· Private foundation
The Elliott Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $185k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $240k
- $250k+2 grants · $523k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SFASU FOUNDATION | $273,364 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250,000 |
| BERKELEY SPRINGS STATE PARK | $180,000 |
| TEXAS A&M FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| FRIENDS OF HISTORIC NACOGDOCHES | $39,925 |
| GIVE PURRS A CHANCE | $30,000 |
| WOMENS SHELTER OF EAST TEXAS | $25,000 |
| CASA OF DEEP EAST TEXAS | $25,000 |
| SOUTH MORGAN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT | $20,000 |
| CACAPON RESORT STATE PARK | $20,000 |
| OWL FOUNATION | $15,000 |
| MAGNOLIA EXOTIC BIRD SANCTUARY | $10,000 |
| ARIZONA BUILDERS ALLIANCE | $5,760 |
| CENTEX IEC | $5,371 |
| PARISH PAWS ANIMAL RESCUE | $3,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 63% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against -9% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $450k 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
- SFSFASU FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $8.8M
- IGIndividual grant recipient4× · 2018–2024 · $536k
- SFSTEPHEN F AUSTIN STATE UNIVERSITY2× · 2018–2019 · $495k
Funded once
- NCNACOGDOCHES COUNTY UNITED WAYone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -9%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $50k
- AGAHA GO RED FOR WOMENone grant, 2022 · $50k
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.
Recover animals in substandard conditions and give those animals better lives through nurturing,attending to the animal's needs; relocating, educating and adopting.
To provide the general public with the rich heart of texas heritage
We are dedicated to saving abandoneed, neglected, and/or abused animals across the state of texas.
Provide veterinary and shelter services for displaced and wayward animals in the township and outlying area of port aransas, texas.
Animal protection and welfare
Non-profit to raise funds for scholarships.
Placement of neutered cats and kittens
Epic animal rescue is dedicated to saving the homeless and abandoned animals of texas. we will provide a safe haven for these animals providing food, sheler and all veterinary needs for animals in our care while we search for their forever…
To preserve western heritage.
Promote access to tx nature preserves
Careplacement of abandoned animals
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas a&M Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Millard's Crossing Historic Village. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 38 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 Nacogdoches Junior Forum ↗
- Who funds Texas A&M Foundation ↗
- Who funds NACOGDOCHES COUNTY UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds MILLARD'S CROSSING HISTORIC VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds GIVE PURRS A CHANCE ↗
- Who funds WOMENS SHELTER OF EAST TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF DEEP EAST TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARBOR SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CACAPON RESORT STATE PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OWL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Memorial Hermann Foundation ↗
- Who funds MAGNOLIA EXOTIC BIRD SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST FLIGHT ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN WOMENS JOB CORP ↗
- Who funds American Liver Foundation ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC ORIENT-SANTA FE DEPOT INC ↗
- Who funds NACOGDOCHES HERO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Keep Nacogdoches Beautiful ↗
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: Charles & Lois Marie Bright 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 Elliott Family 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.
- American Liver Foundation — 0% of income from government
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.