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South Texas Outreach Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2.6M
Granted FY2022
56
Grants FY2022
5
States reached
$207k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2022.

Human Services$1.5MFood & Nutrition$862kHealth$710kAnimals$657kEducation$518kHousing & Shelter$470kReligion$335kCrime & Legal$325kOther$0
02FY2022 · 56 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k36 grants · $855k
  • $50k–250k18 grants · $1.8M
$35,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Instituto Cultural en Pro de la mujer y La Ninez AC$207,000
Brookwood in Georgetown$132,500
Operation Kindness$125,000
Ruthe B Cowl Rehab Center$115,000
South Texas Food Bank$115,000
Casa de Misericordia$105,000
Bethany House of Laredo Inc$105,000
Church of The Crossroads$100,000
Operation Finally Home$90,000
North Texas Food Bank$90,000
Relational Care Ministries$87,000
Childrens Advocacy Center$85,000
Dallas Mission for Life$85,000
LC Education Foundation$80,000
Save the Children$75,400
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 (FY20–22, $706k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 59% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Journey to Dream Foundation: $5k → 8%Dallas Childrens Advocacy Ctr: $40k → 14%City Rescue Mission Inc: $35k → 16%Brookwood in Georgetown: $133k → 6%Dallas Childrens Advocacy Ctr: $25k → 14%City Rescue Mission Inc: $8k → 16%Brookwood in Georgetown: $100k → 6%Dallas Childrens Advocacy Ctr: $25k → 14%Tulsa Cornerstone Assistance Network Inc: $5k → 15%City Rescue Mission Inc: $8k → 16%Brookwood in Georgetown: $50k → 6%Grapevine Relief and Community Exchange: $25k → 11%Grapevine Relief and Community Exchange: $10k → 11%Tulsa Cornerstone Assistance Network Inc: $4k → 15%Casa de Misericordia: $105k → 21%Casa de Misericordia: $65k → 21%Casa de Misericordia: $65k → 21%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.

04

Where the work is directed

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

About 6% of South Texas Outreach 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, 83% of the giving stays in TX; read by stated purpose it is 77% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

South Texas Outreach Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.1% directed abroad (not shown)

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.

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.8M · 48 repeat orgs$288k to everyone else

48 repeat relationships — 45 still active in FY2022, 3 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
8

Total granted

$5.8M
$88k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+37%

Still filing today

73%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22
Human ServicesAnimalsHealthEducationHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyOther

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

  • BI
    BROOKWOOD IN GEORGETOWN VOCATIONAL INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $282k · revenue +39%
  • OK
    OPERATION KINDNESS
    3× · 2020–2022 · $275k · revenue +129%
  • RC
    Relational Care Ministries Inc
    3× · 2020–2022 · $242k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • KI
    KIDS IN A NEW GROOVE
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -97%
  • TC
    THE CITY LIGHTS FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMAgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $18k · revenue +213%
  • HB
    HONOR BUNKER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +51%

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
Paws of Austin Protection of Animal Welfare Services

PAWS' purpose is to provide refuge to stray and unwanted animals. PAWS' mission is to prevent cruelty to all animals by promoting humane standards through education and example, to provide care and shelter for homeless animals, aid in the…

Animals
2
Crisis Center of West Texas

Crisis center of west texas' mission is to respond, shelter, and educate to end domestic and sexual violence in west texas.

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3
Furever Home Pet Rescue

Furever Home Pet Rescue is an all-breed all-volunteer 501c3 non-profit organization based in the DallasFt Worth area We receive no government funding and are not funded nor assisted by any outside agency such as United Way Our life-saving…

Animals
4
Throw a Dog a Bone Dog Rescue

Throw a Dog a Bone is an all-breed dog rescue located in Austin, TX. We focus on saving dogs primarily in the rural shelters in South Texas. Many of these shelters have no exposure and very few resources. Our mission is to rescue as many…

Animals
5
Allies Haven Animal Rescue

Saving unwanted, abandoned, abused and neglected dogs in Texas. Also to promote proper pet ownership, community educational programs and to support spaying/neutering as a means to control unwanted pets. We provide complete vetting prior to…

Animals
6
Pippys Pals Rescue

Pippys Pals Rescue is dedicated to saving the lives of dogs facing euthanasia in Houston. Our mission is to provide a second chance to these beloved companions by rescuing them from shelters, providing them with necessary medical care, and…

Animals
7
Fix West Texas

Fix West Texas mission is to lower the local euthanasia rate dogs and cats put to sleep in our local shelter due to lack of space and to lower intakes number of dogs and cats taken in by the local shelter and local rescues in our West…

Animals
8
Love and Puppy Paws Dog Rescue

Love And Puppy Paws Dog Rescue (LAPP Dog Rescue) was formed to help alleviate the stress of city and county animal control facilities around South and Central Texas. We accept dogs into our rescue that are in overpopulated animal control…

Animals
9
Dogs As Family Inc

Dogs As Family, Inc. is an all volunteer organization located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Our mission - to rescue, provide sanctuary, rehabilitate, and find loving, forever homes for dogs that have been neglected, are stray, abused or just…

Animals
10
Refuge City

Refuge city provides safe places for children in dallas / ft. worth (dfw) who have been sex trafficked or sexually exploited to achieve restoration, education, and reintegration in a family-focused environment through the love of jesus…

Human Services
11
Texas Rescue Inc
Animals
12
One Tail At a Time West Texas

One tail at a time west texas otat wtx serves the rural communities of west texas by supporting animal shelter operations rescuing and sheltering homeless unwanted companion animals dogs and cats primarily arranging their veterinary care…

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dallas Mission for Life Doing business as Dallas Life and the most unlike its peers is Delta Sigma Phi Fraternity Gamma Xi Chapter. 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 24 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%0%<5yr16%9%5–10yr19%33%10–20yr16%21%20–35yr11%23%35–55yr13%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%0%<5yr16%4%5–10yr19%29%10–20yr16%10%20–35yr11%45%35–55yr13%11%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/51
the rest of the field
16%
6,943/44,403

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.

05the grantee network

49 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. 49 of the 65 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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/49
Grantees still filing
34/49
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Instituto Cultural en Pro de la mujer y La Ninez AC — $621,000 · OtherInstituto Cultural en Pro de la mujer y La Ninez ACCHURCH OF THE CROSSROADS — $300,000 · OtherCHURCH OF THE CROSSROADSRuthe B Cowl Rehab Center — $265,000 · OtherRuthe B Cowl Rehab CenterBethany House of Laredo Inc — $235,000 · OtherBethany House of Laredo IncChildrens Advocacy Center — $235,000 · OtherChildrens Advocacy CenterNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK — $210,000 · OtherNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANKLC Education Foundation — $180,000 · OtherMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXAS — $150,000 · Other+31 more — $1,348,500 · Other+31 moreBROOKWOOD IN GEORGETOWN VOCATIONAL INC — $282,200 · Human ServicesBROOKWOOD IN GEO…CASA DE MISERICORDIA — $235,000 · Human ServicesCASA DE MISERICO…DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER — $90,000 · Human ServicesDALLAS CHILDREN'…HOPE SUPPLY CO — $90,000 · Human ServicesHOPE SUPPLY COVolunteers Serving The Need — $67,000 · Human ServicesVolunteers Servi…CITY RESCUE MISSION INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesCITY RESCUE MISS…GRAPEVINE RELIEF AND COMMUNITY EXCHANGE — $35,000 · Human Services+3 more — $31,250 · Human ServicesOPERATION KINDNESS — $275,000 · AnimalsOPERATION …BEST FRIENDS FOR LIFE INC — $85,000 · AnimalsBEST FRIEN…LAREDO ANIMAL PROTECTIVE SOCIETY — $85,000 · AnimalsLAREDO ANI…Wild Heart Ranch Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation — $40,000 · AnimalsWild Heart…DIVINE CANINES — $30,150 · AnimalsDIVINE CAN…OKLAHOMA ALLIANCE FOR ANIMALS INC — $25,000 · Animals+2 more — $15,000 · AnimalsOPERATION FINALLY HOME — $190,000 · Housing & ShelterDALLAS MISSION FOR LIFE Doing business as Dallas Life — $185,000 · Housing & ShelterHIS HOUSE OUTREACH MINISTRIES INC DBA SHE BREWS COFFEE & TRANSITION PROG — $15,000 · Housing & ShelterRelational Care Ministries Inc — $242,000 · EducationCOLINS HOPE — $30,000 · Education+1 more — $5,000 · EducationSOUTH TEXAS FOOD BANK — $255,000 · Community ImprovementSave The Children Federation Inc — $176,200 · International
Other$3,544,500Human Services$880,450Animals$555,150Housing & Shelter$390,000Education$277,000Community Improvement$255,000International$176,200

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBROOKWOOD IN GEORGETOWN VOCATIONAL INC — $282,200 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetOPERATION KINDNESS — $275,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetSOUTH TEXAS FOOD BANK — $255,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetRelational Care Ministries Inc — $242,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetBethany House of Laredo Inc — $235,000 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetCASA DE MISERICORDIA — $235,000 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK — $210,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION FINALLY HOME — $190,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetDALLAS MISSION FOR LIFE Doing business as Dallas Life — $185,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $176,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXAS — $150,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDCAREGROUP — $90,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER — $90,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHOPE SUPPLY CO — $90,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetBEST FRIENDS FOR LIFE INC — $85,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetLAREDO ANIMAL PROTECTIVE SOCIETY — $85,000 over 3y, 13% of budget3 GIRLS ANIMAL RESCUE INC — $77,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC — $70,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budget4ATX FOUNDATION — $70,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetVolunteers Serving The Need — $67,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetCITY RESCUE MISSION INC — $50,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTULSA DREAM CENTER INC — $47,500 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetOASIS FRESH FOUNDATIONS — $45,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetWild Heart Ranch Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation — $40,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetLITTLE LIGHT HOUSE INC — $37,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetGRAPEVINE RELIEF AND COMMUNITY EXCHANGE — $35,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMe Squared Cancer Foundation — $35,000 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetDIVINE CANINES — $30,150 over 2y, 12% of budgetCOLINS HOPE — $30,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetLIGHT OF HOPE INC — $30,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetWELL COMMUNITY — $25,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetOKLAHOMA ALLIANCE FOR ANIMALS INC — $25,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetChanging Lanes Ministries Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetPAUSE4PAWS INC — $25,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetKIDS IN A NEW GROOVE — $20,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetJoy in the Cause Company — $20,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetTHE CITY LIGHTS FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA — $17,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHONOR BUNKER INC — $15,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetHIS HOUSE OUTREACH MINISTRIES INC DBA SHE BREWS COFFEE & TRANSITION PROG — $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAUSTIN YOUTH & COMMUNITY FARM INC DBA URBAN ROOTS — $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetDELTA SIGMA PHI FRATERNITY GAMMA XI CHAPTER — $15,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetBLUE DOG RESCUE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetSTONEBROOK PROJECT INC — $10,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetLONESTAR SOCCER CLUB OF AUSTIN INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTULSA CORNERSTONE ASSISTANCE NETWOR — $8,750 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSPAY OKLAHOMA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% 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.

The Mano FoundationNorth Texas Charitabl…Oneok Foundation IncThe Anne and Henry Za…Tulsa Community Found…The Guadalupe and Lil…Austin Community Foun…Communities Foundatio…United Way of Laredo …Womens City Club of L…Lamar Bruni Vergara T…The Prairie Foundation
The Mano FoundationOK39× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Mano Foundation · North Texas Charitable Foundation · Oneok Foundation Inc · The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · The Guadalupe and Lilia Martinez Foundation · Austin Community Foundation Inc · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · United Way of Laredo Inc · Womens City Club of Laredo · Lamar Bruni Vergara Trust · The Prairie 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 South Texas Outreach 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 130%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
13get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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

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How do I get to South Texas Outreach Foundation?

Find your warmest path to South Texas Outreach 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 65 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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