· Private foundation
Orr Carl and Lena Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 63% of ORR CARL AND LENA CHARITABLE TRUST’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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF | $47,200 |
| METHODIST RETIREMENT COMMUNITIES | $23,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $23,000 |
| BOYS CLUBS OF BRAZOS COUNTY INC | $23,000 |
| BRAZOS VALLEY REHABILITATION CENTER INC | $18,000 |
| BRYAN ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $13,000 |
| TWIN CITY MISSION | $13,000 |
| BRYANCOLLEGE STATION HABITAT FOR HUMANI | $13,000 |
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 (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 17%. 74% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
12 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- BVBRAZOS VALLEY REHABILITATION CENTER5× · 2021–2025 · $89k · revenue +2%
- BIBryan ISD Education Foundation5× · 2021–2025 · $64k · revenue +57%
- BSBRYAN-COLLEGE STATION HABITAT FOR HUMANI4× · 2021–2025 · $59k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- FUFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $61k
- HFHealth for All Incone grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue +20%
- BHBRYANCS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INCone grant, 2023 · $15k
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 quality services and products to the residents and businesses of our community in such a way as to maximize the affordability of safe and decent housing, especially for the low income; and to serve as a vehicle and assist in any…
To provide quality services and products to the residents and businesses of our communities in such a way as to maximize the affordability of safe and decent housing, especially for the low income; and to serve as a vehicle and assist in…
To assist homeless families in securing stable housing
To share Christ with others through serving those in need in the brazos valley and surrounding areas or wherever God leads and to bridge the gap by joining churches and other groups in serving together.
To provide guidance and support for persons affected by alcohol and substance abuse.
To stimulate understanding of natural and cultural history, and to encourage responsible stewardship of all natural resources.
The United Way of the Brazos Valley brings the community together to find solutions that change people's lives. UWBV will be the community leader and trusted partner that proactively seeks solutions to community-wide issues.
The Brazoria County Dream Center BCDC provides avenues of healing to the souls of hurting humanity in Brazoria County, TX. We address both the physical and emotional needs of the community. We accomplish this by focusing on rebuilding…
To educate, unite and focus our community's resources in order to efficiently address the most critical needs of Brazoria County
Comprehensive service to domestic violence and sexual assault victims
The mission of the Children's Museum of the Brazos Valley is to provide a child-centered, hands-on, interactive environment for learning and discovery.
The first presyterian church of bryan foundation, inc. provides support to the first presbyterian church of bryan for their benevolent and charitable undertakings.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bryan-College Station Habitat for Humani and the most unlike its peers is Bryan Isd Education Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 16 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.
- Who funds FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Boys Club of Brazos County Inc ↗
- Who funds BRAZOS VALLEY REHABILITATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds Bryan ISD Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds Twin City Mission ↗
- Who funds BRYAN-COLLEGE STATION HABITAT FOR HUMANI ↗
- Who funds Health for All Inc ↗
- Who funds Brazos Maternal and Child Health Clinic ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Orr Waldon H and Adele Charitable Trust · Lucille and John B Dougherty Trust · Winkler Nina Astin Trust · Nina Heard Astin Charitable Trust · Edge Eugene III Charitable Trust · M Bookman Peters Charitable Foundation · Gilbert & Thyra Plass Charitable Trust · Orr James Donald Charitable Trust · Clifton C & Henrietta C Doak Charitable · Marshall and Ellen Peters Family Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Orr Carl and Lena Charitable Trust 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.