· Private foundation
The Keeter Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $2k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FAIRVIEW CEMETERY ASSOCIATION | $200,000 |
| EVERGREEN LIFE SERVICES | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
22 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- TSTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN7× · 2017–2023 · $482k · revenue +63%
- HHHANNAH HOUSE MINISTRIES4× · 2020–2023 · $25k · revenue +18%
- WHWest Harrison Volunteer Fire Department5× · 2017–2021 · $11k · revenue +78%
Funded once
- 1R1925 RUNNELS COUNTY JAIL INCone grant, 2023 · $50k
- IPIOWA PARK HISTORICAL SOCIETYone grant, 2023 · $50k
- UCUPSHUR COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPTone grant, 2023 · $40k
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.
Provide fire fighting & ambulance service to hankamer, texas and surrounding areas.
To provide fire and medical emergency services for the city of garrison, tx and the surrounding districts.
Volunteer fire department
Firesurpression,trainingandeducation.
Volunteer firefighting of all fires in the rural areas around nocona texas including assisting other fire departments during large fires in their areas.
Volunteer fire department
Fire fighting and prevention
Provides protection of property and preservation of life from and during fire or other emergencies within the area of its operation in hood and johnson counties, texas. also, provides rescue and various other emergency services in the…
Provide Volunteer Fire Fighting Service To Rural Portions of Midland County, TX: Extinguish Grass Fires, Residential Fires, Farm Building Fires, And Rural Industrial Fires, Etc.
Volunteer fire department organized to contain fires in and around the city of tolar, county of hood, texas
Provide firefighting services for frelsburg, texas area.
Volunteer fire department for rural community centered in industry, tx
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Elm Grove Volunteer Fire Department and the most unlike its peers is Mims Volunteer Fire Dept Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 41 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 TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF LONGVIEW INC ↗
- Who funds HANNAH HOUSE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds EAST TEXAS LITERACY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds West Harrison Volunteer Fire Department ↗
- Who funds JUDSON METRO VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds ELM GROVE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds COTA - Children's Organ Transplant Association ↗
- Who funds HIWAY 80 RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds PROMISELAND MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds MEDAL OF HONOR HOST CITY PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds EAST TEXAS ALZHEIMER'S ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds LONGVIEW WORLD OF WONDERS INC ↗
- Who funds Longview Fire Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Presbyterian Manor Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FIRE SAFETY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds MIMS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT 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 Crain Foundation · Rosa May Griffin Foundation · Eastman Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · 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 Keeter 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.