· Private foundation
The Waldrip Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $36k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $455k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAM MINISTRIES | $150,000 |
| BLUE PRINT MINISTRIES | $150,000 |
| CHRIST IN THE HILLS | $100,000 |
| COKER UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $55,000 |
| FAITH KITCHEN | $25,000 |
| ANY BABY CAN | $10,800 |
| LA METHODIST CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES | $5,000 |
| CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIORS AT NEBO | $3,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY | $3,000 |
| BOOT RANCH SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $2,000 |
| NIMITZ FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% of your 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
16 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- BMBLUEPRINT MINISTRIES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +119%
- SASAN ANTONIO METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC8× · 2017–2025 · $796k · revenue +87%
- TSTHE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESAN COUNCIL OF AUSTIN2× · 2020–2023 · $73k · revenue +83%
Funded once
- FOFOCUS ON THE FAMILYone grant, 2018 · $50k
- FFFREDERICKSBURG FOOD PANTRY INCone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +19%
- SVST VINNYS BISTROone grant, 2022 · $20k · 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.
Food distribution to the hungry throughout an eight county service territory in Southeast Texas.
Hospice care of terminally ill patients
To lead a unified effort for a hunger-free texas.
An ecumenical, christian organization working in partnership with god's people in need to build modest, decent, and affordable homes without interest or profit, thereby witnessing god's love in action.
Seeking to put God's love into action, Houston Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope to provide a world where everyone has a decent place to live.
Rebuilding Together Houston is the only organization in Houston and Harris County providing free home repairs to hundreds of families each year. We employ licensed contractors to restore homes to safe, livable conditions, extending each…
Through faith in action, austin habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
Hill country daily bread ministries is a faith based ministry whose mission is to help unite and equip the hill country community with food, resources and training necessary to transform our communities and the lives of those in poverty…
The WTFB exists to collect, purchase, and distribute food to feed the hungry in 19 counties in West Texas in partnership with volunteers and community organizations and to educate these partners and the public at large about the real face…
To procure and distribute nutritional food to qualified agencies that feed the hungry of West Central Texas.
Hmm health provides quality healthcare to all its neighbors with love, compassion, and respect.
Promote and implement organ donation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Antonio Metropolitan Ministries Inc and the most unlike its peers is Climb Haier International Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 45 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 BLUEPRINT MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESAN COUNCIL OF AUSTIN ↗
- Who funds Haven for Hope of Bexar County ↗
- Who funds Faith Kitchen ↗
- Who funds FREDERICKSBURG FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds ST VINNYS BISTRO ↗
- Who funds THE WALKER BELDEN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THRIVEWELL CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CLIMB HAIER INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds Witte Museum ↗
- Who funds TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HUNGER FUND ↗
- Who funds ADMIRAL NIMITZ FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY 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: Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Waldrip 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.
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.