· Public charity
Texas Community College Education Initiative
To provide programs that benefit higher education in promoting, through research and development, high quality instruction to advance student success.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 78% of TEXAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATION INITIATIVE’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k3 grants · $65k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $1.0M
- $250k+1 grant · $750k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TACC | $750,407 |
| Individual grant recipient | $153,362 |
| KILGORE COLLEGE | $110,000 |
| ANGELINA COLLEGE | $100,000 |
| TEXARKANA COLLEGE | $100,000 |
| LAMAR STATE COLLEGE ORANGE | $100,000 |
| LAMAR INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $100,000 |
| LAMAR STATE COLLEGE PORT ARTHUR | $100,000 |
| PANOLA COLLEGE | $100,000 |
| MEADOWS MENTAL HEALTH POLICY INST | $96,600 |
| WEST ED | $59,338 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS | $45,000 |
| GRAYSON COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| ODESSA COLLEGE | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 43% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
18 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $354k 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
- TATEXAS ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY COLLEGES6× · 2019–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +30% · 28% of their budget
- TKTHE KILGORE COLLEGE FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $220k · revenue +162%
- TCTEXARKANA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC2× · 2023–2024 · $200k · revenue +207%
Funded once
- GCGRAYSON COLLEGEone grant, 2022 · $25k
- OCODESSA COLLEGEone grant, 2022 · $25k
- TUTEMPLE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $18k
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.
To complement the state of texas' support of the colleges by providing financial support for new and ongoing projects and activities in the areas of research, education and community service.
The Foundation supports the development and promotion of Lamar University, its students, faculty and staff. The Lamar University Foundation supports and enhances Lamar University by encouraging the commitment of personal and financial…
Making education accessible for students through philanthropic support, aligned with Austin Community College (ACC) strategic priorities.
The western texas college foundation serves western texas college by soliciting, receiving, and administering gifts and grants for student scholarships, educational and cultural activities, and campus facility improvement and development.
To ensure that the student body experiences balanced intellectual, psychological, social and spiritual development, aimed at enabling them to become active productive members of society where they live and work.
To solicit and provide funds for scholarships, program development, capital construction, and other opportunities to serve lamar community college, its communities, and approximately 1,000 on-campus, concurrent enrollment, and online…
The mission of the south texas college foundation is to garner resources that assist south texas college in acheving educational excellence, servicing the diverse needs of the college through partnerships and fundraising from various…
Operated exclusively for educational purposes specifically including to further educational activities at texas a& m university-central texas within the meaning of 501(c)(3).
To support and further the mission of texas state university through the acceptance and investment of gifts established as endowments benefiting the students, faculty and staff.
Central texas college foundation (foundation) helps central texas college (ctc) grow through the acquisitions of gifts of scholarships, equipment and other donations, in order to help students, to support the facility, to promote programs,…
To support and enhance the ability of Galveston College to achieve its mission of advancing people's lives through lifelong learning.
The foundation supports west texas a&m university, an institution of higher education, and the students of wtamu by receiving and administering gifts from the public.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The University of Texas Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute for Texas. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 25 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 TEXAS ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY COLLEGES ↗
- Who funds THE KILGORE COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Angelina College Foundation ↗
- Who funds LAMAR INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TEXARKANA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Lamar State College Port Arthur Foundation ↗
- Who funds LAMAR STATE COLLEGE - ORANGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEADOWS MENTAL HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE FOR TEXAS ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GRAYSON COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ODESSA COLLEGE FOUNDATION 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: Texas Higher Education Foundation · East Texas Communities Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Texas Community College Education Initiative 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.