· Public charity
Woodmen of the World SETX Youth Association
Aide WoodmenLife member chapter units by recruiting and training willing and qualified officers, sales force members, and chapter members.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 30 grants below total $985,276 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,151,339 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $166,063 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2023
- $10k–50k27 grants · $535k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $450k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WoodmenLife Chpt 0006 Waco | $150,092 |
| WoodmenLife Chpt 4520 Houston | $150,092 |
| WoodmenLife Chpt 4645 Brenham | $150,092 |
| WoodmenLife Chpt 0007 Columbus | $20,000 |
| WoodmenLife Chpt 0381 Lufkin | $20,000 |
| WoodmenLife Chpt 2053 Waller | $20,000 |
| WoodmenLife Chpt 4450 Angleton | $20,000 |
| WoodmenLife Chpt 4647 Madisonville | $20,000 |
| WoodmenLife Chpt 0032 Bridge City | $20,000 |
| WoodmenLife Chpt 4652 Crockett | $20,000 |
| WoodmenLife Chpt 0275 Alvin | $20,000 |
| WoodmenLife Chpt 0535 | $20,000 |
| WoodmenLife Chpt 6177 Beaumont | $20,000 |
| WoodmenLife Chpt 0701 Centerville | $20,000 |
| WoodmenLife Chpt 4657 Katy | $20,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY23–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 79% of your 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.
Your grantees are a median of 85 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 30% 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 18% 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.
1 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.
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 2017–2024, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 1 of the 29 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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Woodmen of the World SETX Youth Association 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.