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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.

$511k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$3.8MHousing & Shelter$823kHuman Services$249kEducation$110kPublic Safety & Disaster$87kHealth$75kFood & Nutrition$68kRecreation & Sports$23kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $36k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $455k
$10,800
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION$5,000
LA METHODIST CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES$5,000
WOUNDED WARRIORS AT NEBO$3,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY$3,000
NIMITZ FOUNDATION$2,000
BOOT RANCH SCHOLARSHIP FUND$2,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE WALKER BELDEN FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%CLIMB HAIER INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 8%CHRIST IN THE HILLS: $100k → 10%THE WITTE MUSEUM: $5k → 16%FOCUS ON THE FAMILY: $50k → 9%LOUISIANA TECH UNIVERSITY: $100k → 32%FREDERICKSBURG FOOD PANTRY: $20k → 10%FAITH KITCHEN: $25k → 16%LA METHODIST CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 32%CHRIST IN THE HILLS: $18k → 10%ST VINNY'S BISTRO: $20k → 16%FOUNDATION FOR HCM: $10k → 10%HAVEN FOR HOPE: $10k → 16%SAM MINISTRIES: $150k → 16%SAM MINISTRIES: $100k → 16%SAM MINISTRIES: $25k → 16%RMYA INC: $10k → 16%ANY BABY CAN: $41k → 16%LOUISIANA TECH UNIVERSITY: $60k → 32%ANY BABY CAN: $40k → 16%LOUISIANA TECH UNIVERSITY: $25k → 32%ANY BABY CAN: $11k → 16%THRIVE WELL CANCER FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%BLUE PRINT MINISTRIES: $150k → 16%BLUE PRINT MINISTRIES: $150k → 16%BLUE PRINT MINISTRIES: $150k → 16%BLUE PRINT MINISTRIES: $150k → 16%BLUE PRINT MINISTRIES: $150k → 16%BLUE PRINT MINISTRIES: $150k → 16%BLUE PRINT MINISTRIES: $150k → 16%BLUE PRINT MINISTRIES: $150k → 16%SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $20k → 16%BLUE PRINT MINISTRIES: $150k → 16%COKER UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $680k → 16%SAM MINISTRIES: $375k → 16%COKER UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $330k → 16%COKER UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $255k → 16%COKER UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $240k → 16%COKER UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $205k → 16%COKER UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $205k → 16%COKER UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $184k → 16%COKER UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $126k → 16%SAM MINISTRIES: $90k → 16%COKER UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $55k → 16%SAM MINISTRIES: $31k → 16%SAM MINISTRIES: $25k → 16%HAVEN FOR HOPE: $15k → 16%LAS MISIONES DISTRICT: $10k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
WI
NY
MA
OR
OH
CO
LA
GA
TX
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.0M · 16 repeat orgs$228k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
25

Total granted

$5.0M
$198k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+83%
+91%

Still filing today

31%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Housing & ShelterFood & NutritionArts & CultureHealthYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • BM
    BLUEPRINT MINISTRIES INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +119%
  • SA
    SAN ANTONIO METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $796k · revenue +120%
  • TS
    THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESAN COUNCIL OF AUSTIN
    2× · 2020–2023 · $73k · revenue +83%

Funded once

  • FO
    FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
    one grant, 2018 · $50k
  • FF
    FREDERICKSBURG FOOD PANTRY INC
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +19%
  • SV
    ST VINNYS BISTRO
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -19%
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
Southeast Texas Food Bank Inc

Food distribution to the hungry throughout an eight county service territory in Southeast Texas.

Human Services
2
Hospice of South Texas Inc

Hospice care of terminally ill patients

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3
Feeding Texas

To lead a unified effort for a hunger-free texas.

Community Improvement
4
Habitat for Humanity of San Antonio Inc

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.

Housing & Shelter
5
Houston Habitat for Humanity Inc

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.

Housing & Shelter
6
Rebuilding Together Houston

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…

Housing & Shelter
7
Austin Habitat for Humanity Inc

Through faith in action, austin habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.

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8
Hill Country Daily Bread

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…

Food & Nutrition
9
West Texas Food Bank

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…

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10
Food Bank of West Central Texas

To procure and distribute nutritional food to qualified agencies that feed the hungry of West Central Texas.

Food & Nutrition
11
Healing Hands Ministries Inc

Hmm health provides quality healthcare to all its neighbors with love, compassion, and respect.

Health
12
Texas Organ Sharing Alliance

Promote and implement organ donation.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Antonio Metropolitan Ministries Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

17 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. 17 of the 45 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
13/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COKER UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $2,280,373 · OtherCOKER UNITED METHODIST CHURCHSAN ANTONIO METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC: $796,300 · OtherSAN ANTONIO METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INCLOUISIANA TECH UNIVERSITY: $185,000 · Other+33 more: $527,442 · Other+33 moreBLUEPRINT MINISTRIES INC: $1,350,000 · Youth DevelopmentBLUEPRINT MINISTRIES INCFaith Kitchen: $25,000 · Food & NutritionST VINNYS BISTRO: $20,000 · Food & NutritionHaven for Hope of Bexar County: $25,000 · Housing & ShelterHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $1,500 · Housing & ShelterTHE WALKER BELDEN FOUNDATION: $18,625 · Recreation & SportsTHRIVEWELL CANCER FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN: $5,000 · HealthCLIMB HAIER INTERNATIONAL INC: $10,000 · Religion
Other$3,789,115Youth Development$1,350,000Food & Nutrition$45,000Housing & Shelter$26,500Recreation & Sports$18,625Health$15,000Religion$10,000

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 budgetBLUEPRINT MINISTRIES INC: $1,350,000 over 9y, 24% of budgetSAN ANTONIO METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC: $796,300 over 8y, 3.3% of budgetTHE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESAN COUNCIL OF AUSTIN: $72,542 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHaven for Hope of Bexar County: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFaith Kitchen: $25,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetFREDERICKSBURG FOOD PANTRY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetST VINNYS BISTRO: $20,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE WALKER BELDEN FOUNDATION: $18,625 over 5y, 15% of budgetTHRIVEWELL CANCER FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWitte Museum: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetADMIRAL NIMITZ FOUNDATION: $3,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWreaths Across America: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 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 ↗

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.

Methodist Healthcare …American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas IncTX15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 45 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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