· Public charity
Amarillo Chamber of Commerce
Our mission is to enhance business and industry growth while preserving a high quality of life.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 8 grants below total $74,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $79,900 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $5,900 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k4 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEXAS PANHANDLE HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| AMARILLO MUSEUM OF ART | $10,000 |
| AMARILLO SYMPHONY INC | $10,000 |
| PANHANDLE PLAINS HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| LONE STAR BALLET INC | $9,000 |
| AMERICAN QUARTER HORSE ASSOCIATION | $9,000 |
| AMARILLO OPERA INC | $8,000 |
| AMARILLO LITTLE THEATRE INC | $8,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 23% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
8 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2020, 0 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2020, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- PHPANHANDLE-PLAINS HISTORICAL SOCIETY4× · 2017–2020 · $47k · revenue +114%
- ASAMARILLO SYMPHONY INC4× · 2017–2020 · $43k · revenue +88%
- AAAMARILLO ART CENTER ASSOCIATION4× · 2017–2020 · $36k · revenue +132%
Funded once
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 organization produces an opera or other musical production every year or every other year, and offers related Master Classes and other educational opportunities for elementary school through college.
The advancement of the art of chamber music performances and its repertoire through concerts.
The mission of the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts shall be to establish and maintain a museum in order to house and exhibit a permanent collection of art as well as to provide space for traveling exhibitions, for the purpose of the…
Operating orchestra
Our mission is to manage and promote the Historic Paramount Theatre to benefit the citizens of Abilene, Texas and the surrounding area.
American baroque opera company operates in the state of texas for the primary purpose of furthering the appreciaton of music, particularly opera, for the general public. american baroque opera company performs select operas throughout the…
To inspire people to connect with plants through education, experience, and enjoyment
The purpose or purposes for which the corporation is organized shall be limited to: (a)providing information about public policy, politics, government, and national and statewide issues to the general public.
Texas ballet theater creates, presents, and tours world class ballet, from classical to cutting edge, and promotes its appreciation, accessibility, and technical mastery among students, pre-professionals, and audiences of all ages.
Downtown amarillo, inc. is committed to making downtown amarillo a vibrant and attractive place.
Through unique collections, exhibitions, public programs and outreach in the visual arts, the mission of the Art Museum of Southeast Texas is to provide education, inspiration and creative visions throughout Southeast Texas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Amarillo Symphony Inc and the most unlike its peers is Panhandle-Plains Historical Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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.
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 PANHANDLE-PLAINS HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds AMARILLO SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds AMARILLO ART CENTER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LONE STAR BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN QUARTER HORSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TEXAS PANHANDLE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMARILLO LITTLE THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds AMARILLO OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds AMARILLO AREA FOUNDATION 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: Amarillo Convention and Visitors Bureau Inc · The Don & Sybil Harrington Foundation · Amarillo Area Foundation Inc · Cj and Syble Fowlston Charitable Trust · Josephine Anderson Charitable Trust · David D & Nona S Payne Foundation Inc · Dr Kent Roberts & Ilene Roberts Balliett Foundation · Humanities Texas · Amazonsmile 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 Chamber of Commerce 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.