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Tom T East Sr and Alice K East and Alice H East and Robert C East Wildlife Fnd

The East Foundation is an Agricultural Research Organization.

$1.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$1.6M
Largest
01What you fund
0185% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20202024.

Environment$1.6MEducation$345kAnimals$241kArts & Culture$115kPhilanthropy$6kOther$389k
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $76k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.6M
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$526M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Diamond Bar Conservation$1,553,369
IDEA Public Schools$99,952
Individual grant recipient$37,730
Texas Wildlife Association Foundation Inc$22,904
Witte Museum$15,000
Jim Hogg County Fair Association$9,350
TAMUK Foundation Inc$9,000
Ranching Heritage$8,000
Coastal Bend Community Foundation$6,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 94% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 15%Texas Wildlife Association Fdn: $75k → 7%Kenedy County: $38k → 8%Taking Care of Texas: $25k → 10%Witte Museum: $100k → 16%Coastal Bend Community Foundation: $6k → 17%IDEA Camp Rio: $40k → 23%Texas A&M University - Kingsville: $96k → 27%Jim Hogg County Fair Association: $17k → 27%IDEA Public Schools: $100k → 27%Texas Wildlife Association Foundation Inc: $23k → 7%Witte Museum: $15k → 16%Texas A&M University - Kingsville: $88k → 27%Jim Hogg County Fair Association: $17k → 27%IDEA Public Schools: $80k → 27%Diamond Bar Conservation: $1.6M → 16%Texas AM University Kingsville: $48k → 27%Jim Hogg County Fair Association: $9k → 27%IDEA Public Schools: $77k → 27%Texas Wildlife Association Fdn: $73k → 16%TAMUK Foundation Inc: $9k → 27%IDEA Public Schools: $40k → 27%Texas Wildlife Association Fdn: $71k → 16%Texas Wildlife Association Foundati: $67k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

34%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$919k · 5 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

5 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
3

Total granted

$919k
$140k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+136%

Still filing today

60%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 8% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentEducationAnimalsArts & CultureOther

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

  • IP
    IDEA Public Schools
    4× · 2021–2024 · $336k · revenue +44%
  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR TX WILDLIFE
    4× · 2021–2024 · $241k · revenue -51%
  • TA
    Texas A&M University Kingsville
    2× · 2021–2022 · $184k

Funded once

  • TW
    Texas Wildlife Association Foundati
    one grant, 2020 · $67k
  • TA
    Texas AM University Kingsville
    one grant, 2020 · $48k
  • TC
    Taking Care of Texasgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +136%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Texas a&M Research Foundation

To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.

Education
2
Big Thicket Natural Heritage Trust

We acquire properties to be donated to the National Park Service and state entities and advocate for protection of Big Thicket natural resources.

Environment
3
Parks and Wildlife Foundation of Texas

Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation (TPWF) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization thatadvances Texas proud outdoor traditions through meaningful, high-impact programs,partnerships, and a wide range of projects that conserve and enhance our…

Environment
4
Conservation History Association of Tx

The Association is developing, distributing and archiving oral histories, atlas maps and descriptive essays, and wildlife illustrations to expand public appreciation and grasp of Texas environmental history.

Education
5
Coastal Prairie Conservancy

The Coastal Prairie Conservancy (CPC) works to sustain a resilient Texas by preserving coastal prairies, wetlands, farms, and ranches to benefit people and wildlife forever. Continued on Schedule OCPC conserves land, restores and enhances…

Environment
6
Big Bend Conservation Alliance

Conservation of West Texas Resources

Environment
7
Cca Texas Fund

To support coastal conservation association in carrying out the charitable and educational purpose for which it was organized and is operated, namely, promoting and advancing the preservation, conservation and protection of marine, plant…

Environment
8
Bexar Land Trust Inc dba Green Spaces Alliance of South Texas

The mission of Bexar Land Trust (Green Spaces) is to sustain the natural environment and enhance urban spaces through land conservation, community engagement, and education.

Environment
9
Houston Botanic Garden

To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.

Environment
10
Texas Food & Wine Alliance fka Austin F&W Alliance

Texas Food & Wine Alliance is dedicated to fostering awareness and innovation in the Texas culinary community through grants, educational programing, and events.

11
Hill Country Alliance

The mission of the Hill Country Alliance is to bring together a diverse coalition of partners to preserve the open spaces, starry night skies, clean and abundant waters, and unique character of the Texas Hill Country.

Environment
12
Texas Land Conservancy

To conserve natural areas in Texas and to protect the physical and ecological integrity of their wildlife habitat, native plant communities, and scenic landscapes for the benefit of present and future generations.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for Tx Wildlife and the most unlike its peers is Jim Hogg County Fair Association. 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

9 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 13 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
4/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Diamond Bar Conservation — $1,553,369 · EnvironmentDiamond Bar Conservation+1 more — $25,000 · EnvironmentTexas A&M University Kingsville — $184,000 · OtherTexas A&M Univer…Texas Wildlife Association Foundati — $67,450 · OtherTexas Wildlife A…Texas AM University Kingsville — $48,000 · OtherTexas AM Univers…JIM HOGG COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION — $43,351 · OtherJIM HOGG COUNTY …Individual grant recipient — $37,730 · OtherIndividual grant…+1 more — $8,000 · OtherIDEA Public Schools — $336,008 · EducationIDEA Public Sc…+1 more — $9,000 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR TX WILDLIFE — $241,104 · AnimalsFOUNDATION…Witte Museum — $115,000 · Arts & CultureCOASTAL BEND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $6,000 · Philanthropy
Environment$1,578,369Other$388,531Education$345,008Animals$241,104Arts & Culture$115,000Philanthropy$6,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDiamond Bar Conservation — $1,553,369 over 1y, 97% of budgetIDEA Public Schools — $336,008 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR TX WILDLIFE — $241,104 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetWitte Museum — $115,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetTaking Care of Texas — $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTexas A&M University - Kingsville Foundation Inc — $9,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRanching Heritage Association — $8,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOASTAL BEND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA8.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn 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 Tom T East Sr and Alice K East and Alice H East and Robert C East Wildlife Fnd 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Tom T East Sr and Alice K East and Alice H East and Robert C East Wildlife Fnd?

    Find your warmest path to Tom T East Sr and Alice K East and Alice H East and Robert C East Wildlife Fnd through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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