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Mark Paul Terk Charitable Trust at a glance

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Mark Paul Terk Charitable Trust

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$3.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$3.6M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$15MYouth Development$183kAnimals$76kEnvironment$65kHuman Services$41kArts & Culture$15kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kReligion$4k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $68k
  • $250k+1 grant · $3.6M
$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$8.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MARK TERK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$3,650,000
UVALDE COUNTY JUNIOR LIVESTOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION$28,000
OCEAN SOLE AFRICA INC$25,000
EARTHX CONSERVATION AMBASSADORS INC$15,000
NUECES CANYON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC$5,000
UVALDE FESTIVAL AND EVENTS ASSOCIATION INC$5,000
CAMP WOOD FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH$4,100
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 (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 2% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MARK TERK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $5.7M → 5%EARTHX CONSERVATION AMBASSADORS INC: $15k → 14%NUECES CANYON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $5k → 17%UVALDE FESTIVAL AND EVENTS ASSOCIATION INC: $5k → 25%OCEAN SOLE AFRICA INC: $25k → 6%GIRAFFE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION USA: $50k → 13%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOC OF MCDONOUGH CO: $5k → 20%MARK TERK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $3.6M → 5%CAMP WOOD FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH: $4k → 17%UVALDE FESTIVAL AND EVENTS ASSOCIATION INC: $5k → 25%OCEAN SOLE AFRICA INC: $25k → 6%COLCHESTER AREA GATHERING PLACE: $24k → 20%MARK TERK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $2.1M → 5%UVALDE FESTIVAL AND EVENTS ASSOCIATION INC: $5k → 25%COLCHESTER AREA GATHERING PLACE: $12k → 20%MARK TERK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $1.6M → 5%UVALDE COUNTY JUNIOR LIVESTOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION: $50k → 25%MARK TERK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $1.6M → 5%UVALDE COUNTY JUNIOR LIVESTOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION: $40k → 25%UVALDE COUNTY JUNIOR LIVESTOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION: $40k → 25%UVALDE COUNTY JUNIOR LIVESTOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION: $28k → 25%UVALDE COUNTY JUNIOR LIVESTOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION: $25k → 25%HUMANE SOCIETY OF UVALDE: $10k → 25%HUMANE SOCIETY OF UVALDE: $8k → 25%HUMANE SOCIETY OF UVALDE: $2k → 25%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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$15M · 6 repeat orgs$135k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +81% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
4

Total granted

$15M
$111k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+81%
+31%

Still filing today

83%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k 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
AnimalsPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentInternationalOther
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

  • MT
    MARK TERK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $15M · revenue ×557 · 99% of their budget
  • TU
    THE UVALDE COUNTY JUNIOR LIVESTOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $183k · revenue +81%
  • BA
    Briscoe Animal Resource Center of Uvalde
    2× · 2020–2021 · $20k · revenue +106%

Funded once

  • VE
    VALERO ENERGY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +31%
  • GC
    GIRAFFE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION USA
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +22%
  • HO
    HEART OF TEXAS LAB RESCUE INC
    one grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue -31%
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 Rescue Inc
Animals
2
Throw a Dog a Bone Dog Rescue

Throw a Dog a Bone is an all-breed dog rescue located in Austin, TX. We focus on saving dogs primarily in the rural shelters in South Texas. Many of these shelters have no exposure and very few resources. Our mission is to rescue as many…

Animals
3
Texas State Rifle Association Foundation Inc
—
4
The Ute Trail Ranch Foundation
—
5
River Run Ranch and Animal Rescue

Animal Rescue

Animals
6
Texas Prairieland Foundation
Philanthropy
7
Greater Texas Foundation
Education
8
Texas Foundation for Animal Care

The Texas Foundation for Animal Care exists to bring high-quality, low-cost veterinary services and programs to underserved communities and provides public education for the betterment and protection of animals.

Animals
9
Texas Bankers Foundation
Education
10
The Texas Ferret Lovers Rescue

Texas Ferret Lovers Rescue is a no-kill organization dedicated to providing a safe and healthy environment along with quality care until loving homes can be found. We also provide sanctuary care for ferrets that are not adoptable due to…

Animals
11
Animal Friends of Port Aransas Inc

Provide veterinary and shelter services for displaced and wayward animals in the township and outlying area of port aransas, texas.

Animals
12
North Central Texas Medical Foundation
Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Uvalde County Junior Livestock Show Association; the most unlike its peers is Mark Terk Charitable Foundation. 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

10 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. 10 of the 13 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MARK TERK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $14,560,000 · Community ImprovementMARK TERK CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONTHE UVALDE COUNTY JUNIOR LIVESTOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION: $183,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOLCHESTER AREA GATHERING PLACE: $36,000 · OtherEARTHX CONSERVATION AMBASSADORS INC: $15,000 · OtherYoung Mens Christian Assoc of McDonough Co: $5,000 · OtherNueces Canyon Volunteer Fire Department Inc: $5,000 · OtherCAMP WOOD FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH: $4,100 · OtherVALERO ENERGY FOUNDATION: $50,000 · PhilanthropyUVALDE FESTIVAL & EVENTS ASSOCIATION INC AKA PALOMINOS OF UVALDE MUSIC FEST INC: $15,000 · PhilanthropyOCEAN SOLE AFRICA INC: $50,000 · EnvironmentGIRAFFE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION USA: $50,000 · InternationalBriscoe Animal Resource Center of Uvalde: $20,000 · AnimalsHEART OF TEXAS LAB RESCUE INC: $6,000 · Animals
Community Improvement$14,560,000Youth Development$183,000Other$65,100Philanthropy$65,000Environment$50,000International$50,000Animals$26,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMARK TERK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $14,560,000 over 5y, 99% of budgetTHE UVALDE COUNTY JUNIOR LIVESTOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION: $183,000 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetOCEAN SOLE AFRICA INC: $50,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetVALERO ENERGY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGIRAFFE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION USA: $50,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetUVALDE FESTIVAL & EVENTS ASSOCIATION INC AKA PALOMINOS OF UVALDE MUSIC FEST INC: $15,000 over 3y, 7.4% of budgetHEART OF TEXAS LAB RESCUE INC: $6,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetYoung Mens Christian Assoc of McDonough Co: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNueces Canyon Volunteer Fire Department Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 6.6% 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.

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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 Mark Paul Terk Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mark Paul Terk Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Giraffe Conservation Foundation Usa: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
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 Mark Paul Terk Charitable Trust?

Find your warmest path to Mark Paul Terk Charitable Trust 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 13 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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