· Private foundation
Bruckner Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k37 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $33k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $247k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GOLDEN SPREAD BOY SCOUT COUNCIL | $197,035 |
| AMARILLO COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $50,256 |
| THE BRIDGE | $33,334 |
| ANOTHER CHANCE HOUSE | $4,000 |
| THE ANTIOCH PROJECT | $2,500 |
| OPPORTUNITY SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES | $2,500 |
| GIDEONS INTERNATIONAL | $2,000 |
| LIFE CHALLEGE OF AMARILLO | $2,000 |
| BUCKNER FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| AMARILLO SYMPHONY | $1,500 |
| PANHANDLE PLAINS HISTORICAL MUSEUM | $1,500 |
| TURN CENTER | $1,500 |
| AMARILLO BOTANICAL GARDENS | $1,500 |
| AMARILLO CHILDREN'S HOME | $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 (FY17–25, $139k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% 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.
51 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k 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
- WTWEST TEXAS A&M UNIV FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2023 · $111k · revenue +125%
- ATASBURY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY8× · 2017–2024 · $83k · revenue +106%
- ASAMARILLO SYMPHONY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $43k · revenue +88%
Funded once
- ARAMARILLO RECOVERY FROM ALCOHOL AND DRUGS INCone grant, 2017 · $50k
- FPFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF AMARILLOone grant, 2019 · $50k
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF AMARILLOone grant, 2018 · $40k · revenue -43%
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.
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…
The mission of houston christian university is to provide a learning experience that instills in students a passion for academic, spiritual, and professional excellence as a result of our central confession, "jesus christ is lord."
It is the mission of the organization to provide services to disadvantaged and homeless families with children; to reintegrate homeless families with children into permanent housing and employment.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Providing christ-centered recovery material and aftercare services to women across the nation who are incarcerated or who reside in addiction recovery facilitites.
Support organization of amarillo area foundation, inc. to provide and support medical and health care facilities, services, and education in amarillo, texas, and the texas panhandle area.
Amarillo area casa advocates for abused and neglected children through support and training of court appointed volunteers
To lead a unified effort for a hunger-free texas.
Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.
To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.
Working in creative collaboration to provide quality care that transforms the lives of at-risk children and their families through the active compassion of christ.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Life Challlenge of Amarillo Inc and 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.
Your grantees are a median of 54 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 67 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 AMARILLO COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WEST TEXAS A&M UNIV FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMARILLO AREA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS INC OF AMARILLO ↗
- Who funds ASBURY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds AMARILLO RECOVERY FROM ALCOHOL AND DRUGS INC ↗
- Who funds FAITH CITY INC ↗
- Who funds AMARILLO SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF AMARILLO ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE ↗
- Who funds TEXAS GIRLS AND BOYS RANCH ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds ANOTHER CHANCE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds MCMURRY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AMARILLO BOTANICAL GARDENS ↗
- Who funds BUCKNER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OGH HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TYLER STREET RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD McDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER NORTH TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds AMARILLO OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds CITYCHURCH OUTREACH MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds HIGH PLAINS FOOD BANK ↗
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 Area Foundation Inc · High Plains Christian Ministries Foundation · Josephine Anderson Charitable Trust · Mays Foundation · Dr Kent Roberts & Ilene Roberts Balliett Foundation · Mary E Bivins Foundation · Kimble Foundation Trust · Xcel Energy Foundation · Amarillo Business Foundation · Cj and Syble Fowlston Charitable Trust · The Don & Sybil Harrington Foundation · David D & Nona S Payne Foundation Inc
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 Bruckner Family 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.
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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