· Private foundation
The Bettye & Murphy George Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 60% of THE BETTYE & MURPHY GEORGE FOUNDATION’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 · FY2025
- Under $10k43 grants · $106k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE BURKE CENTER | $30,000 |
| BROTHERS IN WHITE CHAPEL INC | $10,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF LUFKIN | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| HAROLD'S HOUSE | $5,000 |
| STUBBLEFIELD LEARNING CENTER | $5,000 |
| VOLUNTEER SERVICES COUNCIL | $5,000 |
| BOOK BUDDIES OF EAST TEXAS | $5,000 |
| TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
| ANGELINA ARTS ALLIANCE | $5,000 |
| PINEY WOODS FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| 12TH MAN FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| THE JOSEPH HOUSE | $5,000 |
| ANGELINA COUNTY SECOND HELPINGS INC | $5,000 |
| STEPHEN F AUSTIN STATE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $101k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
63 repeat relationships — 44 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- BCBURKE CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $70k · revenue +10%
- TJTHE JOSEPH HOUSE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $56k · revenue +165%
- TSTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $20k
- JCJDS CENTER OF HOPE Incone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +16%
- AAANGELINA ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +42%
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.
Hospice of east texas seeks to enhance the quality of life for individuals and families dealing with life-limiting illness and to assist bereaved family members by providing comprehensive, coordinated care and support.
The Texas Nonprofit Hospice Alliance (TNPHA) is a group of nonprofit hospices dedicated to sharing best practices and providing quality care for individuals with life-limiting illnesses.
Texas Legal Services Center is a nonprofit legal aid organization whose mission is to serve the undeserved by making civil justice accessible to every Texan--no matter their ability to earn. We're a coalition of attorneys, paralegals, pro…
The hospice of texarkana operation provides care to the terminally ill and provides grief support to the community. hospice of texarkana also has an inpatient facility available for our patients to receive care.
To provide services designed to meet the physical, social, and emotional needs of domestic violence and sexual assault victims by providing for immediate, short, and long-term needs.
The Hospice at the Texas Medical Center holds a freestanding 37 bed inpatient facility in the Texas Medical Center that is operated and managed by Houston Hospice.
Our mission is to break the cycle of crime by strengthening families through support, education, and advocacy.
To promote and diversify the economic base, attract high-wage jobs in target industries to Brazoria County and support and champion the interests of existing businesses.
Support economic development of greater tyler area.
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 Piney Woods Fine Arts Association. 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 31 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
28 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. 28 of the 76 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 BURKE CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE JOSEPH HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER SERVICES COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Texas A&M University 12th Man Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ANGELINA ARTS ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds ANGELINA COUNTY SECOND HELPINGS INC ↗
- Who funds Piney Woods Fine Arts Association ↗
- Who funds Brothers in White Chapel Inc ↗
- Who funds East Texas Cancer Alliance of Hope ↗
- Who funds The History Center ↗
- Who funds ST CYPRIANS EPISCOPAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE MOSAIC CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TLL TEMPLE MEMORIAL LIBRARY & ARCHIVES ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF LUFKIN INC ↗
- Who funds DEEP EAST TEXAS CRIME STOPPERS INC ↗
- Who funds Museum of East Texas ↗
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: Simon & Louise Henderson Foundation · The Pineywoods Foundation · Ernest L Kurth Jr Charitable Foundation · Tll Temple Foundation · Brookshire Brothers Charitable Foundation · Hunter Family Charitable Foundation · Mary K and Clifford Grum Foundation · Angelina Benefit Rodeo Foundation of the Lufkin Host Lions Club · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 The Bettye & Murphy George 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.
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