· Public charity
United Way of East-Central Texas
To support local united way agencies to provide needed services to community members.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 2 grants below total $15,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $21,550 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $6,050 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MEALS ON WHEELS OF PALESTINE | $8,000 |
| FIRST RESOURCE CENTER | $7,500 |
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 (FY17–22, $96k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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.
12 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 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 FY2024, 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
- CCCRISIS CENTER OF ANDERSON & CHEROKEE CO6× · 2017–2022 · $64k · revenue +25%
- CCCHARITABLE CONSORTIUM INC DBA HOPE STATION5× · 2017–2021 · $48k · revenue +152%
- FRFirst Resource Center7× · 2018–2024 · $48k · revenue +73%
Funded once
- WWHCone grant, 2017 · $14k
- PCPALESTINE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +137%
- EVElkhart Volunteer Fire Departmentone grant, 2017 · $7k
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.
The Anderson County Community Action Commission provides food, clothing, household foods, and essential assistance to low-income residents of Anderson County, Tennessee. The organization operates a community food pantry, clothing closet,…
End homelessness in East Texas, & Community Collaboration
Transitional and Outreach services to homeless, care for families in crisis
to reach functional zero homelessness in Hays County through outreach case management direct aid and emergency response while maintaining the dignity of the people we serve
Provide assistance to residents of Kaufman County, Texas particularly focused in the Crandall area. We provide food, clothing, household items, and faith based counseling and intercessory prayer.
Emergency housing
Provide food and clothing to homeless in Dallas and Carrolton area
A religious and community-based ministry for those who are homeless and in need.
Provide shelter and assistance to the homeless
Provide emergency assistance to those in need of food, lodging and gasoline, and maintain food pantry.
To provide help & resources
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Men's Christian Association of Palestine Texas and the most unlike its peers is Elkhart Volunteer Fire Department. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 19 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 CRISIS CENTER OF ANDERSON & CHEROKEE CO ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF PALESTINE INC ↗
- Who funds CHARITABLE CONSORTIUM INC DBA HOPE STATION ↗
- Who funds First Resource Center ↗
- Who funds ICEE Success Foundation ↗
- Who funds TEXAS YOUTH ADVOCATES ↗
- Who funds CASA OF TRINITY VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PALESTINE TEXAS ↗
- Who funds PALESTINE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds Elkhart Volunteer Fire Department ↗
- Who funds THE TEXAS AREA FUND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN ON THE ROCK INC ↗
- Who funds Anderson-Cherokee Community Enrichment ServiceS ACCESS ↗
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: Ben and Maytee Fisch Foundation · The Gragg Foundation · Tll Temple Foundation · 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 United Way of East-Central 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.
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