· Public charity
Keep Texas Beautiful Inc
To inspire and empower texans to keep our communities clean and beautiful
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 15 grants below total $290,676 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $362,326 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $71,650 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $180k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $81k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY OF FLORESVILLE | $81,000 |
| BURLESON COUNTY | $42,944 |
| KEEP SAN MARCOS BEAUTIFUL | $36,130 |
| CITY OF INGLESIDE | $22,000 |
| FAYETTE COUNTY | $20,000 |
| KEEP WACO BEAUTIFUL | $18,000 |
| DON'T MAKE WASTE BANDERA | $11,000 |
| FORT CLARK SPRING | $10,000 |
| KEEP VICTORIA BEAUTIFUL | $10,000 |
| KEEP CUERO BEAUTIFUL | $10,000 |
| POLK COUNTY RECYCLING & BEAUTIFICATION | $6,500 |
| KEEP HOUSTON BEAUTIFUL | $6,100 |
| KEEP IT REAL-LY BEAUTIFUL | $6,000 |
| GALVESTON BAY FOUNDATION | $5,502 |
| KEEP TEMPLE BEAUTIFUL | $5,500 |
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 (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 61% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against -44% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k 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
- KTKEEP TEXAS BEAUTIFUL INC2× · 2018–2024 · $234k · revenue +41%
- KMKEEP MCALLEN BEAUTIFUL INC3× · 2021–2023 · $71k · revenue +52%
- KMKEEP MIDLAND BEAUTIFUL INC2× · 2020–2023 · $13k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- BCBURLESON COUNTYone grant, 2023 · $38k
- KSKEEP SAN MARCOS BEAUTIFULone grant, 2023 · $20k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $20k
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.
Our mission is to educate and engage Brazos County citizens to keep our community clean, green, and beautiful.
Keep Thomas County Beautiful (KTCB)believes that each of us has a responsibility to protect and improve our environment. We support local coalitions of volunteers, businesses and government entities in enhancing our communities by…
Litter prevention, minimizing the effects of solid waste on the community, and the beautification of the city of pearland, texas.
The organizations purpose is to encourage litter prevention, recycling and solid waste reduction in sevier county, tennessee
To promote beautification and a litter-free community.
Community liter control, recycling and beautification
The mission is to advance recycling through partnerships, education, and advocacy for the benefit of texas.
To inspire and empower Knox County communities to improve their quality of life through beautification and environmental stewardship.
Keep akron beautiful improves the quality of life for city of akron, oh residents through the beautification of the city and through responsible environmental management.
The Big Thicket Biosphere Reserve's mission is community-based conservation to reconnect people with the natural and cultural environment while promoting sustainable economic growth in Southeast Texas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Keep Texas Beautiful Inc and the most unlike its peers is Buffalo Bayou Partnership Inc. 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 23 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 KEEP TEXAS BEAUTIFUL INC ↗
- Who funds KEEP MCALLEN BEAUTIFUL INC ↗
- Who funds KEEP MIDLAND BEAUTIFUL INC ↗
- Who funds KEEP SAN ANGELO BEAUTIFUL ↗
- Who funds Buffalo Bayou Partnership Inc ↗
- Who funds Keep Aransas County Beautiful Inc ↗
- Who funds POLK COUNTY RECYCLING AND BEAUTIFICATION ↗
- Who funds KEEP IT REAL BEAUTIFUL ↗
- Who funds KEEP TEMPLE BEAUTIFUL ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: 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 Keep Texas Beautiful Inc 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.