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Waxahachie Foundation Inc

Waxahachie, TX · EIN 75-6085367. Reported 103 grants totalling $732,715 to 59 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$5,000median grant
$732,715granted, 2021-2024
59organizations funded
62%of grantees funded again the next year
$3,377,832assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Waxahachie Foundation Inc did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $5,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $3,500 and $10,000; the smallest was $500 and the largest $50,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
3 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
29 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
44 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
23 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
3 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
1 grant

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Waxahachie CareWaxahachie, TX$85,000442024
Waxahachie Family YMCAWaxahachie, TX$71,500332024
Ellis County Children's AdvocacyWaxahachie, TX$40,000442024
Dinah Weable Breast Cancer SurvivorWaxahachie, TX$35,111332024
Common GroundWaxahachie, TX$29,300332024
Salvation Army of Ellis CountyWaxahachie, TX$25,000222024
Believing Restoration Is AttainableWaxahachie, TX$22,500332024
Texas Baptist HomeWaxahachie, TX$22,500442024
First United Methodist ChurchWaxahachie, TX$20,000222024
Waxahachie SymphonyWaxahachie, TX$19,000442024
Sisters in Spirit of TexasWaxahachie, TX$17,950112024
Optimist ClubWaxahachie, TX$17,337112021
Texas Ramp ProjectRichardson, TX$17,000222024
T & S MinistriesWaxahachie, TX$16,711332024
Ellis County MuseumWaxahachie, TX$15,000222024
Ellis County Children's TheaterWaxahachie, TX$14,300332024
SPCA of TexasWaxahachie, TX$12,500332024
Waxahachie Little PantryWaxahachie, TX$12,400332023
Waxahachie Isd 1ST Day of SchoolWaxahachie, TX$12,000332024
Hope ClinicWaxahachie, TX$11,000112021
CASAWaxahachie, TX$10,000112024
Ellis County Child Welfare BoardWaxahachie, TX$10,000112023
Ellis County Woman's BuildingWaxahachie, TX$10,000112024
Historic WaxahachieWaxahachie, TX$10,000222022
Kiwanis Club of WaxahachieWaxahachie, TX$10,000112024
Waxahachie Senior CenterWaxahachie, TX$8,480332023
Nicholas P Sims LibraryWaxahachie, TX$7,700222024
Waxahachie Quarterback ClubWaxahachie, TX$7,500112023
CASA of Ellis CountyWaxahachie, TX$7,000112021
Shoe BuddyWaxahachie, TX$7,000112024
Community Partners of Ellis CountyWaxahachie, TX$6,500222023
Ellis County Homeless CoalitionWaxahachie, TX$6,500332024
Harvest Family LifeGlenn Heights, TX$6,500112024
Mentors CareMidlothian, TX$6,500222024
Next Generation STEM GardenWaxahachie, TX$6,300222024
Unite Greater DallasMurphy, TX$5,526112024
Crossroads of Tx Film & Music FestWaxahachie, TX$5,000222023
Ellis Cnty African American HofWaxahachie, TX$5,000112021
Ellis Cnty Child Protective ServiceWaxahachie, TX$5,000112021
Ellis County Rural HeritageHouston, TX$5,000112024
Ennis Public TheatreEnnis, TX$5,000112021
Life School Education FoundationRed Oak, TX$5,000112024
Love Your NeighborWaxahachie, TX$5,000112023
Paws for Reflection RanchMidlothian, TX$5,000112024
Reach CouncilMidlothian, TX$5,000112022
Sims LibraryWaxahachie, TX$5,000112023
The Heights Ellis CountyMidlothian, TX$5,000112021
The Presbyterian HomeWaxahachie, TX$5,000112021
Walk in LoveWaxahachie, TX$5,000112024
Whs Project GraduationWaxahachie, TX$5,000112021
Texas Ramps ProjectRichardson, TX$4,500112022
Salvation ArmyWaxahachie, TX$3,600112021
Waxahachie ChamberWaxahachie, TX$3,000112022
Ellis Christian Disaster ReliefWaxahachie, TX$2,500112024
Headstrong CoalitionWaxahachie, TX$2,500112023
Next Step Community SolutionsTyler, TX$2,500112021
Blue Line Boxing & FitnessWaxahachie, TX$1,000112022
The Circle of SistahoodMansfield, TX$1,000112024
Song & SmilesGrapevine, TX$500112023

25 of 59 (42%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 62%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 33 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Human Services
7 grants
Crime & Legal
4 grants
Animal Welfare
4 grants
Arts & Culture
3 grants
Housing & Shelter
3 grants
Food & Nutrition
3 grants
Youth Development
3 grants
Mental Health
2 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202120$142,217$5,000
202224$146,850$3,550
202326$186,272$5,000
202433$257,376$6,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Waxahachie, TX
$656K
Midlothian, TX
$24K
Richardson, TX
$22K
Glenn Heights, TX
$6K
Murphy, TX
$6K
Houston, TX
$5K
Red Oak, TX
$5K
Ennis, TX
$5K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

United Way of West Ellis County Inc6 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund6 shared recipientsCommunities Foundation of Texas Inc6 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc5 shared recipientsNetwork for Good4 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc4 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $5,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Texas.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Waxahachie Foundation Inc's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 574, Waxahachie, TX, 75168. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 75-6085367 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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