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Penland Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k62 grants · $159k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $296k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $437k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GIFT OF LIFE | $112,000 |
| C 3 FOUNDATION | $110,000 |
| MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER | $95,000 |
| GIRLS HAVEN INC | $65,000 |
| TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $55,300 |
| THE 100 CLUB OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS | $42,800 |
| YMBL | $31,600 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE | $25,000 |
| MOMS FOR AMERICA | $25,000 |
| HARDIN COUNTY YOUTH PROJECT SHOW | $22,450 |
| CHAMBERS COUNTY YOUTH LIVESTOCK SHO | $18,073 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $15,000 |
| LAMAR UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| CHRISTUS HEALTH FOUNDATION SETX | $12,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $209k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 14% of Penland Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 92% of the giving stays in TX; read by stated purpose it is 79% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +13% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
74 repeat relationships — 56 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $155k 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
- JRJulie Rogers Gift of Life Program5× · 2020–2025 · $589k · revenue +49%
- TCTexas Children's Hospital6× · 2020–2025 · $388k · revenue +47%
- T1THE 100 CLUB OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS6× · 2020–2025 · $196k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- FFFEDERAL FISCAL SUSTAINABILITY FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
ASSOCIATION OF THE GRADUATES OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMYone grant, 2024 · $35k · revenue 0%- SOSPECIAL OLYMPICS USA GAMESone grant, 2022 · $30k
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 create and maintain a permanent organization representative of amateur athletic and to establish the highest ideals of amateur sports in the state of texas
To serve the city of Gatesville and the surrounding communities with a voluntary Fire Department for the protection of lives, homes, and property of the citizens.
To provide fire protection for little texas commuity of macon county, alabama.
Hospice of east texas foundation operates for the benefit of hospice of east texas, a texas non-profit corporation.
The Association serves the fire and emergency responders of Texas and beyond, exists to improve the Texas fire service, and is committed to the betterment of Texas emergency services.
The corporation shall be organized, and at all times operated, exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the purposes of post oak little league, inc., houston, texas, a nonprofit corporation organization.
Supporting the Texas Intrastate Fire Mutual Aid System
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for Southeast Texas Inc and the most unlike its peers is Phc Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 13% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
53 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. 53 of the 168 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 Julie Rogers Gift of Life Program ↗
- Who funds Texas Children's Hospital ↗
- Who funds C3 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE 100 CLUB OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS ↗
- Who funds GIRLS' HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds FEDERAL FISCAL SUSTAINABILITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds IN TOUCH MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF THE GRADUATES OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Moms for America Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST TEXAS CIRCLE OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD ABUSE & BEYOND INC ↗
- Who funds BEAUMONT PROFESSIONAL FIREFIGHTERS ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST TEXAS INC ↗
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: Mechia Foundation · The Bob and Karen Wortham Charitable Fou · Gay D and William F Scott Family Foundation · Foundation for Southeast Texas Inc · He and Kate Dishman Charitable Trust · The Morgan Charitable Foundation · Young Mens Business League of Beaumont · Wilton and Effie Hebert Foundation · Mamie McFaddin Ward Heritage Foundation · B a and E W Steinhagen Benevolent Trust · Sidney and Charline Dauphin Foundation · Greater Houston Community 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 organization Penland 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.
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.
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