How much does Amarillo Business Foundation give?

Amarillo Business Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $237,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Amarillo Business Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (17%), Housing & Shelter (15%), Education (13%).

Who are Amarillo Business Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Kids Co ($290k), Downtown Women's Center Inc ($110k), The United Way Inc ($105k).

Does Amarillo Business Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Amarillo Business Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Amarillo Business Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Dr Kent Roberts & Ilene Roberts Balliett Foundation, Josephine Anderson Charitable Trust, Amarillo Area Foundation Inc.

Where is Amarillo Business Foundation based?

Amarillo Business Foundation is based in TX.

Foundation Dossiers

Texas · Private foundation

Amarillo Business Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$237k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 12
Grants FY2025: 13
Organizations funded FY2024: 38%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $15,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $50,000
Organizations funded a year: 11 to 18; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $4.3M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 38% of the organizations Amarillo Business Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	12	$237k	42%
FY2024	13	$222k	38%
FY2023	11	$237k	36%
FY2022	14	$268k	7%
FY2021	11	$244k	45%
FY2020	14	$245k	36%
FY2019	18	$251k	83%
FY2018	15	$249k	93%

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Youth Development$376kHousing & Shelter$329kEducation$280kArts & Culture$268kHuman Services$265kHealth$205kPhilanthropy$174kFood & Nutrition$73kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Kids Co	$290,000	7	n/a
Downtown Women's Center Inc	$110,000	4	1%
The United Way Inc	$105,000	7	0%
Opportunity School Inc	$85,000	4	1%
Turn Center	$75,000	4	1%
Another Chance House	$70,000	3	2%
Don Harrington Discovery Center Foundation Inc	$57,505	4	1%
Faith City Inc	$50,000	3	1%
The Buffalo Council Inc	$50,000	1	17%
Lone Star Ballet Inc	$45,000	4	1%

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All grantees of Amarillo Business Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Kids Co	$290,000	7	n/a
Downtown Women's Center Inc	$110,000	4	1%
The United Way Inc	$105,000	7	0%
Opportunity School Inc	$85,000	4	1%
Turn Center	$75,000	4	1%
Another Chance House	$70,000	3	2%
Don Harrington Discovery Center Foundation Inc	$57,505	4	1%
Faith City Inc	$50,000	3	1%
The Buffalo Council Inc	$50,000	1	17%
Lone Star Ballet Inc	$45,000	4	1%
The Amarillo College Foundation	$45,000	2	1%
Tyler Street Resource Center Inc	$40,000	1	n/a
Life Challlenge of Amarillo Inc	$40,000	2	4%
Amarillo Habitat for Humanity Inc	$40,000	3	2%
Buckner Children & Family Services Inc	$37,000	2	0%
High Plains Food Bank	$37,000	3	0%
Amarillo Wesley Community Center Inc	$35,000	3	1%
Amarillo Symphony Inc	$35,000	4	1%
Martha's Home Inc	$33,800	2	4%
Storybridge Inc	$30,000	1	5%
High Plains Children's Home and Family Services Inc	$30,000	1	1%
Meals on Wheels	$28,000	1	n/a
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Amarillo	$25,000	1	1%
The Bridge	$25,000	1	n/a
West Texas A&M Univ Foundation	$25,000	1	0%
Texas Panhandle War Memorial Foundation Inc	$20,000	2	3%
Seven Star Horse and Family Center	$20,000	1	8%
Catholic Charities of the Texas Panhandle	$20,000	1	1%
Panhandle Nuc Inc	$20,000	1	2%
Texas Panhandle Heritage Foundation	$20,000	1	n/a
Hope to Opportunities Foundation	$20,000	1	3%
St Mary's Cathedral School	$20,000	2	n/a
Texas Panhandle Independent Futures Foundation	$20,000	1	7%
Eveline's Sunshine Cottage	$15,000	1	2%
Coalition of Health Services Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Haven Health Clinics	$10,000	1	n/a
Sharing Hope Ministry Inc	$10,000	1	2%
Amarillo Tri-State Exposition	$10,000	1	n/a
Amarillo Tribune	$10,000	1	3%
Holy Cross Catholic Academy	$10,000	1	n/a
Amarillo Area Court Appointed Special Advocates Inc	$9,000	1	n/a
Tascosahigh School Booster Club Inc	$7,000	1	2%
West Texas A&M University	$5,000	1	n/a
The Parc	$5,000	1	1%
Golden Spread Council Inc 562 of the Boy Scouts of America	$5,000	1	0%
Bishop Defalco Retreat Center	$5,000	1	n/a
Friends of Aj Swope	$5,000	1	2%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($471k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Amarillo Business Foundation supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 35.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Dr Kent Roberts & Ilene Roberts Balliett FoundationTX74.7× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Amarillo Business Foundation

How much does Amarillo Business Foundation give?: Amarillo Business Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $237,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Amarillo Business Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (17%), Housing & Shelter (15%), Education (13%).
Who are Amarillo Business Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Kids Co ($290k), Downtown Women's Center Inc ($110k), The United Way Inc ($105k).
Does Amarillo Business Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Amarillo Business Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Amarillo Business Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Dr Kent Roberts & Ilene Roberts Balliett Foundation, Josephine Anderson Charitable Trust, Amarillo Area Foundation Inc.
Where is Amarillo Business Foundation based?: Amarillo Business Foundation is based in TX.