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Waxahachie Foundation Inc Waxahachie Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$257k
Granted FY2024still arriving
33
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$226kHealth$217kArts & Culture$201kEducation$106kReligion$83kCrime & Legal$73kFood & Nutrition$57kCivil Rights$55kOther$0
02FY2024 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k22 grants · $114k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $143k
$6,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
KIWANIS CLUB OF WAXAHACHIE$10,000
CASA$10,000
FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$10,000
SALVATION ARMY OF ELLIS COUNTY$10,000
WAXAHACHIE CARE$10,000
ELLIS COUNTY WOMAN'S BUILDING$10,000
BELIEVING RESTORATION IS ATTAINABLE$7,500
ELLIS COUNTY CHILDREN'S THEATER$7,500
TEXAS BAPTIST HOME$7,500
SHOE BUDDY$7,000
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 (FY17–20, $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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MEALS ON WHEELS: $7k → 9%MEALS ON WHEELS: $6k → 9%MEALS ON WHEELS: $5k → 9%MEALS ON WHEELS: $5k → 9%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.
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$999k · 41 repeat orgs$186k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
27

Total granted

$999k
$106k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+18%

Still filing today

32%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesCrime & LegalAnimalsHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • EC
    ELLIS COUNTY CHILDRENS THEATRE
    6× · 2018–2024 · $24k · revenue +29%
  • MO
    MEALS ON WHEELS
    4× · 2017–2020 · $23k · revenue +23%
  • TR
    TEXAS RAMP PROJECT
    3× · 2022–2024 · $22k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • EC
    ELLIS COUNTY CHILD WELFARE BOARD
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • WQ
    WAXAHACHIE QUARTERBACK CLUB
    one grant, 2023 · $8k
  • EP
    Ennis Public Theatre
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -32%
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
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Milam County
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2
Homeless Outreach Mitigation and Emergency Center

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

Human Services
3
Chrysalis to Wings

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…

Housing & Shelter
4
Texas Foster Care & Adoption Serv

A state of texas licensed foster care and adoption agency that identifies and provides approved healing foster homes for children.

Human Services
5
Wise County Domestic Violence Task Force

To assist sexual assault and domestic violence victims. To operate a safe shelter and provide counseling services.

Crime & Legal
6
First Call for Help of Ellis County Inc

Financial assistance and problem resolution for people in crisis

Employment
7
East Texas Sheltering Arms Coalition

End homelessness in East Texas, & Community Collaboration

Human Services
8
Texas Community Counseling

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,…

Human Services
9
Casa of Tipton County

Child Advocacy Services

Crime & Legal
10
Eastland County Crisis Center Inc

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.

Human Services
11
The Lullaby House

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.

Youth Development
12
South Texas Pregnancy Care Center

Crisis pregnancy counseling.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Court Appointed Special Advocates of Ellis County; 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.
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 81 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/28
Grantees still filing
19/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WAXAHACHIE CARE: $95,000 · OtherWAXAHACHIE CAREWAXAHACHIE FAMILY YMCA: $75,000 · OtherWAXAHACHIE FAMILY YMCASIMS LIBRARY: $60,000 · OtherSIMS LIBRARYCOMMON GROUND: $54,574 · OtherCOMMON GROUNDHOPE CLINIC INC: $50,000 · OtherELLIS COUNTY CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY: $45,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $43,600 · OtherDINAH WEABLE BREAST CANCER SURVIVOREVENT: $35,111 · Other+56 more: $503,417 · Other+56 moreELLIS COUNTY MUSEUM INC: $68,000 · Arts & CultureELLIS COUN…ELLIS COUNTY CHILDRENS THEATRE: $23,800 · Arts & CultureELLIS COUN…WAXAHACHIE COMMUNITY THEATER: $10,200 · Arts & CultureWAXAHACHIE…Ennis Public Theatre: $5,000 · Arts & CultureWRC Pregnancy Center of Ellis County DBA FirstLook: $15,000 · HealthDRUG PREVENTION RESOURCES INC: $10,000 · HealthTHE HEADSTRONG COALITION: $2,500 · HealthNEXT STEP COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS: $2,500 · Health+1 more: $500 · HealthTEXAS RAMP PROJECT: $21,500 · Housing & ShelterELLIS COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION: $6,500 · Housing & ShelterSPCA of Texas: $22,500 · AnimalsPAWS FOR REFLECTION RANCH: $5,000 · AnimalsMEALS ON WHEELS: $22,700 · Human ServicesBENEVOLENT HOUSE: $1,000 · Human ServicesCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF ELLIS COUNTY: $13,000 · Crime & LegalRainbow Room Inc: $9,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$961,702Arts & Culture$107,000Health$30,500Housing & Shelter$28,000Animals$27,500Human Services$23,700Crime & Legal$22,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetELLIS COUNTY MUSEUM INC: $68,000 over 4y, 8.5% of budgetHOPE CLINIC INC: $50,000 over 2y, 64% of budgetELLIS COUNTY CHILDRENS THEATRE: $23,800 over 6y, 8.9% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS: $22,700 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetSPCA of Texas: $22,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS RAMP PROJECT: $21,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetWRC Pregnancy Center of Ellis County DBA FirstLook: $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHISTORIC WAXAHACHIE INC: $15,000 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF ELLIS COUNTY: $13,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetWAXAHACHIE COMMUNITY THEATER: $10,200 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetDRUG PREVENTION RESOURCES INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetDANIEL'S DEN INC: $8,000 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetNICHOLAS P SIMS LIBRARY: $7,700 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHARVEST FAMILY LIFE MINISTRIES: $6,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMENTORS CARE FKA MOVEMENT TOWARD A FUTURE INC: $6,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetELLIS COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION: $6,500 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetUnite Greater Dallas: $5,526 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetEnnis Public Theatre: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetPAWS FOR REFLECTION RANCH: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetELLIS COUNTY ART ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetLife School Education Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetTHE HEADSTRONG COALITION: $2,500 over 1y, 64% of budgetNEXT STEP COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS OF TEXAS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBENEVOLENT HOUSE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSONGS & SMILES: $500 over 1y, 0.6% 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 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 WRC Pregnancy Center of Ellis County DBA FirstLook ↗
  • Who funds HISTORIC WAXAHACHIE INC ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

United Way of West El…Communities Foundatio…Waxahachie Arts Counc…Amazonsmile FoundationFidelity Investments …
United Way of West Ellis County IncTX15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Waxahachie Foundation Inc Waxahachie Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Waxahachie Foundation Inc Waxahachie Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 81 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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