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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.

$939k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$544k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Community Improvement$1.2MEmployment$481kPublic Benefit$101kArts & Culture$79kRecreation & Sports$64kHealth$31kFood & Nutrition$20kHuman Services$14kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $670,950, the rows itemized in this filing. The $939,130 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $268,180 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $120k
  • $250k+1 grant · $544k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$38M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MARBLE FALLS AFFILIATES LTD$544,092
WORKFORCE NETWORK INC$30,000
OOS HOLDINGS LLC$25,000
THE FALLS ON THE COLORADO MUSEUM$25,000
MF SCRAP PROPERTIES$10,000
CREST ONE LLC$10,000
ST FREDERICK MISSION OUTREACH$10,000
STORAGE FINDERS$10,000
R COCKRELL ENTERPRISES LLC$6,858
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 43% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 13%CITY OF MARBLE FALLS: $293k → 9%EDUCATION SERVICE CENTER REGION 13: $10k → 10%WORKFORCE NETWORK INC: $120k → 13%CREST ONE LLC: $10k → 14%WORKFORCE NETWORK INC: $57k → 17%MARBLE FALLS AFFILIATES LTD: $544k → 27%CITY OF MARBLE FALLS: $287k → 9%WALLACE HOUSE LLC: $10k → 10%HIGHLAND LAKES CREATIVE ARTS: $14k → 13%HIGHPOINT INSURANCE GROUP LLC: $10k → 14%VANTAGE VENTURES: $233k → 27%CITY OF MARBLE FALLS: $249k → 9%TEXAS MISSION OF MERCY INC: $10k → 10%WORKFORCE NETWORK INC: $50k → 13%CITY OF MARBLE FALLS: $58k → 9%HIGHLAND LAKES CREATIVE ARTS: $14k → 13%CITY OF MARBLE FALLS: $57k → 9%JBMB PROPERTIES: $10k → 10%WORKFORCE NETWORK INC: $30k → 13%MFLBJ CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $45k → 9%HIGHLAND LAKES CREATIVE ARTS: $14k → 13%CITY OF MARBLE FALLS: $42k → 9%INMAN'S BBQ: $10k → 13%THE FALLS ON THE COLORADO MUSEUM: $25k → 9%THE FALLS ON THE COLORADO MUSEUM: $25k → 9%JACQUELINE BLAKELY DBA BEAR KING BREWING COMPANY: $25k → 9%R COCKRELL ENTERPRISES LLC: $12k → 9%CUSTOM CREATIONS & INTERIORS: $11k → 9%MARBLE FALLS FMC LLC: $10k → 9%ZINA & CO REAL ESTATE: $10k → 9%NUMINOUS COFFEE ROASTERS LLC: $10k → 9%HEART & SOUL INTEGRATIVE HEALTH & YOGA PA: $10k → 9%GINGER & SPICE: $10k → 9%BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CLINIC - MF: $10k → 9%THE HIGHLANDERBURNET BULLETIN: $10k → 9%THE HELPING CENTER: $10k → 9%TX TEE BOX LLC: $10k → 9%BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE SPECIALTY CLINIC - MF: $10k → 9%CANNEI PROPERTIES: $10k → 9%FRESH TOFU LLC DBA CHINA KITCHEN: $10k → 9%DW REED ENTERPRISES INC DBA SUBWAY: $10k → 9%ST FREDERICK MISSION OUTREACH: $10k → 9%STORAGE FINDERS: $10k → 9%MF SCRAP PROPERTIES: $10k → 9%SALEM'S INC: $10k → 9%BRACED ORTHODONTICS PLLC: $10k → 9%SMART RG MARBLE FALLS DBA WHICH WHICH: $10k → 9%R COCKRELL ENTERPRISES LLC: $9k → 9%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

56%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 10 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
57

Total granted

$1.5M
$590k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
+38%

Still filing today

40%
14%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 13% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $584k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthReligionFood & NutritionEducationAnimalsOther
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

  • CO
    CITY OF MARBLE FALLS
    4× · 2019–2022 · $987k
  • WN
    WORKFORCE NETWORK INC
    4× · 2019–2025 · $257k · revenue ×64
  • OH
    OOS HOLDINGS LLC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $65k

Funded once

  • VV
    VANTAGE VENTURES
    one grant, 2024 · $233k
  • JB
    JACQUELINE BLAKELY DBA BEAR KING BREWING COMPANY
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
  • SW
    Scott & White Hospital-Marble Falls
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue +15%
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
Heart of Texas Historical Muse

To provide the general public with the rich heart of texas heritage

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2
Garza County Historical Museum

Historical museum

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3
Scurry County Museum Association Inc

Museum is devoted to the preservation of the history of Scurry County.

Arts & Culture
4
Tarrant County Hotel-Motel Association Inc

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…

Community Improvement
5
Hill Country Smiles

At hill country smiles, inc we are dedicated to fostering a community where every individual in the texas hill country has access to emergent and compassionate dental care. our mission is to improve oral health outcomes and enhance overall…

Health
6
The Texas Military Forces Historical Foundation

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;…

Arts & Culture
7
Hardeman County Museum & Historical Society

To foster & encourage the study of history in hardeman co texas.

Arts & Culture
8
Marshfield Area Chamber of Commerce

To promote marshfield area businesses

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9
The Marfa Studio of Arts Inc

The Marfa Studio of Arts presents a creative studio program for the community of Marfa and the population of the surrounding area. The Studio offers classes, lectures, and a gallery open to the public as a means to expand the cultural…

Arts & Culture
10
Rio South Texas Economic Council

To engage in marketing activities for the purpose of generating opportunities that will result in economic expansion and diversification of hidalgo, cameron, willacy, starr, webb, zapata and jim hogg counties of south texas and the…

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11
Texas Music Museum

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…

Arts & Culture
12
Kimble County Historical Museum

To honor the people and the history they leave behind of kimble county, texas. it is a project of the kimble county historical commission

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Highland Lakes Creative Arts; 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.
04the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 72 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITY OF MARBLE FALLS: $986,652 · OtherCITY OF MARBLE FALLSMARBLE FALLS AFFILIATES LTD: $544,092 · OtherMARBLE FALLS AFFILIATES LTDVANTAGE VENTURES: $232,821 · OtherVANTAGE VENTURES+60 more: $507,150 · Other+60 moreWORKFORCE NETWORK INC: $257,289 · ReligionWORKFORCE …The Falls on the Colorado Museum: $53,500 · Arts & CultureHIGHLAND LAKES CREATIVE ARTS: $41,675 · Arts & CultureHIGHLAND ARTS GUILD INC: $4,725 · Arts & CultureScott & White Hospital-Marble Falls: $20,000 · HealthTEXAS MISSIONS OF MERCY: $10,000 · HealthEDUCATION SERVICE CENTER REGION XIII: $10,000 · EducationST FREDERICK MISSION OUTREACH: $10,000 · Food & NutritionWONDERFUL ANIMALS GET SPAYED: $196 · Animals
Other$2,270,715Religion$257,289Arts & Culture$99,900Health$30,000Education$10,000Food & Nutrition$10,000Animals$196

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWORKFORCE NETWORK INC: $257,289 over 4y, 20% of budgetThe Falls on the Colorado Museum: $53,500 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetHIGHLAND LAKES CREATIVE ARTS: $41,675 over 3y, 12% of budgetScott & White Hospital-Marble Falls: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEDUCATION SERVICE CENTER REGION XIII: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HELPING CENTER OF MARBLE FALLS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTEXAS MISSIONS OF MERCY: $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetSOUTH CENTRAL ASSOCIATION FOR CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetHIGHLAND ARTS GUILD INC: $4,725 over 1y, 33% of budgetWONDERFUL ANIMALS GET SPAYED: $196 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSCORE Association: $160 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds WORKFORCE NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds The Falls on the Colorado Museum ↗
  • Who funds HIGHLAND LAKES CREATIVE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds Scott & White Hospital-Marble Falls ↗
  • Who funds EDUCATION SERVICE CENTER REGION XIII ↗
  • Who funds ST FREDERICK MISSION OUTREACH ↗
  • Who funds THE HELPING CENTER OF MARBLE FALLS ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS MISSIONS OF MERCY ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Marble Falls Economic Development Corporation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marble Falls Economic Development Corporation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report 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.
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    How do I get to Marble Falls Economic Development Corporation?

    Find your warmest path to Marble Falls Economic Development Corporation 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 72 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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