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Pape-Dawson Engineers Charitable Foundation

The foundation's purpose is to raise funds to support the community.

$355k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0174% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.

Human Services$515kHealth$160kHousing & Shelter$145kCommunity Improvement$110kPhilanthropy$105kRecreation & Sports$95kFood & Nutrition$85kPublic Safety & Disaster$55kCrime & Legal$50kOther$680k
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k15 grants · $290k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$77k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MEALS ON WHEELS SAN ANTONIO$60,000
CHILDSAFE$30,000
HAVEN FOR HOPE OF BEXAR COUNTY$30,000
FISHER HOUSE INC$30,000
FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION SERVICES$30,000
HOUSTON CHILDREN'S CHARITY$30,000
CENTER FOR CHILD PROTECTION$20,000
WELL COMMUNITY$15,000
MINNIE'S FOOD PANTRY$15,000
TEXAS ADVOCACY PROJECT INC$15,000
THE PARENTING CENTER$15,000
FOSTER ANGELS OF CENTRAL TEXAS FOUNDATION$15,000
WOMEN'S CENTER OF TARRANT COUNTY FOUNDATION$15,000
KIDS' MEALS INC$10,000
FORT BEND COMMUNITY PARTNERS RAINBOW ROOM$10,000
02The need
03

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:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $500k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AUSTIN ANGELS: $10k → 10%COMMUNITY PARTNERS OF DALLAS: $30k → 14%FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION SERVICES: $30k → 16%FRISCO FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 5%BROOKWOOD IN GEORGETOWN: $10k → 6%COMAL COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%CENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES: $10k → 11%COMMUNITY PARTNERS OF DALLAS: $25k → 14%FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION SERVICES: $25k → 16%HELPING HAND HOME: $15k → 10%KID NET FOUNDATION DBA JONATHAN'S PLACE: $15k → 14%FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTATIVE SERVICES INC: $25k → 16%THE WARM PLACE: $5k → 11%WONDERS AND WORRIES: $10k → 10%WOMEN'S CENTER OF TARRANT COUNTY FOUNDATION: $15k → 11%HOPE SUPPLY CO: $20k → 14%KIDS' MEALS INC: $10k → 16%THE CHILDREN'S SHELTER: $30k → 16%SAFEHAVEN OF TARRANT COUNTY: $15k → 11%THE CHIDREN'S SHELTER: $25k → 16%THE PARENTING CENTER: $15k → 11%CHILDSAFE: $30k → 16%CHILDREN'S BEREAVEMENT CENTER OF SOUTH TEXAS: $30k → 16%CHILDREN'S BEREAVEMENT CENTER OF SOUTH TEXAS: $30k → 16%CHILDSAFE: $30k → 16%MORNINGSIDE MINISTRIES: $30k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.2M · 19 repeat orgs$815k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.

19 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
42

Total granted

$1.2M
$655k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+21%

Still filing today

89%
93%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $160k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • MO
    MEALS ON WHEELS SAN ANTONIO
    6× · 2018–2025 · $200k · revenue +153%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF SAN ANTONIO AND BEXAR COUNTY
    4× · 2017–2020 · $95k · revenue +12%
  • FV
    FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION SERVICES INC
    3× · 2018–2025 · $80k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • MM
    MORNINGSIDE MINISTRIES
    one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue -12%
  • TR
    THE RETREAT HOME FOR CHILDREN
    one grant, 2024 · $30k
  • SW
    STEPS WITH HORSES
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%

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.

1
Children's Aid Society of West Tx Inc

To provide shelter, supervision, and counseling for children in crisis; to cooperate with other agencies in order to resolve problems related to the welfare of these children; to assist the families of these children in seeking possible…

Human Services
2
Central Texas Children's Home

To provide family services and to provide residential child care for dependent children where there is a need to assist children and families disrupted by problems.

Human Services
3
Ft Bend County Child Advocates Inc

Fort Bend County Child Advocates, Inc. provides a voice, heals the hurt and breaks the cycle of abuse and neglect for children in Fort Bend County.

Civil Rights
4
Court Appointed Special Advocates in the Heart of Texas

Training and supporting quality volunteers who speak out for the best interest of abused and neglected children in court in an effort to find each child a safe, permanent, nurturing home.

Civil Rights
5
Childrens Advocacy Center of West Texas Inc

The Organizations mission is to bring unity and efficiency to investigations of child abuse through the use of a multi-disciplinary team and, thereby, to provide the best possible services to victims of child abuse and their families.

Crime & Legal
6
Texprotects-the Texas Association for the Protection of Children

TexProtects advances public policy and local implementation to strenghten families to prevent child abuse and neglect.

Youth Development
7
Casa of South Texas Inc

Child Advocacy

Human Services
8
Children's Alliance of South Texas

To provide a neutral, child friendly organization that facilitates a multi-disciplinary approach to the investigation, intervention and treatment of child abuse.

Crime & Legal
9
Texas Casa Inc

To promote and develop local court-appointed special advocates programs throughout texas.

Civil Rights
10
San Antonio Foster Care and Adoption and Services

San antonio foster care and adoption services inc. is a licensed child placement agency in the state of texas. the organization cares for children placed in foster care by the state of texas.

Human Services
11
Casa of Williamson County Texas

CASA of Williamson County, TX exists to empower community volunteers to advocate for children who have experienced abuse or neglect to find loving, safe, and permanent homes.

Crime & Legal
12
Lone Star Casa Inc

Lone Star CASA elevates the voices of children in Kaufman and Rockwall County who have experienced abuse and neglect by providing trained volunteer advocates to work alongside children and families so they can achieve safety and stability…

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Childrens Bereavement Center of South Texas and the most unlike its peers is Reining Strength Therapeutic Horsemanship. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number28%2%<5yr17%0%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr16%25%20–35yr9%46%35–55yr11%11%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value28%2%<5yr17%0%5–10yr19%11%10–20yr16%24%20–35yr9%45%35–55yr11%19%55yr+

The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/71
the rest of the field
17%
11,100/66,942

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

67 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. 67 of the 71 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
66/67
Grantees still filing
50/67
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MEALS ON WHEELS SAN ANTONIO — $200,000 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELS SAN ANTONIOST PETER-ST JOSEPH CHILDRENS HOME — $55,000 · OtherST PETER-ST JOSEPH CHILDRENS HOMESETON HOME INC — $55,000 · OtherSETON HOME INCLUNCHES OF LOVE — $45,000 · OtherSOLDIERS' ANGELS — $55,000 · OtherSOLDIERS' ANGELSTHE RETREAT HOME FOR CHILDREN — $30,000 · Other+27 more — $430,000 · Other+27 moreFAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION SERVICES INC — $80,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION SE…CHILDRENS BEREAVEMENT CENTER OF SOUTH TEXAS — $60,000 · Human ServicesCHILDRENS BEREAVEMENT CENTER …CHILDSAFE — $60,000 · Human ServicesCHILDSAFETHE CHILDREN'S SHELTER — $55,000 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDREN'S SHELTERCHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC — $55,000 · Human ServicesCHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES COM…MORNINGSIDE MINISTRIES — $30,000 · Human ServicesMORNINGSIDE MINISTRIESHOPE SUPPLY CO — $20,000 · Human Services+14 more — $155,000 · Human Services+14 moreRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SAN ANTONIO INC — $55,000 · HealthRONALD MC…STEPS WITH HORSES — $25,000 · HealthSTEPS WIT…CLARITY CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER — $25,000 · HealthCLARITY C…CHRISTUS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — $20,000 · HealthCHRISTUS …THE WOMEN'S CENTER OF TARRANT COUNTY INC — $20,000 · HealthTHE WOMEN…Texas Children's Hospital — $15,000 · HealthTexas Chi…FISHER HOUSE INC — $65,000 · Housing & ShelterHaven for Hope of Bexar County — $50,000 · Housing & ShelterTEXAS RAMP PROJECT — $20,000 · Housing & ShelterGROVE PLACE PARTNERS GP INC DBA THE SAFE ALLIANCE AFFORDABLE HOUSING CORP — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterOPERATION HOMEFRONT INC — $70,000 · Community ImprovementHOUSTON'S CHARITY FOR CHILDREN INC — $30,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS INC — $10,000 · Community ImprovementUNITED WAY OF SAN ANTONIO AND BEXAR COUNTY — $95,000 · PhilanthropyFORT BEND COMMUNITY PARTNERS RAINBOW ROOM — $10,000 · PhilanthropyKinetic Kids Inc — $70,000 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS OF TEXAS INC — $25,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$870,000Human Services$515,000Health$160,000Housing & Shelter$145,000Community Improvement$110,000Philanthropy$105,000Recreation & Sports$95,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMEALS ON WHEELS SAN ANTONIO — $200,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SAN ANTONIO AND BEXAR COUNTY — $95,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION SERVICES INC — $80,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetOPERATION HOMEFRONT INC — $70,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKinetic Kids Inc — $70,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetFISHER HOUSE INC — $65,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetCHILDRENS BEREAVEMENT CENTER OF SOUTH TEXAS — $60,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCHILDSAFE — $60,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S SHELTER — $55,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC — $55,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSOLDIERS' ANGELS — $55,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SAN ANTONIO INC — $55,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetHaven for Hope of Bexar County — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLUNCHES OF LOVE — $45,000 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetMORNINGSIDE MINISTRIES — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPS WITH HORSES — $25,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetSUNSHINE COTTAGE SCHOOL FOR DEAF CHILDREN — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHILD ADVOCATES SAN ANTONIO — $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCASA DE ESPERANZA DE LOS NINOS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCLARITY CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS OF TEXAS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTEXAS RAMP PROJECT — $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCASA OF TARRANT COUNTY INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCHRISTUS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Texas Food Bank Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTarrant Area Food Bank — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE SUPPLY CO — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S CENTER OF TARRANT COUNTY INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE SAFE ALLIANCE — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKID NET FOUNDATION JONATHANS PLACE — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMISSION OF YAHWEH INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWEST HOUSTON ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTexas Children's Hospital — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF TRAVIS COUNTY — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNAMI Central Texas — $15,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCamp For All Foundation — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREINING STRENGTH THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIP — $15,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetSAFEHAVEN OF TARRANT COUNTY — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGROVE PLACE PARTNERS GP INC DBA THE SAFE ALLIANCE AFFORDABLE HOUSING CORP — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAUSTIN DOG ALLIANCE — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWonders & Worries Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBROOKWOOD IN GEORGETOWN VOCATIONAL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANY BABY CAN OF AUSTIN INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCARITAS OF AUSTIN — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 Antonio Area Foun…St Luke's Lutheran He…Nancy Smith Hurd Foun…Faye L & William L Co…Marcia & Otto Koehler…John L Santikos Chari…Harvey E Najim Charit…The Charity Ball Asso…Elizabeth Huth Coates…Marietta K Randall Fo…The Texas Cavaliers C…United Way of San Ant…
San Antonio Area FoundationTX35.9× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: San Antonio Area Foundation · St Luke's Lutheran Health Ministries Inc · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · Marcia & Otto Koehler Foundation · John L Santikos Charitable Foundation · Harvey E Najim Charitable Foundation · The Charity Ball Association of San Antonio Inc · Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992 · Marietta K Randall Foundation Trust · The Texas Cavaliers Charitable Foundation · United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County

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 Pape-Dawson Engineers Charitable 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your 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
    23report 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

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Pape-Dawson Engineers Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Pape-Dawson Engineers Charitable 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 71 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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