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Silverbow Resources Charitable Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$14k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$14k
Largest
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$143kPublic Safety & Disaster$87kHuman Services$71kEducation$58kHealth$47kYouth Development$42kRecreation & Sports$34kCrime & Legal$30kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$13,766
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DUCHESNE COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGMENT$13,766
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $85k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%UVALDE CISD MOVING FORWARD FOUNDATION: $15k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY OF SOUTH TEXAS INC: $3k → 25%LIVE OAK COUNTY CHILD WELFARE INC: $3k → 19%Memorial Assistnace Minitries: $13k → 16%MEMORIAL ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES: $10k → 16%MEMORIAL ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES: $5k → 16%THE ADAM MCCAULEY FAMILY CANCER FOUNDATION: $3k → 16%THE ADAM MCCAULEY FAMILY CANCER FOUNDATION: $3k → 16%Kids Meals Inc: $8k → 16%KIDS MEALS INC: $5k → 16%KIDS MEALS INC: $5k → 16%KIDS MEALS INC: $5k → 16%KIDS MEALS INC: $5k → 16%KIDS MEALS INC: $3k → 16%KIDS MEALS INC: $2k → 16%BEAR - A RESOURCE FOR CPS KIDS: $1k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
CA
UT
NE
NC
SC
DC
LA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 43% of Silverbow Resources Charitable Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 86% of the giving stays in TX; by stated purpose, 97%.

Silverbow Resources Charitable Fundlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$326k · 24 repeat orgs$259k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

24 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
76

Total granted

$326k
$245k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+1%

Still filing today

71%
26%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionHealthRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • The Houston Food Bank
    4× · 2020–2023 · $41k · revenue +36%
  • KM
    KIDS' MEALS INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $32k · revenue +106%
  • MA
    Memorial Assistance Ministries
    3× · 2020–2024 · $28k · revenue +87%

Funded once

  • UC
    Uvalde CISD Moving Forward Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -24%
  • 1B
    172nd Battalion Military Support Group
    one grant, 2020 · $13k
  • RM
    RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE HURRICANE RELIEF
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
West Texas Food Bank

The WTFB exists to collect, purchase, and distribute food to feed the hungry in 19 counties in West Texas in partnership with volunteers and community organizations and to educate these partners and the public at large about the real face…

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2
Feeding Texas

To lead a unified effort for a hunger-free texas.

Community Improvement
3
Food Bank of West Central Texas

To procure and distribute nutritional food to qualified agencies that feed the hungry of West Central Texas.

Food & Nutrition
4
Heb Tournament of Champions Charitable Trust
Philanthropy
5
Houston Independent School District Foundation

The HISD Foundation is dedicated to mobilizing the local community to support innovative priorities in HISD to improve outcomes for all students in the district. Our mission is to fund projects and programs of merit that fall outside of…

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6
Feeding America Texas

Feeding America Texas operates exclusively for charitable purposes by supporting food assistance, hunger relief, and community aid initiatives for individuals and families experiencing food insecurity throughout Texas. The organization…

Food & Nutrition
7
Houston Habitat for Humanity Inc

Seeking to put God's love into action, Houston Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope to provide a world where everyone has a decent place to live.

Housing & Shelter
8
Raise Texas

RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…

Human Services
9
Southeast Texas Food Bank Inc

Food distribution to the hungry throughout an eight county service territory in Southeast Texas.

Human Services
10
Trees for Houston

Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.

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11
Hays County Food Bank

To alleviate hunger by distributing food to families who are food deprived through a network of volunteers and other agencies within Hays County.

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12
West Texas Hero Homes Inc

Support of special needs military or first responders and their families.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kids' Meals Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Eric M Suhl Foundation. 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

38 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 38 of the 101 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/38
Grantees still filing
25/38
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Houston Food Bank: $41,266 · OtherThe Houston Food BankDUCHESNE COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGMENT: $13,766 · OtherSTAR OF HOPE MISSION - WEBB COUNTY: $12,824 · OtherBEE COUNTY TOYS FOR TOTS: $12,500 · Other172nd Battalion Military Support Group: $12,500 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $12,500 · Other+72 more: $255,771 · Other+72 moreKIDS' MEALS INC: $31,633 · Human ServicesKIDS' MEALS INCMemorial Assistance Ministries: $27,500 · Human ServicesMemorial Assistanc…Uvalde CISD Moving Forward Foundation: $15,000 · Human ServicesUvalde CISD Moving…WHEELCHAIRS FOR WARRIORS: $12,500 · Human ServicesWHEELCHAIRS FOR WA…The Adam McCauley Family Cancer Foundation: $5,000 · Human Services+3 more: $6,125 · Human Services+3 moreGEORGE WEST EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $11,500 · EducationTilden Livestock Scholarship Association: $11,200 · EducationBULLDOG EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationTHE DICTIONARY PROJECT: $5,000 · EducationTHE CENTER FOR HEARING AND SPEECH: $5,000 · EducationAvondale House Inc: $2,000 · EducationUniversity of Houston Foundation: $1,500 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationHOMETOWN HERO OUTDOORS: $21,200 · Recreation & SportsSUZANNAH SMILES: $2,500 · Recreation & SportsCHILD ADVOCATES INC: $22,500 · Crime & LegalCOASTAL BEND FOOD BANK: $15,824 · Food & NutritionLAREDO INTERNATIONAL FAIR & EXPOSITION: $5,000 · Food & NutritionLive Oak County Fair Association: $17,100 · Youth Development+1 more: $300 · Youth Development
Other$361,127Human Services$97,758Education$42,200Recreation & Sports$23,700Crime & Legal$22,500Food & Nutrition$20,824Youth Development$17,400

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $41,266 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS' MEALS INC: $31,633 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMemorial Assistance Ministries: $27,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHILD ADVOCATES INC: $22,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHOMETOWN HERO OUTDOORS: $21,200 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetLive Oak County Fair Association: $17,100 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCOASTAL BEND FOOD BANK: $15,824 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUvalde CISD Moving Forward Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWHEELCHAIRS FOR WARRIORS: $12,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHE ERIC M SUHL FOUNDATION: $11,500 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetGEORGE WEST EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $11,500 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetTilden Livestock Scholarship Association: $11,200 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetThe Restoration Team: $10,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetHEAD STRONG PROJECT INC: $8,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBULLDOG EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetRebuilding Together Houston: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DICTIONARY PROJECT: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Adam McCauley Family Cancer Foundation: $5,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR HEARING AND SPEECH: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLAREDO INTERNATIONAL FAIR & EXPOSITION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFOX WHOLE FAMILY FOUNDATION: $4,500 over 2y, 45% of budgetLIVE OAK COUNTY CHILD WELFARE INC: $2,625 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTravis Manion Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY OF SOUTH TEXAS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSUZANNAH SMILES: $2,500 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetAvondale House Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWINTERGARDEN WOMEN'S SHELTER: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Houston Foundation: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMISSION CENTERS OF HOUSTON: $1,400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSmall Steps Nurturing Center: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEAR BE A RESOURCE FOR CPS KIDS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBULLDOG ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB: $300 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
  • Who funds KIDS' MEALS INC ↗
  • Who funds Memorial Assistance Ministries ↗
  • Who funds CHILD ADVOCATES INC ↗
  • Who funds HOMETOWN HERO OUTDOORS ↗
  • Who funds Live Oak County Fair Association ↗
  • Who funds COASTAL BEND FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds Uvalde CISD Moving Forward Foundation ↗
  • Who funds WHEELCHAIRS FOR WARRIORS ↗
  • Who funds THE ERIC M SUHL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GEORGE WEST EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Tilden Livestock Scholarship Association ↗
  • Who funds The Restoration Team ↗
  • Who funds HEAD STRONG PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds BULLDOG EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Rebuilding Together Houston ↗
  • Who funds THE DICTIONARY PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds The Adam McCauley Family Cancer Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR HEARING AND SPEECH ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Shell USA Company FoundationTX17.5× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Shell USA Company Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Robert W Knox & Pearl Wallis Knox Charitable · Baxter Trust Co Private Foundation Services · United Way of Greater Houston · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Silverbow Resources Charitable Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Silverbow Resources Charitable Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Silverbow Resources Charitable Fund?

    Find your warmest path to Silverbow Resources Charitable Fund 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 101 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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