIGHT RANCH: $10k → 9%ADMIRAL NIMITZ FOUNDATION: $135k → 10%PATRIOTS' HALL OF DRIPPING SPRINGS: $10k → 10%THE UNIVERSTITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC: $38k → 10%COMMUNITY FOUNATION OF TEXAS: $114k → 13%TEXAS PARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION: $80k → 14%MEMORIAL EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $15k → 19%TEAM RUBICON: $27k → 14%HYE PRESERVATION SOCIETY: $20k → 8%ADMIRAL NIMITZ FOUNDATION: $62k → 10%THE UNIVERSTITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC: $36k → 10%TEXAS PARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION: $22k → 14%ADMIRAL NIMITZ FOUNADATION: $6k → 10%TEXAS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION: $56k → 10%STONEWALL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $69k → 10%TEXAS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION: $14k → 10%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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$602k · 5 repeat orgs$240k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue 0% since the first grant, against -53% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
6

Total granted

$602k
$102k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
-53%

Still filing today

100%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $138k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Public Safety & DisasterArts & CulturePublic BenefitEnvironmentEducationRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • AN
    ADMIRAL NIMITZ FOUNDATION
    3× · 2021–2024 · $203k · revenue +75%
  • TR
    TEAM RUBICON INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $155k · revenue -17%
  • PARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF TEXAS
    2× · 2024–2025 · $102k · revenue 0%

Funded once

  • TR
    TEXAS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2020 · $24k
  • SS
    Southern Smoke Foundation
    one grant, 2020 · $24k · revenue -64%
  • HP
    HYE PRESERVATION SOCIETY
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
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
Texas Restaurant Association - Dallas Chapter

Promote the restaurant industry

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2
Texas a&M Research Foundation

To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.

Education
3
The Range Foundation

The range foundation exists to advance education, research, and public benefit activities that support the mission of the range 501(c)(6) in driving innovation and sustainable development in the texas panhandle

Food & Nutrition
4
Texas Food & Wine Alliance fka Austin F&W Alliance

Texas Food & Wine Alliance is dedicated to fostering awareness and innovation in the Texas culinary community through grants, educational programing, and events.

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5
Danbury Volunteer Fire Department

Fire protection services

Health
6
Tscra Special Ranger Foundation

To aid the citizens of texas and oklahoma and law enforcement through investigation of property crimes, citizen assistance in the wake of natural disasters, and education on agricultural safety and security.

Public Safety & Disaster
7
Texas Association of First Responders

Texas association of first responders' mission is to honor those who serve our communities and ensure the safety and well being of our citizens.

Human Services
8
Texas Water Foundation

Texas water foundation is a statewide nonprofit that provides educational resources and educational services on water in texas for decision makers, water professionals, and everyday texans. texas water foundation works in the areas of…

Environment
9
Tscra Disaster Relief Fund

Tscra disaster relief fund provides assistance and relief for individual ranchers and landowners in response to natural disasters.

Public Safety & Disaster
10
Texas Restaurant Association

To be the most trusted and indispensable partner for every foodservice operator in texas-championing their success through deep relationships, world-class advocacy, and unmatched resources-while building a thriving, inclusive, and…

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11
Texas Fire Museum Inc

The organization operates a fire museum and also maintains, repairs and restores historic fire vehicles and related equipment for various fire departments located around the country.

Arts & Culture
12
Texas State University Development Foundation

To support and further the mission of texas state university through the acceptance and investment of gifts established as endowments benefiting the students, faculty and staff.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country Inc; the most unlike its peers is Johnson City Vol Fire Dept. 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

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 14 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
3/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TEAM RUBICON INC: $154,505 · Public Safety & DisasterTEAM RUBICON INCSTONEWALL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $68,926 · Public Safety & DisasterSTONEWALL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMEN…JOHNSON CITY VOL FIRE DEPT: $68,926 · Public Safety & DisasterJOHNSON CITY VOL FIRE DEPTADMIRAL NIMITZ FOUNDATION: $202,816 · Arts & CultureADMIRAL NIMITZ FOUNDATIONSouthern Smoke Foundation: $23,500 · Arts & CultureSouthern Smoke FoundationTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC: $73,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY …TEXAS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION: $23,500 · OtherTEXAS RESTAURAN…HYE PRESERVATION SOCIETY: $20,000 · OtherHYE PRESERVATIO…MEMORIAL EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $15,000 · OtherMEMORIAL EPISCO…THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC: $113,525 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY…PARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF TEXAS: $102,153 · EnvironmentPARKS AND WI…TEXAS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $69,380 · EducationPATRIOTS' HALL OF DRIPPING SPRINGS: $10,000 · Public BenefitCANDLELIGHT RANCH FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Recreation & Sports
Public Safety & Disaster$292,357Arts & Culture$226,316Other$131,500Philanthropy$113,525Environment$102,153Education$69,380Public Benefit$10,000Recreation & Sports$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetADMIRAL NIMITZ FOUNDATION: $202,816 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetTEAM RUBICON INC: $154,505 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC: $113,525 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF TEXAS: $102,153 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC: $73,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTEXAS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $69,380 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetJOHNSON CITY VOL FIRE DEPT: $68,926 over 1y, 18% of budgetSouthern Smoke Foundation: $23,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPATRIOTS' HALL OF DRIPPING SPRINGS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCANDLELIGHT RANCH FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% 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.

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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 Good Bourbon for a Good Cause funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Good Bourbon for a Good Cause. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%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, FY20–24
    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

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    How do I get to Good Bourbon for a Good Cause?

    Find your warmest path to Good Bourbon for a Good Cause 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 14 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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