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The Tj & Laverne Plunkett Foundation at a glance

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The Tj & Laverne Plunkett Foundation

Its FY2020 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$328k
Granted FY2020
17
Grants FY2020
2
States reached
$100k
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 2020.

Human Services$142kReligion$138kFood & Nutrition$130kEnvironment$80kAnimals$50kEmployment$40kArts & Culture$39kPhilanthropy$32kOther$0
02FY2020 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k8 grants · $41k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $87k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $200k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH HENDERSON$100,000
CADDO LAKE INSTITUTE$50,000
BLACKLAND PRARIE RAPTOR CENTER$50,000
EAST TEXAS COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION$32,291
EAST TEXAS FOOD BANK$15,000
HENDERSON FOOD BANK$10,000
CHRISTIAN WOMEN'S JOB CORPS OF RUSK$10,000
ASBURY HOUSE CHILD ENRICHMENT CNTR$10,000
THE SALVATION ARMY OF LONGVIEW$10,000
RUSK COUNTY FRIENDS HELPING FRIENDS$6,000
SON SHINE LIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
FAMILY PROMISE OF LONGVIEW$5,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$5,000
Individual grant recipient$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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–20, $58k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 15%EAST TEXAS OPEN DOOR: $3k → 16%ASBURY HOUSE CHILD ENRICHMENT CNTR: $10k → 16%ASBURY HOUSE CHILD ENRICHMENT CNTR: $10k → 16%ASBURY HOUSE CHILD ENRICHMENT CNTR: $10k → 16%ASBURY HOUSE CHILD ENRICHMENT CNTR: $10k → 16%LONGVIEW INTERFAITH HOSPITALITY: $5k → 16%FAMILY PROMISE OF LONGVIEW: $5k → 16%FAMILY PROMISE OF LONGVIEW: $5k → 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$480k · 17 repeat orgs$238k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue -1% since the first grant, against -7% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2020, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
8

Total granted

$480k
$33k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-1%
-7%

Still filing today

47%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $205k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20
Human ServicesEnvironmentFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterCivil RightsEducationOther
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

  • AH
    ASBURY HOUSE CHILD ENRICHMENT CENTER
    4× · 2017–2020 · $40k · revenue +5%
  • HF
    HENDERSON FOOD BANK
    4× · 2017–2020 · $40k · revenue +46%
  • ET
    EAST TEXAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • RC
    RUSK COUNTY CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CEN
    one grant, 2018 · $6k
  • MC
    MISSION CARTHAGE INC
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -7%
  • TS
    TEXAS SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -20%
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
Love Thy City of East Texas

The mission of love thy city is to unite cities by expressing tangible love for spiritual and societal transformation. our vision is to exhibit our love for the east texas area by demonstrating our love for god and expressing love for our…

Religion
2
Love and Grace Family Resource Ministry

To provide free food, clothing, personal hygiene and baby items to families in need in Van Zandt County Texas.

Food & Nutrition
3
Christian Mens Job Corps of Lufkin Texas

To provide a Christian context in which men in need are equipped for life and employment, and a mission context in which men help men.

Human Services
4
Christian Womens Job Corps of Tyler Inc

To equip women with job and life skills in a Christ-centered environment by providing training that helps unemployed women to become employed.

Arts & Culture
5
Furnishing Families of Texas Dba Furnishing Families International

Christian organization serving under-resourced families including single parents, refugees, and immigrants by providing spiritual and financial assistance.

Human Services
6
Tallapoosa Christian Crisis Center

To show christs love through tangible means, food, etc

Human Services
7
Heart of Texas Christian Women's Job Corps

Public Charity

Employment
8
Tlc Food Pantry

To provide food supplies to families in Willis. Served an average of 65 families per week. That represents 8,611 individuals. We distributed 132, 854 lbs. of non perishable items. Served 100 children for a Summer program. 150 families…

Food & Nutrition
9
More Precious Than Rubies Ministry

A ministry that is being the hands and feet of Jesus by pouring into woman & Children in need in the Wise County

Religion
10
The Lullaby House

The Lullaby House missionis ot strengthen families by providing programs and services to teenage parents and familites in need which will inspire and promote generational change.

Youth Development
11
Texarkana Baptist Orphanage

Care of neglected children

Human Services
12
Hendrick Home for Children
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Longview Dream Center; the most unlike its peers is Texas Shakespeare Festival Foundation. 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

16 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. 16 of the 30 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
7/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH HENDERSON: $100,000 · OtherFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH HENDERSONEAST TEXAS FOOD BANK: $90,000 · OtherEAST TEXAS FOOD BANKBLACKLAND PRARIE RAPTOR CENTER: $50,000 · OtherBLACKLAND PRARIE RAPTOR CENTERNEWGATE UNITED METHODIST MISSION OF LONGVIEW INC: $30,000 · OtherNEWGATE UNITED METHODIST MISSION OF LONGVIEW INCTHE SALVATION ARMY OF LONGVIEW: $30,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY OF LONGVIEWRUSK COUNTY FRIENDS HELPING FRIENDS: $24,000 · OtherRUSK COUNTY FRIENDS HELPING FRIENDSGILMONT CAMP & CONFERENCE CENTER: $21,000 · OtherHENDERSON CIVIC THEATER: $19,000 · OtherWINDRIDGE THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN: $15,000 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS: $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $15,000 · Other+8 more: $40,000 · Other+8 moreCADDO LAKE INSTITUTE INC: $50,000 · EnvironmentCADDO LAKE I…KEEP HENDERSON BEAUTIFUL INC: $30,000 · EnvironmentKEEP HENDERS…ASBURY HOUSE CHILD ENRICHMENT CENTER: $40,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE OF LONGVIEW INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesEAST TEXAS OPEN DOOR INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesHENDERSON FOOD BANK: $40,000 · Food & NutritionLONGVIEW DREAM CENTER: $10,500 · Food & NutritionCHRISTIAN WOMENS JOB CORPS OF RUSK COUNTY: $40,000 · Civil RightsSON SHINE LIGHT HOUSE MINISTRIES: $35,000 · Housing & ShelterMISSION CARTHAGE INC: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterEAST TEXAS COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION: $32,291 · Philanthropy
Other$449,000Environment$80,000Human Services$57,500Food & Nutrition$50,500Civil Rights$40,000Housing & Shelter$40,000Philanthropy$32,291

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCADDO LAKE INSTITUTE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetCHRISTIAN WOMENS JOB CORPS OF RUSK COUNTY: $40,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetASBURY HOUSE CHILD ENRICHMENT CENTER: $40,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetHENDERSON FOOD BANK: $40,000 over 4y, 19% of budgetSON SHINE LIGHT HOUSE MINISTRIES: $35,000 over 4y, 5.6% of budgetEAST TEXAS COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION: $32,291 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKEEP HENDERSON BEAUTIFUL INC: $30,000 over 4y, 68% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF LONGVIEW INC: $15,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetLONGVIEW DREAM CENTER: $10,500 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetEAST TEXAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMISSION CARTHAGE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF LONGVIEW INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetANGEL LAYETTES: $3,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetFULL ARMOR CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEAST TEXAS OPEN DOOR INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% 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 CADDO LAKE INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds CHRISTIAN WOMENS JOB CORPS OF RUSK COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds ASBURY HOUSE CHILD ENRICHMENT CENTER ↗
  • Who funds HENDERSON FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds SON SHINE LIGHT HOUSE MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds EAST TEXAS COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds KEEP HENDERSON BEAUTIFUL INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF LONGVIEW INC ↗
  • Who funds LONGVIEW DREAM CENTER ↗
  • Who funds EAST TEXAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds MISSION CARTHAGE INC ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF LONGVIEW INC ↗
  • Who funds ANGEL LAYETTES ↗
  • Who funds FULL ARMOR CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds EAST TEXAS OPEN DOOR 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.

East Texas Communitie…Henderson Memorial Ho…Rosa May Griffin Foun…United Way of Rusk Co…Sadler Family Foundat…The Crain FoundationRenaissance Charitabl…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
East Texas Communities FoundationTX28× affinity11 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: East Texas Communities Foundation · Henderson Memorial Hospital Foundation · Rosa May Griffin Foundation · United Way of Rusk County Inc · Sadler Family Foundation · The Crain Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Tj & Laverne Plunkett Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Tj & Laverne Plunkett Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 30 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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