· Private foundation
Blankinship 1991 Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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 $10k22 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $61k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST METHODIST CHURCH | $30,500 |
| MANOR PARK | $20,000 |
| MIDLAND MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| PERMIAN BASIN PETROLEUM MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| MIDLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| WEST TEXAS FOOD BANK | $4,000 |
| HALEY MEMORIAL LIBRARY | $2,500 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $2,500 |
| HIGH SKY CHILDRENS RANCH | $2,000 |
| THE SPRINGBOARD CENTER | $2,000 |
| SENIOR LIFE OF MIDLAND | $2,000 |
| SAMARTAN COUNSELING CENTER | $1,500 |
| MUSEUM OF THE SOUTHWEST | $1,500 |
| NONPROFIT MANAGEMENT CENTER | $1,500 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $1,500 |
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, $142k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.
24 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 10 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, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
- MPMANOR PARK INC8× · 2017–2024 · $127k · revenue +49%
- MCMIDLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $28k · revenue +93%
- WTWEST TEXAS FOOD BANK5× · 2020–2024 · $19k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- PBPERMIAN BASIN PETROLEUM MUSEMone grant, 2023 · $5k
- CFCENTERS FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +63%
- MHMIDLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITYgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +252%
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.
Midland community healthcare services provides affordable, comprehensive, accessible, culturally appropriate, cost-effect, primary healthcare services to residents mainly in midland county.
Meals on Wheels of Odessa enables people to live with dignity by offering community support and sustenance through coordinated services and enable older adults to live in their own homes safely and independently as long as they are able.
Hospice care of terminally ill patients
Care, hope, and support for all when illness threatens life.
Presbyterian medical services designs and delivers quality, integrated health, education, and human services in response to identified community needs of the multicultural people of the southwest.
To support and enhance the operations, acquisitions, and funding of projects and programs that encourage lifelong learning through the Midland County Public Library System.
Panhandle Independent Living Center is a nonprofit corporation dedicated to the advancement of full participation of individuals with disabilities in all aspects of life.
To meet the growing housing needs of people with special needs throughout Midland County - we want to offer them stability and affordability and help them become integrated into the community.
Improving lives by providing exceptional and compassionate therapy services.
To provide personal and compassionate support to cancer patients and their caregivers in our community.
To provide high quality, individualized care and community inclusion for the people we serve so they can have full and happy lives.
See Schedule OFort Bend Seniors Meals on Wheels provides comprehensive services, including Meals on Wheels, congregate meals, transportation, case management, health screenings, information and referral services, recreation, and more. Our…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mission Health Care Inc and the most unlike its peers is National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
22 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. 22 of the 42 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 MANOR PARK INC ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WEST TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds SENIOR LIFE MIDLAND INC ↗
- Who funds HIGH SKY CHILDRENS RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds MARC INC ↗
- Who funds APHASIA CENTER OF WEST TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE SOUTHWEST ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND HUMANE COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PERMIAN BASIN AREA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SPRINGBOARD CENTER ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND CHILDRENS REHABILITATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds RECORDING LIBRARY OF WEST TEXAS ↗
- Who funds CENTERS FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds MISSION HEALTH CARE INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF MIDLAND INC ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds BYNUM SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Midland-Odessa Symphony & Chorale 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: Abell-Hanger Foundation · Pevehouse Family Foundation · Scharbauer Foundation Inc · Warren Charitable Foundation · Permian Basin Area Foundation · Helen Greathouse Charitable Trust · Beal Foundation · The Henry Foundation · Wayne & Jo Ann Moore Charitable Foundation · Paul and Katherine Morrow Family Foundation · The Fasken Foundation · Fmh 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 Blankinship 1991 Foundation Inc 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project 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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