Piney Woods Regional Advisory Council
Tyler, TX · EIN 75-2603041. Reported 99 grants totalling $3,903,238 to 40 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Piney Woods Regional Advisory Council, the IRS classifies it under health care rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE E62) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 40 distinct organizations, with 33% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 62% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $12,294. Half of what it reported fell between $8,163 and $35,589; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $473,394. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
60 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $502,723 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hopkins County Ems | Sulphur Springs, TX | $1,272,174 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Fairfield Ambulance Service Inc | Fairfield, TX | $581,055 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Ut Health Et Ems | Tyler, TX | $425,782 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Champion Ems | Longview, TX | $288,754 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Longview Fire Dept | Longview, TX | $208,041 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Ut Health - Tyler Regional Hospital | Tyler, TX | $123,687 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Titus County Hospital District | Mount Pleasant, TX | $101,619 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Palestine Regional Med Cntr Ems | Palestine, TX | $85,223 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Mother Frances Hospital Regional Health Care Center | Tyler, TX | $81,609 | 6 | 4 | 2023 |
| Lone Star Ambulance 1 LLC | Georgetown, TX | $68,480 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Christus Good Shepherd Medical Center | Marshall, TX | $49,509 | 3 | 2 | 2023 |
| Camp County Ambulance Service Corporation | Pittsburg, TX | $48,206 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Ut Health Et Air 1 LLC | Tyler, TX | $45,029 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Paris Regional Medical Center | Paris, TX | $44,938 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| City of Paris Ems | Paris, TX | $43,782 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Jacksonville Fd Ems | Jacksonville, TX | $40,283 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Grapeland Vfdems | Grapeland, TX | $37,083 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Thd Ems Teague | Teague, TX | $32,482 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Wadley Regional Medical Center | Texarkana, TX | $32,075 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Groveton Ems Inc | Groveton, TX | $29,933 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Christus Health Ark-La-Tex | Texarkana, TX | $25,685 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Mother Frances Hospital Jacksonville | Irving, TX | $24,019 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Christus Hopkins Health Alliance | Sulphur Spgs, TX | $19,538 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Ut Health Athens | Athens, TX | $18,322 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Timpson Volunteer Ambulance Service | Timpson, TX | $18,229 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Ut Health - Henderson Hospital LLC | Henderson, TX | $17,867 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Mother Frances Hospital-Winnsboro | Irving, TX | $17,688 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Ut Health - Quitman Hospital LLC | Quitman, TX | $15,787 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Ut Health-Jacksonville Hospital LLC | Jacksonville, TX | $14,350 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Mims Volunteer Fire Dept | Avinger, TX | $13,135 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Ut Health Rehab | Tyler, TX | $10,557 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Freestone Medical Center | Fairfield, TX | $10,065 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Ut Health North Tyler Campus | Tyler, TX | $9,876 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Marshall Fire Dept | Marshall, TX | $9,261 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Ut Health - Carthage Hospital LLC | Carthage, TX | $8,486 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Waskom Volunteer Fire Department and E M S Services Inc | Waskom, TX | $7,559 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Ut Health - Pittsburg Hospital LLC | Pittsburg, TX | $7,523 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Ut Health Specialty | Tyler, TX | $5,462 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Christus Trinity Clinic Texas | Irving, TX | $5,085 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Eustace Volunteer Fd | Eustace, TX | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
27 of 40 (68%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Hopkins County Ems
Emergency Med SvcCOVID Response - Fairfield Ems
COVID ResponseEmer MedInjuryPrev - Ut Health Et Ems
Emergency Med SvcCOVID ResponseInj - Ut Health - Tyler Regional Hospital
Injury Prevent &Hospital Preparedness - Palestine Regional Med Cntr Ems
Emergency Med Svc Hospital Preparedness - Christus Tmf Hospital
EdTraining Injury Prev Hosp Prep
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 10 of 40 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 37 | $1,536,871 | $14,638 |
| 2021 | 24 | $852,827 | $9,559 |
| 2022 | 16 | $668,140 | $11,250 |
| 2023 | 22 | $845,400 | $17,377 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available 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.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $12,294 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Texas.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Piney Woods Regional Advisory Council's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 14 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 8 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 100 East Ferguson Ste 708, Tyler, TX, 75702.
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