How much does Southeast Texas Regional Advisory Council give?

Southeast Texas Regional Advisory Council reported 11 itemized grants totaling $286,849, out of $509,243 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 41 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.

What does Southeast Texas Regional Advisory Council fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Safety & Disaster (85%), Health (12%), Public Benefit (2%).

Who are Southeast Texas Regional Advisory Council's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: The Fire Fighters Foundation of Houston ($671k), Montgomery Co Hospital Distr ($209k), Fort Bend County ($161k).

Does Southeast Texas Regional Advisory Council fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Southeast Texas Regional Advisory Council?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation Inc, The Onestar Foundation, Amazonsmile Foundation.

Where is Southeast Texas Regional Advisory Council based?

Southeast Texas Regional Advisory Council is based in TX.

Southeast Texas Regional Advisory Council

Southeast Texas Regional Advisory Council at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

Southeast Texas Regional Advisory Council

To faciliate coordination of trauma providers and emergency preparedness readiness for healthcare providers in the region ensuring efficient, consistent and expeditious care by developing and maintaining integrated quality processes.

$509k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$131k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Public Safety & Disaster$1.6MHealth$218kPublic Benefit$36kEnvironment$25k

02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 11 grants below total $286,849, the rows itemized in this filing. The $509,243 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $222,394 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k4 grants · $32k
$10k–50k6 grants · $124k
$50k–250k1 grant · $131k

$14,453

Median grant

States reached

$8.1M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
FIRE FIGHTERS FOUNDATION OF HOUSTON	$130,894
MONTGOMERY COUNTY HOSPITAL DISTRICT	$36,742
FORT BEND COUNTY EMS	$29,499
MATAGORDA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT	$17,449
COLORADO COUNTY EMS	$14,763
HUNTSVILLE-WALKER COUNTY EMS	$14,453
COUNTY OF AUSTIN	$10,602
WALLER COUNTY EMS	$9,382
CITY OF WHARTON EMS	$8,767
CITY OF EL CAMPO EMS	$8,767
SUGAR LAND FIRE DEPARTMENT	$5,531

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

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.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.5M · 12 repeat orgs$374k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.5M

$374k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%

+26%

Still filing today

25%

31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Public Safety & DisasterHealthOther

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

TF
THE FIRE FIGHTERS FOUNDATION OF HOUSTON
4× · 2021–2024 · $671k · revenue +6% · 80% of their budget
MC
Montgomery Co Hospital Distr
5× · 2020–2024 · $209k
FB
FORT BEND COUNTY
5× · 2020–2024 · $161k

Funded once

MO
MEDILIFE OF HOUSTON INC
one grant, 2020 · $107k · revenue -67% · 65% of their budget
MC
Matagorda County EMS LLP
one grant, 2020 · $13k
HC
Harris Co ESD #4 Huffman EMS
one grant, 2021 · $8k

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.

Hankamer Volunteer Fire Department

Provide fire fighting & ambulance service to hankamer, texas and surrounding areas.

Public Safety & Disaster

Houston Volunteer Fire Department Inc

Volunteer Fire Department

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Waskom Volunteer Fire Department & Ems Services Inc

Firefighter & emergency medical services for the waskom, tx area.

Public Safety & Disaster

Ata-Bexar County Line Volunteer Fire Department Inc

Fire Fighting

—

Hartley Volunteer Fire Dept & Ems

Multi-texas city and county fire department and ambulance service

Public Safety & Disaster

Matador Motley County Volunteer Fire Department

Fire fighting and prevention

Public Safety & Disaster

Willacy County Ems Inc

Ambulance service for willacy county texas and surrounding area

Health

Woodland Beach Volunteer Fire Department

To provide free fire protection,emergency medical assistance & rescue services

Public Safety & Disaster

Frelsburg Volunteer Fire Dept

Provide firefighting services for frelsburg, texas area.

Public Safety & Disaster

Hitchcock Volunteer Fire Department

Fire and rescue services for the community of hitchcock, texas.

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North Zulch Volunteer Fire Department

Provide fire, medical and mutual aid services.

Public Safety & Disaster

South Brazos County Fire Department

Volunteer Fire Department, providing fire, rescue, and medical services to a population of approximately 22,000 residents, 24 hours per day, 365 days per year.

Public Safety & Disaster

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Waller County Volunteer Ems Inc; the most unlike its peers is Atascocita Volunteer Fire Department Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

15 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. 15 of the 44 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

13/15

Grantees still filing

9/15

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,028,430Public Safety & Disaster$769,916Health$79,369

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

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.

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.

Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation IncFL14.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation Inc · The Onestar Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Southeast Texas Regional Advisory Council funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Southeast Texas Regional Advisory Council. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home