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Vest Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $265k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $258k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH | $108,400 |
| STORY VEST MEMORIAL | $50,000 |
| THE ODESSA COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| TRANSPECOS DUSTY PAWS INC | $50,000 |
| WINKLER-LOVING COUNTY LIVESTOCK ASS | $40,000 |
| CHILDRESS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $30,000 |
| 238 JUNIOR LIVESTOCK ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| CHILDRESS COUNTY YOUTH PROJECT SHOW | $25,000 |
| WEST TEXAS DIAMONDS IN THE RUFF | $25,000 |
| WARD COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER | $25,000 |
| SHILOH BAPTIST CHURCH | $20,000 |
| FORGET ME NOT FRANCES | $20,000 |
| SOUTHWESTERN DIABETIC FOUNDATION IN | $15,000 |
| CASA OF THE ROLLING PLAINS | $10,000 |
| TRANSFORMATIVE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY | $10,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 4 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k 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
- CCCHILDRESS COUNTY YOUTH PROJECT SHOW5× · 2021–2025 · $130k · revenue +233% · 85% of their budget
- SVSTORY VEST MEMORIAL4× · 2022–2025 · $130k · revenue +292% · 74% of their budget
- 2J238 Junior Livestock Association5× · 2021–2025 · $70k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- WCWard County Greater Works Incone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
- JOJOEL OSTEEN MINISTRIESone grant, 2022 · $5k
- FCFREE CHAPEL WORSHIP CENTER INCone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
CASA of Williamson County, TX exists to empower community volunteers to advocate for children who have experienced abuse or neglect to find loving, safe, and permanent homes.
A state of texas licensed foster care and adoption agency that identifies and provides approved healing foster homes for children.
The Lullaby House missionis ot strengthen families by providing programs and services to teenage parents and familites in need which will inspire and promote generational change.
To provide all abused and neglected children with a voice in the court process.
To promote the selection, ownership, and care of high quality livestock to exhibit and sell throught the FFA and 4-H Programs in Williamson County, TX.
Child Advocacy
Private christian school
A volunteer organization to promote the education and development of youth in agriculture in Live Oak County, Texas and surrounding counties.
Spread the Gospel.
Provides childcare
The winters child development center is dedicated to providing the best quality childcare in the winters area and educating the children with a christian based curriculum.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sherwood & Myrtie Foster's Home for Children and the most unlike its peers is Story Vest Memorial. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 15% of your grantees by number, and just 19% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 27 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 ODESSA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDRESS COUNTY YOUTH PROJECT SHOW ↗
- Who funds STORY VEST MEMORIAL ↗
- Who funds FORGET ME NOT FRANCES ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWESTERN DIABETIC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds 238 Junior Livestock Association ↗
- Who funds SHERWOOD & MYRTIE FOSTER'S HOME FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Ward County Greater Works Inc ↗
- Who funds Ward County Senior Citizens Center ↗
- Who funds CHILDRESS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CASA OF THE ROLLING PLAINS ↗
- Who funds IN TOUCH MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Transformative Leadership Academy TL Academy ↗
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 Vest 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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