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Brumley Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 34 grants below total $1,003,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,191,500 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $188,500 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $489k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $490k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Frank Phillips College | $75,000 |
| 1615 Wesley Community Center | $65,000 |
| High Plains Food Bank | $50,000 |
| West Texas A&M Univ Foundation | $50,000 |
| Ceta Canyon Camp & Retreat | $50,000 |
| Family Support Services | $50,000 |
| Amarillo College Foundation | $50,000 |
| 7 Star Therapeutic Riding Center | $50,000 |
| YMCA of Moore County | $50,000 |
| Ceta Canyon Camp & Retreat | $45,500 |
| YMCA of Moore County | $45,000 |
| Opportunity School | $40,000 |
| Donley County Senior Citizens | $30,000 |
| Turn Center | $30,000 |
| Veterans Assistance Dogs of Texas | $26,000 |
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against -18% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 12 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $235k 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
- YOYMCA OF MOORE COUNTY5× · 2020–2024 · $712k · revenue +63%
- AWAMARILLO WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC4× · 2020–2023 · $280k · revenue +18%
- WTWEST TEXAS A&M UNIV FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $232k · revenue +94%
Funded once
- KCKIDS COone grant, 2022 · $100k
- DHDON HARRINGTON DISCOVERY CENTER FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $55k · revenue +50%
- SCSOUTHWEST CHAPTER OF NATIONAL AMBUCS INCone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -53%
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.
To nourish and enrich the lives of the homebound and other people in need through programs that promote dignity and independent living.
Provide nutrition, transportation, and other services that support independent living for seniors, including the operation of a senior citizens center, meals on wheels, and transportation services within victoria and the surrounding…
Empowers older and disabled adults to live independentlly in thier own homes by providing nutritious home-delivered meals, safety checks, socialization, and community connection, which result in an enhanced quality of life and purpose as…
To serve as a home away from home for patients and their families coming to amarillo, texas for health care treatment.
Provide meals on wheels, congregate meals, and recreational facility for elderly and low income persons of dawson county texas.
To provide aid to elderly individuals and to operate mountbatten house; a twenty four room personal care home in highlands, tx.
Meals on wheels waco nourishes the bodies, minds, and spirits of older adults in the heart of texas through meals, transportation, activities, and volunteer support.
Meals on wheels texas is a voluntary membership association of home-delivered and congregate meal programs established to ensure every older person and individual with a disability in texas is well nourished and has the social supports…
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.
To provide primary health and dental care to the underserved of fayette and lee counties, texas.
The center functions to serve senior adults 60 yrs and older. provide programs and services that will enable the individuals to be an integral part of the community and allow them to retain independence dignity and sense of well being
Our mission is to provide accessible, compassionate, culturally competent, and quality health care, affordable for all, regardless of ability to pay.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Amarillo Wesley Community Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Taos Opera Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 42 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) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
41 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. 41 of the 70 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 YMCA OF MOORE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HIGH PLAINS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds AMARILLO WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S HOME INC ↗
- Who funds WEST TEXAS A&M UNIV FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEVEN STAR HORSE AND FAMILY CENTER ↗
- Who funds DONLEY COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMARILLO OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds TURN CENTER ↗
- Who funds BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HEDLEY SENIOR CITIZENS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds PAMPA MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds DON HARRINGTON DISCOVERY CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST CHAPTER OF NATIONAL AMBUCS INC ↗
- Who funds AMARILLO SENIOR CITIZENS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE AMARILLO COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VETERANS ASSISTANCE DOGS OF TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds AMARILLO HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWESTERN DIABETIC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EASTRIDGE MISSION CENTER ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF AMARILLO ↗
- Who funds TEXAS RAMP PROJECT ↗
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: Mary E Bivins Foundation · Josephine Anderson Charitable Trust · Amarillo Area Foundation Inc · Dr Kent Roberts & Ilene Roberts Balliett Foundation · High Plains Christian Ministries Foundation · Cj and Syble Fowlston Charitable Trust · Amarillo Business Foundation · Kimble Foundation Trust · The Don & Sybil Harrington Foundation · Mays Foundation · David D & Nona S Payne Foundation Inc · Xcel Energy 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.
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