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TEXAS FARM BUREAU AGRICULTURE RESEARCH
Initiate ag research and educational activities, disseminate information regarding education and marketing commodities.
$1.9M
Granted FY2017
39
Grants
2
Communities
$2k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2017 · 39 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$1,775
Median grant
2
States reached
$65k
Total assets
Largest grants
- PERRYTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT$1,775
- FRITCH VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT$1,775
- WHITE DEER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT$1,775
- BOOKER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT$1,775
- HOOVER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT$1,775
- POTTER COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT$1,775
- BRISCOE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT$1,775
- LEFORS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT$1,775
- REYDON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT$1,775
- WOLFCREEK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT$1,775
- PANHANDLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT$1,775
- MCLEAN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT$1,775
- MOBEETIE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT$1,775
- DALHART VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT$1,775
- SHAMROCK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT$1,775
02The need
02
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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–17) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 15%. 41% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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
Stickleyville Volunteer Fire Dept
Fire department for the local community of stickleyville, va
Public Safety & Disaster
2
Strawn Volunteer Fire Department
Provide fire protection and emergency assistance to strawn, texas, and surrounding communities.
Public Safety & Disaster
3
Broadview Volunteer Fire Department
Community volunteer fire deparment
Public Safety & Disaster
4
Knifley Area Volunteer Fire
Public Safety & Disaster
5
Frelsburg Volunteer Fire Dept
Provide firefighting services for frelsburg, texas area.
Public Safety & Disaster
6
Montague Volunteer Fire Department
Fire protection to the community.
Public Safety & Disaster
7
Ottawa Volunteer Fire Department
The purpose of the ottawa volunteer firefighters association will be to fundraise and collect funds through donations, grants and bequest and to administer these funds within the ottawa volunteer firefighters association for the benefit of…
Recreation & Sports
8
Grafton Volunteer Fire Department
Funding for volunteer fire department
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9
Taylor Township Volunteer Fire Department
—
10
Montvale Fire Department
Maintain facility for volunteer fire dep
Public Safety & Disaster
11
Monroe Township Volunteer Fire Dept
To fight fires, maintain fire fighting equipment, and otherwise provide fire protection and fire prevention services.
Public Safety & Disaster
12
Tool Volunteer Fire Department Inc
Fire protection
Public Safety & Disaster
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hoover Volunteer Fire Dept 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.
03the grantee network
12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$58,575Public Safety & Disaster$10,650
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 LOCUST GROVE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds DALHART VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds MCLEAN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds WELLINGTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds HOOVER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds KELTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds MOBEETIE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds SKELLYTOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds STINNETT VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds CANADIAN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds MIAMI-ROBERTS COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds BRISCOE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
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.
The Legett FoundationTX26.5× affinity10 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: The Legett Foundation · Gray-Pampa Foundation Inc · Amarillo Area Foundation Inc · M K Brown Foundation Inc · Kickapoo Springs 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 organisation TEXAS FARM BUREAU AGRICULTURE RESEARCH 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
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. 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.
04Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: WELLINGTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~7 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 26.4× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 752781765 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on WELLINGTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 7 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 8% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Texas Farm Bureau Agriculture Research?
Find your warmest path to Texas Farm Bureau Agriculture Research through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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State money flows
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