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Texas Dow Employees Credit Union

Increase economic well-being of our members through not-for-profit, cooperative financial services.

$665k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
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States reached
$665k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
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What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2024.

Philanthropy$835kYouth Development$96kEducation$62kFood & Nutrition$43kHuman Services$23kHealth$18kReligion$15kInternational$14k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$665,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.8B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TDECU CARES FOUNDATION$665,000
02The need
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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.

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Your human-services grants (FY23–23, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 63% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BRAZOSPORT ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $15k → 10%HARVEST FOR THE HUNGRY INC: $8k → 10%BETHEL'S PLACE: $15k → 16%DAVID HUANG RESORY (HARVEST FOR THE HUNGRY): $8k → 16%BRIDGEYEAR: $15k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 61% of Texas Dow Employees Credit Union’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Texas Dow Employees Credit Unionlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your field

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.

1
Houston Independent School District Foundation

The HISD Foundation is dedicated to mobilizing the local community to support innovative priorities in HISD to improve outcomes for all students in the district. Our mission is to fund projects and programs of merit that fall outside of…

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2
Breakthrough Houston

The mission of Breakthrough Houston (BTH) is to work with highly motivated students to achieve post-secondary success and empower aspiring leaders to become the next generation of educational advocates.

Education
3
Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Inc

The Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston's mission is to inspire and enable all youth, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens.

Youth Development
4
Bastrop Education Foundation

To enhance the quality of education offered by the Bastrop Independent Education School District.

Education
5
Boys & Girls Clubs of Deep East Texas

To provide a place for children to go where they will have supervised activities, arts, crafts, and recreation.

Youth Development
6
West Texas Food Bank

The WTFB exists to collect, purchase, and distribute food to feed the hungry in 19 counties in West Texas in partnership with volunteers and community organizations and to educate these partners and the public at large about the real face…

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Mesquite Isd Education Foundation Inc

To create and sustain a visionary coalition of businesses and citizens generating investments and funding for innovative programs and initiatives that enrich edcuational opportunities in Mesquite ISD.

Philanthropy
8
Education Foundation for Fort Worth Schools

The mission of the Education Foundation for Fort Worth Schools is to raise and manage funds and engage business and community partners to provide opportunities for students to become successful adults in our communities.

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9
Frisco Education Foundation

To provide scholarships to graduating high school students in the Frisco Independent School District. The Foundation also supports educational programs and educators in the District through Grants for Great Ideas.

Philanthropy
10
Fort Bend County Fair Scholarship Foundation

Youth education is a primary focus of the Fort Bend County Fair activities. The Scholarship Foundation is the custodian of scholarship funds and administers those funds to recipients designated by the Fort Bend County Fair Association.

Philanthropy
11
Humble Isd Education Foundation

The Humble ISD Education Foundation inspires innovation and enhances academic opportunities to create the foundation for lifelong learning.

Education
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Orangefield Isd Education Foundation

To enhance the education of students of the Orangefield Independent School District.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fort Bend Isd Education Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Gmz Education and Development Center. 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 23 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number30%4%<5yr17%13%5–10yr21%22%10–20yr17%30%20–35yr8%22%35–55yr8%9%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value30%77%<5yr17%4%5–10yr21%4%10–20yr17%7%20–35yr8%7%35–55yr8%2%55yr+

The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 77% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 18% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/28
the rest of the field
18%
4,652/25,528

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.

05the grantee network

26 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. 26 of the 28 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
14/26
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TDECU CARES FOUNDATION INC — $795,000 · PhilanthropyTDECU CARES FOUNDATION INC+4 more — $52,000 · Philanthropy+4 moreBoys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Foundation — $20,000 · OtherBoys and G…Boys and Girls Club of Brazoria County — $15,000 · OtherBoys and G…MONTGOMERY COUNTY FOOD BANK INC — $10,000 · OtherMONTGOMERY…BOYS AND CLUB OF VICTORIA — $10,000 · OtherBOYS AND C…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $10,000 · OtherAMERICAN C…GMZ EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $15,000 · OtherGMZ EDUCAT…VICTORIA ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $11,280 · OtherVICTORIA I…THE HUB HOUSTON INC — $8,000 · OtherTHE HUB HO…SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC — $7,500 · OtherSLEEP IN H…BRIDGEYEAR — $15,000 · Human ServicesBRAZOSPORT INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $15,000 · Human ServicesBETHELS PLACE — $15,000 · Human ServicesHARVEST FOR THE HUNGRY INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesJunior Achievement of Southeast Texas Inc — $20,000 · InternationalJunior Achievement of Brazoria County I — $8,000 · InternationalOUTREACH INC — $6,055 · InternationalSweeny ISD Education Foundation — $9,050 · EducationEDUCATION FOR TOMORROW ALLIANCE — $8,000 · EducationPASADENA ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $7,000 · EducationTHE COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF VICTORIA DBA FOOD BANK OF THE GOLDEN CRESCENT — $10,000 · Food & NutritionWASTE NOT WANT NOT — $7,500 · Food & NutritionBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER TARRANT COUNTY INC — $8,000 · Youth DevelopmentP4L dba Lemonade Day — $7,500 · Youth Development
Philanthropy$847,000Other$106,780Human Services$60,000International$34,055Education$24,050Food & Nutrition$17,500Youth Development$15,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTDECU CARES FOUNDATION INC — $795,000 over 2y, 100% of budgetJunior Achievement of Southeast Texas Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Way of Brazoria County — $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Foundation — $20,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetBRIDGEYEAR — $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBRAZOSPORT INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetBETHELS PLACE — $15,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetHARVEST FOR THE HUNGRY INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetGMZ EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $15,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of Brazoria County — $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Women's Resource of Greater Houston — $12,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFort Bend ISD Education Foundation — $12,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetVICTORIA ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $11,280 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetMONTGOMERY COUNTY FOOD BANK INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF VICTORIA DBA FOOD BANK OF THE GOLDEN CRESCENT — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSweeny ISD Education Foundation — $9,050 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetTHE HUB HOUSTON INC — $8,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJunior Achievement of Brazoria County I — $8,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER TARRANT COUNTY INC — $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEDUCATION FOR TOMORROW ALLIANCE — $8,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetUndies for Everyone — $8,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetP4L dba Lemonade Day — $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWASTE NOT WANT NOT — $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPASADENA ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $7,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetOUTREACH INC — $6,055 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Tdecu Cares Foundatio…Shell USA Company Fou…Greater Houston Commu…Centerpoint Energy Fo…Albert & Ethel Herzst…The Houston Food BankUnited Way of Brazori…Harry S & Isabel C Ca…The Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…Texas Instruments Fou…The Ayco Charitable F…
Tdecu Cares Foundation IncTX36.9× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tdecu Cares Foundation Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · The Houston Food Bank · United Way of Brazoria County · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Ayco Charitable 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 Dow Employees Credit Union 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%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
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 28 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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