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Kerr County United Way
KERR COUNTY UNITED WAY (kcuw) provides an avenue for consolidating the fund raising efforts of many charities into one fund drive.
Read this first · the figures below need context
75% of Kerr County United Way’s FY2024 grant dollars went to The Community Foundation Of The Texas Hill Country Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Kerr County United Way named its own grantees at scale: 14 organizations, $161k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 14 grants below total $160,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $167,500 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $7,000 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 · FY2023
- Under $10k5 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $127k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DOYLE SCHOOL COMMUNITY CENTER | $25,000 |
| HILL COUNTRY CRISIS COUNCIL | $15,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $15,000 |
| CHRISTIAN ASSISTANCE MINISTRY | $15,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $15,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF KERR COUNTY | $12,000 |
| CHRISTIAN WOMEN'S JOB CORP | $10,000 |
| FAMILIES AND LITERACY INC | $10,000 |
| K'STAR | $10,000 |
| NEW HOPE COUNSELING | $7,500 |
| KERR COUNTY CHILD SERVICES BOARD | $7,500 |
| VOLUNTEER SERVICES COUNCIL | $6,500 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS | $6,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS - ALAMO AREA COUNCIL | $6,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $236k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 0% 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 +20% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2023, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- KCKERR COUNTY AREA CHRISTIAN ASSISTANCE MINISTRY6× · 2017–2024 · $91k · revenue +19%
- HCHILL COUNTRY CRISIS COUNCIL INC6× · 2017–2024 · $70k · revenue +163%
- CWCHRISTIAN WOMENS JOB CORPS OF KERR COUNTY5× · 2017–2023 · $48k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- CMCHRISTIAN MEN'S LIFE SKILLS KERR COUNTYgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $7k · revenue +62%
- BNBE NOT AFRAIDone grant, 2019 · $6k
- DCDIETERT CENTERone grant, 2019 · $6k · revenue +11%
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.
To educate individuals in underserved communities on the hidden aspects of mental health while raising awareness for suicide prevention
To provide counseling services to persons and families in the community, regardless of ability to pay.
Kerr county united way (kcuw) provides an avenue for consolidating the fund raising efforts of many charities into one fund drive. kcuw has an annual fund drive and then grants funds to non-profits in kerr county that have applied for…
To assist people through life's struggles by spiritually guiding individuals by encouraging, offering biblical counseling and educating individuals with tools and skills to cope with life's difficult situations. it is the desire of the…
Enrich cultural life of the community and support members artists of the texas hill country
The kern county youth for christ helps mobilize caring adults and student leaders in order to meet the physical, social, mental, and spiritual needs of every young person in kern county. this is accomplished through collaborations and…
See Schedule O.Katy Christian Ministries (KCM) is a social service non-profit that serves the Katy/West Houston area. KCM's Social Service Department offers emergency financial assistance, a Food Pantry, a Crisis Center that houses the…
Family and individual counseling services - provides individual and family counseling which includes specialty in play therapy and children services
The hill country community needs council provides short term assistance to the countys most vulnerable by judicious and compassionate distribution of gifts and volunteer talents through coordination of local resources and direct service…
Crisis pregnancy counseling.
Animal welfare through a low cost health clinic and adoption facility and shelter for unwanted, abandoned and neglected animals
The function of associates in christian counseling is to provide psychological counseling and education services to individuals, couples, and families. services provided are for a wide range of psychological problems including, but not…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hill Country Crisis Council Inc and the most unlike its peers is Art 2 Heart. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
19 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. 19 of the 24 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 KERR COUNTY AREA CHRISTIAN ASSISTANCE MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC ↗
- Who funds KERR COUNTY YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HILL COUNTRY CRISIS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds ELEVATE ADULT EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN WOMENS JOB CORPS OF KERR COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HILL COUNTRY CHRISTIAN COUNSELING INC ↗
- Who funds HILL COUNTRY CASA INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC KERR COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ART 2 HEART ↗
- Who funds THE DOYLE SCHOOL COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ALAMO AREA COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds K STAR INC ↗
- Who funds KERR COUNTY CHRISTIAN ACTION COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTH TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER SERVICES COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN MEN'S LIFE SKILLS KERR COUNTY ↗
- Who funds DIETERT CENTER ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTHWEST TEXAS INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country Inc · Hal & Charlie Peterson Foundation & Fd Mgmt Trust · Perry & Ruby Stevens Charitable Foundation · Green Umbrella Corporation · Floyd a & Kathleen C Cailloux Foundation · FirstDay Foundation · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · San Antonio Food Bank · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Kerr County United Way 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.
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