· Private foundation
The Tj & Laverne Plunkett Foundation
Its FY2020 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 57% of THE TJ & LAVERNE PLUNKETT FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k8 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $87k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY OF LONGVIEW | $10,000 |
| CHRISTIAN WOMEN'S JOB CORPS OF RUSK | $10,000 |
| ASBURY HOUSE CHILD ENRICHMENT CNTR | $10,000 |
| RUSK COUNTY FRIENDS HELPING FRIENDS | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF LONGVIEW | $5,000 |
| SON SHINE LIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–20, $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 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 +5% since the first grant, against -7% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2020, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $205k 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
- AHASBURY HOUSE CHILD ENRICHMENT CENTER4× · 2017–2020 · $40k · revenue +5%
- HFHENDERSON FOOD BANK4× · 2017–2020 · $40k · revenue +46%
- LDLONGVIEW DREAM CENTER2× · 2018–2019 · $11k · revenue +208%
Funded once
- RCRUSK COUNTY CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENone grant, 2018 · $6k
- MCMISSION CARTHAGE INCone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -7%
- TSTEXAS SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -20%
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.
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…
To provide free food, clothing, personal hygiene and baby items to families in need in Van Zandt County 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.
To equip women with job and life skills in a Christ-centered environment by providing training that helps unemployed women to become employed.
Christian organization serving under-resourced families including single parents, refugees, and immigrants by providing spiritual and financial assistance.
To show christs love through tangible means, food, etc
Public Charity
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…
A ministry that is being the hands and feet of Jesus by pouring into woman & Children in need in the Wise County
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.
Care of neglected children
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Longview Dream Center and 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.
16 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. 16 of the 30 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 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 ↗
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: 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
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 Tj & Laverne Plunkett 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.