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Terrell Foundation First Financial Trust & Asset Mgmt

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$55k
Granted FY2025still arriving
26
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$64kReligion$49kYouth Development$37kHousing & Shelter$30kEducation$28kAnimals$20kArts & Culture$20kCrime & Legal$17kOther$0
02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$916k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CROSS TIMBERS FAMILY SERVICES$5,000
WESLEY FOUNDATION$5,000
CASA FOR THE CROSS TIMBERS AREA$5,000
DUBLIN PUBLIC LIBRARY$4,000
ERATH COUNTY MASTER GARDENERS$3,500
FREEDOM IN STRIDES$2,500
HOPE INC$2,500
PALUXY RIVER CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CE$2,500
ERATH COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY$2,000
MISTLETOE HUT GIRL SCOUTS$2,000
RAISING YOUTH SERVICES$2,000
HOMELESSNESS HELP$2,000
CROSS TIMBERS FINE ARTS COUNCIL$2,000
FIRST UNITED METHODIST TREE$2,000
Individual grant recipient$1,500
02The need
03

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 (FY18–25, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%TRANSFORMATION PATHWAYS CWJC: $1k → 13%CASA FOR THE CROSS TIMBERS AREA: $5k → 13%ERATH COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS MOW: $2k → 13%ERATH COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS MOW: $2k → 13%RESTORATION ADVOCATES: $2k → 13%RESTORATION ADVOCATES: $2k → 13%ERATH COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS MOW: $1k → 13%ERATH COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS MOW: $1k → 13%ERATH COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS MOW: $1k → 13%RESTORATION ADVOCATES: $1k → 13%RESTORATION ADVOCATES: $1k → 13%ERATH COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS MOW: $1k → 13%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.
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$260k · 31 repeat orgs$45k to everyone else

31 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
15

Total granted

$260k
$25k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+143%

Still filing today

32%
13%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesCrime & LegalAnimalsArts & CultureRecreation & SportsHealthOther
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

  • EC
    Erath County Humane Society
    9× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +408%
  • HI
    HOPE INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $17k · revenue +43%
  • CT
    CROSS TIMBERS FAMILY SERVICES
    4× · 2021–2025 · $16k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • G2
    GFWC 20TH CENTURY CLUB
    one grant, 2022 · $4k
  • OU
    OAKDALE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $3k
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
Texas Foster Care & Adoption Serv

A state of texas licensed foster care and adoption agency that identifies and provides approved healing foster homes for children.

Human Services
2
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Milam County
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3
Elk County Humane Society

To provide shelter and care of abandoned animals and provide effective means of preventing cruelty to animals

Animals
4
Shepherd's House

To provide emergency shelter, transportation, crisis intervention, court advocacy, and a support group to victims of domestic violence from vinton county.

Human Services
5
Casa of Tipton County

Child Advocacy Services

Crime & Legal
6
Wise County Domestic Violence Task Force

To assist sexual assault and domestic violence victims. To operate a safe shelter and provide counseling services.

Crime & Legal
7
Casa of Vermilion County

To provide trained community volunteers to aid in making decisions in ocourt about abused and neglected children's lives

Crime & Legal
8
Elijah Haven Crisis Intervention Center Inc

Provide a safe, healing, nurturing environment for all individuals affected by domestic violence and advocate violence-free living; provide conseling for batterers and victims

Human Services
9
Sierra County Child Abuse Council

Child abuse awareness and prevention

Crime & Legal
10
Casa of Northeast Tennessee

Advocate for the best interest of abused and neglected children with the belief that every child is entitled to a safe and stable home.

Crime & Legal
11
Temporary Help in Emergency House

Emergency housing

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12
Citrus County Abuse Shelter Associa

Rape crisis and abuse shelter

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Paluxy River Children's Advocacy Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Cross Timbers Fine Arts Council. 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 57 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
11/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WESLEY FOUNDATION: $25,000 · OtherWESLEY FOUNDATIONMISTLETOE HUT GIRL SCOUTS: $19,000 · OtherMISTLETOE HUT GIRL SCOUTSFIRST UNITED METHODIST TREE: $17,000 · OtherFIRST UNITED METHODIST TREEERATH COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $11,000 · OtherSTEPHENVILLE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $11,000 · OtherTEXAS TRAILS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS AME: $9,000 · OtherDUBLIN PUBLIC LIBRARY INC: $8,650 · OtherHOMELESSNESS HELP: $8,000 · Other+39 more: $103,368 · Other+39 moreHOPE INC: $17,000 · Crime & LegalHOPE INCPALUXY RIVER CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $8,000 · Crime & LegalPALUXY RI…ERATH COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS INC: $8,147 · Human ServicesRESTORATION ADVOCATES: $5,000 · Human ServicesCASA FOR THE CROSS TIMBERS AREA INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesTRANSFORMATION PATHWAY: $1,000 · Human ServicesErath County Humane Society: $18,180 · AnimalsCROSS TIMBERS FAMILY SERVICES: $16,000 · HealthCROSS TIMBERS FINE ARTS COUNCIL: $9,000 · Arts & CultureRAISING YOUTH SERVICES: $5,500 · Youth Development
Other$212,018Crime & Legal$25,000Human Services$19,147Animals$18,180Health$16,000Arts & Culture$9,000Youth Development$5,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetErath County Humane Society: $18,180 over 9y, 1.5% of budgetHOPE INC: $17,000 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetCROSS TIMBERS FAMILY SERVICES: $16,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetERATH COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $11,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetCROSS TIMBERS FINE ARTS COUNCIL: $9,000 over 7y, 7.3% of budgetERATH COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS INC: $8,147 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetPALUXY RIVER CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $8,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetRESTORATION ADVOCATES: $5,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetCASA FOR THE CROSS TIMBERS AREA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSTEPHENVILLE SOCCER ASSOCIATION: $4,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetWHITE HORSE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC: $2,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTRANSFORMATION PATHWAY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMORGAN MILL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC: $900 over 1y, 0.3% 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 Erath County Humane Society ↗
  • Who funds HOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds CROSS TIMBERS FAMILY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds ERATH COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
  • Who funds CROSS TIMBERS FINE ARTS COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds ERATH COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS INC ↗
  • Who funds PALUXY RIVER CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds RAISING YOUTH SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds RESTORATION ADVOCATES ↗
  • Who funds CASA FOR THE CROSS TIMBERS AREA INC ↗
  • Who funds STEPHENVILLE SOCCER ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds ERATH COUNTY LIVESTOCK ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds WHITE HORSE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC ↗

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.

Birdie Hartsough Frey Memorial Fund Xxxxx2003IL22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Birdie Hartsough Frey Memorial Fund Xxxxx2003 · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · 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 Terrell Foundation First Financial Trust & Asset Mgmt funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Terrell Foundation First Financial Trust & Asset Mgmt. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%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
    0get no government money at all
    6report 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 Terrell Foundation First Financial Trust & Asset Mgmt?

    Find your warmest path to Terrell Foundation First Financial Trust & Asset Mgmt 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 57 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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