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The Pineywoods Foundation at a glance

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The Pineywoods Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$135k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$159kFood & Nutrition$155kAnimals$108kCommunity Improvement$86kRecreation & Sports$86kArts & Culture$79kHealth$66kEducation$63kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $97k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NIGTON HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT PROJE$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
ZAVALLA FOOD PANTRY$15,500
WOMEN'S SOBER HOUSE OF LUFKIN$11,500
COMMUNITY RX HELP$10,000
NACOGDOCHES LAW ENFORCEMENT FOUNDAT$10,000
ROYAL PRIESTHOOD KINGDM MISSION MIN$5,000
CHRISTIAN MENS JOB CORPS OF LUFKIN$5,000
TEXAS FORESTRY MUSEUM$5,000
SECOND HELPINGS$5,000
FAMILY CRISIS CENTER OF EAST TEXAS$5,000
ANGELINA ARTS ALLIANCE$5,000
MOFFETT VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT$5,000
STONE FORT CHORALE$3,000
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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%BUCKNER CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICE: $16k → 14%NIGTON HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT PROJE: $25k → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $20k → 14%BUCKNER CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICE: $8k → 14%EAST SABINE SENIOR SERVICES INC: $4k → 17%HOSPICE IN THE PINES INC: $5k → 16%BUCKNER CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICE: $5k → 16%BUCKNER CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICE: $3k → 16%THE MOSAIC CENTER INC: $15k → 16%CHRISTIAN MENS JOB CORPS OF LUFKIN: $10k → 16%THE MOSAIC CENTER: $8k → 16%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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of The Pineywoods Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 98% of the giving stays in TX; by stated purpose, 89%.

The Pineywoods Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 7.8% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$566k · 23 repeat orgs$401k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
51

Total granted

$566k
$301k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+47%

Still filing today

52%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureAnimalsEducationCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE ELLEN TROUT ZOO INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $75k · revenue +54%
  • LN
    LUFKIN NEIGHBORHOOD STRONG
    3× · 2019–2023 · $30k · revenue +222%
  • AC
    Angelina College Foundation
    3× · 2019–2023 · $28k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +46%
  • AC
    ANGELINA COUNTY JR COLLEGE DISTRICT
    one grant, 2018 · $20k
  • TK
    THE KIRKLAND HOUSE
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
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
Texas Flying Legends Museum
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2
Center for 20TH Century Texas Studies
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3
North Central Texas Medical Foundation
Health
4
Texas Foster Care & Adoption Serv

A state of texas licensed foster care and adoption agency that identifies and provides approved healing foster homes for children.

Human Services
5
Muleshoe Meals On Wheels Inc

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…

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6
Big Horn County Memorial Hospital Auxiliary
Health
7
Local North Texas Community Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
8
Tensas Council on Aging Inc

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…

Human Services
9
Calhoun County Resource Watch

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…

Environment
10
East Texas Arboretum and Botanical Society Inc

Management and operation of the arboretum.

Environment
11
Corsicana Area Chamber of Commerce

To promote Corsicana and the surrounding area.

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12
Hico Senior Center Foundation Inc

To serve the senior citizens of hico, texas. provide meals and activties for the senior citizens of hico, texas.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Volunteer Services Council; 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.
05the grantee network

37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/37
Grantees still filing
24/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GEORGE HENDERSON JR EXPO CENTER: $85,800 · OtherGEORGE HENDERSON JR EXPO CENTERSALVATION ARMY: $41,794 · OtherSALVATION ARMYSECOND HELPINGS: $35,500 · OtherSECOND HELPINGSEAST TEXAS FOOD BANK: $35,000 · OtherEAST TEXAS FOOD BANKIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherFAMILY CRISIS CENTER OF EAST TEXAS: $20,000 · OtherANGELINA COUNTY JR COLLEGE DISTRICT: $20,000 · OtherTHE KIRKLAND HOUSE: $20,000 · Other+47 more: $312,358 · Other+47 moreBUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC: $31,000 · Human ServicesBUCKNER CHILDRE…NIGTON HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT PROJECT: $25,000 · Human ServicesNIGTON HISTORIC…THE MOSAIC CENTER INC: $23,000 · Human ServicesTHE MOSAIC CENT…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $20,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Nation…Christian Mens Job Corps of Lufkin Texas: $15,000 · Human ServicesChristian Mens …VOLUNTEER SERVICES COUNCIL: $8,000 · Human ServicesVOLUNTEER SERVI…HOSPICE IN THE PINES INC: $5,000 · Human Services+1 more: $4,024 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE ELLEN TROUT ZOO INC: $75,000 · AnimalsFRIENDS OF…Nac Foster Rescue: $5,000 · AnimalsNac Foster…Texas Conservation Alliance: $5,000 · AnimalsTexas Cons…HUMANE SOCIETY OF NACOGDOCHES COUNT: $3,000 · AnimalsWomens Sober House of Lufkin Inc: $11,500 · HealthEAST TEXAS PREGNANCY HELP CENTER INC: $10,800 · HealthST LUKE'S FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $5,000 · HealthTHE JOSEPH HOUSE INC: $5,000 · HealthEast Texas Cancer Alliance of Hope: $5,000 · HealthAngelina College Foundation: $27,500 · EducationJR Huffman Library Inc: $10,641 · EducationTHE HELPING HOUSE: $4,000 · EducationANGELINA ARTS ALLIANCE INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureTEXAS FORESTRY MUSEUM: $10,000 · Arts & CulturePiney Woods Fine Arts Association: $5,000 · Arts & CultureFriends of the Texas Historical Commission Inc: $2,500 · Arts & CultureLUFKIN NEIGHBORHOOD STRONG: $30,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$595,452Human Services$131,024Animals$88,000Health$42,300Education$42,141Arts & Culture$37,500Housing & Shelter$30,000

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 budgetFRIENDS OF THE ELLEN TROUT ZOO INC: $75,000 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetBUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC: $31,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLUFKIN NEIGHBORHOOD STRONG: $30,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetAngelina College Foundation: $27,500 over 3y, 7.4% of budgetTHE MOSAIC CENTER INC: $23,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANGELINA ARTS ALLIANCE INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetChristian Mens Job Corps of Lufkin Texas: $15,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetSHELBY COUNTY OUTREACH MINISTRIES INC: $14,385 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetWomens Sober House of Lufkin Inc: $11,500 over 1y, 21% of budgetEAST TEXAS PREGNANCY HELP CENTER INC: $10,800 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetJR Huffman Library Inc: $10,641 over 3y, 8.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY RX HELP: $10,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetNACOGDOCHES LAW ENFORCEMENT FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetTEXAS FORESTRY MUSEUM: $10,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetVOLUNTEER SERVICES COUNCIL: $8,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF LUFKIN INC: $7,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF CENTRAL EAST TEXAS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHONOR VETERANS NOW: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetHOSPICE IN THE PINES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST LUKE'S FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPiney Woods Fine Arts Association: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetJDS CENTER OF HOPE Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTHE JOSEPH HOUSE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetEast Texas Cancer Alliance of Hope: $5,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetTexas Conservation Alliance: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetANGELINA COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $4,173 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetEast Sabine Senior Services Inc: $4,024 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF NACOGDOCHES COUNT: $3,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTEXAS FORESTRY ASSOCIATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFriends of the Texas Historical Commission Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetANGELINA COUNTY FAIR FOUNDATION: $1,191 over 1y, 0.1% 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 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 COMMUNITY RX HELP ↗
  • Who funds NACOGDOCHES LAW ENFORCEMENT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS FORESTRY MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds VOLUNTEER SERVICES COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF LUFKIN INC ↗

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.

Tll Temple FoundationSimon & Louise Hender…The Bettye & Murphy G…Brookshire Brothers C…Ernest L Kurth Jr Cha…Angelina Benefit Rode…Mary K and Clifford G…The Carmage and Marth…I D & Marguerite Fair…Bernard FoundationHunter Family Charita…Charles & Lois Marie …
Tll Temple FoundationTX40.7× affinity17 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Pineywoods Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Pineywoods Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 81 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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