· Private foundation
The Marshal Verne Ross Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $216k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $315k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BAYLOR SCOTT WHITE CENTRAL TX FDN | $150,000 |
| TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HSC | $90,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $75,000 |
| ST JOSEPH FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $35,000 |
| MIDLAND MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY WOMEN'S CENTE | $30,000 |
| TEXAS AM SCHOOL OF VET MEDICINE | $25,000 |
| SOS MINISTRIES | $15,500 |
| STILLCREEK RANCH | $15,000 |
| STARLIGHT RIDING CENTER | $10,000 |
| ST THOMAS EARLY LEARNING CENTER | $10,000 |
| MIDLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| HOSPICE BRAZOS VALLEY | $8,000 |
| HO'OMAU FIRE ACADEMY | $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 (FY23–25, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
26 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k 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
- SOS O S Ministries INC9× · 2017–2025 · $108k · revenue +91%
- TATexas A&M Foundation5× · 2018–2022 · $75k · revenue +49%
- MCMIDLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2025 · $73k · revenue +93%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $15k
- MCMIDLAND COLLEGEone grant, 2020 · $10k
- OCODESSA COLLEGEone grant, 2018 · $5k
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.
To support and further the mission of texas state university through the acceptance and investment of gifts established as endowments benefiting the students, faculty and staff.
To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.
For the benefit of texas a&m university - corpus christi
To ensure that the student body experiences balanced intellectual, psychological, social and spiritual development, aimed at enabling them to become active productive members of society where they live and work.
To assist in developing and increasing the facilities of texas tech university by and through activities of the texas tech alumni association. the goal is the advancement of higher education and broader educational opportunities including…
The foundation supports west texas a&m university, an institution of higher education, and the students of wtamu by receiving and administering gifts from the public.
The Foundation was formed to be a vital partner with Texas A&M University-Kingsville by developing donor relationships and linking resources in the pursuit of the University's goals of excellence.Values: Service to the University and the…
The purpose of the university research foundation is to promote texas state university's objectives of providing higher education, conducting research, providing public service, and assisting in economic development in texas.
To complement the state of texas' support of the colleges by providing financial support for new and ongoing projects and activities in the areas of research, education and community service.
To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas a&M Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Buckner Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 30 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 TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds S O S Ministries INC ↗
- Who funds Texas A&M Foundation ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REFLECTION MINISTRIES OF TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSVIEW CHRISTIAN CAMP & RETREAT ↗
- Who funds BUCKNER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REACH THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER ↗
- Who funds Cavalry Soccer ↗
- Who funds Hospice Brazos Valley Inc ↗
- Who funds Hoomau Fire Academy ↗
- Who funds ODESSA COLLEGE FOUNDATION 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 Fasken Foundation · Wayne & Jo Ann Moore Charitable Foundation · Abell-Hanger Foundation · Beal Foundation · Scharbauer Foundation Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Marshal Verne Ross 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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