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Bruckner Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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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.

$335k
Granted FY2025still arriving
40
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$197k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$501kYouth Development$340kReligion$270kRecreation & Sports$144kPhilanthropy$120kHealth$118kHuman Services$109kArts & Culture$75kOther$0
02FY2025 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k37 grants · $55k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $33k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $247k
$1,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GOLDEN SPREAD BOY SCOUT COUNCIL$197,035
AMARILLO COLLEGE FOUNDATION$50,256
THE BRIDGE$33,334
ANOTHER CHANCE HOUSE$4,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES$2,500
OPPORTUNITY SCHOOL$2,500
THE ANTIOCH PROJECT$2,500
GIDEONS INTERNATIONAL$2,000
LIFE CHALLEGE OF AMARILLO$2,000
MCMURRAY UNIVERSITY$1,500
HOPE CHOICE$1,500
BUCKNER FOUNDATION$1,500
HARRINGTON CANCER CENTER$1,500
FAITH CITY MINISTRIES$1,500
PANHANDLE PLAINS HISTORICAL MUSEUM$1,500
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, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE BRIDGE: $33k → 14%BUCKNER FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%AMARILLO CHILDREN'S HOME: $2k → 9%BUCKNER FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%AMARILLO CHILDREN'S HOME: $2k → 9%BUCKNER FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%AMARILLO CHILDREN'S HOME: $2k → 9%BUCKNER FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%BUCKNER FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%PRESBYTERIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN: $2k → 9%BUCKNER FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%BUCKNER FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%AMARILLO CHILDREN'S HOME: $2k → 9%BUCKNER FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%AMARILLO CHILDREN'S HOME: $2k → 9%BUCKNER FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%AMARILLO CHILDREN'S HOME: $2k → 9%AMARILLO CHILDREN'S HOME: $1k → 9%FAITH CITY MINISTRIES: $40k → 20%AMARILLO CHILDREN'S HOME: $1k → 9%MEALS ON WHEELS: $10k → 20%ANOTHER CHANCE HOUSE: $4k → 20%ANOTHER CHANCE HOUSE: $4k → 20%MEALS ON WHEELS: $2k → 20%FAITH CITY MINISTRIES: $2k → 20%MEALS ON WHEELS: $2k → 20%FAITH CITY MINISTRIES: $2k → 20%ANOTHER CHANCE HOUSE: $2k → 20%MEALS ON WHEELS: $2k → 20%FAITH CITY MINISTRIES: $2k → 20%FAITH CITY MINISTRIES: $2k → 20%MEALS ON WHEELS: $2k → 20%ANOTHER CHANCE HOUSE: $1k → 20%MEALS ON WHEELS: $1k → 20%FAITH CITY MINISTRIES: $1k → 20%MEALS ON WHEELS: $1k → 20%ANOTHER CHANCE HOUSE: $1k → 20%FAITH CITY MINISTRIES: $1k → 20%MEALS ON WHEELS: $1k → 20%ANOTHER CHANCE HOUSE: $1k → 20%ANOTHER CHANCE HOUSE: $1k → 20%FAITH CITY MINISTRIES: $500 → 20%ANOTHER CHANCE HOUSE: $500 → 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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 51 repeat orgs$205k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
12

Total granted

$1.6M
$171k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+23%

Still filing today

53%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k 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 ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • WT
    WEST TEXAS A&M UNIV FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2023 · $111k · revenue +125%
  • AT
    ASBURY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $83k · revenue +106%
  • AS
    AMARILLO SYMPHONY INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $43k · revenue +88%

Funded once

  • AR
    AMARILLO RECOVERY FROM ALCOHOL AND DRUGS INC
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • FP
    FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF AMARILLO
    one grant, 2019 · $50k
  • RM
    RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF AMARILLO
    one grant, 2018 · $40k · revenue -30%
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
Abilene Christian School Inc

The mission of Abilene Christian School, Inc. is to equip students to excel academically, serve meaningfully, and walk faithfully with God.

Education
2
West Texas Food Bank

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…

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3
Houston Christian University

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."

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4
Compassion Ministries of Waco

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.

Community Improvement
5
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
6
Sharing Hope Ministry Inc

Providing christ-centered recovery material and aftercare services to women across the nation who are incarcerated or who reside in addiction recovery facilitites.

Religion
7
Aaf Community Health Foundation

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.

Health
8
Amarillo Area Court Appointed Special Advocates Inc

Amarillo area casa advocates for abused and neglected children through support and training of court appointed volunteers

Civil Rights
9
Feeding Texas

To lead a unified effort for a hunger-free texas.

Community Improvement
10
Leadership Austin

Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.

Youth Development
11
Texas a&M Research Foundation

To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.

Education
12
Children's Home of Lubbock and Family Service Agency Inc

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.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Life Challlenge of Amarillo 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

35 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. 35 of the 67 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/35
Grantees still filing
24/35
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE AMARILLO COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $332,744 · OtherTHE AMARILLO COLLEGE FOUNDATIONGOLDEN SPREAD BOY SCOUT COUNCIL: $329,845 · OtherGOLDEN SPREAD BOY SCOUT COUNCILPOLK STREET METHODIST CHURCH: $75,000 · OtherPOLK STREET METHODIST CHURCHWESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER: $58,304 · OtherHEAL THE CITY: $53,805 · OtherAMARILLO RECOVERY FROM ALCOHOL AND DRUGS INC: $50,181 · OtherFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF AMARILLO: $49,827 · OtherFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $41,000 · Other+34 more: $207,869 · Other+34 moreWEST TEXAS A&M UNIV FOUNDATION: $110,523 · EducationWEST TEXAS A…ASBURY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $83,354 · EducationASBURY THEOL…MCMURRY UNIVERSITY: $11,000 · EducationCITYCHURCH OUTREACH MINISTRY: $7,500 · EducationFAITH CITY INC: $48,478 · Human ServicesFAITH CIT…THE BRIDGE: $33,334 · Human ServicesTHE BRIDG…TEXAS GIRLS AND BOYS RANCH: $20,943 · Human ServicesTEXAS GIR…MEALS ON WHEELS: $19,165 · Human ServicesMEALS ON …ANOTHER CHANCE HOUSE: $13,754 · Human ServicesANOTHER C…PRESBYTERIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN: $13,500 · Human ServicesPRESBYTER…BUCKNER FOUNDATION INC: $11,000 · Human ServicesBUCKNER F…+1 more: $4,500 · Human ServicesAMARILLO AREA FOUNDATION INC: $107,947 · PhilanthropyRONALD McDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER NORTH TEXAS INC: $8,600 · Philanthropy+1 more: $300 · PhilanthropyKIDS INC OF AMARILLO: $100,828 · Recreation & SportsTYLER STREET RESOURCE CENTER INC: $9,050 · Recreation & SportsRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF AMARILLO: $40,046 · HealthOGH HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthHOPE CHOICE INC: $6,500 · HealthTURN CENTER: $5,500 · HealthAMARILLO SYMPHONY INC: $42,750 · Arts & CultureAMARILLO OPERA INC: $8,500 · Arts & CultureDON HARRINGTON DISCOVERY CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $1,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,198,575Education$212,377Human Services$164,674Philanthropy$116,847Recreation & Sports$109,878Health$62,046Arts & Culture$57,750

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE AMARILLO COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $332,744 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetWEST TEXAS A&M UNIV FOUNDATION: $110,523 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetAMARILLO AREA FOUNDATION INC: $107,947 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetKIDS INC OF AMARILLO: $100,828 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetASBURY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $83,354 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetAMARILLO RECOVERY FROM ALCOHOL AND DRUGS INC: $50,181 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetFAITH CITY INC: $48,478 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetAMARILLO SYMPHONY INC: $42,750 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $41,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF AMARILLO: $40,046 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetOPPORTUNITY SCHOOL INC: $33,786 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTEXAS GIRLS AND BOYS RANCH: $20,943 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS: $19,165 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetANOTHER CHANCE HOUSE: $13,754 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN: $13,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetAMARILLO BOTANICAL GARDENS: $11,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetBUCKNER FOUNDATION INC: $11,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMCMURRY UNIVERSITY: $11,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetOGH HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER INC: $9,750 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTYLER STREET RESOURCE CENTER INC: $9,050 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetRONALD McDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER NORTH TEXAS INC: $8,600 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetAMARILLO OPERA INC: $8,500 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetCITYCHURCH OUTREACH MINISTRY: $7,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHIGH PLAINS FOOD BANK: $7,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE CHOICE INC: $6,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTURN CENTER: $5,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDON HARRINGTON DISCOVERY CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLIFE CHALLLENGE OF AMARILLO INC: $5,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetEVELINE'S SUNSHINE COTTAGE: $4,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWINDOW ON A WIDER WORLD INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHidden Falls Ranch: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ALBERTSONS COMPANIES FOUNDATION: $300 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • 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 AMARILLO BOTANICAL GARDENS ↗
  • Who funds BUCKNER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MCMURRY UNIVERSITY ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Amarillo Area Foundat…High Plains Christian…Josephine Anderson Ch…Mays FoundationDr Kent Roberts & Ile…Mary E Bivins Foundat…Kimble Foundation Tru…Xcel Energy FoundationAmarillo Business Fou…Cj and Syble Fowlston…The Don & Sybil Harri…David D & Nona S Payn…
Amarillo Area Foundation IncTX56.6× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Bruckner Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bruckner Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%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
    9report 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

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    How do I get to Bruckner Family Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Bruckner Family Foundation Inc 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 67 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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