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Greater Fayette Community Foundatio

To serve the local community by providing a means to receive and distribute charitable funds based on the wishes of the donor and on the changing needs of the community.

$883k
Granted FY2024still arriving
34
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$85k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Health$237kArts & Culture$189kEducation$161kPublic Safety & Disaster$134kPhilanthropy$79kHuman Services$41kCommunity Improvement$35kReligion$31kOther$0
02FY2024 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 34 grants below total $644,004, the rows itemized in this filing. The $882,504 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $238,500 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k28 grants · $390k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $232k
$12,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ARTS FOR RURAL TEXAS$84,744
VARIOUS GRANTS 5000$78,686
BLINN COLLEGE$68,500
POWER 2 PROSPER COMMUNITY FOUDATION$22,500
BREAKING BREAD OUTREACH$22,500
BASTROP COUNTY AFRICAN AMERICAN FOU$22,500
ROUND TOP FESTIVAL INSTITUTE$21,200
FRIENDS OF MONUMENT HILL$20,000
GUIDING HEARTS$20,000
AMERICAN YOUTHWORKS$20,000
ALLURE ALLIANCE INC$20,000
SMITHVILLE WORKFORCE TRAINING$15,000
SCHULENBURG ISD$14,595
TURTLE WING FOUNDATION$13,500
DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION$12,500
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:

Its human-services grants (FY22–24, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ELGIN CARES ORGANIZATION: $10k → 12%ATAND LLC: $9k → 11%HOMELESS OUTREACH MITIGATION: $10k → 10%AMEN FOOD PANTRY: $6k → 11%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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 8% of Greater Fayette Community Foundatio’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 74% of the giving stays in TX; by stated purpose, 77%.

Greater Fayette Community Foundatiolessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

33%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$369k · 10 repeat orgs$765k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
11

Total granted

$369k
$379k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+38%

Still filing today

60%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $386k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyPublic BenefitOther
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

  • TW
    Turtle Wing Foundation
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +9%
  • THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $18k · revenue +14%
  • BB
    BUGLE BOY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $18k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $187k
  • HC
    HOSPITAL CENTER OF EXCELLENCE
    one grant, 2023 · $78k
  • FE
    FAYETTE EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICEgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue +30%
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
Greater Texas Foundation
Education
2
Texas Prairieland Foundation
Philanthropy
3
Lone Star Foundation
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4
Local North Texas Community Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
5
North Central Texas Medical Foundation
Health
6
Texas Bankers Foundation
Education
7
Disabled American Veterans of Texas Service Foundation
Human Services
8
Texas Trust Gives
Philanthropy
9
Festival of Texas Fiddling

The Festival of Texas Fiddling is dedicated to the preservation, presentation, and performance, and education about of all styles of fiddling and fiddle-associated music played historically and currently in the State of Texas.

Arts & Culture
10
Texas Intrastate Fire Mutual Aid System Foundation

Supporting the Texas Intrastate Fire Mutual Aid System

Public Safety & Disaster
11
Big Horn County Memorial Hospital Auxiliary
Health
12
Texas Flying Legends Museum
—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Art Guild of Fayetteville Texas; the most unlike its peers is Allure Alliance Inc Random Black Girls. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

27 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. 27 of the 46 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/27
Grantees still filing
13/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $186,742 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBLINN COLLEGE: $108,890 · OtherBLINN COLLEGEHOSPITAL CENTER OF EXCELLENCE: $77,500 · OtherHOSPITAL CENTER OF EXCELLENCEGUIDING HEARTS: $28,900 · Other+23 more: $297,010 · Other+23 moreGREATER FAYETTE COMMUNITY FOUNDATIO: $78,686 · PhilanthropyGREATER FAYETTE C…La Grange Lions Foundation LLC: $75,750 · PhilanthropyLa Grange Lions F…BUILDING RESILIENCE INCLUSION DIVERSITY & GROWTH THRU EDUCATION aka BRIDGE: $17,876 · PhilanthropyBUILDING RESILIEN…St Mark's Medical Center Foundation: $13,929 · PhilanthropySt Mark's Medical…ART GUILD OF FAYETTEVILLE TEXAS: $84,744 · Arts & CultureART GUILD OF…James Dick Foundation for the Performing Arts: $31,200 · Arts & CultureJames Dick F…BUGLE BOY FOUNDATION: $18,000 · Arts & CultureBUGLE BOY FO…Allure Alliance Inc Random Black Girls: $20,000 · EducationTurtle Wing Foundation: $19,500 · EducationSmithville Workforce Training Center: $15,000 · EducationLA GRANGE EDUC SUPPORT PROGRAM FND: $8,520 · EducationFAYETTE EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE: $40,000 · HealthOUTSIDERS ANONYMOUS: $10,000 · HealthRECOVERYWERKS: $10,000 · HealthWimberley Village Library Foundation: $36,000 · Public BenefitHomeless Outreach Mitigation and Emergency Center: $10,000 · Human ServicesELGIN CARES: $10,000 · Human ServicesAND THEN A NEW DAY: $8,650 · Human ServicesAREA MINISTRIES FOR EMERGENCY NEEDS: $6,000 · Human Services
Other$699,042Philanthropy$186,241Arts & Culture$133,944Education$63,020Health$60,000Public Benefit$36,000Human Services$34,650

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetART GUILD OF FAYETTEVILLE TEXAS: $84,744 over 1y, 31% of budgetGREATER FAYETTE COMMUNITY FOUNDATIO: $78,686 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetLa Grange Lions Foundation LLC: $75,750 over 5y, 21% of budgetFAYETTE EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE: $40,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWimberley Village Library Foundation: $36,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetJames Dick Foundation for the Performing Arts: $31,200 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF MONUMENT HILL & KREISCHE BREWERY STATE HISTORIC SITES: $20,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetAMERICAN YOUTHWORKS: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTurtle Wing Foundation: $19,500 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetTHE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION: $18,140 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBUGLE BOY FOUNDATION: $18,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetSmithville Workforce Training Center: $15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSt Mark's Medical Center Foundation: $13,929 over 1y, 78% of budgetHomeless Outreach Mitigation and Emergency Center: $10,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetRECOVERYWERKS: $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetHays Cares: $10,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetHays County Food Bank: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAND THEN A NEW DAY: $8,650 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetMULDOON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $7,281 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetYOSEMITE FOUNDATION: $6,150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAREA MINISTRIES FOR EMERGENCY NEEDS: $6,000 over 1y, 4.0% 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.

Fayette Resale Incorp…The Community Foundat…Austin Community Foun…The Stanzel Family Fo…The Burdine Johnson F…St David's FoundationTexas Mutual Insuranc…Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Fayette Resale IncorporatedTX26.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fayette Resale Incorporated · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Austin Community Foundation Inc · The Stanzel Family Foundation Inc · The Burdine Johnson Foundation · St David's Foundation · Texas Mutual Insurance Company · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Greater Fayette Community Foundatio funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Greater Fayette Community Foundatio. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Greater Fayette Community Foundatio?

    Find your warmest path to Greater Fayette Community Foundatio 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 46 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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