· Public charity
Texas Farm Bureau Agriculture Research & Education Foundation
Initiate ag research and educational activities, disseminate information regarding education and marketing commodities.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 39 grants below total $69,225 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,898,357 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,829,132 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MOBEETIE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $1,775 |
| POTTER COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $1,775 |
| KELTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $1,775 |
| CANADIAN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $1,775 |
| FARGO VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $1,775 |
| GAGE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $1,775 |
| MCLEAN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $1,775 |
| DALHART VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $1,775 |
| GEM CITY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $1,775 |
| HIGGINS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $1,775 |
| SHATTUCK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $1,775 |
| ALLISON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $1,775 |
| ARNETT VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $1,775 |
| REYDON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $1,775 |
| WAKA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $1,775 |
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 (FY17–17) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 41% 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.
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.
Volunteer fire department
Provide firefighting services for frelsburg, texas area.
Provide fire and rescue services to the citizens of our fire district
Fire fighting and prevention
Volunteer Fire Department that responds to service calls to extinguish fires or help with medical emergencies in the area.
Volunteer fire department
To provide fire suppression, fire investigation, and search and rescue services to the citizens of clyde and the surrounding rural areas of callahan co., tx.
Volunteer fire dept
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Miami-Roberts County Volunteer Fire Department Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mobeetie Volunteer Fire Department Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 33 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 LIPSCOMB COUNTY AREA VOLUNTEER FIRE FIGHTERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BRISCOE FIRE DEPT ↗
- Who funds STINNETT AREA VOLUNTEER FIRE FIGHTERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HOOVER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT ↗
- Who funds MOBEETIE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds CANADIAN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds KELTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds DALHART VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds SKELLYTOWN AREA VOL FIRE AND EMS A ↗
- Who funds MCLEAN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds WELLINGTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds MIAMI-ROBERTS COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT 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: The 100 Club of Amarillo Inc · The Legett Foundation · Gray-Pampa Foundation Inc · Amarillo Area Foundation Inc · M K Brown Foundation Inc · Kickapoo Springs Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Farm Bureau Agriculture Research & Education Foundation 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.