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Gvec Charitable Foundation

To provide funding assistance to local non-profit groups and civic organizations for community development and improvement projects and provide assistance for low income individuals within the guadalupe valley electric cooperative service area.

$408k
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Public Safety & Disaster$558kRecreation & Sports$515kArts & Culture$316kHuman Services$232kEducation$195kHealth$182kCommunity Improvement$125kReligion$99kOther$0
02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 20 grants below total $368,078 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $407,735 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $39,657 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.

$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$181k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHISHOLM TRAIL HERITAGE MUSEUM$20,000
CITY OF NEW BERLIN$20,000
CUERO VFD$20,000
MEYERSVILLE ISD$20,000
COMAL COUNTY FAMILY VIOLENCE SHELTER$20,000
CITY OF CIBOLO$20,000
MARION VFD$20,000
YOAKUM ISD - HIGH SCHOOL$20,000
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS HALLETTSVILLE$20,000
GONZALES COUNTY VETERANS MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION$20,000
DEWITT MEDICAL FOUNDATION$20,000
NIXON METHODIST CHURCH$20,000
THOMPSONVILLE CEMETERY ASSOCIATION$19,461
ANDER-WESER VFD$18,283
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SAN ANTONIO AND GUADALUPE VALLEY$17,506
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–23, $63k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 13% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GUADALUPE VALLEY FAMILY VIOLENCE SHELTER: $15k → 10%YORKTOWN ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES: $8k → 20%TRULIGHT127 MINISTRIES INC: $20k → 10%CAMP CUMMINS ACTIVITY CENTER: $20k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

18%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$458k · 12 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

12 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
100

Total granted

$458k
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+11%

Still filing today

58%
49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 8% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $338k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Public Safety & DisasterArts & CultureHealthCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • DM
    DEWITT MEDICAL FOUNDATION
    2× · 2018–2021 · $40k · revenue +38% · 80% of their budget
  • YM
    YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SAN ANTONIO
    2× · 2017–2020 · $40k · revenue +7%
  • GR
    GUADALUPE REGIONAL MEDICAL FOUNDATION
    2× · 2018–2021 · $40k · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • PC
    PILOT CLUB INTERNATIONAL
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -6%
  • YA
    YOAKUM AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCEgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +68% · 30% of their budget
  • TD
    TEATRO DE ARTES DE JUAN SEGUIN
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +4%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Garrison Volunteer Fire Department

To provide fire and medical emergency services for the city of garrison, tx and the surrounding districts.

Public Safety & Disaster
2
Frelsburg Volunteer Fire Dept

Provide firefighting services for frelsburg, texas area.

Public Safety & Disaster
3
Hankamer Volunteer Fire Department

Provide fire fighting & ambulance service to hankamer, texas and surrounding areas.

Public Safety & Disaster
4
Scotland Volunteer Fire Department

Volunteer fire department

Public Safety & Disaster
5
Groom Volunteer Fire Department

Firesurpression,trainingandeducation.

Public Safety & Disaster
6
Tolar Volunteer Fire Department

Volunteer fire department organized to contain fires in and around the city of tolar, county of hood, texas

Human Services
7
Sand Hills Volunteer Fire Department Inc

To provide fire protection, education, emergency medical treatment and rescue services to approx 140 sq miles in guadalupe county texas.

Public Safety & Disaster
8
North Zulch Volunteer Fire Department

Provide fire, medical and mutual aid services.

Public Safety & Disaster
9
Yantis Volunteer Fire Department

To provide basic life support, fire protection, first response, medical emergency, and mutual aid in the community of Yantis, Texas and surrounding area of Wood County.

Public Safety & Disaster
10
Matador Motley County Volunteer Fire Department

Fire fighting and prevention

Public Safety & Disaster
11
Melvin Volunteer Fire Department Inc

Volunteer fire department

Public Safety & Disaster
12
South Brazos County Fire Department

Volunteer Fire Department, providing fire, rescue, and medical services to a population of approximately 22,000 residents, 24 hours per day, 365 days per year.

Public Safety & Disaster

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chisholm Trail Heritage Museum Inc and the most unlike its peers is Seguin-Guadalupe County Heritage Museum Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%4%<5yr14%7%5–10yr24%31%10–20yr12%29%20–35yr11%18%35–55yr15%12%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%5%<5yr14%7%5–10yr24%29%10–20yr12%29%20–35yr11%19%35–55yr15%12%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.8%1/130
the rest of the field
12%
144/1,221

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

65 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. 65 of the 130 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
64/65
Grantees still filing
36/65
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

+92 more — $1,775,690 · Other+92 moreOTTINE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT — $39,191 · Public Safety & DisasterOTTINE VOLU…McQueeney Volunteer Fire Department — $20,000 · Public Safety & DisasterMcQueeney V…HALLETTSVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT — $20,000 · Public Safety & DisasterHALLETTSVIL…MOULTON FIRE DEPARTMENT — $20,000 · Public Safety & DisasterMOULTON FIR…CUERO VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC — $20,000 · Public Safety & DisasterCUERO VOLUN…Yoakum Volunteer Fire Department — $20,000 · Public Safety & DisasterYoakum Volu…MARION VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT — $20,000 · Public Safety & DisasterMARION VOLU…GERONIMO VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC — $20,000 · Public Safety & DisasterGERONIMO VO…WAELDER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT — $20,000 · Public Safety & DisasterWAELDER VOL…SWEET HOME VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT — $20,000 · Public Safety & DisasterSWEET HOME …YORKTOWN FIREMANS ASSOCIATION — $20,000 · Public Safety & DisasterYORKTOWN FI…LAKE DUNLAP AREA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT — $11,770 · Public Safety & DisasterLa Vernia Historical Association — $40,000 · Arts & CultureTEATRO DE ARTES DE JUAN SEGUIN — $20,000 · Arts & CultureThe New Berlin Community Club of Ne — $20,000 · Arts & CultureTEXAS AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION & HERITAGE CENTER — $20,000 · Arts & CultureCHISHOLM TRAIL HERITAGE MUSEUM INC — $20,000 · Arts & CultureHABITABLE SPACES — $20,000 · Arts & CultureMARION COMMUNITY LIBRARY ASSOCIATION — $19,738 · Arts & CultureBARTOSKEWITZ FARM FOUNDATION — $12,000 · Arts & CultureYOAKUM HERITAGE MUSEUM — $7,808 · Arts & CultureDEWITT MEDICAL FOUNDATION — $40,000 · HealthGUADALUPE REGIONAL MEDICAL FOUNDATION — $40,000 · HealthTEXAS ELKS CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC — $19,521 · HealthFAMILY LINK TREATMENT SERVICES INC — $18,432 · HealthANDER-WESER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT — $18,283 · HealthRECOVERYWERKS — $14,633 · HealthYOAKUM AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $20,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS INC — $20,000 · Community ImprovementGREATER LA VERNIA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $20,000 · Community ImprovementMOULTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND AGRICULTURE INC — $10,282 · Community ImprovementCAMP CUMMINS ACTIVITY CENTER — $20,000 · Human ServicesTRULIGHT 127 MINISTRIES INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesGUADALUPE VALLEY FAMILY VIOLENCE SHELTER — $14,899 · Human ServicesYORKTOWN ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES — $8,000 · Human ServicesLITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL INC — $20,000 · Recreation & SportsSEGUIN-GUADALUPE COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER — $20,000 · Recreation & SportsLITTLE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL — $18,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$1,775,690Public Safety & Disaster$250,961Arts & Culture$179,546Health$150,869Community Improvement$70,282Human Services$62,899Recreation & Sports$58,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDEWITT MEDICAL FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 2y, 80% of budgetColumbus Club of Hallettsville Texas Inc — $40,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetLa Vernia Historical Association — $40,000 over 2y, 33% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SAN ANTONIO — $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGUADALUPE REGIONAL MEDICAL FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetGonzales County Senior Citizens Association Inc — $20,318 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetYOAKUM AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $20,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetCOMAL COUNTY FAMILY VIOLENCE SHELTER — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMcQueeney Volunteer Fire Department — $20,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetHALLETTSVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT — $20,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetThe New Berlin Community Club of Ne — $20,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetCAMP CUMMINS ACTIVITY CENTER — $20,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetYORKTOWN WESTERN DAYS ASSOCIATION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetTEXAS AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION & HERITAGE CENTER — $20,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSEGUIN CONSERVATION SOCIETY — $20,000 over 1y, 39% of budgetLa Vernia Education Foundation — $20,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetGonzales Crystal Theater Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetMOULTON FIRE DEPARTMENT — $20,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetSS AMERICAN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 35% of budgetCUERO VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC — $20,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetYoakum Volunteer Fire Department — $20,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetTRULIGHT 127 MINISTRIES INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMARION VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT — $20,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetGERONIMO VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC — $20,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetYoakum Community Hospital — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY COUNCIL OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNew Berlin Volunteer Fire Depa — $20,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CUERO INC — $20,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetWAELDER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT — $20,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetCHISHOLM TRAIL HERITAGE MUSEUM INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSWEET HOME VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT — $20,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetYORKTOWN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE & AGRICULTURE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetSEGUIN-GUADALUPE COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER — $20,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetYORKTOWN FIREMANS ASSOCIATION — $20,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetHABITABLE SPACES — $20,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetGONZALES DOG ADOPTIONS INC — $20,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetMARION COMMUNITY LIBRARY ASSOCIATION — $19,738 over 1y, 17% of budgetTEXAS ELKS CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC — $19,521 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetFAMILY LINK TREATMENT SERVICES INC — $18,432 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetANDER-WESER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT — $18,283 over 1y, 15% of budgetLITTLE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL — $18,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SAN ANTONIO INC — $17,506 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGUADALUPE VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $16,612 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetYORK CREEK FIRE DEPARTMENT INC — $16,237 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetGONZALES REGIONAL CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC — $16,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetSEGUIN YOUTH SERVICES INC — $15,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetSEGUIN AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $15,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budget
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.

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.

Guadalupe County Unit…San Antonio Area Foun…Su-Cla FoundationHarvey E Najim Charit…Dickson-Allen Foundat…The Gvtc Foundation I…John L Santikos Chari…New Braunfels Area Co…San Antonio Food BankUnion Pacific Foundat…Greater Houston Commu…Enterprise Holdings F…
Guadalupe County United WayTX24.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Guadalupe County United Way · San Antonio Area Foundation · Su-Cla Foundation · Harvey E Najim Charitable Foundation · Dickson-Allen Foundation · The Gvtc Foundation Inc · John L Santikos Charitable Foundation · New Braunfels Area Community Foundation · San Antonio Food Bank · Union Pacific Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Enterprise Holdings 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 Gvec Charitable Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your 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
    21report 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

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 130 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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