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Amarillo Business Foundation at a glance

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Amarillo Business Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$237k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

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
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $180k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
UNITED WAY$15,000
DON HARRINGTON DISCOVERY CENTER$15,000
AMARILLO TRI STATE EXPOSITION$10,000
GOLDEN SPREAD BOYSCOUTS$10,000
PANHANDLE PBS$10,000
AMARILLO SYMPHONY$10,000
HIGH PLAINS FOOD BANK$7,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BUCKNER CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICE: $25k → 14%BUCKNER CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICE: $12k → 14%MEALS ON WHEELS: $28k → 20%ANOTHER CHANCE HOUSE: $25k → 20%ANOTHER CHANCE HOUSE INC: $25k → 20%FAITH CITY MISSION: $15k → 20%THE PARC: $5k → 20%THE BRIDGE: $25k → 20%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 24 repeat orgs$776k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +12% since the first grant, against +6% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
41

Total granted

$1.4M
$681k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+6%

Still filing today

71%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationHousing & ShelterRecreation & SportsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • DW
    DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER INC
    4× · 2018–2024 · $110k · revenue +21%
  • TU
    THE UNITED WAY INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $105k · revenue +1%
  • OS
    OPPORTUNITY SCHOOL INC
    4× · 2019–2025 · $85k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • TB
    THE BUFFALO COUNCIL INC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -65%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $39k
  • SI
    STORYBRIDGE INC
    one grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue -13%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Amarillo Spca

Welfare of homeless animals

Animals
2
Center City of Amarillo Inc

Center city of amarillo, inc., brings people to downtown amarillo through organization, events, promotion, design and facilitation of economic restructuring.

Community Improvement
3
Central Texas Children's Home

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.

Human Services
4
Medical Center League House of Amarillo Texas Inc

To serve as a home away from home for patients and their families coming to amarillo, texas for health care treatment.

Health
5
Affordable Central Texas Inc

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.

Housing & Shelter
6
Hendrick Home for Children
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7
Downtown Amarillo Inc

Downtown amarillo, inc. is committed to making downtown amarillo a vibrant and attractive place.

Community Improvement
8
Amarillo Area Foundation Inc

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.

Philanthropy
9
The James Bruner Tk Ranch Inc

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 & Shelter
10
Housing Opportunities of Fort Worth

Housing counseling services.

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11
Texas Foster Care & Adoption Serv

A state of texas licensed foster care and adoption agency that identifies and provides approved healing foster homes for children.

Human Services
12
A Bridge to Opportunity Inc

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

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Amarillo Wesley Community Center Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

42 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/42
Grantees still filing
24/42
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KIDS CO: $290,000 · OtherKIDS CODOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER INC: $110,000 · OtherDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER INCTHE UNITED WAY INC: $105,000 · OtherTHE UNITED WAY INCOPPORTUNITY SCHOOL INC: $85,000 · OtherOPPORTUNITY SCHOOL INC+39 more: $817,000 · Other+39 moreANOTHER CHANCE HOUSE: $70,000 · Human ServicesANOTHER CHANCE …FAITH CITY INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesFAITH CITY INCBUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC: $37,000 · Human ServicesBUCKNER CHILDRE…MEALS ON WHEELS: $28,000 · Human ServicesMEALS ON WHEELSTHE BRIDGE: $25,000 · Human ServicesTHE BRIDGESEVEN STAR HORSE AND FAMILY CENTER: $20,000 · Human ServicesSEVEN STAR HORS…CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE: $20,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARIT…TEXAS PANHANDLE INDEPENDENT FUTURES FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Human ServicesTEXAS PANHANDLE…EVELINE'S SUNSHINE COTTAGE: $15,000 · Human Services+1 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesDON HARRINGTON DISCOVERY CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $57,505 · Arts & CultureAMARILLO SYMPHONY INC: $35,000 · Arts & CultureTEXAS PANHANDLE WAR MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureTEXAS PANHANDLE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF AJ SWOPE: $5,000 · Arts & CultureTURN CENTER: $75,000 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF AMARILLO: $25,000 · HealthCOALITION OF HEALTH SERVICES INC: $10,000 · HealthHAVEN HEALTH CLINICS: $10,000 · HealthTHE BUFFALO COUNCIL INC: $50,000 · EducationSTORYBRIDGE INC: $30,000 · EducationWEST TEXAS A&M UNIV FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EducationTASCOSAHIGH SCHOOL BOOSTER CLUB INC: $7,000 · EducationAMARILLO HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $40,000 · Housing & ShelterMARTHA'S HOME INC: $33,800 · Housing & ShelterTYLER STREET RESOURCE CENTER INC: $40,000 · Recreation & SportsAMARILLO TRI-STATE EXPOSITION: $10,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$1,407,000Human Services$290,000Arts & Culture$137,505Health$120,000Education$112,000Housing & Shelter$73,800Recreation & Sports$50,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER INC: $110,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY INC: $105,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetOPPORTUNITY SCHOOL INC: $85,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTURN CENTER: $75,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetANOTHER CHANCE HOUSE: $70,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetDON HARRINGTON DISCOVERY CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $57,505 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetFAITH CITY INC: $50,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTHE BUFFALO COUNCIL INC: $50,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetLONE STAR BALLET INC: $45,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetTHE AMARILLO COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetLIFE CHALLLENGE OF AMARILLO INC: $40,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetAMARILLO HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $40,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetBUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC: $37,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHIGH PLAINS FOOD BANK: $37,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMARILLO WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $35,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetAMARILLO SYMPHONY INC: $35,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetMARTHA'S HOME INC: $33,800 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetSTORYBRIDGE INC: $30,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetHIGH PLAINS CHILDREN'S HOME AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF AMARILLO: $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetWEST TEXAS A&M UNIV FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTEXAS PANHANDLE WAR MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetSEVEN STAR HORSE AND FAMILY CENTER: $20,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPANHANDLE NUC INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetHOPE TO OPPORTUNITIES FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetTEXAS PANHANDLE INDEPENDENT FUTURES FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetEVELINE'S SUNSHINE COTTAGE: $15,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetCOALITION OF HEALTH SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSHARING HOPE MINISTRY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetAMARILLO TRIBUNE: $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetTASCOSAHIGH SCHOOL BOOSTER CLUB INC: $7,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetTHE PARC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGOLDEN SPREAD COUNCIL INC 562 OF THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF AJ SWOPE: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 & Ile…Josephine Anderson Ch…Amarillo Area Foundat…High Plains Christian…Mary E Bivins Foundat…Cj and Syble Fowlston…Mays FoundationXcel Energy FoundationKimble Foundation Tru…The Don & Sybil Harri…Brumley FoundationWilliam & Louise Mull…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Amarillo Business Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Amarillo Business Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Amarillo Business Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Amarillo Business Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 70 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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