· Private foundation
W B Munson Foundation Xxxxx5008
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $63k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $170k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DENISON PUBLIC LIBRARY | $90,000 |
| DENISON INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT | $60,000 |
| AUSTIN COLLEGE | $30,000 |
| THE CHILD AND FAMILY GUIDANCE | $25,000 |
| TEXAS A&M FOUNDATION | $21,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| MASTERKEY MINISTRIES OF GRAYSON COUNTY | $20,000 |
| DENISON SISTER CITIES INC | $18,000 |
| CITY OF DENISON | $15,625 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GRAYSON COUNTY | $10,000 |
| HOUSE OF ELI INC | $10,000 |
| TEXOMA FAMILY SHELTER | $9,500 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF GRAYSON COUNTY INC | $5,000 |
| CHILDRENS CHORUS OF GREATER NORTH TEXAS | $5,000 |
| COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $368k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 55% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
75 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 50 since wound down; 7 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k 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
- ACAUSTIN COLLEGE9× · 2017–2025 · $246k · revenue +12%
- CAChild and Family Guidance Center9× · 2017–2025 · $203k · revenue +8%
- GCGRAYSON COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION4× · 2018–2021 · $200k · revenue +177%
Funded once
- TSTRI-COUNTY SENIOR NUTRITION PROJECT INCone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +19%
- TWTAXOMA WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT BOARDone grant, 2019 · $50k
- GGGRAYSON GRAND CENTRAL STATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue +205%
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.
To ensure that the student body experiences balanced intellectual, psychological, social and spiritual development, aimed at enabling them to become active productive members of society where they live and work.
To provide a place for children to go where they will have supervised activities, arts, crafts, and recreation.
The Organization's mission is to provide a multidisciplinary collaboration of services for the purpose of prevention, intervention, investigation, prosecution and treatment of child abuse. This effort reduces the potential for additional…
To provide for children in the custody of the Texas Department of Regulatory Services.
Provide meals on wheels, congregate meals, and recreational facility for elderly and low income persons of dawson county texas.
Provide elementary and secondary private education for families in the Greenville Texas area.
To provide fire and medical emergency services for the city of garrison, tx and the surrounding districts.
To promote tourism awareness in the city of denison, texas.
Assisting in the growth and development of the College Station community in the areas of employment health care housing and counseling.
The WTFB exists to collect, purchase, and distribute food to feed the hungry in 19 counties in West Texas in partnership with volunteers and community organizations and to educate these partners and the public at large about the real face…
To conduct programs aimed to decrease the rate of juvenile delinquency with residential, educational, and counseling programs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Grayson County Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Sherman Museum. 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 39 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 116 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 AUSTIN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Child and Family Guidance Center ↗
- Who funds GRAYSON COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MASTERKEY MINISTRIES OF GRAYSON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of Denison Texas ↗
- Who funds TRI-COUNTY SENIOR NUTRITION PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF GRAYSON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SHERMAN COMMUNITY PLAYERS ↗
- Who funds FOUR RIVERS OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds DENISON HELPING HANDS ↗
- Who funds GRAYSON GRAND CENTRAL STATION ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF ELI INC ↗
- Who funds DENISON MAIN STREET INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF GRAYSON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MULTICULTURAL FAMILY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Texas A&M Foundation ↗
- Who funds Texoma Family Shelter ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GRAYSON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SHERMAN 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.
Open a dossier: Clara B & W Aubrey Smith Charitable · Elias & Hanna Regensburger Foundation · The Oliver Dewey Mayor Foundation · Texoma Community Foundation · Thelma Braun & Bocklett Family Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · United Way of Grayson County Inc · Dorset Foundation Inc Attn Marty Sanderson · Tr Uw Minnie M Jones · Sherman Service League · Dr & Mrs Paul Pierce Memorial Foundation · Wilson N Jones Community 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 W B Munson Foundation Xxxxx5008 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.