· Private foundation
The Pineywoods Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $97k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NIGTON HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT PROJE | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| ZAVALLA FOOD PANTRY | $15,500 |
| WOMEN'S SOBER HOUSE OF LUFKIN | $11,500 |
| NACOGDOCHES LAW ENFORCEMENT FOUNDAT | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY RX HELP | $10,000 |
| ROYAL PRIESTHOOD KINGDM MISSION MIN | $5,000 |
| CHRISTIAN MENS JOB CORPS OF LUFKIN | $5,000 |
| MOFFETT VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $5,000 |
| TEXAS FORESTRY MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| FAMILY CRISIS CENTER OF EAST TEXAS | $5,000 |
| ANGELINA ARTS ALLIANCE | $5,000 |
| SECOND HELPINGS | $5,000 |
| STONE FORT CHORALE | $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 (FY17–24, $118k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of The Pineywoods Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 98% of the giving stays in TX; read by stated purpose it is 89% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
23 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 7 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, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k 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
- FOFRIENDS OF THE ELLEN TROUT ZOO INC2× · 2019–2020 · $75k · revenue +54%
- LNLUFKIN NEIGHBORHOOD STRONG3× · 2019–2023 · $30k · revenue +382%
- ACAngelina College Foundation3× · 2019–2023 · $28k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +46%
- ACANGELINA COUNTY JR COLLEGE DISTRICTone grant, 2018 · $20k
- TKTHE KIRKLAND HOUSEone grant, 2022 · $20k
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.
A state of texas licensed foster care and adoption agency that identifies and provides approved healing foster homes for children.
The Muleshoe Meals on Wheels purpose is to engage in all activities necessary, useful, or expedient, through operative measures and active organizations, to promote and further the interests of the Senior citizens of the area. The purpose…
The primary function of the Tensas Council on Aging, Inc. is to improve the quality of life for the parish's elderly and to provide services to the elderly as well as coordinate and monitor the services of other local agencies serving the…
To promote conservation of the natural resources located in and around Calhoun County, Texas to prevent degradation of the environment in and around Calhoun County, Texas to sponsor such activities and events as may contribute to the…
Management and operation of the arboretum.
To promote Corsicana and the surrounding area.
To serve the senior citizens of hico, texas. provide meals and activties for the senior citizens of hico, texas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Volunteer Services Council and the most unlike its peers is Piney Woods Fine Arts Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 20 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
37 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. 37 of the 81 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 FRIENDS OF THE ELLEN TROUT ZOO INC ↗
- Who funds BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds LUFKIN NEIGHBORHOOD STRONG ↗
- Who funds Angelina College Foundation ↗
- Who funds NIGTON HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE MOSAIC CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds ANGELINA ARTS ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds NACOGDOCHES FEDERATION OF WOMEN'S CLUBS ↗
- Who funds Christian Mens Job Corps of Lufkin Texas ↗
- Who funds SHELBY COUNTY OUTREACH MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Womens Sober House of Lufkin Inc ↗
- Who funds EAST TEXAS PREGNANCY HELP CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JR Huffman Library Inc ↗
- Who funds TEXAS FORESTRY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY RX HELP ↗
- Who funds NACOGDOCHES LAW ENFORCEMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER SERVICES COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF LUFKIN 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: Tll Temple Foundation · Simon & Louise Henderson Foundation · The Bettye & Murphy George Foundation · Brookshire Brothers Charitable Foundation · Ernest L Kurth Jr Charitable Foundation · Angelina Benefit Rodeo Foundation of the Lufkin Host Lions Club · Mary K and Clifford Grum Foundation · The Carmage and Martha Ann Walls Foundation · I D & Marguerite Fairchild Foundation · Bernard Foundation · Hunter Family Charitable Foundation · Charles & Lois Marie Bright 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 Pineywoods 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.