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Improved Order of Red Men of Texas 15 Wah Wah Tee Council

Dedicated to inspire greater love for the united states of america and the principles of liberty through the common bond of friendship.

$26k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Civil Rights$86kPublic Safety & Disaster$71kHealth$58kArts & Culture$36kFood & Nutrition$36kAnimals$11kRecreation & Sports$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $10,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $26,135 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $16,135 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.
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$44k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TEXANS HELPING OTHERS$10,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 87% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CHARITABLE ORG FOR TX SEC OFFICERS: $15k → 10%STATE FAIR OF TEXAS: $8k → 14%SOLIDE RECOVERY CENTER: $15k → 16%MARLIN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT: $15k → 21%FARMERS UNION CHARITABLE FUND: $15k → 14%TEXAS SECURITY OFFICERS: $14k → 10%SOLIDE RECOVERY CENTER: $14k → 16%MARLIN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT: $14k → 21%FARMERS UNION CHARITABLE FUND: $14k → 14%TEXAS SECURITY OFFICERS: $7k → 10%SOLIDE RECOVERY CENTER: $7k → 16%MARLIN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT: $7k → 21%FARMERS UNION CHARITABLE FUND: $7k → 14%RODEO AUSTIN: $5k → 10%TEXANS HELPING OTHERS: $10k → 16%TEXANS HELPING OTHERS: $10k → 16%HISTORIC WACO FOUNDATION: $15k → 16%HUACO TRIBE #48: $35k → 16%HISTORIC WACO FOUNDATION: $14k → 16%HUACO TRIBE #48: $22k → 16%HISTORIC WACO FOUNDATION: $7k → 16%HUACO TRIBE #48: $14k → 16%MCLENNAN CO LIVESTOCK SHOW: $6k → 16%DEGREE OF POCAHONTAS: $6k → 16%RED MEN COUNCIL 15: $15k → 16%HUACO GROUP BOOSTERS: $9k → 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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$209k · 6 repeat orgs$113k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue -17% since the first grant, against -35% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
9

Total granted

$209k
$113k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-17%
-35%

Still filing today

50%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’23’24’25
HealthArts & CulturePublic Safety & DisasterRecreation & SportsAnimalsOther
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

  • SI
    SOLIDE INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $58k · revenue -46% · 32% of their budget
  • FU
    FARMERS UNION CHARITABLE FUND
    3× · 2021–2024 · $36k
  • HISTORIC WACO FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $36k · revenue -1%

Funded once

  • HT
    HUACO TRIBE #48
    one grant, 2021 · $35k
  • CO
    Charitable Organization for Texas Security Officer
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue -49%
  • IO
    IMPROVED ORDER OF RED MEN OF TEXAS 15 WAH WAH TEE COUNCIL
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue -48% · 28% of their budget
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
Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame Inc
Arts & Culture
2
Texas Flying Legends Museum
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3
Scottish Rite Foundation of Texas
Arts & Culture
4
The Robert Burns Society of West Texas
Public Safety & Disaster
5
Texas Intrastate Fire Mutual Aid System Foundation

Supporting the Texas Intrastate Fire Mutual Aid System

Public Safety & Disaster
6
Improved Order of Red Men of Texas

To provide support for other charitable organizations, especially those that support youth

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7
Improved Order of Red Men of Texas

To provide support for other charitable organizations, especially those that support youth

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8
Texas State Rifle Association Foundation Inc
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9
Tri State Rodeo Association Shelby W Bearden
Recreation & Sports
10
Disabled American Veterans of Texas Service Foundation
Human Services
11
Once a Cowboy Always a Cowboy
Education
12
Scotland Volunteer Fire Department

Volunteer fire department

Public Safety & Disaster
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Improved Order of Red Men of Texas 15 Wah Wah Tee Council; the most unlike its peers is Marlin Volunteer Fire Department. 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

8 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. 8 of the 15 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
2/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FARMERS UNION CHARITABLE FUND: $36,429 · OtherFARMERS UNION CHARITABLE FUNDIMPROVED ORDER OF REDMEN: $36,429 · OtherIMPROVED ORDER OF REDMENHUACO TRIBE #48: $35,000 · OtherHUACO TRIBE #48MARLIN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT: $21,429 · OtherMARLIN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPTTEXANS HELPING OTHERS INC: $20,000 · OtherTEXANS HELPING OTHERS INCIMPROVED ORDER OF RED MEN OF TEXAS 15 WAH WAH TEE COUNCIL: $15,000 · OtherIMPROVED ORDER OF RED MEN OF TEXAS 15 WAH WAH TEE COUNCILMARLIN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $15,000 · OtherMARLIN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENTIndividual grant recipient: $8,500 · Other+2 more: $12,000 · Other+2 moreSOLIDE INC: $57,855 · HealthSOLIDE INCHISTORIC WACO FOUNDATION INC: $36,429 · Arts & CultureHISTORIC WAC…Charitable Organization for Texas Security Officer: $15,000 · Public Safety & DisasterSTATE FAIR OF TEXAS: $7,500 · Recreation & SportsRODEO AUSTIN: $5,300 · Animals
Other$199,787Health$57,855Arts & Culture$36,429Public Safety & Disaster$15,000Recreation & Sports$7,500Animals$5,300

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSOLIDE INC: $57,855 over 3y, 32% of budgetHISTORIC WACO FOUNDATION INC: $36,429 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetIMPROVED ORDER OF REDMEN: $36,429 over 2y, 20% of budgetCharitable Organization for Texas Security Officer: $15,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetIMPROVED ORDER OF RED MEN OF TEXAS 15 WAH WAH TEE COUNCIL: $15,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetMARLIN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $15,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetSTATE FAIR OF TEXAS: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRODEO AUSTIN: $5,300 over 1y, 0.0% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Improved Order of Red Men of Texas 15 Wah Wah Tee Council funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Improved Order of Red Men of Texas 15 Wah Wah Tee Council. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%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
    1report 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

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    Find your warmest path to Improved Order of Red Men of Texas 15 Wah Wah Tee Council 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 15 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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