· Private foundation
Amarillo Business 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $180k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KIDS INC | $50,000 |
| GUYON SAUNDERS RESOURCE CENTER | $40,000 |
| THE BRIDGE | $25,000 |
| BUCKNER CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICE | $25,000 |
| OPPORTUNITY SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| DON HARRINGTON DISCOVERY CENTER | $15,000 |
| UNITED WAY | $15,000 |
| GOLDEN SPREAD BOYSCOUTS | $10,000 |
| AMARILLO SYMPHONY | $10,000 |
| AMARILLO TRI STATE EXPOSITION | $10,000 |
| PANHANDLE PBS | $10,000 |
| HIGH PLAINS FOOD BANK | $7,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $160k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
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.
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 +12% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 5 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, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k 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
- DWDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER INC4× · 2018–2024 · $110k · revenue +21%
- TUTHE UNITED WAY INC7× · 2019–2025 · $105k · revenue +1%
- OSOPPORTUNITY SCHOOL INC4× · 2019–2025 · $85k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- TBTHE BUFFALO COUNCIL INCone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -65%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $39k
- HPHIGH PLAINS CHILDREN'S HOME AND FAMILY SERVICES INCone grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue -19%
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.
Welfare of homeless animals
Center city of amarillo, inc., brings people to downtown amarillo through organization, events, promotion, design and facilitation of economic restructuring.
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.
To serve as a home away from home for patients and their families coming to amarillo, texas for health care treatment.
Texas housing conservancy (txhc) is a nonprofit that preserves long-term affordability in multifamily housing for texas' workforce by leveraging private capital without ongoing public subsidy.
Downtown amarillo, inc. is committed to making downtown amarillo a vibrant and attractive place.
A community foundation operating as a public charity, with a mission to improve the quality of life in the texas panhandle through effective philanthropic efforts.
The james bruner-tk ranch, inc. operates personal care facilities for mentally challenged adults, licensed by the texas department of human services. the primary goal of tk ranch is to provide a safe and decent living environment for the…
Housing counseling services.
A state of texas licensed foster care and adoption agency that identifies and provides approved healing foster homes for children.
To operate a 30 unit permanent and temporary housing facility known as Destiny Village for rental to low income individuals and families who are survivors of domestic violence and or sexual assault
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Amarillo Wesley Community Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Meals On Wheels. 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 43 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 22% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
42 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 42 of the 70 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
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 DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds TURN CENTER ↗
- Who funds ANOTHER CHANCE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds DON HARRINGTON DISCOVERY CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAITH CITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE BUFFALO COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds LONE STAR BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMARILLO COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMARILLO HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE CHALLLENGE OF AMARILLO INC ↗
- Who funds TYLER STREET RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HIGH PLAINS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds AMARILLO WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AMARILLO SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S HOME INC ↗
- Who funds HIGH PLAINS CHILDREN'S HOME AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds STORYBRIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds WEST TEXAS A&M UNIV FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF AMARILLO ↗
- Who funds HOPE TO OPPORTUNITIES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TEXAS PANHANDLE INDEPENDENT FUTURES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TEXAS PANHANDLE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
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: Dr Kent Roberts & Ilene Roberts Balliett Foundation · Josephine Anderson Charitable Trust · Amarillo Area Foundation Inc · High Plains Christian Ministries Foundation · Mary E Bivins Foundation · Cj and Syble Fowlston Charitable Trust · Mays Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Kimble Foundation Trust · The Don & Sybil Harrington Foundation · Brumley Foundation · William & Louise Mullins 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 Amarillo Business 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.
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.
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