· Public charity
Marble Falls Economic Development Corporation
To attract and support business and economic development in the marble falls area through strategic planning, workforce training, and marketing.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 83% of MARBLE FALLS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 13 grants below total $421,456 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $691,448 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $269,992 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $9k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $129k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $283k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VANTAGE VENTURES | $232,821 |
| WORKFORCE NETWORK INC | $50,465 |
| THE FALLS ON THE COLORADO MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| OOS HOLDINGS LLC | $20,000 |
| HIGHLAND LAKES CREATIVE ARTS | $14,000 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CLINIC - MF | $10,000 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE SPECIALTY CLINIC - MF | $10,000 |
| HIGHPOINT INSURANCE GROUP LLC | $10,000 |
| INMAN'S BBQ | $10,000 |
| OOS HOLDINGS LLC | $10,000 |
| LWR FAMILY PARTNERSHIP LP | $10,000 |
| HEART & SOUL INTEGRATIVE HEALTH & YOGA PA | $10,000 |
| R COCKRELL ENTERPRISES LLC | $9,170 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 27% of your 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 +6% since the first grant, against -8% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $293k 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
- COCITY OF MARBLE FALLS4× · 2019–2022 · $987k
- WNWORKFORCE NETWORK INC3× · 2019–2024 · $227k · revenue ×64
- MCMFLBJ CHAMBER OF COMMERCE2× · 2020–2021 · $45k
Funded once
- JBJACQUELINE BLAKELY DBA BEAR KING BREWING COMPANYone grant, 2019 · $25k
- CCCUSTOM CREATIONS & INTERIORSone grant, 2020 · $11k
- JPJBMB PROPERTIESone grant, 2023 · $10k
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 provide the general public with the rich heart of texas heritage
Historical museum
The Healthcare Workforce Alliance of Central Texas "The Alliance" is an industry and education led group which addresses the workforce needs of the healthcare industry in Central Texas. The Alliance utilizes a collaborative approach to…
The Hotel Association of Tarrant County advocates for our members through idea exchange, community involvement, government interaction and resource development. We give our members the platform to get their voices heard no matter how large…
Museum is devoted to the preservation of the history of Scurry County.
The Museum of Western Art in the Texas Hill Country is dedicated to excellence in the collection, preservation and display of Western art.
Promote the economic growth of the south texas medical center by retaining good, high-paying jobs, making healthcare more accessible to the entire community, and creating an environment to attract even more quality employment opportunities.
The mission of the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts shall be to establish and maintain a museum in order to house and exhibit a permanent collection of art as well as to provide space for traveling exhibitions, for the purpose of the…
The Foundation's mission is to provide financial support to fund construction and maintenance of the Texas Military Forces Museum at Camp Mabry, Austin, TX; acquire, preserve and maintain historical artifacts, equipment, and weapons;…
Public museum
To foster & encourage the study of history in hardeman co texas.
The Texas Music Museum seeks to educate and inspire visitors as to the contributions of Texas Musicians, both well-known and little-recognized. Texas Music Museum pursues their goal by reseraching, collecting, and preserving material…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Highland Lakes Creative Arts and the most unlike its peers is Workforce Network Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 67 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.
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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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 Marble Falls Economic Development Corporation 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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