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Sportmans for Charity Club
Raise funds to distribute to local 501(c)3 organizations
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k28 grants · $82k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $108k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LET A SOULSHINE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| CALHOUN COUNTY LIVESTOCK SHOW | $20,000 |
| JACKSON COUNTY YOUTH LIVESTOCK SHOW | $17,500 |
| MCFLA | $14,189 |
| CALHOUN COUNTY LITTLE LEAGUE | $12,000 |
| VICTORIA LIVESTOCK SHOW | $12,000 |
| EDNA LITTLE LEAGUE | $12,000 |
| THE TEXAS ZOO | $10,000 |
| PALACIOS COMMUNITY HUB | $10,000 |
| AGAPE FAMILY OUTREACH | $7,000 |
| SANFORD COMMUNITY CENTER | $6,500 |
| ADOPT A PET | $5,000 |
| HARD HEAD DERBY | $5,000 |
| SOMETHING MORE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CALHOUN COUNTY BAND BOOSTER | $5,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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.
8 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 28 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, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $188k 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
- CCCALHOUN COUNTY LIVESTOCK SHOW4× · 2022–2025 · $42k
- CCCALHOUN COUNTY LITTLE LEAGUE4× · 2022–2025 · $27k
- AADOPT-A-PET2× · 2024–2025 · $15k · revenue 0%
Funded once
- HOHOSPICE OF SOUTH TEXAS INC2× · 2022–2023 · $20k · revenue +16%
- TVTHE VINE SCHOOLgraduated2× · 2022–2023 · $13k · revenue +33%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $12k
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.
Provide than environment to develop baseball and softball skills in a environment that helps the player grow
To promote conservation of the natural resources located in and around Calhoun County, Texas to prevent degradation of the environment in and around Calhoun County, Texas to sponsor such activities and events as may contribute to the…
Care for abandoned animals in vernon and wilbarger county, tx including spay, neuter, adoption and education.
To promote participation of the youth of lamar county in livestock shows.
Animal shelter
Further the education of Atascosa County youth
To provide humane treatment including medical care, housing, and food to homeless animals, and to secure adoptions for each one.
To provide and assist students involved in 4H and FFA organizations th opportunity to exhibit their projects and receive awards and monetary compensation for these projects.
Little league baseball
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mid-Coast Family Services and the most unlike its peers is Victoria Livestock Show. 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 18 years old; the field is 19. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 20% of your grantees by number, and just 31% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
17 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. 17 of the 64 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 CALHOUN COUNTY LITTLE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF SOUTH TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds ADOPT-A-PET ↗
- Who funds THE VINE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds VICTORIA LIVESTOCK SHOW ↗
- Who funds PALACIOS COMMUNITY HUB ↗
- Who funds MID-COAST FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Hard Head Derby ↗
- Who funds CALHOUN COUNTY YOUTH RODEO ASSC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH TEXAS ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Gabriel Project of the Crossroads ↗
- Who funds CALHOUN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HOPE OF SOUTH TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds Calhoun County Band Booster Club 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: Crossroads Foundation Crossroads Foundation · Wood Family Memorial Trust · South Texas Charitable Foundation · The O'Connor & Hewitt Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Sportmans for Charity Club 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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