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Kickapoo Springs Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$13M
Granted FY2024still arriving
138
Grants FY2024still arriving
19
States reached
$2.5M
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

Education$25MHealth$6.1MCommunity Improvement$5.4MRecreation & Sports$4.8MPhilanthropy$4.3MEnvironment$1.9MArts & Culture$1.9MHuman Services$1.5MOther$0
02FY2024 · 138 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k39 grants · $156k
  • $10k–50k68 grants · $1.1M
  • $50k–250k17 grants · $1.9M
  • $250k+14 grants · $9.6M
$12,500
Median grant
19
States reached
$111M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ABILENE$2,500,000
ANGELO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$1,066,667
M D ANDERSON CANCER CENTER$1,000,000
WEST TEXAS REHABILITATION CENTER FOUNDATION$833,333
WEST TEXAS REHABILITATION CENTER FOUNDATION$833,333
HENDRICK MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$600,000
ANGELO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$500,000
HARDIN-SIMMONS UNIVERSITY$500,000
HARDIN-SIMMONS UNIVERSITY$500,000
WEST TEXAS REHABILITATION CENTER FOUNDATION$265,000
ABILENE RESTORATION MINISTRIES$250,000
TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION$250,000
TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION$250,000
TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION$250,000
ABILENE IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION$237,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS INC: $10k → 10%SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN: $50k → 14%BCFS HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES: $150k → 16%COMMUNIO FOUNDATION: $100k → 6%ALLIANCE FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN: $50k → 22%BEN RICHEY BOYS RANCH: $3k → 16%BEN RICHEY BOYS RANCH: $3k → 16%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA INC: $15k → 14%LA ESPERANZA CLINIC INC: $500k → 16%CHRISTIAN SERVICE CENTER OF ABILENE INC: $5k → 16%ALLIANCE FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN: $13k → 22%DISABILITY RESOURCES INC: $10k → 22%BCFS HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES: $100k → 16%JOSEPH THOMAS FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%JOSEPH THOMAS FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%ADVOCATES FOR CAMP ABLE: $90k → 16%ADVOCATES FOR CAMP ABLE: $50k → 16%DISABILITY RESOURCES INC: $2k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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TN
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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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 19% of Kickapoo Springs Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 95% of the giving stays in TX; read by stated purpose it is 83% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Kickapoo Springs Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$43M · 132 repeat orgs$7.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

132 repeat relationships — 76 still active in FY2024, 56 since wound down; 37 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

132
75

Total granted

$43M
$5.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+11%

Still filing today

81%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthPublic BenefitCivil RightsOther

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

  • AS
    ANGELO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $6.6M · revenue +52%
  • TT
    TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $5.5M · revenue +14%
  • WT
    West Texas Rehabilitation Center Foundation
    2× · 2020–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $1.0M · revenue +28%
  • LE
    LA ESPERANZA CLINIC INC
    one grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue -14%
  • CA
    CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF GREATER WEST TEXAS
    one grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue -69%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Texas Tribune Inc

The texas tribune promotes civic engagement and public education across the state by producing and sharing for free public data interactives, statewide events and intensive and daily reporting on texas public policy, politics and current…

Education
2
Progress Texas Institute

The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.

Civil Rights
3
Texas a&M Research Foundation

To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.

Education
4
Center for Public Policy Priorities

At the Every Texan, we believe in a Texas that offers everyone the chance to compete and succeed in life. We envision a Texas where everyone is healthy, well educated, and financially secure. We want the best Texas, a proud state that sets…

Public Benefit
5
Glasstire

Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.

Arts & Culture
6
Uatx

Uatx is a nonprofit dedicated to building a liberal arts university committed to freedom of inquiry, freedom of conscience, and civil discourse. to maintain these principles, the university will be fiercely independent financially,…

Education
7
Aclu Foundation of Texas Inc

The ACLU Foundation of Texas is the unyielding guardian and promoter of freedom, justice, equality and dignity of all people, particularly for those who are still fighting to secure the full exercise of their civil rights and liberties.…

Civil Rights
8
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
9
The Association of Former Students of Texas a&M University

To strengthen the association of former students, promote the interests and welfare of texas a&m university, perpetuate ties of affection and esteem formed in university or college days, and serve the student body.

Education
10
Witte Museum

The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.

Arts & Culture
11
American Civil Liberties Union of Texas Inc

The ACLU of Texas works with communities, at the State Capitol, and in the courts to protect and advance civil rights and civil liberties for every Texan, no exceptions.

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Progress Texas

Progress Texas is a non-profit media organization advocating for progressive ideals and policies in our state.

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas Public Policy Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Hamby Volunteer Fire Dept. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Youth Sports ProgramsCommunity College Foundatio…Environmental Conservation …Animal Rescue and ShelterUnited Way AffiliatesChristian Missionary Organi…Community Arts CentersYouth Development ServicesIndependent K-12 SchoolsOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Policy Research and AdvocacyHealth Access Advocacy and …Food Banks and PantriesSchool District FoundationsDevelopmental Disabilities …Volunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Senior Support ServicesPregnancy Support ServicesAffordable Housing Developm…Youth Development CentersLocal History MuseumsMilitary Veterans SupportCancer Support ServicesWomen & Girls Leadership De…Equine Therapy ProgramsPublic Library Operations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%2%<5yr16%8%5–10yr20%13%10–20yr16%27%20–35yr10%29%35–55yr13%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%1%<5yr16%5%5–10yr20%9%10–20yr16%26%20–35yr10%41%35–55yr13%20%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.5% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.5%1/205
the rest of the field
15%
20,233/136,599

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.

05the grantee network

193 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 20172026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 193 of the 249 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
32
Early backer (in before they grew)
192/193
Grantees still filing
126/193
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ANGELO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $6,604,693 · EducationANGELO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCTEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC — $5,509,332 · EducationTEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INCSAN ANGELO STOCK SHOW & RODEO FOUNDATION — $2,500,000 · EducationSAN ANGELO STOCK SHOW & RODEO FOUNDATI…HARDIN-SIMMONS UNIVERSITY — $1,701,000 · EducationHARDIN-SIMMONS UNIVERSITYMCMURRY UNIVERSITY — $1,150,000 · EducationMCMURRY UNIVERSITY+16 more — $1,404,396 · Education+16 moreUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO — $2,665,086 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASOM D ANDERSON CANCER CENTER — $2,000,000 · OtherM D ANDERSON CANCER CENTERABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY — $1,076,500 · OtherABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITYTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC — $1,000,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION …YMCA — $625,000 · OtherTexas Agricultural Land Trust — $1,450,000 · OtherTexas Agricultural Land Trust+119 more — $8,458,534 · Other+119 moreABILENE HERITAGE SQUARE INC — $5,000,000 · Arts & CultureABILENE HERIT…FRONTIER TEXAS INC — $277,667 · Arts & CultureABILENE ARTS ALLIANCE — $252,600 · Arts & CultureRemember the Alamo Foundation — $250,000 · Arts & Culture+20 more — $703,690 · Arts & Culture+20 moreCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ABILENE — $3,592,007 · PhilanthropySAN ANGELO AREA FOUNDATION — $200,000 · PhilanthropyTHE GLOBAL ORPHAN PROJECT INC — $150,000 · Philanthropy+6 more — $278,350 · PhilanthropyABILENE IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION — $3,237,500 · Community Improvement+5 more — $187,920 · Community ImprovementWest Texas Rehabilitation Center Foundation — $1,953,666 · HealthHendrick Medical Center Foundation — $600,000 · HealthAbilene Restoration Ministries dba Nehemiah Abilene — $500,000 · Health+7 more — $268,400 · HealthABILENE YOUTH SPORTS AUTHORITY — $1,620,400 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR — $150,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTH VOICE INC — $100,000 · Youth Development+2 more — $115,000 · Youth Development
Education$18,869,421Other$17,275,120Arts & Culture$6,483,957Philanthropy$4,220,357Community Improvement$3,425,420Health$3,322,066Youth Development$1,985,400

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetANGELO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $6,604,693 over 5y, 13% of budgetTEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC — $5,509,332 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetABILENE HERITAGE SQUARE INC — $5,000,000 over 3y, 54% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ABILENE — $3,592,007 over 5y, 8.3% of budgetABILENE IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION — $3,237,500 over 2y, 19% of budgetSAN ANGELO STOCK SHOW & RODEO FOUNDATION — $2,500,000 over 2y, 71% of budgetWest Texas Rehabilitation Center Foundation — $1,953,666 over 2y, 15% of budgetHARDIN-SIMMONS UNIVERSITY — $1,701,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetABILENE YOUTH SPORTS AUTHORITY — $1,620,400 over 3y, 10% of budgetTexas Agricultural Land Trust — $1,450,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetMCMURRY UNIVERSITY — $1,150,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY — $1,076,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC — $1,000,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetHendrick Medical Center Foundation — $600,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetAbilene Restoration Ministries dba Nehemiah Abilene — $500,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetLA ESPERANZA CLINIC INC — $500,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF GREATER WEST TEXAS — $500,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF ABILENE INC — $363,333 over 3y, 9.6% of budgetAll Kind Animal Initiative — $333,333 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE MASON COUNTY COURTHOUSE — $300,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetSAN ANTONIO ACADEMY OF TEXAS — $290,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetFRONTIER TEXAS INC — $277,667 over 5y, 15% of budgetSchreiner University — $275,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetABILENE ARTS ALLIANCE — $252,600 over 4y, 15% of budgetBCFS Health and Human Services — $250,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetRemember the Alamo Foundation — $250,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSouthern Methodist University — $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN ANGELO AREA FOUNDATION — $200,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $175,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRanching Heritage Association — $166,667 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetABILENE PHILHARMONIC FOUNDATION — $150,690 over 3y, 13% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR — $150,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE GLOBAL ORPHAN PROJECT INC — $150,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH — $145,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAdvocates for Camp Able Camp Able of Buffalo Gap — $140,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetGALILEE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP — $115,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetThe Shumla School Inc — $110,000 over 4y, 6.6% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $109,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFORT CHADBOURNE FOUNDATION — $103,500 over 3y, 45% of budgetTLCA TEXAS LEADERSHIP CHARTER ACADEMY — $100,396 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYOUTH VOICE INC — $100,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetSOUTH DALLAS COMMUNITY SCHOOL — $100,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetCOMMUNIO FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYoung America's Foundation — $95,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWEST TEXAS COUNSELING AND GUIDANCE — $85,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetKEEP SAN ANGELO BEAUTIFUL — $85,000 over 4y, 16% of budget
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.

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.

The Legett FoundationTX240.8× affinity118 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Legett Foundation · Dian Graves Owen Foundation · The Karakin Foundation · Community Foundation of Abilene · Shelton Family Foundation · Barber Foundation · Greathouse Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · San Angelo Health Foundation · The Massey Family Charitable Trust · The Robison Excelsior Foundation · Abilene Christian University

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 Kickapoo Springs 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
38report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Kickapoo Springs Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Kickapoo Springs Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 249 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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