Texas · Nonprofit
CARITAS OF WACO
CARITAS OF WACO (Texas) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,627,004 to it, the largest being WACO FOUNDATION ($1,070,092). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
CARITAS OF WACO's revenue fell 22% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,286 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Fm and Gloria Young Family Foundationlocalportfolio match
- The Fentress Foundationlocalportfolio match
- Creative Wacolocal
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 1% · 2022 1% · 2023 1% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of CARITAS OF WACO’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $183k → $253k.
6 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of CARITAS OF WACO’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
CARITAS OF WACO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 58%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
76% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CARITAS OF WACO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 40% · 2019 38% · 2020 39% · 2021 40% · 2022 38% · 2023 45% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
68% of CARITAS OF WACO's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
50% of CARITAS OF WACO's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1.3M that is directly attributable, 88% of it comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 34 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Fm and Gloria Young Family Foundationlocalportfolio matchTX · funds 17 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Fentress Foundationlocalportfolio matchTX · funds 19 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Creative WacolocalTX · funds 17 organizations near you
- Leota Steed Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Estill Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dillard Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bowen Family FoundationlocalTX · funds 16 organizations near you
- Brazos Higher Education Service Corporation InclocalTX · funds 9 organizations near you
- Hillcrest Baptist Medical CenterlocalTX · funds 10 organizations near you
- Magnolia FoundationlocalTX · funds 20 organizations near you
- Paul & Jane Meyer Family FoundationlocalTX · funds 13 organizations near you
- Improved Order of RedmenlocalTX · funds 8 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like CARITAS OF WACO
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CARITAS OF WACO: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds CARITAS OF WACO?
- CARITAS OF WACO (Texas) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,627,004 to it, the largest being WACO FOUNDATION ($1,070,092). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CARITAS OF WACO have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $2,627,004 in grants to CARITAS OF WACO, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CARITAS OF WACO?
- WACO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,070,092 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CARITAS OF WACO find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 34funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing