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W B Munson Foundation Xxxxx5008 at a glance

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W B Munson Foundation Xxxxx5008

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$383k
Granted FY2025still arriving
32
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$90k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.6MHuman Services$462kPublic Benefit$191kArts & Culture$185kFood & Nutrition$163kPhilanthropy$136kYouth Development$135kCrime & Legal$110kOther$0
02FY2025 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k21 grants · $63k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $170k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$7.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
MASTERKEY MINISTRIES OF GRAYSON COUNTY$20,000
Individual grant recipient$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
CHILDRENS CHORUS OF GREATER NORTH TEXAS$5,000
COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES$5,000
DENISON MAIN STREET INC$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE CHILD AND FAMILY GUIDANCE: $25k → 14%THE CHILD AND FAMILY GUIDANCE: $25k → 14%THE CHILD AND FAMILY GUIDANCE: $25k → 14%THE CHILD AND FAMILY GUIDANCE: $25k → 14%THE CHILD AND FAMILY GUIDANCE: $22k → 14%THE CHILD AND FAMILY GUIDANCE: $22k → 14%THE CHILD AND FAMILY GUIDANCE: $22k → 14%THE CHILD AND FAMILY GUIDANCE: $22k → 14%THE CHILD AND FAMILY GUIDANCE: $15k → 14%TEXOMA FAMILY SHELTER: $10k → 11%TEXOMA FAMILY SHELTER: $6k → 11%TEXOMA FAMILY SHELTER: $5k → 11%MASTERKEY MINISTRIES OF GRAYSON COUNTY: $25k → 11%MASTERKEY MINISTRIES OF GRAYSON COUNTY: $20k → 11%MASTERKEY MINISTRIES OF GRAYSON COUNTY: $20k → 11%MASTERKEY MINISTRIES OF GRAYSON COUNTY: $15k → 11%MASTERKEY MINISTRIES OF GRAYSON COUNTY: $8k → 11%MASTERKEY MINISTRIES OF GRAYSON COUNTY: $8k → 11%MASTERKEY MINISTRIES OF GRAYSON COUNTY: $8k → 11%MASTERKEY MINISTRIES OF GRAYSON COUNTY: $5k → 11%FOUR RIVERS OUTREACH INC: $15k → 11%Four Rivers Outreach Inc: $11k → 11%FOUR RIVERS OUTREACH INC: $6k → 11%Four Rivers Outreach Inc: $5k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
CA
AZ
AR
TN
NC
OK
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.0M · 75 repeat orgs$348k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

75
33

Total granted

$3.0M
$310k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+80%

Still filing today

23%
24%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • AC
    AUSTIN COLLEGE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $246k · revenue +12%
  • CA
    Child and Family Guidance Center
    9× · 2017–2025 · $203k · revenue +8%
  • GC
    GRAYSON COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    4× · 2018–2021 · $200k · revenue +177%

Funded once

  • TS
    TRI-COUNTY SENIOR NUTRITION PROJECT INC
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +19%
  • TW
    TAXOMA WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT BOARD
    one grant, 2019 · $50k
  • GG
    GRAYSON GRAND CENTRAL STATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue +205%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Texas College

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.

Education
2
Boys & Girls Clubs of Deep East Texas

To provide a place for children to go where they will have supervised activities, arts, crafts, and recreation.

Youth Development
3
Grayson County Childrens Advocacy Center Inc

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…

Youth Development
4
Grayson County Welfare Board Inc

To provide for children in the custody of the Texas Department of Regulatory Services.

Human Services
5
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.

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6
Greenville Christian School Inc

Provide elementary and secondary private education for families in the Greenville Texas area.

Education
7
Garrison Volunteer Fire Department

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

Public Safety & Disaster
8
Denison Arts Council

To promote tourism awareness in the city of denison, texas.

Human Services
9
Watershed Human and Community Development Agency Inc

Assisting in the growth and development of the College Station community in the areas of employment health care housing and counseling.

Community Improvement
10
West Texas Food Bank

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…

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11
Grayson County Juvenile Alternatives Inc North Texas Youth Connection

To conduct programs aimed to decrease the rate of juvenile delinquency with residential, educational, and counseling programs.

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12
Grayson County Bank Museum
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Grayson County Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
21/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DENISON PUBLIC LIBRARY: $545,000 · OtherDENISON PUBLIC LIBRARYCITY OF DENISON: $180,625 · OtherCITY OF DENISONIndividual grant recipient: $160,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientDENISON ISD: $135,400 · OtherDENISON ISDDENISON SISTER CITIES: $115,775 · OtherDENISON SISTER CITIESHOUSE OF ELIINC: $75,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF TEXAS HISTORIAN COMMISION: $70,000 · Other+93 more: $816,200 · Other+93 moreAUSTIN COLLEGE: $246,000 · EducationAUSTIN COLLEGEGRAYSON COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $200,000 · EducationGRAYSON COUNTY C…Texas A&M Foundation: $21,000 · Education+1 more: $5,000 · EducationChild and Family Guidance Center: $203,000 · Human ServicesChild and Fa…MASTERKEY MINISTRIES OF GRAYSON COUNTY: $107,500 · Human ServicesMASTERKEY MI…FOUR RIVERS OUTREACH INC: $37,145 · Human ServicesFOUR RIVERS …Texoma Family Shelter: $20,008 · Human ServicesTexoma Famil…TRI-COUNTY SENIOR NUTRITION PROJECT INC: $100,000 · Food & NutritionDENISON HELPING HANDS: $32,500 · Food & NutritionGRAYSON GRAND CENTRAL STATION: $30,000 · Food & NutritionBoys & Girls Club of Denison Texas: $106,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS: $7,500 · Youth DevelopmentCASA OF GRAYSON COUNTY INC: $75,000 · Civil RightsHOUSE OF ELI INC: $25,000 · Housing & ShelterFAMILY PROMISE OF GRAYSON COUNTY: $22,500 · Housing & Shelter
Other$2,098,000Education$472,000Human Services$367,653Food & Nutrition$162,500Youth Development$113,500Civil Rights$75,000Housing & Shelter$47,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAUSTIN COLLEGE: $246,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetChild and Family Guidance Center: $203,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetGRAYSON COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetMASTERKEY MINISTRIES OF GRAYSON COUNTY: $107,500 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Denison Texas: $106,000 over 3y, 9.3% of budgetTRI-COUNTY SENIOR NUTRITION PROJECT INC: $100,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetCASA OF GRAYSON COUNTY INC: $75,000 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetSHERMAN COMMUNITY PLAYERS: $50,000 over 7y, 3.1% of budgetFOUR RIVERS OUTREACH INC: $37,145 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetDENISON HELPING HANDS: $32,500 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetGRAYSON GRAND CENTRAL STATION: $30,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetHOUSE OF ELI INC: $25,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetDENISON MAIN STREET INC: $25,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF GRAYSON COUNTY: $22,500 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetMULTICULTURAL FAMILY CENTER: $22,000 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetTexas A&M Foundation: $21,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTexoma Family Shelter: $20,008 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GRAYSON COUNTY INC: $20,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SHERMAN INC: $13,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL GRAYSON COUNTY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTEXOMA AREA PARATRANSIT SYSTEM INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDENISON SERVICE LEAGUE: $9,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SHERMAN MUSEUM: $5,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetDENISON ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetRED RIVER RAILROAD MUSEUM: $4,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetHarding University Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Clara B & W Aubrey Sm…Elias & Hanna Regensb…The Oliver Dewey Mayo…Texoma Community Foun…Thelma Braun & Bockle…Texas Instruments Fou…United Way of Grayson…Dorset Foundation Inc…Tr Uw Minnie M JonesSherman Service LeagueDr & Mrs Paul Pierce …Wilson N Jones Commun…
Clara B & W Aubrey Smith CharitableTX51.8× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization W B Munson Foundation Xxxxx5008 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from W B Munson Foundation Xxxxx5008. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 116 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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