· Private foundation
Thelma Braun & Bocklett Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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: 86% of THELMA BRAUN & BOCKLETT FAMILY 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $152k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DENISON ISD | $32,000 |
| DENISON ISD | $30,000 |
| DENISON MAIN STREET INC | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| JUNIOR LEAGUE OF GRAYSON COUNTY | $15,000 |
| SHERMAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC | $10,000 |
| SHERMAN COMMUNITY PLAYERS | $10,000 |
| THE SHERMAN MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GRAYSON COUNTY INC | $7,500 |
| CHILDREN'S CHORUS OF GREATER NORTH TEXAS | $5,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GRAYSON COUNTY INC | $5,000 |
| DENISON PERFORMING ARTS INC | $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 (FY17–17, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
14 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 7 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k 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
- DIDENISON ISD9× · 2017–2025 · $659k
- IGIndividual grant recipient8× · 2017–2025 · $120k
- SCSHERMAN COMMUNITY PLAYERS8× · 2017–2025 · $65k · revenue -2%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY OF GRAYSONone grant, 2020 · $40k
- WVWHITESBORO VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENTone grant, 2020 · $40k
- TRTEXAS RAMP PROJECTgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +144%
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.
To provide fire and medical emergency services for the city of garrison, tx and the surrounding districts.
To honor the history of Freestone County
To promote tourism awareness in the city of denison, texas.
To assist sexual assault and domestic violence victims. To operate a safe shelter and provide counseling services.
Crime Stop.
Provide library services including books, computerized library services, literacy/learning programs for all ages to the citizens of Rhome and surrounding areas of Wise County Texas.
The denison service league is an organization of women whose mission is to advance women's leadership for meaningful community impact through volunteer action, collaboration and training.
Provide meals on wheels, congregate meals, and recreational facility for elderly and low income persons of dawson county texas.
Presevering historical information in grant county
Firefighter & emergency medical services for the waskom, tx area.
Pregnancy counseling
The education of the public on Shelby County history.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Grayson County Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Sherman Museum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 29 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 SHERMAN COMMUNITY PLAYERS ↗
- Who funds DENISON MAIN STREET INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS RAMP PROJECT ↗
- Who funds SHERMAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds DENISON HELPING HANDS ↗
- Who funds THE SHERMAN MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds GRAYSON COUNTY CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PVES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF GRAYSON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GRAYSON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Texoma Family Shelter ↗
- Who funds RED RIVER RAILROAD MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds GREATER TEXOMA HEALTH CLINIC ↗
- Who funds GRAYSON GRAND CENTRAL STATION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT TRANSFORMATION NORTH TEXAS ↗
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: The Oliver Dewey Mayor Foundation · W B Munson Foundation Xxxxx5008 · Elias & Hanna Regensburger Foundation · Clara B & W Aubrey Smith Charitable · Texoma Community Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Dr & Mrs Paul Pierce Memorial Foundation · Dorset Foundation Inc Attn Marty Sanderson · United Way of Grayson County Inc · R D Beirne Trust Fund · Tr Uw Minnie M Jones · Texoma Medical Center Volunteers
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 Thelma Braun & Bocklett 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.
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