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Majestic Ranch Arts Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$30k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Arts & Culture$427kEducation$40kYouth Development$37kReligion$13kEmployment$6kHuman Services$3kRecreation & Sports$2kFood & Nutrition$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$30,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$325k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OLD SCHOOL MAKERSPACE$30,000
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 (FY17–19, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%QUILTS OF HONOR AMERICA: $3k → 12%HILL COUNTRY YOUTH RANCH: $30k → 13%HILL COUNTRY YOUTH RANCH: $6k → 13%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.

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.

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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$409k · 12 repeat orgs$120k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
20

Total granted

$409k
$90k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-16%
+42%

Still filing today

42%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyOther

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

  • HC
    Hill Country Council For The Arts
    8× · 2017–2024 · $165k · revenue -18%
  • HC
    HILL COUNTRY ARTS FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2023 · $57k · revenue +19%
  • KA
    KERR ARTS AND CULTURE CENTER
    4× · 2017–2020 · $44k

Funded once

  • LW
    LORDS WAY INC
    one grant, 2022 · $13k
  • UC
    UTHSC Center for Medical Humanities & Ethics
    one grant, 2017 · $12k
  • BS
    BIG SEED HILL COUNTRY
    one grant, 2021 · $12k

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.

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Tx Performing Chinese Arts
2
Leander Theatre Booster Club

Booster club for public high school theater program

Education
3
Bosque Arts Center

The bosque arts center is a non- profit community entity dedicated to the promotion & support of the performing & visual arts in bosque county, texas.

Arts & Culture
4
Community Arts Council of Blount County
Arts & Culture
5
B Iden Payne Awards Council

Celebrating excellence in Austin Theatre

Arts & Culture
6
Juab Fine Arts Council
Arts & Culture
7
Campbell County Arts Council Inc

Public service of the arts for the Campbell County, SD, community.

Arts & Culture
8
Baker Community Arts Association
Arts & Culture
9
Kimbell Art Foundation
Arts & Culture
10
Highland Center for the Arts
Arts & Culture
11
Austin Saengerrunde Damenchor

promote interest in German song

Education
12
Pearland Theatre Guild

The Pearland Theatre Guild was founded in order to give the community a fun and creative outlet in the performing arts. The Pearl Theater was established as a home for creatives to take part in high-quality theatrical experiences. From the…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hill Country Arts Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Cibolo Creek Quilters Guild. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

12 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 33 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
6/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Hill Country Council For The Arts — $164,903 · Arts & CultureHill Country Council For The ArtsHILL COUNTRY ARTS FOUNDATION — $57,304 · Arts & CultureHILL COUNTRY ARTS FOUNDATIONBoerne Performing Arts — $27,500 · Arts & CultureBoerne Performing ArtsBoerne Community Theatre Inc — $10,500 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $13,583 · Arts & CultureKERR ARTS AND CULTURE CENTER — $44,359 · OtherKERR ARTS AND CULTURE CENTEROLD SCHOOL MAKERSPACE — $30,000 · OtherOLD SCHOOL MAKERSPACEIndividual grant recipient — $22,950 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHILL COUNTRY TURNERS CLUB — $20,360 · OtherHILL COUNTRY TURNERS CLUBHEALTH AND WHOLENESS CENTER — $16,102 · OtherHEALTH AND WHOLENESS CENTERLORDS WAY INC — $12,810 · OtherLORDS WAY INCUTHSC Center for Medical Humanities & Ethics — $12,000 · OtherUTHSC Center for Medical Humanities & Ethic…BIG SEED HILL COUNTRY — $11,677 · OtherBIG SEED HILL COUNTRYKERR ARTS AND CULTURE — $7,750 · Other+13 more — $26,057 · Other+13 moreHILL COUNTRY YOUTH RANCH — $36,664 · Human ServicesQUILTS OF HONOR AMERICA — $2,700 · Human ServicesSchreiner University — $6,000 · EducationBOERNE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $5,000 · EducationSTAND UP TO CANCER — $1,000 · Philanthropy
Arts & Culture$273,790Other$204,065Human Services$39,364Education$11,000Philanthropy$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHill Country Council For The Arts — $164,903 over 8y, 24% of budgetHILL COUNTRY ARTS FOUNDATION — $57,304 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetHILL COUNTRY YOUTH RANCH — $36,664 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBoerne Performing Arts — $27,500 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetBoerne Community Theatre Inc — $10,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetSchreiner University — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKERR ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER INC — $5,333 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetGREATER NEW BRAUNFELS ARTS COUNCIL — $1,500 over 1y, 7.6% 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.

  • Who funds Hill Country Council For The Arts
  • Who funds HILL COUNTRY ARTS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds HILL COUNTRY YOUTH RANCH
  • Who funds Boerne Performing Arts
  • Who funds Boerne Community Theatre Inc
  • Who funds Cibolo Creek Quilters Guild
  • Who funds Schreiner University
  • Who funds KERR ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER INC
  • Who funds BOERNE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds QUILTS OF HONOR AMERICA
  • Who funds GREATER NEW BRAUNFELS ARTS COUNCIL
  • Who funds STAND UP TO CANCER

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 Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country IncTX15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country Inc · San Antonio Area Foundation · Floyd a & Kathleen C Cailloux Foundation · Sterling-Turner Foundation · Hal & Charlie Peterson Foundation & Fd Mgmt Trust · Shell USA Company Foundation · 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 Majestic Ranch Arts 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 · 00%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 Majestic Ranch Arts Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Majestic Ranch Arts 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 33 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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