· Private foundation
Magnolia Foundation
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k1 grant · $3k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Salvation Army Waco | $50,000 |
| Waco Goodfellas Inc | $2,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–22, $98k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +63% since the first grant, against +40% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2023, 13 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
- WCWACO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE5× · 2017–2022 · $100k · revenue +63%
- TTTIM TEBOW FOUNDATION INC2× · 2018–2019 · $65k · revenue +522%
COMPASSION MINISTRIES OF WACO2× · 2018–2019 · $29k · revenue +72%
Funded once
- SJST JUDE HOSPITALone grant, 2017 · $255k
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY TEXASone grant, 2021 · $165k
- HOHEART OF CENTRAL TEXAS INDEPENDENT LIVINGone grant, 2018 · $107k
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 establish a measureable agenda for improving the community and support the implementation of interventions in the community to address the goals contained in this agenda.
Start up waco is a texas nonprofit organization formed via collaboration of cross-sector partnerships that aspire to lead waco's entrepreneurial support efforts and elevate waco as a hub for business innovation.
To collect, maintain, preserve, publish and interpret the heritage and history of waco, mclennan county, texas
We feed, clothe, empower and advocate for families in need throughout our community.
The mission of the waco civic theatre, a non-profit organization, is to provide the heart of texas community with quality live theatre, to create an outlet for community education and participation in all aspects of productions, and to…
To create opportunities for individuals to make healthy food choices, for the poor to have access to fresh local produce, to participate in a vibrant local food system and create a farmers market in city of waco, texas.
Educational
United way of waco-mclennan county strengthens the community by mobilizing resources to measurably improve lives.
To provide housing and training for troubled children.
The WTFB exists to collect, purchase, and distribute food to feed the hungry in 19 counties in West Texas in partnership with volunteers and community organizations and to educate these partners and the public at large about the real face…
The Family Guidance & Outreach Center of Lubbock is dedicated to the prevention of child abuse and neglect and supporting, mentoring, and educating parents.
Unbound North Texas exists to support survivors and resource the community to fight human trafficking through Survivor Advocacy, a 24/7 Drop-In Center, and Prevention and Awareness.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Compassion Ministries of Waco and the most unlike its peers is Kyle Lake Foundation. 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.
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 22 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 63 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 Restoration Development Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FEEDING TEXAS ↗
- Who funds WACO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds TIM TEBOW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds MISSION WACO MISSION WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD SPORTS INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF MCLENNAN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds COMPASSION MINISTRIES OF WACO ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MPS SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds KINDNESS FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE REMODELED ↗
- Who funds KYLE LAKE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WACO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOSS CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEGACY FAMILY MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds THE V FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SUNSHINE RECOVERY HOUSE ↗
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: Cooper Foundation · Baylor University · Waco Foundation · Clifton Foundation · Bernard & Audre Rapoport Foundation · Ascension Providence · Christian Mission Concerns · Margaret Cb & S Spencer N Brown Foundation Inc · The Fentress Foundation · United Way of Waco-McLennan County · Once Upon a Time Foundation · Paul & Jane Meyer Family 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 Magnolia 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.
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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