· Private foundation
Spradlin Foundation Inc
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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k19 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KILGORE COLLEGE RANGERETTES | $10,000 |
| KILGORE HIGH SCHOOL | $7,500 |
| KILGORE COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| KILGORE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $5,000 |
| ST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $2,500 |
| PURSUIT CHURCH | $1,500 |
| KILGORE PUBLIC LIBRARY | $1,200 |
| NEW BIRTH FELLOWSHIP CHURCH | $1,000 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF DANVILLE | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| KILGORE ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| POST OAK BAPTIST CHURCH | $1,000 |
| KILGORE LEGACY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| ST LUKE'S METHODIST CHURCH | $600 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
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 (FY18–18, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +68% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 11 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, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF RUSK COUNTY2× · 2018–2019 · $28k · revenue +4%
- TKTHE KILGORE COLLEGE FOUNDATION3× · 2018–2024 · $8k · revenue +389%
- KLKILGORE LEGACY FOUNDATION5× · 2018–2024 · $6k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $5k
- KBKILGORE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBone grant, 2021 · $4k
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.
The mission of the texas shakespeare festival foundation is solely to support the kilgore college - texas shakespeare festival.
Provide supervision and funding for education seminars and youth drug-prevention programs. Also provide funds for scholarships for disadvantaged students.
To support educational programs for students and staff of kisd
Restore and maintain historical structures
To provide scholarships to students at the university of kansas.
Engage in all activities necessary, useful, or expedient to encourage, promote, and further augent the safe and effective law enforcement, firefighting, and emergency medical services in Kendall County Texas by supporting
Promoting, fostering, facilitating, and supporting indigent and general health care services in the city of kilgore and its surrounding areas, in the name of roy h. laird, deceased.
Champion, enhance, and support the premier excellence of the kilgore college rangerettes by raising funds to provide a fully funded education, facilities, and support to empower the rangerettes, the forever alumni, and kilgore college.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kilgore Isd Education Foundation and the most unlike its peers is LeTourneau University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 66 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 BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF RUSK COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE KILGORE COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KILGORE LEGACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REEL EAST TEXAS FILM FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds KILGORE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS OF KILGORE ↗
- Who funds KILGORE ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds United Fund of Kilgore ↗
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: The Crain Foundation · Rosa May Griffin Foundation · East Texas Communities Foundation · 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 Spradlin Foundation Inc 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.