· Private foundation
The Wildlife Heritage Foundation of Texas
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE TEXAS WILDLIFE ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| THE NRA FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $11,040 |
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 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 59% 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.
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.
13 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- IGIndividual grant recipient8× · 2017–2024 · $288k
- NFNRA FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $213k · revenue -7%
- TTTHE TEXAS WILDLIFE ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2025 · $208k
Funded once
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +74%- ICISLAND CHURCH GALVESTONone grant, 2018 · $15k
- BBBETHANY BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2018 · $14k
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.
Pursue legal support of 2nd amendment rights
Preserving the sport of hunting through education, conservation, and the promotion of our hunting heritage.
The National Rifle League is a not for profit organization dedicated to the growth and education of long range precision shooting.
To aid the citizens of texas and oklahoma and law enforcement through investigation of property crimes, citizen assistance in the wake of natural disasters, and education on agricultural safety and security.
National shooting sports foundation's (nssf) purpose is to promote the shooting sports and foster a better understanding of recreational shooting. continue on schedule o.nssf works for the general welfare of hunting, target shooting,…
The range foundation exists to advance education, research, and public benefit activities that support the mission of the range 501(c)(6) in driving innovation and sustainable development in the texas panhandle
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nra Special Contribution Fund and the most unlike its peers is Astros Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 38 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 NRA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ASTROS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds PTSD FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON SAFARI CLUB ↗
- Who funds QUEST MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds HUNT VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds PROJECT CHILDSAFE INC ↗
- Who funds NRA SPECIAL CONTRIBUTION FUND ↗
- Who funds Boots for Troops ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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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 Wildlife Heritage Foundation of Texas 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.