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Vasco McCoy Jr Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$84k
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$28k
Largest
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Religion$191kEducation$165kArts & Culture$154kHuman Services$46kHealth$42kPhilanthropy$19kHousing & Shelter$16kCivil Rights$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k16 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $48k
$2,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST JAMES EPISCOPAL CHURCH$28,000
TEXAS A&M - TEXARKANA$10,000
TEXARKANA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$10,000
TEXARKANA MUSEUM SYSTEM$5,000
HOSPICE OF TEXARKANA$5,000
TEXARKANA COLLEGE FOUNDATION$4,000
TRAHC$4,000
UNITED WAY OF GREATER TEXARKANA$3,500
OPPORTUNITIES INC$3,000
TEXARKANA REGIONAL CHORALE$2,000
CASA INC OF NORTHEAST TEXAS$2,000
ST JAMES DAY SCHOOL$1,000
CHRISTUS ST MICHAEL$1,000
TEXARKANA PUBLIC LIBRARY$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
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:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PREVENTION: $1k → 19%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PREVENTION: $1k → 19%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PREVENTION: $1k → 19%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PREVENTION: $1k → 19%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PREVENTION: $1k → 19%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PREVENTION: $1k → 19%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PREVENTION: $1k → 19%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PREVENTION: $1k → 19%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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$641k · 28 repeat orgs$2k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

28 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
3

Total granted

$641k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+17%

Still filing today

43%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesReligionEducationCivil RightsOther

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

  • TS
    TEXARKANA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +271%
  • HO
    HOSPICE OF TEXARKANA
    8× · 2017–2024 · $33k · revenue +7%
  • TR
    TEXARKANA REGIONAL ARTS & HUMANIT
    8× · 2017–2024 · $27k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • WO
    WOMEN OF TEXAS A&M
    one grant, 2017 · $2k
  • AD
    ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2019 · $100 · revenue +17%
  • TC
    TOUCHDOWN CLUB OF DALLAS
    one grant, 2019 · $100

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 Non-Profit Hospice Alliance

The Texas Nonprofit Hospice Alliance (TNPHA) is a group of nonprofit hospices dedicated to sharing best practices and providing quality care for individuals with life-limiting illnesses.

Human Services
2
Texas Society of Anesthesiologists

The purpose of the texas society of anesthesiologists is to advance, promote and support the practice of the medical specialty of anesthesiology in the state of texas.

3
Senior Citizens Services of Texarkana

Support Services for the elderly through nutritional assistance

Human Services
4
Texprotects-the Texas Association for the Protection of Children

TexProtects advances public policy and local implementation to strenghten families to prevent child abuse and neglect.

Youth Development
5
Texas Pharmacy Association

The association's purpose is to promote the role of the pharmacist and the practice of pharmacy in the state of texas.

6
Nacogdoches Treatment Center for Hanicapped Children and Adults Inc

Treatment of handicapped and disabled children and adults and providing job training for disabled persons. Providing activities for Alzheimer's Disease patients.

Health
7
Travis County Medical Society

Travis county medical society (tcms) represents the medical profession in matters of importance to the membership and the community it serves.

8
Texas Medical Association

The texas medical association (tma), the nation's largest and one of the oldest state medical societies, represents over 59,000 physicians and medical students dedicated to enhancing the health of all texans. in collaboration with 110…

9
Texas Optometric Association Inc

Doctors of optometry working together to advance excellence in eyecare for every texan.

10
Hospice of Texarkana Foundation

Established for the financial support of hospice of texarkana, inc.

Human Services
11
Texas Association of Voluntary Hospitals

Represent texas voluntary hospitals

Community Improvement
12
Tensas Council on Aging Inc

The primary function of the Tensas Council on Aging, Inc. is to improve the quality of life for the parish's elderly and to provide services to the elderly as well as coordinate and monitor the services of other local agencies serving the…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Christus St Michael Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Randy Sams Outreach Shelter. 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

13 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. 13 of the 31 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
11/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ST JAMES EPISCOPAL CHURCH — $185,000 · OtherST JAMES EPISCOPAL CHURCHTEXAS A&M - TEXARKANA — $116,600 · OtherTEXAS A&M - TEXARKANATEXARKANA MUSEUM SYSTEM — $23,500 · OtherOPPORTUNITIES INC — $20,150 · OtherUnited Way of Greater Texarkana Inc — $19,000 · Other+17 more — $83,250 · Other+17 moreTEXARKANA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $80,000 · Arts & CultureTEXARKANA SYMPHONY…TEXARKANA REGIONAL ARTS & HUMANIT — $27,100 · Arts & CultureTEXARKANA REGIONAL…HOSPICE OF TEXARKANA — $33,000 · HealthARKANSAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — $4,500 · Health+1 more — $100 · HealthTEXARKANA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $24,000 · EducationNORTHEAST TEXAS CASA INC — $14,000 · Civil RightsDomestic Violence Prevention Inc — $8,000 · Human ServicesRandy Sams Outreach Shelter — $4,000 · Religion
Other$447,500Arts & Culture$107,100Health$37,600Education$24,000Civil Rights$14,000Human Services$8,000Religion$4,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTEXARKANA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $80,000 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetHOSPICE OF TEXARKANA — $33,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTEXARKANA REGIONAL ARTS & HUMANIT — $27,100 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetTEXARKANA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $24,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetOPPORTUNITIES INC — $20,150 over 8y, 2.7% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Texarkana Inc — $19,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetNORTHEAST TEXAS CASA INC — $14,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetDomestic Violence Prevention Inc — $8,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetARKANSAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — $4,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTUS St Michael Foundation — $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRandy Sams Outreach Shelter — $4,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetST JAMES DAY SCHOOL — $3,900 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $100 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.

  • Who funds TEXARKANA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
  • Who funds HOSPICE OF TEXARKANA
  • Who funds TEXARKANA REGIONAL ARTS & HUMANIT
  • Who funds TEXARKANA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds OPPORTUNITIES INC
  • Who funds United Way of Greater Texarkana Inc
  • Who funds NORTHEAST TEXAS CASA INC
  • Who funds Domestic Violence Prevention Inc
  • Who funds ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
  • Who funds CHRISTUS St Michael Foundation
  • Who funds Randy Sams Outreach Shelter
  • Who funds ST JAMES DAY SCHOOL
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC

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.

The Bobbie a Atkinson FoundationTX28.5× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bobbie a Atkinson Foundation · Patterson Troike Foundation Inc · Kelley & Morgan Families Foundation · Ledwell Family Foundation · Wayne H Garrison Charitable Tr · Cabe Cook Foundation · The Morriss Family Foundation · East Texas Communities Foundation · Yates Foundation · United Way of Greater Texarkana Inc · American Electric Power Foundation · Arkansas Community Foundation Inc

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 Vasco McCoy Jr 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Vasco McCoy Jr Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Vasco McCoy Jr Foundation 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 31 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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