· Private foundation
Waxahachie Foundation Inc Waxahachie Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 78% of WAXAHACHIE FOUNDATION INC WAXAHACHIE FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k22 grants · $114k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $143k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ELLIS COUNTY CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY | $25,000 |
| SISTERS IN SPIRIT OF TEXAS | $17,950 |
| DINAH WEABLE BREAST CANCER SURVIVOR | $17,500 |
| COMMON GROUND | $12,500 |
| T & S MINISTRIES | $10,400 |
| WAXAHACHIE CARE | $10,000 |
| KIWANIS CLUB OF WAXAHACHIE | $10,000 |
| ELLIS COUNTY WOMAN'S BUILDING | $10,000 |
| FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $10,000 |
| CASA | $10,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY OF ELLIS COUNTY | $10,000 |
| BELIEVING RESTORATION IS ATTAINABLE | $7,500 |
| TEXAS BAPTIST HOME | $7,500 |
| ELLIS COUNTY CHILDREN'S THEATER | $7,500 |
| SHOE BUDDY | $7,000 |
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 (FY17–20, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
41 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k 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
- ECELLIS COUNTY CHILDRENS THEATRE6× · 2018–2024 · $24k · revenue +29%
- MOMEALS ON WHEELS4× · 2017–2020 · $23k · revenue +23%
- TRTEXAS RAMP PROJECT3× · 2022–2024 · $22k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- ECELLIS COUNTY CHILD WELFARE BOARDone grant, 2023 · $10k
- WQWAXAHACHIE QUARTERBACK CLUBone grant, 2023 · $8k
- TPTHE PRESBYTERIAN HOMEone grant, 2021 · $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.
to reach functional zero homelessness in Hays County through outreach case management direct aid and emergency response while maintaining the dignity of the people we serve
Chrysalis to Wings exists to serve the residents of Ellis County, providing resources to prevent homelessness and support transformation to self-sufficiency. We do this by providing emergency assistance, emergency shelter and transitional…
A state of texas licensed foster care and adoption agency that identifies and provides approved healing foster homes for children.
To assist sexual assault and domestic violence victims. To operate a safe shelter and provide counseling services.
Financial assistance and problem resolution for people in crisis
End homelessness in East Texas, & Community Collaboration
When care is within reach, lives change. Texas Community Counseling is a faith-based nonprofit committed to bringing hope and healing through mental health care to the communities that need it the most. We empower individuals to heal,…
Child Advocacy Services
To provide services designed to meet the physical, social, and emotional needs of domestic violence and sexual assault victims by providing for immediate, short, and long-term needs.
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.
Crisis pregnancy counseling.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Court Appointed Special Advocates of Ellis County and the most unlike its peers is The Headstrong Coalition. 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 14 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 33% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 19% 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 81 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 ELLIS COUNTY MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds ELLIS COUNTY CHILDRENS THEATRE ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds SPCA of Texas ↗
- Who funds TEXAS RAMP PROJECT ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC WAXAHACHIE INC ↗
- Who funds WRC Pregnancy Center of Ellis County DBA FirstLook ↗
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF ELLIS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds WAXAHACHIE COMMUNITY THEATER ↗
- Who funds DRUG PREVENTION RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds Rainbow Room Inc ↗
- Who funds DANIEL'S DEN INC ↗
- Who funds NICHOLAS P SIMS LIBRARY ↗
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: United Way of West Ellis County Inc · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Waxahachie Arts Council Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift 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 Waxahachie Foundation Inc Waxahachie Foundation Inc 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.