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Good Bourbon for a Good Cause
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What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k1 grant · $36k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $387k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY FOUNATION OF TEXAS | $113,525 |
| TEXAS PARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION | $80,000 |
| JOHNSON CITY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $68,926 |
| STONEWALL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $68,926 |
| TEXAS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION | $55,539 |
| THE UNIVERSTITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC | $35,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 42% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 0% since the first grant, against -53% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $138k 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
- ANADMIRAL NIMITZ FOUNDATION3× · 2021–2024 · $203k · revenue +75%
- TRTEAM RUBICON INC2× · 2020–2021 · $155k · revenue -17%
PARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF TEXAS2× · 2024–2025 · $102k · revenue 0%
Funded once
- TRTEXAS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2020 · $24k
- SSSouthern Smoke Foundationone grant, 2020 · $24k · revenue -64%
- HPHYE PRESERVATION SOCIETYone grant, 2021 · $20k
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.
Promote the restaurant industry
To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.
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
Texas Food & Wine Alliance is dedicated to fostering awareness and innovation in the Texas culinary community through grants, educational programing, and events.
Fire protection services
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.
Texas association of first responders' mission is to honor those who serve our communities and ensure the safety and well being of our citizens.
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…
Tscra disaster relief fund provides assistance and relief for individual ranchers and landowners in response to natural disasters.
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…
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.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country Inc and 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.
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, 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; 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 ADMIRAL NIMITZ FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC ↗
- Who funds PARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNSON CITY VOL FIRE DEPT ↗
- Who funds STONEWALL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds Southern Smoke Foundation ↗
- Who funds CANDLELIGHT RANCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PATRIOTS' HALL OF DRIPPING SPRINGS ↗
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.
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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 Good Bourbon for a Good Cause 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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