· Private foundation
Graves Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $108k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MERCY SHIPS | $36,000 |
| CHRISTIAN OUTREACH FOOD MINISTRIES | $35,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $18,500 |
| JOSH HULME MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP | $18,000 |
| CROWELL METHODIST CHURCH | $9,000 |
| THE CENTER-PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER IN VERNON | $7,500 |
| CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY COMPASSION CENTER INC | $7,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF HARRISBURG IL | $4,000 |
| HARRISBURG MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL TEXAS | $1,000 |
| CREATED WITH PURPOSE OF WEST TEXAS | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 +118% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
Mercy Ships International4× · 2020–2024 · $199k · revenue +159%- TSTHE SOUTHEASTERN ILLINOIS COLLEGE FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2021 · $160k · revenue +104%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL TEXAS INC6× · 2017–2024 · $89k · revenue +118%
Funded once
- SISOUTHEAST ILLINOIS COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIPone grant, 2020 · $32k
- TOTHE OPPORTUNITY PLAN INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue +84%
- VCVERNON COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCORPORATEDone grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +7%
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.
To foster and support the activities and purposes of Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH), to encourage broad-based public support of the healthcare system and its affiliated institutions, and to advance the medical objectives, including…
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
To foster and support the activities and purposes of Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Brenham, to encourage broad-based public support of Baylor Scott & White Health, and to advance its medical objectives, including patient care, and…
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
It is the mission of the marshall hospital foundation to promote growth of gsmc-marshall through a broad-based program of funding and to support the hospitals mission to identify and provide exemplary healthcare in a safe and caring…
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
Operated exclusively for educational purposes specifically including to further educational activities at texas a& m university-central texas within the meaning of 501(c)(3).
Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Harrisburg Medical Center Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Ronald McDONALD House Charities of Greater North Texas Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 35 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 Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds THE SOUTHEASTERN ILLINOIS COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds THE OPPORTUNITY PLAN INC ↗
- Who funds VERNON COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Baylor Health Care System Foundation ↗
- Who funds INDIAN LAND TENURE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HARDEMAN COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Harrisburg Medical Center Foundation ↗
- Who funds RONALD McDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER NORTH TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds CREATED WITH PURPOSE OF WEST TEXAS ↗
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.
Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Graves Foundation Inc 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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