· Public charity
Greater Ennis United Way
To improve the quality of life of all people by responding to priority health and human service needs through gathering and distributing community resources in an efficient and accountable manner.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 6 grants below total $229,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $238,220 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $9,220 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $106k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $115k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ENNIS | $115,000 |
| ENNIS GOLDEN CIRCLE SENIOR ACTIVITY CENTER | $40,000 |
| HELPING HANDS OF ENNIS | $30,000 |
| A-CROSS | $21,000 |
| ELLIS COUNTY CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER | $15,000 |
| GIVE-A-KID-A-CHANCE | $8,000 |
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 (FY17–22, $352k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
9 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ENNIS9× · 2017–2025 · $824k · revenue +30%
- HHHELPING HANDS OF ENNIS INC8× · 2017–2025 · $392k · revenue +237%
- ACA Christian Response of Shelter And Service9× · 2017–2025 · $317k · revenue +64% · 26% of their budget
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF THE ENNIS PUBLIC LIBRARYone grant, 2023 · $7k
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.
Our goal is to provide a comfortable place for seniors to congregate to have a meal, participate in card games, board games, watch TV, or simply sit and chat or read. Additional activities will be offered such as lunch and a movie or…
Provide basic food essentials to individuals and families in need in local community through voluntary contributions from individuals and organiztions.
Provide meals on wheels, congregate meals, and recreational facility for elderly and low income persons of dawson county texas.
Meals for the elderly of crockett county, texas
The Muleshoe Meals on Wheels purpose is to engage in all activities necessary, useful, or expedient, through operative measures and active organizations, to promote and further the interests of the Senior citizens of the area. The purpose…
End homelessness in East Texas, & Community Collaboration
Provide Senior Citizens daily activity programs and nutrition. A thrift shop is operated to partially support the activities.
Provide home delivered meals and transportation services free of charge
Offers programs & services to older persons such as meals, house keeping, yard work, public transportation, and social activities.
To assist Veterans of all ages & service era & their families navigate through the network of public & private agencies to obtain assistance service & support to establish & maintain productive lifestyles within the North Texas communities.
Provide activities, essential services and assistance for 30 to 40 senior citizens 5 days a week 5 days a week. this includes: meals and social activities, such as dancing, bingo, movies.
Meals and transportation for elderly of erath county
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Meals On Wheels North Central Texas Inc and the most unlike its peers is A Christian Response of Shelter and Service. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 10 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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ENNIS ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS OF ENNIS INC ↗
- Who funds A Christian Response of Shelter And Service ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN CIRCLE ACTIVITIES CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ELLIS COUNTY CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds RUNNIN FREE RANCH ↗
- Who funds MISSION ENNIS BRIDGE BUILDERS ↗
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: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Greater Ennis United Way 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.