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Wurstfest Assoc of New Braunfels at a glance

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Wurstfest Assoc of New Braunfels

To promote trade and commerce, especially through tourism, in New Braunfels, Texas and preserve the communitys heritage

$27k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$13k
Largest
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02The needRead
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What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$101kEducation$90kPhilanthropy$27kCrime & Legal$21kCommunity Improvement$9k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $13,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $26,966 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $13,966 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$13,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$34M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
New Braunfels Citizens Police$13,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%BRAUNTEX PERFORMING ARTS: $50k → 10%CIRCLE ARTS THEATRE: $30k → 10%NEW BRAUNEFLS CITIZENS POLICE: $21k → 10%UNITED WAY: $17k → 10%New Braunfels Citizens Police: $13k → 10%NEW BRAUNFELS CITIZENS POLICE: $13k → 10%NEW BRAUNFELS CITIZENS POLICE: $13k → 10%New Braunfels Citizens Police: $13k → 10%NEW BRAUNFELS CITIZENS POLICE: $12k → 10%NEW BRAUNFELS CITIZENS POLICE: $12k → 10%HERITAGE SOCIETY OF NEW BRAUNFELS: $10k → 10%UNITED WAY: $10k → 10%NEW BRAUNFELS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $9k → 10%NBISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $8k → 10%NBISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $8k → 10%HERITAGE SOCIETY OF NEW BRAUNFELS: $6k → 10%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 field
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 11 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/7
Grantees still filing
4/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BRAUNTEX PERFORMING ARTS: $50,000 · OtherBRAUNTEX PERFORMING ARTSNEW BRAUNEFLS CITIZENS POLICE: $21,000 · OtherNEW BRAUNEFLS CITIZENS POLICEHeritage Society of New Braunfels Inc: $10,000 · OtherHeritage Society of New Braunfels IncTHE GREATER NEW BRAUNFELS CHAMBER OF COM: $9,307 · OtherTHE GREATER NEW BRAUNFELS CHAMBER OF COMNBISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $7,500 · OtherNBISD EDUCATION FOUNDATIONHISTORIC OUTDOOR ART MUSEUM: $5,092 · OtherNEW BRAUNFELS CITIZENS POLICE ACADE: $74,500 · EducationNEW BRAUNFELS CITIZENS POLICE ACADENew Braunfels ISD Education Foundation: $7,500 · EducationNew Braunfels ISD Education Foundatio…CIRCLE ARTS THEATRE INCORPORATED: $30,000 · Arts & CultureCIRCLE ARTS THEA…HERITAGE SOCIETY OF NEW BRAUNFELS ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $5,500 · Arts & CultureHERITAGE SOCIETY…UNITED WAY OF COMAL COUNTY: $26,958 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY O…
Other$102,899Education$82,000Arts & Culture$35,500Philanthropy$26,958

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNEW BRAUNFELS CITIZENS POLICE ACADE: $74,500 over 6y, 63% of budgetCIRCLE ARTS THEATRE INCORPORATED: $30,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetUNITED WAY OF COMAL COUNTY: $26,958 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetHeritage Society of New Braunfels Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetNew Braunfels ISD Education Foundation: $7,500 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetHERITAGE SOCIETY OF NEW BRAUNFELS ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $5,500 over 1y, 23% 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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Wurstfest Assoc of New Braunfels funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wurstfest Assoc of New Braunfels. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 11 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 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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