· Private foundation
H E and Ruby Pelz Tr 2
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ETBU NURSING SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $5,000 |
| TEXAS STATE TECH COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MISSION MARSHALL | $5,000 |
| MARSHALL EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| TRINITY EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| SOCIETY OF ST STEPHENS | $5,000 |
| EMPTY STOCKING FUND | $5,000 |
| MICHELSON MUSEUM OF ART | $5,000 |
| MARSHALL HARRISON CO LITERACY | $5,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $5,000 |
| HARRISON COUNT HISTORICAL MUSEUM | $3,500 |
| CASON WESTMORELAND FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| EAST TEXAS FOOD BANK | $2,500 |
| MARSHALL PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MMMISSION MARSHALL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +29%
- MMMichelson Museum of Art9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +50%
- 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
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.
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.
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
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 35 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds MISSION MARSHALL INC ↗
- Who funds Michelson Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds Marshall Education Foundation 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 ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Turney Foundation · Richard M and Christina Cocek Anderson Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization H E and Ruby Pelz Tr 2 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from H E and Ruby Pelz Tr 2. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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