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Hill Country Rally for Kids Inc

Hill country rally for kids exists to raise awareness and support for children's charities in the texas hill country area.

$200k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$45k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Youth Development$400kHealth$87kFood & Nutrition$40kRecreation & Sports$16kEducation$11kHuman Services$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $190,250, the rows itemized in this filing. The $200,250 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $10,000 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 $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $185k
$22,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$231k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ANCORA MINISTRIES$45,000
BURKE CENTER FOR YOUTH$42,000
GREATER SAN MARCOS YOUTH CENTER$25,000
RED ARENA - DRIPPING SPRINGS$22,500
FELLOWSHIP CHRISTIAN ATHLETES$20,000
SAMARITAN CENTER$20,000
BIG LOVE CANCER CARE$10,000
DRIPPING SPRINGS EDUCATION$5,750
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 (FY23–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%BIG LOVE CANCER CARE: $10k → 16%BIG LOVE CANCER CARE: $10k → 16%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$529k · 9 repeat orgs$57k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
2

Total granted

$529k
$51k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+52%

Still filing today

78%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentEducationReligionOther
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

  • AM
    ANCORA MINISTRIES INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $80k · revenue +60%
  • GS
    Greater San Marcos Youth Council Inc
    3× · 2022–2024 · $67k · revenue +26%
  • FO
    FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES
    3× · 2022–2024 · $56k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • HS
    HUNGRY SOULSgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $40k · revenue +52%
  • BB
    BRYSON BENEFIT ORGANIZATION
    one grant, 2023 · $11k
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
Springs Holistic Center Inc

Provide therapeutic services to children

Human Services
2
Hope Springs Inc

To provide hyperbaric oxygen in treating conditions such as stroke, cerebral palsy, athletic injury, memory related issues, concussion, and auto immune disorders.

Health
3
Watersprings Ranch Inc

To provide healing and restoration through God's love and grace for children who have been abused, abandoned or neglected.

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4
Hope Springs Counseling Center

Provide affordable counseling services to those in our community.

Health
5
Safe Haven Counseling Associates in

Biblical counseling

—
6
Texas Community Counseling

When care is within reach, lives change. Texas Community Counseling is a faith-based nonprofit committed to bringing hope and healing through mental health care to the communities that need it the most. We empower individuals to heal,…

Human Services
7
Sunny Glen Children's Home Inc

Sunny Glen Childrens Home, Inc. cares for children in need. Our care will be competent, compassionate and professional. We will help every child achieve their greatest potential-physically, emotionally, spiritually and academically.

Human Services
8
Scottys House Brazos Valley Child Advocacy Center Inc

The mission of Scottys House is to provide safety, healing and justice for children victimized by abuse through professional assessment, counseling and education in a compassionate and collaborative approach.

Health
9
Soaring Wings Ranch Inc

Soaring wings provides a christ-centered home for children while working with their families to overcome challenges they are facing for as long as needed.

Youth Development
10
Christian Home of Pecos

Christain Home

Crime & Legal
11
El Paso Area Christian Counseling Service

Counseling Services offering hope, healing, and restoration to hurting people, marriages, and families using respected therapy practices and solid biblical principles.

Human Services
12
Joshua Center

Joshua Center exists to provide unique support for grieving children and families as they find hope and healing.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ancora Ministries Inc; the most unlike its peers is Dripping Springs High School Project Graduation Dshs Project Graduation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

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 12 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE BURKE FOUNDATION INC: $132,500 · OtherTHE BURKE FOUNDATION INCSamaritan Center for Counseling and Pastoral Care Inc: $50,000 · OtherSamaritan Center for Counseling and Pastoral …Individual grant recipient: $37,620 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBRYSON BENEFIT ORGANIZATION: $11,000 · Other+1 more: $5,750 · OtherGreater San Marcos Youth Council Inc: $67,000 · Human ServicesGreater San Marcos Youth C…HUNGRY SOULS: $40,000 · Human ServicesHUNGRY SOULSBIG LOVE CANCER CARE SERVICES: $30,000 · Human ServicesBIG LOVE CANCER CARE SERVI…ANCORA MINISTRIES INC: $80,000 · ReligionANCORA MINISTRI…RED ARENA INC: $57,000 · HealthRED ARENA I…FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $56,250 · Youth DevelopmentFELLOWSHIP…DRIPPING SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL PROJECT GRADUATION DSHS PROJECT GRADUATION: $18,300 · Education
Other$236,870Human Services$137,000Religion$80,000Health$57,000Youth Development$56,250Education$18,300

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE BURKE FOUNDATION INC: $132,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetANCORA MINISTRIES INC: $80,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetGreater San Marcos Youth Council Inc: $67,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetRED ARENA INC: $57,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $56,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSamaritan Center for Counseling and Pastoral Care Inc: $50,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetHUNGRY SOULS: $40,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetBIG LOVE CANCER CARE SERVICES: $30,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetDRIPPING SPRINGS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5,750 over 1y, 1.2% 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.

Austin Community Foun…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Austin Community Foundation IncTX13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Austin Community Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Hill Country Rally for Kids Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hill Country Rally for Kids Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 Hill Country Rally for Kids Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Hill Country Rally for Kids Inc 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 12 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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