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The Maxine Durrett Earl Charitable Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Maxine Durrett Earl Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$222k
Granted FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.4MFood & Nutrition$295kYouth Development$124kHealth$111kCommunity Improvement$91kPublic Safety & Disaster$88kArts & Culture$87kAnimals$63kOther$0
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $69k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $153k
$6,803
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
POST ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP$10,000
WESTERN TEXAS COLLEGE$10,000
POST ANIMAL REFUGE CENTER$10,000
TEXAS SOUTH PLAINS HONOR FLIGHT$10,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE$10,000
HOWARD COLLEGE$10,000
Individual grant recipient$8,500
SOUTH PLAINS FOOD BANK INC$6,803
CAMP RIO BLANCO CIRCLE OF FRIENDS$6,427
WEST TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY$5,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%WEST TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY: $10k → 9%LUBBOCK CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $10k → 15%WESTERN TEXAS COLLEGE: $10k → 15%CROSSVIEW CHRISTIAN CAMP: $13k → 16%MCMURRY UNIVERSITY: $10k → 16%SOUTH PLAINS FOOD BANK INC: $13k → 17%TEXAS STATE TECHNICAL COLLEGE: $15k → 18%WAYLAND BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $10k → 22%RIO BLANCO HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $15k → 22%POST INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT: $87k → 27%WILSON INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT: $36k → 16%SOUTH PLAINS FOOD BANK INC: $13k → 17%CROSBYTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $14k → 22%POST STAMPEDE INC: $71k → 27%GARZA COUNTY TRAILBLAZERS: $60k → 27%SOUTHLAND INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT: $69k → 17%GARZA COUNTY JUNIOR LIVESTOCK ASSOCIATION: $59k → 27%SOUTHLAND INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT: $67k → 17%POST INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT: $40k → 27%SOUTHLAND INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT: $35k → 17%POST-GARZA COUNTY EMS: $40k → 27%SOUTHLAND INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT: $30k → 17%GARZA COUNTY JUNIOR LIVESTOCK ASSOCIATION: $40k → 27%SOUTHLAND INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT: $20k → 17%POST INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT: $34k → 27%POST INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT: $33k → 27%SOUTH PLAINS COLLEGE: $15k → 15%SOUTHLAND INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT: $13k → 17%GARZA COUNTY TRAILBLAZERS: $32k → 27%SOUTH PLAINS COLLEGE: $15k → 15%POST STAMPEDE INC: $30k → 27%POST-GARZA COUNTY EMS: $28k → 27%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $21k → 17%POST ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP: $26k → 27%GARZA COUNTY TRAILBLAZERS: $25k → 27%GARZA COUNTY TRAILBLAZERS: $25k → 27%GARZA COUNTY TRAILBLAZERS: $25k → 27%GARZA COUNTY TRAILBLAZERS: $25k → 27%GARZA COUNTY TRAILBLAZERS: $25k → 27%GARZA COUNTY TRAILBLAZERS: $25k → 27%POST-GARZA COUNTY EMS: $20k → 27%GARZA COUNTY TRAILBLAZERS: $20k → 27%POST INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT: $18k → 27%GARZA COUNTY JUNIOR LIVESTOCK ASSOCIATION: $18k → 27%POST ISD DETENTION CENTER CAMPUS: $15k → 27%POST ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP: $14k → 27%POST ANIMAL REFUGE CENTER: $11k → 27%COMMUNITY RECOVERY CENTER: $10k → 27%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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 28 repeat orgs$121k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +11% since the first grant, against -47% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
6

Total granted

$2.1M
$86k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
-47%

Still filing today

50%
17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentAnimalsHealthOther
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

  • GC
    GARZA COUNTY TRAILBLAZERS INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $262k · revenue +86%
  • PS
    POST STAMPEDE INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $101k · revenue +8% · 30% of their budget
  • PC
    POST-GARZA COUNTY EMS
    3× · 2020–2025 · $88k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • WI
    WILSON INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT
    one grant, 2023 · $36k
  • RB
    RIO BLANCO HERITAGE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $15k
  • TS
    TEXAS STATE TECHNICAL COLLEGE
    one grant, 2024 · $15k
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
Center for 20TH Century Texas Studies
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2
Heart of Texas Historical Muse

To provide the general public with the rich heart of texas heritage

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3
Texas Flying Legends Museum
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4
Usvmc East Texas
Public Benefit
5
The Robert Burns Society of West Texas
Public Safety & Disaster
6
Panola County Chamber of Commerce

Promotion of commerce in panola county texas

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7
Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame Inc
Arts & Culture
8
South Texas Advancement Resource

sustain farming ranching and land management in a food desert.

Human Services
9
El Paso High School Alumni Museum

To maintain, design and operate a museum to celebrate the history of el paso high school, el paos, tx.

Arts & Culture
10
East Texas Arboretum and Botanical Society Inc

Management and operation of the arboretum.

Environment
11
Texas Trail of Fame Inc

To preserve western heritage.

Arts & Culture
12
Jefferson Historical Society & Museum

Preserve history and heritage of jefferson texas and the operation of the jefferson museum

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Post Stampede Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

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

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/19
Grantees still filing
13/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SOUTHLAND INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT: $232,599 · OtherSOUTHLAND INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICTPOST INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT: $216,081 · OtherPOST INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICTTEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY: $210,000 · OtherTEXAS TECH UNIVERSITYWEST TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY: $80,000 · OtherWEST TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITYABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $80,000 · OtherABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITYRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $71,500 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE+22 more: $337,328 · Other+22 morePOST STAMPEDE INC: $101,000 · EducationPOST STAMPEDE INCLUBBOCK CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $80,000 · EducationLUBBOCK CHRISTIAN UN…HARDIN-SIMMONS UNIVERSITY: $80,000 · EducationHARDIN-SIMMONS UNIVE…MCMURRY UNIVERSITY: $80,000 · EducationMCMURRY UNIVERSITYWAYLAND BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $80,000 · EducationWAYLAND BAPTIST UNIV…GARZA COUNTY TRAILBLAZERS INC: $261,900 · Community ImprovementGARZA COUNTY TRA…POST ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP: $72,250 · Community ImprovementPOST ECONOMIC DE…+1 more: $9,900 · Community ImprovementGARZA COUNTY LIVESTOCK ASSOCIATION: $117,173 · Youth DevelopmentCAMP RIO BLANCO CIRCLE OF FRIENDS INC: $6,427 · Youth DevelopmentPOST-GARZA COUNTY EMS: $88,465 · HealthPOST ANIMAL REFUGE CENTER: $62,600 · AnimalsSOUTH PLAINS FOOD BANK INC: $32,953 · Food & Nutrition
Other$1,227,508Education$421,000Community Improvement$344,050Youth Development$123,600Health$88,465Animals$62,600Food & Nutrition$32,953

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 budgetGARZA COUNTY TRAILBLAZERS INC: $261,900 over 9y, 21% of budgetGARZA COUNTY LIVESTOCK ASSOCIATION: $117,173 over 4y, 36% of budgetPOST STAMPEDE INC: $101,000 over 2y, 30% of budgetPOST-GARZA COUNTY EMS: $88,465 over 3y, 7.5% of budgetLUBBOCK CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $80,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHARDIN-SIMMONS UNIVERSITY: $80,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMCMURRY UNIVERSITY: $80,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $80,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWAYLAND BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $80,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPOST ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP: $72,250 over 7y, 4.3% of budgetPOST ANIMAL REFUGE CENTER: $62,600 over 7y, 17% of budgetSOUTH PLAINS FOOD BANK INC: $32,953 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY RECOVERY CENTER: $29,251 over 5y, 16% of budgetTEXAS SOUTH PLAINS HONOR FLIGHT: $25,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetGARZA COUNTY HISTORICAL MUSEUM: $14,665 over 2y, 9.3% of budgetCAPROCK CULTURAL ASSOCIATION INC: $14,022 over 4y, 12% of budgetPOST CITY FESTIVALS INC: $9,900 over 2y, 15% of budgetCAMP RIO BLANCO CIRCLE OF FRIENDS INC: $6,427 over 1y, 12% 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 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 HARDIN-SIMMONS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds MCMURRY UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ABILENE CHRISTIAN 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 ↗

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.

Ershel Franklin Chari…Community Foundation …Chase Foundation Mack…San Antonio Livestock…The Robert A Welch Fo…Helen Jones Foundatio…Tulsa Community Found…James & Oneita Titus …Montgomery Family Fou…Xcel Energy FoundationHDS FoundationCh Foundation Inc
Ershel Franklin Charitable TrustTX26.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 7 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Maxine Durrett Earl Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Maxine Durrett Earl Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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