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The Keeter Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$227k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$514kMembership Benefit$205kCrime & Legal$107kHuman Services$93kHousing & Shelter$67kPublic Safety & Disaster$58kArts & Culture$52kEducation$16kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $2k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$3k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FAIRVIEW CEMETERY ASSOCIATION$200,000
EVERGREEN LIFE SERVICES$25,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PRESBYTERIAN MANOR: $2k → 16%HANNAH HOUSE MINISTRIES: $10k → 16%HANNAH HOUSE MINISTRIES: $5k → 16%HANNAH HOUSE MINISTRIES: $5k → 16%HANNAH HOUSE MINISTRIES: $5k → 16%FAMILY PROMISE OF LONGVIEW: $5k → 16%FAMILY PROMISE OF LONGVIEW: $2k → 16%FAMILY PROMISE OF LONGVIEW: $26k → 16%LONGVIEW INTERFAITH HOSPITALITY: $5k → 16%LONGVIEW INTERFAITH HOSPITALITY: $5k → 16%FAMILY PROMISE OF LONGVIEW INC: $5k → 16%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.
$927k · 22 repeat orgs$197k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

22 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
19

Total granted

$927k
$197k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+15%

Still filing today

36%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Public Safety & DisasterHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureSocial ScienceOther
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

  • TS
    TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN
    7× · 2017–2023 · $482k · revenue +145%
  • HH
    HANNAH HOUSE MINISTRIES
    4× · 2020–2023 · $25k · revenue +39%
  • WH
    West Harrison Volunteer Fire Department
    5× · 2017–2021 · $11k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • 1R
    1925 RUNNELS COUNTY JAIL INC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • IP
    IOWA PARK HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • UC
    UPSHUR COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPT
    one grant, 2023 · $40k
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
Hankamer Volunteer Fire Department

Provide fire fighting & ambulance service to hankamer, texas and surrounding areas.

Public Safety & Disaster
2
Garrison Volunteer Fire Department

To provide fire and medical emergency services for the city of garrison, tx and the surrounding districts.

Public Safety & Disaster
3
Scotland Volunteer Fire Department

Volunteer fire department

Public Safety & Disaster
4
Groom Volunteer Fire Department

Firesurpression,trainingandeducation.

Public Safety & Disaster
5
Nocona Rural Volunteer Fire Department Inc

Volunteer firefighting of all fires in the rural areas around nocona texas including assisting other fire departments during large fires in their areas.

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6
Melvin Volunteer Fire Department Inc

Volunteer fire department

Public Safety & Disaster
7
Matador Motley County Volunteer Fire Department

Fire fighting and prevention

Public Safety & Disaster
8
Pecan Plantation Volunteer Fire Dpt & Emergency Medical Services Inc

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…

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9
Greenwood Volunteer Fire Department

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.

Public Safety & Disaster
10
Tolar Volunteer Fire Department

Volunteer fire department organized to contain fires in and around the city of tolar, county of hood, texas

Human Services
11
Frelsburg Volunteer Fire Dept

Provide firefighting services for frelsburg, texas area.

Public Safety & Disaster
12
Industry Volunteer Fire Department

Volunteer fire department for rural community centered in industry, tx

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Elm Grove Volunteer Fire Department; 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.
04the grantee network

17 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. 17 of the 41 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/17
Grantees still filing
11/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FAIR VIEW CEMETERY ASSOCIATION: $205,000 · OtherFAIR VIEW CEMETERY ASSOCIATION1925 RUNNELS COUNTY JAIL INC: $50,000 · Other1925 RUNNELS COUNTY JAIL INCIOWA PARK HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $50,000 · OtherIOWA PARK HISTORICAL SOCIETYUPSHUR COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPT: $40,000 · OtherUPSHUR COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPTEVERGREEN PRESBYTERIAN MINISTRIES: $35,300 · OtherEVERGREEN PRESBYTERIAN MINISTRIESEVERGREEN LIFE SERVICES: $26,000 · Other+23 more: $127,847 · Other+23 moreTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN: $482,000 · HealthTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDR…+1 more: $2,000 · HealthFAMILY PROMISE OF LONGVIEW INC: $48,000 · Human ServicesHANNAH HOUSE MINISTRIES: $25,000 · Human Services+1 more: $2,000 · Human ServicesWest Harrison Volunteer Fire Department: $11,000 · Public Safety & DisasterJUDSON METRO VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $11,000 · Public Safety & DisasterLongview Fire Foundation Inc: $2,000 · Public Safety & DisasterNATIONAL FIRE SAFETY COUNCIL INC: $1,375 · Public Safety & DisasterMIMS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC: $1,000 · Public Safety & DisasterMEDAL OF HONOR HOST CITY PROGRAM: $2,000 · Social ScienceLONGVIEW WORLD OF WONDERS INC: $2,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$534,147Health$484,000Human Services$75,000Public Safety & Disaster$26,375Social Science$2,000Arts & Culture$2,000

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 budgetTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN: $482,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF LONGVIEW INC: $48,000 over 6y, 19% of budgetHANNAH HOUSE MINISTRIES: $25,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetEAST TEXAS LITERACY COUNCIL: $11,500 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetWest Harrison Volunteer Fire Department: $11,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetJUDSON METRO VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $11,000 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetELM GROVE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $9,700 over 5y, 5.4% of budgetCOTA - Children's Organ Transplant Association: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHIWAY 80 RESCUE MISSION: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPresbyterian Manor Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDAL OF HONOR HOST CITY PROGRAM: $2,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetLONGVIEW WORLD OF WONDERS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLongview Fire Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetNATIONAL FIRE SAFETY COUNCIL INC: $1,375 over 1y, 0.1% 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 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 Presbyterian Manor Inc ↗
  • Who funds MEDAL OF HONOR HOST CITY PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds LONGVIEW WORLD OF WONDERS INC ↗
  • Who funds Longview Fire Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds EAST TEXAS ALZHEIMER'S ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL FIRE SAFETY COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds MIMS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC ↗

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.

The Crain FoundationRosa May Griffin Foun…Eastman FoundationGreater Houston Commu…American Electric Pow…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Crain FoundationTX22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Crain Foundation · Rosa May Griffin Foundation · Eastman Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Keeter Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Keeter Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.

    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 41 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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