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Yager Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$15k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$24kHealth$20kHousing & Shelter$18kHuman Services$18kReligion$11kYouth Development$7kFood & Nutrition$6kAnimals$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$316k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
REBUILDING TOGETHER$5,250
DIME BOX EDUCATION FOUNDATION$5,000
HARRIE P WOODSON MEMORIAL LIBRARY$5,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–23, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%DOWN HOME RANCH: $2k → 12%CHILDREN'S BEREAVEMENT CENTER OF SOUTH TEXAS: $5k → 16%METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME - WACO: $3k → 16%DOWN HOME RANCH: $1k → 12%HOSPICE BRAZOS VALLEY: $2k → 22%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.

42%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$47k · 8 repeat orgs$65k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
18

Total granted

$47k
$55k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-13%
-7%

Still filing today

25%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterAnimalsEducationArts & CultureOther
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

  • RT
    REBUILDING TOGETHER
    2× · 2019–2025 · $17k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE HARRIE P WOODSON MEMORIAL LIBRARY
    2× · 2020–2021 · $11k
  • TC
    Twin City Mission
    3× · 2021–2023 · $6k · revenue -13%

Funded once

  • TM
    TEXAS MISSIONS OF MERCY
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -10%
  • FU
    FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2020 · $6k
  • CB
    CHILDRENS BEREAVEMENT CENTER OF SOUTH TEXAS
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -44%
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
Central Texas Children's Home

To provide family services and to provide residential child care for dependent children where there is a need to assist children and families disrupted by problems.

Human Services
2
Texas Low-Income Housing Information Service

Our mission is to support low-income Texans efforts to achieve the American dream of a decent, affordable home in a quality neighborhood. We believe that Texas critical low-income housing and community development needs can best be solved…

Housing & Shelter
3
Brazos Valley Affordable Housing Corporation

To provide quality services and products to the residents and businesses of our community in such a way as to maximize the affordability of safe and decent housing, especially for the low income; and to serve as a vehicle and assist in any…

Community Improvement
4
Hearts for Homes

The mission of Hearts for Homes is to improve the living conditions of low-income senior homeowners in Denton County. Hearts for Homes is a nonprofit Christian outreach providing hope and dignity through home rehabilitation, affording…

Human Services
5
Brazos Valley Museum of Natural History

To stimulate understanding of natural and cultural history, and to encourage responsible stewardship of all natural resources.

Arts & Culture
6
Texas Non-Profit Hospice Alliance

The Texas Nonprofit Hospice Alliance (TNPHA) is a group of nonprofit hospices dedicated to sharing best practices and providing quality care for individuals with life-limiting illnesses.

Human Services
7
Central Texas Hospitality House

Our mission is to meet the spiritual and practical needs of the families of prisoners. We strive to provide a safe and caring home in whichfamilies can rest while visiting loved ones currently incarcerated in the adjacent prison system.

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8
Bastrop County Emergency Food Pantry

The mission of the Bastrop County Emergency Food Pantry and Support Center is to serve Bastrop County residents going through periods of transition by providing emergency food assistance, education and support.

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9
El Buen Samaritano Episcopal Mission

El Buen Samaritano an outreach ministry of the Episcopal Diocese of Texas serving the Latino community of Central Texas is committed to recognizing the dignity of all by ensuring access to health care education and essential needs that…

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10
Casa of Williamson County Texas

CASA of Williamson County, TX exists to empower community volunteers to advocate for children who have experienced abuse or neglect to find loving, safe, and permanent homes.

Crime & Legal
11
Hospice of Wichita Falls Inc

Care, hope, and support for all when illness threatens life.

Human Services
12
Brazos Maternal and Child Health Clinic

To provide community-centered prenatal care and health education to medically indigent pregnant women in the Brazos Valley. Comprehensive, accessible and affordable prenatal care and health education are the best ways to improve pregnancy…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Childrens Bereavement Center of South Texas; the most unlike its peers is Lord's Pantry of Leon County Inc. 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

11 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. 11 of the 28 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
2/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

REBUILDING TOGETHER: $16,750 · OtherREBUILDING TOGETHERFRIENDS OF THE HARRIE P WOODSON MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $11,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE HARRIE P WOODSON MEMORIAL LIBRARYFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $6,000 · OtherFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCHTwin City Mission: $5,500 · OtherTwin City MissionHARRIE P WOODSON MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $5,000 · OtherHARRIE P WOODSON MEMORIAL LIBRARYDIME BOX EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherDIME BOX EDUCATION FOUNDATIONBOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $5,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBBURLESON HEALTH RESOURCE CENTER: $3,000 · OtherFAITH MISSION: $3,000 · OtherLEON COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $2,750 · Other+8 more: $13,000 · Other+8 moreCHILDRENS BEREAVEMENT CENTER OF SOUTH TEXAS: $5,000 · Human ServicesCHILDRENS B…METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME: $2,500 · Human ServicesMETHODIST C…DOWN HOME RANCH INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesDOWN HOME R…Hospice Brazos Valley Inc: $1,500 · Human ServicesHospice Bra…TEXAS MISSIONS OF MERCY: $10,000 · HealthTEXAS MISS…PEACOCK LEGACY OF HOPE: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterLORD'S PANTRY OF LEON COUNTY INC: $2,750 · Food & NutritionAggieland Humane Society: $2,500 · AnimalsCALDWELL EDUCATION AND LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $2,500 · EducationChildrens Museum of the Brazos Valley: $1,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$76,000Human Services$11,500Health$10,000Housing & Shelter$5,000Food & Nutrition$2,750Animals$2,500Education$2,500Arts & Culture$1,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTEXAS MISSIONS OF MERCY: $10,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetTwin City Mission: $5,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDRENS BEREAVEMENT CENTER OF SOUTH TEXAS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPEACOCK LEGACY OF HOPE: $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetMETHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAggieland Humane Society: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCALDWELL EDUCATION AND LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetDOWN HOME RANCH INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHospice Brazos Valley Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildrens Museum of the Brazos Valley: $1,500 over 1y, 0.4% 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 TEXAS MISSIONS OF MERCY ↗
  • Who funds Twin City Mission ↗
  • Who funds CHILDRENS BEREAVEMENT CENTER OF SOUTH TEXAS ↗
  • Who funds PEACOCK LEGACY OF HOPE ↗
  • Who funds LORD'S PANTRY OF LEON COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
  • Who funds Aggieland Humane Society ↗
  • Who funds CALDWELL EDUCATION AND LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DOWN HOME RANCH INC ↗
  • Who funds Hospice Brazos Valley Inc ↗
  • Who funds Childrens Museum of the Brazos Valley ↗

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 the Brazos ValleyTX13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of the Brazos Valley · Gilbert & Thyra Plass Charitable Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%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 · 0–15%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Yager Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Yager Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 28 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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