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Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States Dept of Texas

To provide assistance for veterans , service members and their families in their communities and provide them a place to fellowship together.

$34k
Granted FY2021
24
Grants FY2021
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2021 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 24 grants below total $32,850 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $34,129 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,279 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.

$1,220
Median grant
States reached
$8k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VFW AUX POST 7208$3,000
SENIOR LIFE$2,900
MIDLAND SOUP KITCHEN$2,900
WEST TEXAS FOOD BANK$2,000
VFW NATIONAL HOME$2,000
VA HOMELESS PROGRAM$1,720
GUARDIANS OF THE CHILDREN$1,500
ALZHEIMER S ASSOCIATION$1,500
SUSAN G KOMEN$1,500
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$1,500
PATRIOT S PAW$1,220
SALVATION ARMY$1,220
SPECIAL OLYMPICS$1,220
CHRISTMAS IN ACTION$1,220
GIFTS OF HOPE$1,220
02Your 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
Disabled American Veterans of Texas Service Foundation
Human Services
2
Nocona Rural Volunteer Fire Department Inc

Volunteer firefighting of all fires in the rural areas around nocona texas including assisting other fire departments during large fires in their areas.

3
West Texas Hero Homes Inc

Support of special needs military or first responders and their families.

Housing & Shelter
4
Geronimo Volunteer Fire Department Inc

Provide fire protection/education, emergency medical treatment and rescue services to an area of approx 65 sq miles in guadalupe county texas.

Public Safety & Disaster
5
Visiting Nurse Association of Texas

Established in 1934, vna helps older adults live with dignity and independence at home by providing in-home care, food and friendship for the ill, hungry, and homebound.

Health
6
Garrison Volunteer Fire Department

To provide fire and medical emergency services for the city of garrison, tx and the surrounding districts.

Public Safety & Disaster
7
Matador Motley County Volunteer Fire Department

Fire fighting and prevention

Public Safety & Disaster
8
Waskom Volunteer Fire Department & Ems Services Inc

Firefighter & emergency medical services for the waskom, tx area.

Public Safety & Disaster
9
Hankamer Volunteer Fire Department

Provide fire fighting & ambulance service to hankamer, texas and surrounding areas.

Public Safety & Disaster
10
Dawson County Senior Citizens Center Inc

Provide meals on wheels, congregate meals, and recreational facility for elderly and low income persons of dawson county texas.

11
Pecan Plantation Volunteer Fire Dpt & Emergency Medical Services Inc

Provides protection of property and preservation of life from and during fire or other emergencies within the area of its operation in hood and johnson counties, texas. also, provides rescue and various other emergency services in the…

12
Regional Adult Protective Services Advisory Board

The organization's mission is to assist and support adult protective services (aps), a separate organization in the permian basin, client needs as requested for aged and disabled adults. in addition, raise public awareness of proper care…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Patriot Paws Service Dogs and the most unlike its peers is American Cancer Research Center and Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

02the grantee network

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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 24 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)
15/15
Grantees still filing
11/15
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE US DEPT OF TEXAS AUXILIARY — $3,000 · OtherVETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE US DEPT OF…WEST TEXAS FOOD BANK — $2,000 · OtherWEST TEXAS FOOD BANKVA HOMELESS PROGRAM — $1,720 · OtherVA HOMELESS PROGRAMSPECIAL OLYMPICS — $1,220 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPICSSALVATION ARMY — $1,220 · OtherSALVATION ARMYHONORING OUR TROOPS — $1,000 · OtherHONORING OUR TROOPSHEALING EMOTIONS ABOVE REASONS & THOUGHTS — $720 · OtherHEALING EMOTIONS ABOVE REASONS & THOUGHTSIndividual grant recipient — $600 · OtherAMERICAN LEGION 119 — $500 · Other+1 more — $250 · OtherSENIOR LIFE MIDLAND INC — $2,900 · Human ServicesSENIOR LIFE MIDLAND INCVFW NATIONAL HOME — $2,000 · Human ServicesVFW NATIONAL HOMEPATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS — $1,220 · Human ServicesPATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DO…BASIN DREAM CENTER FOR ORPHANS — $720 · Human ServicesBASIN DREAM CENTER FOR …The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc — $1,500 · HealthThe Susan G Komen B…American Cancer Research Center and Foundation — $1,500 · HealthAmerican Cancer Res…ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $1,500 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE…PERMIAN BASIN GIFTS OF HOPE INC — $1,220 · HealthPERMIAN BASIN GIFTS…MIDLAND SOUP KITCHEN MINISTRY — $2,900 · ReligionMIDLAND SO…NORTHEAST MIDLAND COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT — $1,000 · Public Safety & DisasterGreenwood Volunteer Fire Department — $720 · Public Safety & DisasterGUARDIANS OF THE CHILDREN — $1,500 · PhilanthropyCHRISTMAS IN ACTION INC — $1,220 · Housing & ShelterAPHASIA CENTER OF WEST TEXAS INC — $720 · Education
Other$12,230Human Services$6,840Health$5,720Religion$2,900Public Safety & Disaster$1,720Philanthropy$1,500Housing & Shelter$1,220Education$720

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 budgetMIDLAND SOUP KITCHEN MINISTRY — $2,900 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSENIOR LIFE MIDLAND INC — $2,900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVFW NATIONAL HOME — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWEST TEXAS FOOD BANK — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Cancer Research Center and Foundation — $1,500 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUARDIANS OF THE CHILDREN — $1,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS — $1,220 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTMAS IN ACTION INC — $1,220 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPERMIAN BASIN GIFTS OF HOPE INC — $1,220 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHEAST MIDLAND COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBASIN DREAM CENTER FOR ORPHANS — $720 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAPHASIA CENTER OF WEST TEXAS INC — $720 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGreenwood Volunteer Fire Department — $720 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

Abell-Hanger FoundationTX21.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Abell-Hanger Foundation · Permian Basin Area Foundation · Scharbauer Foundation Inc · Ken W Davis Foundation · Yarborough Foundation · Beal Foundation · Fmh Foundation · Warren Charitable Foundation · Helen Greathouse Charitable Trust · James a Buddy Davidson Charitable Foundation · Wayne & Jo Ann Moore Charitable Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund

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 Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States Dept of 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.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.

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    How do I get to Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States Dept of Texas?

    Find your warmest path to Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States Dept of Texas 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 24 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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