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Oncor Cares Foundation

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.

$650k
Granted FY2024still arriving
26
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
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, FY2021 to 2024.

Public Safety & Disaster$650kHuman Services$169kEducation$130kCommunity Improvement$70kPhilanthropy$55kHealth$34kFood & Nutrition$19kCrime & Legal$12kOther$0
02FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$733k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MARYNEAL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT$25,000
DUBLIN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT$25,000
WEST ODESSA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT$25,000
LAKE SWEETWATER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT$25,000
STRAWN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT$25,000
BLUFF DALE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT$25,000
SKELLYTOWN AREA VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS-EMS ASSOCIATION INC$25,000
WINK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT$25,000
WESTBROOK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT$25,000
GREENWOOD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC$25,000
GARDENDALE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT$25,000
OLDEN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT$25,000
LINGLEVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC$25,000
HOLLIDAY VOLUNTEER FIRE AND RESCUE INC$25,000
CARBON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT$25,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $36k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 77% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%FRISCO FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 5%BRECKENRIDGE VILLAGE OF TYLER: $8k → 12%NETWORK OF COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $5k → 14%COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE HEART OF TEXAS: $5k → 16%CASA DE AMIGOS OF MIDLAND TEXAS INC: $5k → 12%AMAZING GRACE FOOD PANTRY: $3k → 5%METROCREST SERVICES: $5k → 14%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.

5%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$56k · 4 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +87% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 26 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
59

Total granted

$56k
$439k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+87%
+1%

Still filing today

100%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $650k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’24
Public Safety & DisasterEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHealthCivil RightsOther
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

  • RR
    ROUND ROCK ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2022 · $15k · revenue +47%
  • TE
    TEMPLE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $14k · revenue +184%
  • PF
    PFLUGERVILLE FUND FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION
    2× · 2021–2022 · $14k · revenue +87%

Funded once

  • DI
    DALLAS INNOVATION ALLIANCE
    one grant, 2022 · $33k · revenue +1%
  • MC
    Monahans Chamber of Commercegraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +38%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF TARRANT COUNTY
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +1%
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
Frelsburg Volunteer Fire Dept

Provide firefighting services for frelsburg, texas area.

Public Safety & Disaster
2
Indian Creek Volunteer Fire Dept

Indian creek volunteer fire department provides fire, rescue, and emergency medical services to the indian creek fire district in cooke county, texas.

Public Safety & Disaster
3
Scotland Volunteer Fire Department

Volunteer fire department

Public Safety & Disaster
4
Wellington Volunteer Fire Department Inc

None

Public Safety & Disaster
5
Dallas Volunteer Fire Dept

To protect lives and property

—
6
Little Texas Volunteer Fire Department

To provide fire protection for little texas commuity of macon county, alabama.

Public Safety & Disaster
7
Kaufman Volunteer Fire Department

Provides protection, preservation, and well-being of the health, safety, and property of persons residing in the rural areas of kaufman county, tx .

Public Safety & Disaster
8
Matador Motley County Volunteer Fire Department

Fire fighting and prevention

Public Safety & Disaster
9
Poteet Volunteer Fire Department Inc

The Poteet VFD is a 100% volunteer organization. In addition to responding to fires, vehicles accidents, medical emergencies and public assistance, the VFD is also trained to handle vehicle extrication.

Public Safety & Disaster
10
Nocona Rural Volunteer Fire Department Inc

Volunteer firefighting of all fires in the rural areas around nocona texas including assisting other fire departments during large fires in their areas.

—
11
Garrison Volunteer Fire Department

To provide fire and medical emergency services for the city of garrison, tx and the surrounding districts.

Public Safety & Disaster
12
Devine Volunteer Fire & Rescue Dept Inc

Provide fire protection and rescue to the Devine, Texas area as well as training and education

Public Safety & Disaster
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Senior Citizens of Greater Dallas Inc; the most unlike its peers is Lingleville Volunteer Fire Department 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

54 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 54 of the 90 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/54
Grantees still filing
27/54
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ACKERLY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $25,000 · OtherLAKE SWEETWATER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $25,000 · OtherMONAHANS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $25,000 · OtherBORDEN COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $25,000 · OtherWESTBROOK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $25,000 · OtherMonahans Chamber of Commerce: $25,000 · OtherWHITE DEER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $25,000 · OtherWINK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $25,000 · OtherWest Odessa Volunteer Fire Department Inc: $25,000 · OtherMARYNEAL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $25,000 · OtherOLDEN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $25,000 · OtherCARBON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $25,000 · OtherANDREWS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $25,000 · OtherGARDENDALE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $25,000 · OtherPANHANDLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $25,000 · Other+37 more: $243,000 · Other+37 moreSKELLYTOWN AREA VOL FIRE AND EMS A: $25,000 · Public Safety & DisasterSKELLYTOWN AREA VOL FIRE AND …Bluff Dale Volunteer Fire Dept: $25,000 · Public Safety & DisasterBluff Dale Volunteer Fire Dep…STRAWN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $25,000 · Public Safety & DisasterSTRAWN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTM…ELIASVILLE RURAL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT: $25,000 · Public Safety & DisasterELIASVILLE RURAL VOLUNTEER FI…Greenwood Volunteer Fire Department: $25,000 · Public Safety & DisasterGreenwood Volunteer Fire Depa…NORTHEAST MIDLAND COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $25,000 · Public Safety & DisasterNORTHEAST MIDLAND COUNTY VOLU…Holliday Volunteer Fire and Rescue Inc: $25,000 · Public Safety & DisasterHolliday Volunteer Fire and R…GROOM VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $25,000 · Public Safety & DisasterGROOM VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTME…Lingleville Volunteer Fire Department Inc: $25,000 · Public Safety & DisasterLingleville Volunteer Fire De…HOWARD COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $25,000 · Public Safety & DisasterHOWARD COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE …FRIBERG-COOPER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $25,000 · Public Safety & DisasterFRIBERG-COOPER VOLUNTEER FIRE…DUBLIN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $25,000 · Public Safety & DisasterDUBLIN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTM…TEMPLE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $14,000 · EducationPFLUGERVILLE FUND FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION: $14,000 · EducationHILLSBORO ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $13,500 · EducationANDREWS ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationTYLER HISPANIC BUSINESS ALLIANCE: $7,500 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF GREATER CENTRAL TEXAS INC: $5,000 · EducationODESSA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · EducationTHE HELPING HOUSE: $3,500 · EducationUNITED WAY OF TARRANT COUNTY: $20,000 · PhilanthropyHALL-VOYER FOUNDATION: $15,000 · PhilanthropyBROWNWOOD EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyFrisco Education Foundation: $9,000 · PhilanthropyWichita Falls Area Community Foundation: $5,000 · PhilanthropyDALLAS INNOVATION ALLIANCE: $33,000 · Community ImprovementGREATER WACO COLLECTIVE IMPACT INITIATIVE: $4,000 · Community ImprovementBreckenridge Village: $7,500 · Human ServicesCASA DE AMIGOS OF MIDLAND TEXASINC: $5,000 · Human ServicesMETROCREST SERVICES: $5,000 · Human ServicesFRISCO FAMILY SERVICES CENTER: $5,000 · Human ServicesNETWORK OF COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE HEART OF TEXAS: $5,000 · Human ServicesAmazing Grace Food Pantry: $3,000 · Human ServicesTEMPLE COMMUNITY CLINIC: $10,000 · HealthRESOURCE CENTER OF DALLAS INC: $8,000 · HealthSnyder Community Resource Center: $5,000 · HealthPERMIAN BASIN REHABILITATION CENTER: $5,000 · Health
Other$618,000Public Safety & Disaster$300,000Education$72,500Philanthropy$59,000Community Improvement$37,000Human Services$35,500Health$28,000

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 budgetDALLAS INNOVATION ALLIANCE: $33,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSKELLYTOWN AREA VOL FIRE AND EMS A: $25,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetBluff Dale Volunteer Fire Dept: $25,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetMonahans Chamber of Commerce: $25,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetELIASVILLE RURAL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT: $25,000 over 1y, 46% of budgetGreenwood Volunteer Fire Department: $25,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetWest Odessa Volunteer Fire Department Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetNORTHEAST MIDLAND COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $25,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetHolliday Volunteer Fire and Rescue Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetLingleville Volunteer Fire Department Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetHOWARD COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $25,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetFRIBERG-COOPER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $25,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetUNITED WAY OF TARRANT COUNTY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHALL-VOYER FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetROUND ROCK ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $14,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTEMPLE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $14,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetPFLUGERVILLE FUND FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION: $14,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetHILLSBORO ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $13,500 over 2y, 21% of budgetANDREWS ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetTEMPLE COMMUNITY CLINIC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBROWNWOOD EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetFrisco Education Foundation: $9,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRESOURCE CENTER OF DALLAS INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSENIOR CITIZENS OF GREATER DALLAS INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBreckenridge Village: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSnyder Community Resource Center: $5,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetCASA DE AMIGOS OF MIDLAND TEXASINC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetERATH COUNTY UNITED WAY: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWichita Falls Area Community Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRI-COUNTY SENIOR NUTRITION PROJECT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMETROCREST SERVICES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRISCO FAMILY SERVICES CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF GREATER CENTRAL TEXAS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAMARITAN INN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNETWORK OF COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER FOR ROCKWALL COUNTY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetODESSA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPERMIAN BASIN REHABILITATION CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE HEART OF TEXAS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER WACO COLLECTIVE IMPACT INITIATIVE: $4,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMARTIN COUNTY COMMUNITY FUND INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ACTION: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASA OF TRINITY VALLEY INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF PALESTINE INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLAKE COUNTRY CASA INC: $3,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE HELPING HOUSE: $3,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCASA For Kids Inc: $3,500 over 1y, 0.8% 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.

North Texas Food BankUnited Way of Metropo…Communities Foundatio…The Moody FoundationScharbauer Foundation…Wayne & Jo Ann Moore …W P & Bulah Luse Foun…Hillcrest FoundationTexas Instruments Fou…Permian Basin Area Fo…Meadows Foundation IncJe and le Mabee Found…
North Texas Food BankTX19.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: North Texas Food Bank · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Moody Foundation · Scharbauer Foundation Inc · Wayne & Jo Ann Moore Charitable Foundation · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Permian Basin Area Foundation · Meadows Foundation Inc · Je and le Mabee Foundation Inc

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 Oncor Cares Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Oncor Cares Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%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
    21report 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Oncor Cares Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Oncor Cares 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 90 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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