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The Bob and Karen Wortham Charitable Fou at a glance

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The Bob and Karen Wortham Charitable Fou

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$55k
Granted FY2025still arriving
55
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0181% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$540kReligion$255kHuman Services$186kHealth$135kArts & Culture$99kFood & Nutrition$69kPublic Benefit$50kCivil Rights$44kOther$0
02FY2025 · 55 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k54 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
$500
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BAYLOR LAW SCHOOL$20,000
GIFT OF LIFE PROGRAM$5,000
SPINDLETOP ROTARY CLUB$2,500
HOPE CLINIC$1,755
SURVIVING PARENTS OF SETX$1,500
NUTRITION SERVICES FOR SENIORS$1,500
DUCKS UNLIMITED$1,500
ST JUDES CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL$1,100
MD ANDERSON CENTER$1,000
AWAY AT HOUSE$1,000
AUTISM SPEAKS$1,000
A 12 H BIMERS ASSOCIATION$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF SETX$1,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $76k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 20%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 20%SOUTH EAST TEXAS FOOD BANK: $21k → 19%GARTH HOUSE: $10k → 19%GARTH HOUSE: $9k → 19%GARTH HOUSE: $5k → 19%GARTH HOUSE: $4k → 19%SEAFARER'S CENTER OF BEAUMONT: $3k → 19%BOYS HAVEN: $3k → 19%SOME OTHER PLACE: $3k → 19%BOYS HAVEN: $3k → 19%GARTH HOUSE: $3k → 19%SOUTH EAST TEXAS FOOD BANK: $2k → 19%MEALS ON WHEELS: $2k → 19%GARTH HOUSE: $1k → 19%MEALS ON WHEELS: $1k → 19%GARTH HOUSE: $1k → 19%SOUTH EAST TEXAS FOOD BANK: $1k → 19%SOME OTHER PLACE: $1k → 19%GIRL'S HAVEN: $1k → 19%SOME OTHER PLACE: $1k → 19%SOUTHEAST TEXAS FOOD BANK: $1k → 19%BOY'S HAVEN: $1k → 19%BOYS HAVEN: $1k → 19%BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL: $500 → 19%BOY'S HAVEN: $500 → 19%AND THEN THERE WERE NONE: $250 → 19%CAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH: $112 → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 127 repeat orgs$318k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.

127 repeat relationships: 35 still active in FY2025, 92 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

127
212

Total granted

$1.5M
$308k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+4%

Still filing today

17%
9%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • GH
    Garth House Mickey Mehaffy Childrens Advocacy Program Inc
    7× · 2018–2024 · $32k · revenue +23%
  • HC
    Hope Center for Crisis Pregnancy dba Hope Womens Resource Clinic
    6× · 2018–2024 · $23k · revenue +107%
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC
    5× · 2019–2025 · $22k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • OO
    OFFICE OF STEWARDSHIP AND DEVELOPMENT
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
  • ST
    SOUTHEAST TEXAS ART MUSEUM
    one grant, 2023 · $11k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Baylor Regional Medical Center at Grapevine

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
2
The Hospice at the Texas Medical Center

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.

Human Services
3
Baylor University Medical Center

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
4
Baylor All Saints Medical Center

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
5
Scott & White Continuing Care Hospital

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
6
Baylor Scott & White Medical Centers - Greater North Texas

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
7
Lake Pointe Operating Company Llc

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
8
Scott & White Hospital-College Station

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
9
Baylor Regional Medical Center at Plano

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
10
Baylor Research Institute

To improve the care and well being of our community, nationally and internationally, through innovative clinically relevant research that is consistent with the mission, vision and values of Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH).

Health
11
Baptist Hospitals of Southeast Texas

The mission of Baptist Hospitals of Southeast Texas is to perform sacred work by uniting kindness, quality, and healing through the provision of health care services to the community.

Health
12
Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Centennial

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Operation Homefront Inc; the most unlike its peers is Phc Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

44 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 44 of the 359 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/44
Grantees still filing
27/44
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BAYLOR LAW SCHOOL: $462,200 · OtherBAYLOR LAW SCHOOLST JUDES CATHOLIC CHURCH: $111,400 · OtherST JUDES CATHOLIC CHURCHGIFT OF LIFE PROGRAM: $69,850 · Other+179 more: $957,102 · Other+179 moreGarth House Mickey Mehaffy Childrens Advocacy Program Inc: $31,860 · Human ServicesSoutheast Texas Food Bank Inc: $25,000 · Human ServicesBoys Haven of America Inc: $7,500 · Human ServicesSome Other Place: $4,500 · Human ServicesSeafarers Center of Beaumont: $3,000 · Human Services+2 more: $3,500 · Human ServicesHope Center for Crisis Pregnancy dba Hope Womens Resource Clinic: $23,000 · HealthJulie Rogers Gift of Life Program: $11,000 · HealthBAPTIST HOSPITAL OF SETX FOUNDATION: $2,600 · HealthAUTISM SPEAKS INC: $1,500 · Health+2 more: $2,350 · HealthWOUNDED WARRIORS: $8,500 · Public BenefitJUNIOR LEAGUE OF BEAUMONT INC: $7,500 · Community ImprovementC3 FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG LIFE: $1,250 · Youth DevelopmentCrystal Beach Fire & Rescue: $4,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$1,600,552Human Services$75,360Health$40,450Public Benefit$8,500Community Improvement$7,500Youth Development$6,250Public Safety & Disaster$4,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGarth House Mickey Mehaffy Childrens Advocacy Program Inc: $31,860 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetSoutheast Texas Food Bank Inc: $25,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHope Center for Crisis Pregnancy dba Hope Womens Resource Clinic: $23,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $22,150 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetJulie Rogers Gift of Life Program: $11,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetST ANTHONY CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $9,600 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIORS: $8,500 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF BEAUMONT INC: $7,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetBoys Haven of America Inc: $7,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetC3 FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHOW Center: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHOPE CLINIC INC: $4,555 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetSome Other Place: $4,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCrystal Beach Fire & Rescue: $4,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetTHE COMMEMORATIVE AIR FORCE: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSeafarers Center of Beaumont: $3,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetBAPTIST HOSPITAL OF SETX FOUNDATION: $2,600 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWEST END LITTLE LEAGUE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS: $2,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetOPERATION FINALLY HOME: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST DOMINIC VILLAGE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $1,550 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetAUTISM SPEAKS INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $1,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTexas Children's Hospital: $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS' HAVEN INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArt Museum of Southeast Texas: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds Garth House Mickey Mehaffy Childrens Advocacy Program Inc ↗
  • Who funds Southeast Texas Food Bank Inc ↗
  • Who funds Hope Center for Crisis Pregnancy dba Hope Womens Resource Clinic ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds Julie Rogers Gift of Life Program ↗
  • Who funds ST ANTHONY CATHOLIC SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIORS ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Mechia FoundationPenland FoundationJuanita Parker Corbin…Gay D and William F S…Mamie McFaddin Ward H…The Morgan Charitable…B a and E W Steinhage…He and Kate Dishman C…Foundation for Southe…Gladys Bevil Charitab…The Reaud Charitable …Christus Health South…
Mechia FoundationTX38.4× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mechia Foundation · Penland Foundation · Juanita Parker Corbin Charitable Tr Charitable Trust · Gay D and William F Scott Family Foundation · Mamie McFaddin Ward Heritage Foundation · The Morgan Charitable Foundation · B a and E W Steinhagen Benevolent Trust · He and Kate Dishman Charitable Trust · Foundation for Southeast Texas Inc · Gladys Bevil Charitable Trust · The Reaud Charitable Foundation Inc · Christus Health Southeast Texas

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Bob and Karen Wortham Charitable Fou funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bob and Karen Wortham Charitable Fou. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to The Bob and Karen Wortham Charitable Fou?

Find your warmest path to The Bob and Karen Wortham Charitable Fou through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 359 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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