· Private foundation
Jim G Hetherly Foundation
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHARITY WATER | $10,000 |
| TIM TEBOW FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $10,000 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| NEW HORIZONS | $5,000 |
| TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| TARLETON STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| MCMURRAY UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| ANGELO STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 17% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- YLYOUNG LIFE9× · 2017–2025 · $211k · revenue +59%
- NHNEW HORIZONS RANCH & CENTER INC7× · 2018–2025 · $43k · revenue +30%
CHARITY GLOBAL INC3× · 2020–2025 · $22k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- MFMARBLE FALLS INCLUSIVE PLAY GROUPone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
- LCLAMPASAS COUNTY LIVESTOCK ASSOCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +145%
FOOD FOR THE POOR INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -9%
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.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
The mission of Taylor University is to develop servant-leaders marked with a passion to minister Christ's redemptive love, grace, and truth to a world in need.
Since 1890, whitworth has held fast to its founding mission of providing "an education of mind and heart" through rigorous intellectual inquiry guided by dedicated christian scholars.
Howard payne university is a christ-centered academic community dedicated to excellence by developing and equipping the whole person for intellectual inquiry, personal and professional integrity, and service to god and humanity.
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St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Mary Hardin-Baylor and the most unlike its peers is Charity Global Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 28 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 YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds NEW HORIZONS RANCH & CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MARBLE FALLS INCLUSIVE PLAY GROUP ↗
- Who funds CHARITY GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds TIM TEBOW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LAMPASAS COUNTY LIVESTOCK ASSOC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
- Who funds ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MARY HARDIN-BAYLOR ↗
- Who funds MCMURRY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BAYLOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Trinity University ↗
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.
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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 Jim G Hetherly 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.
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
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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