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Ram Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k38 grants · $115k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $452k
- $50k–250k19 grants · $1.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PARIS TRANSITIONAL HOUSING | $158,000 |
| MANEGAIT THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIP | $153,800 |
| HOMESTAY INC | $150,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF LAMAR COUNTY | $122,477 |
| RED RIVER VALLEY DOWN SYNDROME ASSO | $111,661 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE RED RIVE | $104,475 |
| CLARKSVILLE FOOD PANTRY INC | $100,000 |
| PARIS JUNIOR COLLEGE | $86,727 |
| PARIS COMMUNITY THEATER | $80,300 |
| PARIS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $75,000 |
| DOWNTOWN FOOD PANTRY | $65,000 |
| TAILORED RIDES EQUINE THERAPY | $62,600 |
| TEXAS AM UNIVERSITY | $60,261 |
| YOUNG LIFE OF LAMAR COUNTY | $55,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE CAPITAL | $54,362 |
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 (FY17–24, $990k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 51% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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 +30% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
121 repeat relationships — 57 still active in FY2024, 64 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $79k 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
- UWUNITED WAY OF LAMAR COUNTY8× · 2017–2024 · $736k · revenue +63%
- TCTRINITY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY3× · 2018–2020 · $554k · revenue +44%
- RRRed River Valley Down Syndrome Society8× · 2017–2024 · $411k · revenue +135%
Funded once
- PPPARIS PICKLEBALL ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2023 · $601k
- COCITY OF PARIS HOME PROGRAMone grant, 2021 · $300k
- OOOFFICE OF EMERGENCY MGMT - LAMAR COone grant, 2023 · $120k
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.
A state of texas licensed foster care and adoption agency that identifies and provides approved healing foster homes for children.
Pregnancy counseling
The james bruner-tk ranch, inc. operates personal care facilities for mentally challenged adults, licensed by the texas department of human services. the primary goal of tk ranch is to provide a safe and decent living environment for the…
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.
Sunny Glen Childrens Home, Inc. cares for children in need. Our care will be competent, compassionate and professional. We will help every child achieve their greatest potential-physically, emotionally, spiritually and academically.
The Family Guidance & Outreach Center of Lubbock is dedicated to the prevention of child abuse and neglect and supporting, mentoring, and educating parents.
The Lullaby House missionis ot strengthen families by providing programs and services to teenage parents and familites in need which will inspire and promote generational change.
The H.O.W. Center provides a safe and structured living environment for individuals recovering from alcoholism and addiction while they gain the skills they need to live independently and successfully.
The children's advocacy center of van zandt county is committed to ensuring quality services and support to those children impacted by abuse while also building a future where no child in van zandt county experiences abuse.
Child Advocacy
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ach Child and Family Services and the most unlike its peers is Baby Gunns Animal Rescue. 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 29 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) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
63 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. 63 of the 243 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 UNITED WAY OF LAMAR COUNTY ↗
- Who funds TRINITY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Red River Valley Down Syndrome Society ↗
- Who funds HOME STAY INC ↗
- Who funds TAILORED RIDES EQUINE ASSISTED THERAPY INC ↗
- Who funds Mane Gait ↗
- Who funds CLARKSVILLE FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds Paris Community Theater ↗
- Who funds CASA For Kids Inc ↗
- Who funds PARIS TRANSITIONAL HOUSING ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of the Red River Valle y ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND CHILDRENS REHABILITATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP KIWANIS ON PAT MAYSE LAKE INC ↗
- Who funds GOODLAND INC ↗
- Who funds ARK-TEX COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS ↗
- Who funds LAGUNA MADRE YOUTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds TEXAS RAMP PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds For the Nations Refugee Outreach ↗
- Who funds PARIS EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Texas A&M Foundation ↗
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: United Way of Lamar County · First Federal Community Foundation · St Joseph's Community Foundation · The Roy and Skeeter Davis Family Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Delta Dental of South Dakota · Oahe Foundation · East Texas Communities Foundation · Boys & Girls Clubs of America (Group Return) · South Dakota Community Foundation · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · The Dallas 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 Ram 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.
- The University of Tulsa — 5% of income from government
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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