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Kickapoo Springs Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
HARDIN-SIMMONS UNIVERSITY$500,000
ANGELO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$500,000
HARDIN-SIMMONS UNIVERSITY$500,000
WEST TEXAS REHABILITATION CENTER FOUNDATION$265,000
TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION$250,000
TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION$250,000
TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION$250,000
ABILENE RESTORATION MINISTRIES$250,000
ABILENE IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION$237,500
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:

Its 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 its 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%BCFS HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES: $100k → 16%JOSEPH THOMAS FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%JOSEPH THOMAS FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%DISABILITY RESOURCES INC: $10k → 22%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
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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
IL
MI
NY
OR
IN
PA
NJ
CA
UT
CO
MO
WV
VA
DE
AZ
NM
KS
TN
NC
DC
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 19% of Kickapoo Springs Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 95% of the giving stays in TX; by stated purpose, 83%.

Kickapoo Springs Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +17% for those 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

+36%
+17%

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
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

  • 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%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $500k
  • CA
    CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF GREATER WEST TEXAS
    one grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue -69%
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 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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12
Progress Texas

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

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas Public Policy Foundation; 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.
05the grantee network

193 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
34
Early backer (in before they grew)
192/193
Grantees still filing
129/193
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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+17 more: $1,414,396 · Education+17 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+117 more: $8,438,534 · Other+117 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+8 more: $278,400 · 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$18,879,421Other$17,255,120Arts & Culture$6,483,957Philanthropy$4,220,357Community Improvement$3,425,420Health$3,332,066Youth Development$1,985,400

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF GREATER WEST TEXAS: $500,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetLA ESPERANZA CLINIC INC: $500,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetAbilene Restoration Ministries dba Nehemiah Abilene: $500,000 over 2y, 18% 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 budgetTHE GLOBAL ORPHAN PROJECT INC: $150,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR: $150,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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 budgetCOMMUNIO FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH DALLAS COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $100,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYoung America's Foundation: $95,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetKEEP SAN ANGELO BEAUTIFUL: $85,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetWEST TEXAS COUNSELING AND GUIDANCE: $85,000 over 2y, 0.7% 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Legett FoundationDian Graves Owen Foun…The Karakin FoundationCommunity Foundation …Shelton Family Founda…Barber FoundationGreathouse FoundationAmerican Electric Pow…San Angelo Health Fou…The Massey Family Cha…The Robison Excelsior…Abilene Christian Uni…
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

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 Kickapoo Springs Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kickapoo Springs Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc: 0% 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, 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

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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 249 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home