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· Private foundation
PAK FOUNDATION
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$35k
Granted FY2024
4
Grants
1
Communities
$26k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 97% of PAK FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
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2019
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2020
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2021
dogsyouthstock show
2022
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2023
golftom green
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 4 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $26k
$4,295
Median grant
1
States reached
$105k
Total assets
Largest grants
- SAN ANGELO STOCK SHOW AND RODEO$25,900
- TOM GREEN COUNTY 4H$4,295
- TOM GREEN COUNTY JUNIOR LIVESTOCK SHOW$4,000
- WALL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT$512
02The need
04
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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 12%. 100% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$738k · 10 repeat orgs$26k to everyone else
10 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
10
7
Total granted
$738k
$22k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+106%
+216%
Still filing today
60%
29%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
PhilanthropyHealthPublic Safety & DisasterAnimalsFood & NutritionOther
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
- SASAN ANGELO STOCK SHOW AND RODEO6× · 2019–2024 · $209k · revenue +93%
- MFMEALS FOR THE ELDERLY6× · 2017–2022 · $71k · revenue +108%
- WTWEST TEXAS BOYS RANCH5× · 2019–2023 · $60k · revenue +110%
Funded once
- PCPAULANN CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $7k
- CPCASSIE'S PLACEgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +216%
- SHSETON HOMEone grant, 2018 · $4k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
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West Texas Boys Ranch Foundation
The west texas boys ranch foundation raises, collects, accumulates, manages, and distributes the funds necessary for the west texas boys ranch, a related 501(c)(3) organization.
Human Services
2
Waller Volunteer Fire
The waller volunteer fire department inc was established to provide fire protection for the city of waller texas and surrounding areas within the county of waller for the organization and development of a volunteer fire department.
Public Safety & Disaster
3
San Angelo Stock Show & Rodeo Foundation
To support the san angelo stock show and rodeo association in carrying out its exempt purpose.
Education
4
San Angelo Support for Veterans Inc
San angelo support for veterans, inc. "sasfv is organized to raise and administer resources for the benefit of veterans and to engage in any and all activities associated therewith; as well as all other activities authorized by the board…
Human Services
5
State Fair of Texas
the state fair of texas celebrates all things texan by promoting agriculture, education & community involve- ment through quality entertainment in a family-friendly environment.
Recreation & Sports
6
San Antonio Food Bank
To fight hunger in southwest texas through food distributions, programs, education and advocacy.
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7
West Texas a&M University
Information & support of wtamu alumni
Education
8
Basset Rescue Across Texas Inc
Rescue and rehome homeless and abandoned basset hounds
Animals
9
Sheriffs Association of Texas
Law enforcement promotion and education to the general public and those involved directly with public safety and law enforcement.
Membership Benefit
10
Animal Welfare Society of Bandera County
Rescue and vet care for homeless dogs and cats
Animals
11
San Antonio Bar Association
To serve our clients and the public with the highest degree of dedication and professionalism in the continuing pursuit of equal justice for all under the law.
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12
San Angelo Stock Show & Rodeo Syndicate
To raise money for the youth exhibitors of the san angelo stock show premium sale.
Youth Development
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Angelo Stock Show & Rodeo Associatio and the most unlike its peers is Wall 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.
05the grantee network
8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$738,165Health$9,000Philanthropy$5,600Public Safety & Disaster$5,512Animals$5,000Food & Nutrition$1,000
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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
San Angelo Area FoundationTX18.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: San Angelo Area Foundation · San Angelo Health Foundation · Mary Ellen Kent Bunyard Family · Art and Eva Camunez Tucker Foundation · Kickapoo Springs Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 organisation PAK FOUNDATION 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: MEALS FOR THE ELDERLY.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~11 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.1× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 510159134 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on MEALS FOR THE ELDERLY, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 11 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 2% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Pak Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Pak Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The regranting layer
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Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines