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Barber Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k28 grants · $75k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $128k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WEST TEXAS REHABILITATION CENT | $37,500 |
| UNITED WAY OF ABILENE | $23,500 |
| ABILENE YOUTH SPORTS AUTHORITY | $15,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS | $12,000 |
| CHRISTIAN SERVICE CENTER | $10,000 |
| ABILENE RESTORATION MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
| ABILENE HOPE HAVEN | $10,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF ABILENE | $8,000 |
| PRESBYTERIAN MEDICAL CARE MISSION | $7,500 |
| FAITHWORKS OF ABILENE | $7,500 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS PLUS INC | $6,000 |
| MENTORING ALLIANCE | $5,000 |
| ALL KIND ANIMAL INITIATIVE | $3,000 |
| STRENGTH FOR LIFE | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $77k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
87 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2024, 52 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- TWThe West Texas Rehabilitation Center8× · 2017–2024 · $104k · revenue +43%
- AYABILENE YOUTH SPORTS AUTHORITY5× · 2018–2024 · $86k · revenue +47%
- FBFood Bank of West Central Texas8× · 2017–2024 · $41k · revenue +71%
Funded once
- ACAbilene Chamber of Commerce Foundationone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -69%
- HMHENDRICK MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDone grant, 2017 · $10k
MCMURRY UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +93%
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 mission of Abilene Christian School, Inc. is to equip students to excel academically, serve meaningfully, and walk faithfully with God.
Committed to supporting displaced single mothers in Fort Bend County by providing housing assistance and wraparound services.
Support operation of Abilene Boys Ranch, Inc.
The WTFB exists to collect, purchase, and distribute food to feed the hungry in 19 counties in West Texas in partnership with volunteers and community organizations and to educate these partners and the public at large about the real face…
RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…
The mission of the Abilene Industrial Foundation is to promote the growth, development, and diversity of the economy in and around Abilene, Texas.
Care, hope, and support for all when illness threatens life.
To provide housing for low to moderate income families and to create a community environment that promotes resident education, self-sufficiency, leadership, and volunteerism
The Organizations mission is to bring unity and efficiency to investigations of child abuse through the use of a multi-disciplinary team and, thereby, to provide the best possible services to victims of child abuse and their families.
Provide support and financial resources to clients of Adult Protective Services, an agency of the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services; to raise public awareness of the need for such services; and to advocate on behalf of…
Education of Children from pre-school through 9th grade
The mission of Abilene Chamber of Commerce is to promote the economy and quality of life in Abilene, Texas by providing services to local businesses, educational opportunities, promoting Abilene as a travel destination, and promoting…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Christian Homes of Abilene Inc and the most unlike its peers is Saint Francis Ministries. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 42 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% 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.
75 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. 75 of the 103 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 The West Texas Rehabilitation Center ↗
- Who funds ABILENE HERITAGE SQUARE INC ↗
- Who funds ABILENE YOUTH SPORTS AUTHORITY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF ABILENE INC ↗
- Who funds Food Bank of West Central Texas ↗
- Who funds Abilene Philharmonic Association ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Day Nursery of Abilene Inc ↗
- Who funds GRACE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Presbyterian Medical Care Mission ↗
- Who funds The Strength for Life Foundation ↗
- Who funds Faithworks of Abilene Inc ↗
- Who funds Meals on Wheels Plus Incorporated ↗
- Who funds Disability Resources Inc ↗
- Who funds Alliance for Women and Children ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Club of Abilene Inc ↗
- Who funds BIG COUNTRY COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds Texas Trails Council Inc ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR ↗
- Who funds Cancer Services Network Inc ↗
- Who funds ABILENE ARTS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Abilene Hope Haven Inc ↗
- Who funds Love & Care Ministries ↗
- Who funds Abilene Zoological Society ↗
- Who funds BREAKFAST ON BEECH STREET ↗
- Who funds Christian Homes of Abilene Inc ↗
- Who funds Abilene Restoration Ministries dba Nehemiah Abilene ↗
- Who funds Abilene Chamber of Commerce Foundation ↗
- Who funds All Kind Animal Initiative ↗
- Who funds ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Pregnancy Resources of Abilene Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SIMS 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: Dian Graves Owen Foundation · Shelton Family Foundation · Community Foundation of Abilene · The Legett Foundation · Greathouse Foundation · Kickapoo Springs Foundation · The Karakin Foundation · The Massey Family Charitable Trust · The Robison Excelsior Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · Directors Foundation · Moss Adamson Spalding Charities
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 Barber 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.
- Food for the Poor 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.
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