· Private foundation
The Maxine Durrett Earl Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 52% of THE MAXINE DURRETT EARL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC’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 $10k14 grants · $69k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $153k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GARZA COUNTY TRAILBLAZERS | $25,000 |
| POST-GARZA COUNTY EMS | $20,000 |
| TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| SOUTH PLAINS COLLEGE | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,929 |
| HOWARD COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| TEXAS SOUTH PLAINS HONOR FLIGHT | $10,000 |
| POST ANIMAL REFUGE CENTER | $10,000 |
| WESTERN TEXAS COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| POST ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP | $10,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,500 |
| SOUTH PLAINS FOOD BANK INC | $6,803 |
| CAMP RIO BLANCO CIRCLE OF FRIENDS | $6,427 |
| LUBBOCK CHRISTIAN 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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 96% of your 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +11% since the first grant, against -47% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 6 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
- GCGARZA COUNTY TRAILBLAZERS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $262k · revenue +86%
- PSPOST STAMPEDE INC2× · 2021–2022 · $101k · revenue +8% · 30% of their budget
- PCPOST-GARZA COUNTY EMS3× · 2020–2025 · $88k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- WIWILSON INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2023 · $36k
- TSTEXAS STATE TECHNICAL COLLEGEone grant, 2024 · $15k
- RBRIO BLANCO HERITAGE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $15k
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 provide the general public with the rich heart of texas heritage
Promotion of commerce in panola county texas
sustain farming ranching and land management in a food desert.
To maintain, design and operate a museum to celebrate the history of el paso high school, el paos, tx.
Management and operation of the arboretum.
To preserve western heritage.
Preserve history and heritage of jefferson texas and the operation of the jefferson museum
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Post Stampede Inc and the most unlike its peers is Texas South Plains Honor Flight. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 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 GARZA COUNTY TRAILBLAZERS INC ↗
- Who funds GARZA COUNTY LIVESTOCK ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds POST STAMPEDE INC ↗
- Who funds POST-GARZA COUNTY EMS ↗
- Who funds LUBBOCK CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MCMURRY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HARDIN-SIMMONS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WAYLAND BAPTIST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds POST ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds POST ANIMAL REFUGE CENTER ↗
- Who funds SOUTH PLAINS FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY RECOVERY CENTER ↗
- Who funds TEXAS SOUTH PLAINS HONOR FLIGHT ↗
- Who funds GARZA COUNTY HISTORICAL MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CAPROCK CULTURAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds POST CITY FESTIVALS INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP RIO BLANCO CIRCLE OF FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds LUBBOCK WOMEN'S CLUB HISTORICAL FOUNDATION ↗
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: Ershel Franklin Charitable Trust · Community Foundation of West Texas · Chase Foundation Mack C Chase Trustee · San Antonio Livestock Exposition Educational Fund Inc · The Robert A Welch Foundation · Helen Jones Foundation Inc · Tulsa Community Foundation · James & Oneita Titus Educational Foundation · Montgomery Family Foundation Inc · Xcel Energy Foundation · HDS Foundation · Ch Foundation Inc
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 Maxine Durrett Earl Charitable Foundation Inc 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.