· Private foundation
Abell-Hanger Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k245 grants · $767k
- $10k–50k80 grants · $1.6M
- $50k–250k46 grants · $3.9M
- $250k+11 grants · $6.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PERMIAN BASIN BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CENTER | $1,150,000 |
| HARMONY PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $850,000 |
| MIDLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $800,000 |
| YMCA OF MIDLAND | $700,000 |
| MIDLAND MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $650,000 |
| MIDLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC | $385,788 |
| MIDLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC | $326,480 |
| MIDLAND SHARED SPACES INC (MSS) | $300,000 |
| MIDLAND ATHLETIC SYNDICATE INC | $298,368 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PERMIAN BASIN | $250,000 |
| BASIN DREAM CENTER FOR ORPHANS | $250,000 |
| ODESSA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC | $210,991 |
| CITY OF MIDLAND | $200,000 |
| MISSION AGAPE | $150,000 |
| WEST TEXAS FOOD BANK | $125,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $7.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 12% of Abell-Hanger Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
225 repeat relationships — 133 still active in FY2025, 92 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $654k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- MCMIDLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION8× · 2018–2025 · $6.4M · revenue +93% · 29% of their budget
- WTWEST TEXAS FOOD BANK8× · 2018–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +110%
- OCODESSA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC8× · 2018–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +206% · 30% of their budget
Funded once
- RTRemember the Alamo Foundationone grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue -9%
- MCMIDLAND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPone grant, 2022 · $400k · revenue -23% · 45% of their budget
- CCCRISIS CENTERone grant, 2018 · $300k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.
To procure and distribute nutritional food to qualified agencies that feed the hungry of West Central Texas.
Meals on Wheels of Odessa enables people to live with dignity by offering community support and sustenance through coordinated services and enable older adults to live in their own homes safely and independently as long as they are able.
At the Every Texan, we believe in a Texas that offers everyone the chance to compete and succeed in life. We envision a Texas where everyone is healthy, well educated, and financially secure. We want the best Texas, a proud state that sets…
Operate a non-profit medical clinic exclusively for charitable purposes to provide medical health services to uninsured and low income adults in the Abilene area.
The texas tribune promotes civic engagement and public education across the state by producing and sharing for free public data interactives, statewide events and intensive and daily reporting on texas public policy, politics and current…
The Family Guidance & Outreach Center of Lubbock is dedicated to the prevention of child abuse and neglect and supporting, mentoring, and educating parents.
Progress Texas is a non-profit media organization advocating for progressive ideals and policies in our state.
Sharing jesus, healing hearts, transforming lives.
To lead a unified effort for a hunger-free texas.
Commission Shift is reforming oil and gas oversight by building public support to hold the Railroad Commission of Texas accountable to its mission in a shifting energy landscape.
Presbyterian medical services designs and delivers quality, integrated health, education, and human services in response to identified community needs of the multicultural people of the southwest.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas Public Policy Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Midland Project Graduation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
251 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 251 of the 384 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds MIDLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PERMIAN BASIN BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds WEST TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds ODESSA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HARMONY PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds PERMIAN BASIN PETROLEUM MUSEUM LIBRARY AND HALL OF FAME ↗
- Who funds THE SPRINGBOARD CENTER ↗
- Who funds The Nonprofit Management Center of the Permian Basin Inc ↗
- Who funds IDEA Public Schools ↗
- Who funds HIGH SKY CHILDRENS RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds BYNUM SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CENTERS FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND COMMUNITY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Midland Texas ↗
- Who funds Texas Interscholastic League Foundation ↗
- Who funds BASIN DREAM CENTER FOR ORPHANS ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND SHARED SPACES INC ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND CHILDRENS REHABILITATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MARC INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER IDEAL FAMILY LIFE CENTER ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR LIFE MIDLAND INC ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS OF MIDLAND INC ↗
- Who funds Midland Rape Crisis Center Inc ↗
- Who funds CASA OF WEST TEXAS ↗
- Who funds Remember the Alamo Foundation ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND ATHLETIC SYNDICATE INC ↗
- Who funds TEEN CHALLENGE-ADULT CENTERS OF TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds PERMIAN BASIN PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Permian Basin Area Foundation · Scharbauer Foundation Inc · Helen Greathouse Charitable Trust · Wayne & Jo Ann Moore Charitable Foundation · Fmh Foundation · The Henry Foundation · Beal Foundation · Pevehouse Family Foundation · Warren Charitable Foundation · Yarborough Foundation · The Fasken Foundation · Bryant Family Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Abell-Hanger Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.