· Private foundation
H E and Ruby Pelz Tr 2
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARSHALL EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| EMPTY STOCKING FUND | $5,000 |
| TEXAS STATE TECH COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MARSHALL HARRISON CO LITERACY | $5,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $5,000 |
| TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $5,000 |
| TRINITY EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| SOCIETY OF ST STEPHENS | $5,000 |
| MICHELSON MUSEUM OF ART | $5,000 |
| MISSION MARSHALL | $5,000 |
| ETBU NURSING SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| HARRISON COUNT HISTORICAL MUSEUM | $3,500 |
| CASON WESTMORELAND FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES | $2,500 |
| MARSHALL REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 99% of your 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.
25 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- MMMichelson Museum of Art9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +50%
- MMMISSION MARSHALL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +29%
- TFTWELVE-WAY FOUNDATION INC4× · 2017–2020 · $20k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- CHCOMMUNITY HEALTH CORPone grant, 2017 · $3k
- FUFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $3k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $2k
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.
The purpose of the Foundation is to help in the education and training of young people in the West Texas area by providing support through scholarships and grants to worthy organizations and programs.
To promote tourism awareness in the city of denison, texas.
To provide resources to those in need in rual county, texas.to promote forums and studies in the areas of art, music,literary appreciation, history, political science and philosophy.
To support historic downtown
The Mabank ISD Educational Foundation awarded teaching grants to Mabank ISD teachers and professional staff for the purpose of enhancing the educational process of Mabank ISD and its students.
Preservation and education of history and historical items of interest for the citizens and visitors of sherman, tx.
Preservation and education of the history of mariposa county
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mission Marshall Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cason Westmoreland Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 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 Michelson Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds Marshall Education Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MISSION MARSHALL INC ↗
- Who funds Marshall Regional Arts Council ↗
- Who funds TWELVE-WAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF GRAYSON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Cason Westmoreland Foundation ↗
- Who funds WINDRIDGE THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER OF EAST TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds Marshall Depot Inc ↗
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: The Turney Foundation · Richard M and Christina Cocek Anderson Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn 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 H E and Ruby Pelz Tr 2 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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