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Waco Scottish Rite Bodies Charitable Foundation
It is the mission of the scottish rite of freemasonry, sj, to improve its members and enhance the communities in which they live by teaching and emulating the principles of brotherly love, tolerance, charity, and truth, while actively embracing high social, moral, and spiritual values, including fellowship, compassion, and dedication to…
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2019.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k6 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY - COMMUNICATION SCIENCES & DISORDERS | $1,000,400 |
| TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN | $10,000 |
| SCOTTISH RITE DORMITORY | $5,000 |
| HOPE PREGNANCY CENTER OF COPPERAS COVE | $1,350 |
| FORT HOOD MILIARY ORDER OF WORLD WARS | $600 |
| EOAC WACO | $500 |
| WACO DEMOLAY CHAPTER 192 | $500 |
| ST JOHN'S LODGE #53 | $500 |
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 (FY17–19, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 +57% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2019, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (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 FY2019, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
BAYLOR UNIVERSITY3× · 2017–2019 · $1.8M · revenue +57%- TSTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN3× · 2017–2019 · $30k · revenue +63%
- SRSCOTTISH RITE EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS3× · 2017–2019 · $15k · revenue +40%
Funded once
CARITAS OF WACOone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -22%
MEALS ON WHEELS WACO2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +6%
MISSION WACO MISSION WORLD INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +161%
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 generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
Ywca corpus christi is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
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.
Travis county medical society (tcms) represents the medical profession in matters of importance to the membership and the community it serves.
It is the mission of the organization to provide services to disadvantaged and homeless families with children; to reintegrate homeless families with children into permanent housing and employment.
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
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…
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
Texas wesleyan university, guided by its deep methodist heritage, provides transformational learning experiences and research opportunities to a diverse group of students to develop their full potential as individuals and as members of the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Crippled Children and the most unlike its peers is Hope Pregnancy Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 21 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 BAYLOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds SCOTTISH RITE EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds CARITAS OF WACO ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS WACO ↗
- Who funds MISSION WACO MISSION WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds CHRISTUS-TRINITY MOTHER FRANCES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FORT CHADBOURNE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE PREGNANCY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOME FOR AGED MASONS DBA TEXAS MASONIC RETIREMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CORYELL COUNTY ↗
- Who funds EAST WACO INNOVATIVE SCHOOL DEVELOP INC ↗
- Who funds ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES ADVANCEMENT CORP OF PLANNING REGION XI ↗
- Who funds ANCIENT & ACCEPTED SCOTTISH RITE VALLEY OF WACO & COORD BODIES ↗
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: Oe Blume Jr Foundation · United Way of Waco-McLennan County · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Waco Scottish Rite Bodies Charitable 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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