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Bryant Family Foundation

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.

$418k
Granted FY2024still arriving
47
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Arts & Culture$390kEducation$291kHuman Services$255kHealth$248kCommunity Improvement$103kPhilanthropy$96kYouth Development$95kEnvironment$67kOther$0
02FY2024 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k30 grants · $156k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $262k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$134k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ELLEN NOEL ART MUSEUM OF THE PERMIAN BASIN$30,000
BYNUM SCHOOL$30,000
SENIOR LIFE MIDLAND$30,000
MUSEUM OF THE SOUTHWEST$25,000
UNITED WAY OF MIDLAND$20,000
MIDLAND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION$15,000
ODESSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$12,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$10,000
MARFA PUBLIC RADIO$10,000
BUSH TENNIS CENTER$10,000
CENTERS FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES$10,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS - PERMIAN BASIN CHAPTER$10,000
HOSPICE OF MIDLAND$10,000
NAPAKA DBA PRISON CHAPELS$10,000
ROPE YOUTH$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $202k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%FAMILY FIRST: $5k → 13%UNITED WAY OF MIDLAND: $20k → 12%BUCKNER CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $5k → 14%UNITED WAY OF MIDLAND: $15k → 12%UNITED WAY OF MIDLAND: $15k → 12%NONPROFIT MANAGEMENT CENTER OF THE PERMIAN BASIN: $10k → 14%UNITED WAY OF MIDLAND: $12k → 12%CENTERS FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $10k → 12%CASA DE AMIGOS: $10k → 12%NONPROFIT MANAGEMENT CENTER OF THE PERMIAN BASIN: $5k → 14%UNITED WAY OF MIDLAND: $5k → 12%CENTERS FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $10k → 12%CENTERS FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $5k → 12%CENTERS FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $5k → 12%CENTERS FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $5k → 12%CENTERS FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $5k → 12%CENTERS FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $5k → 12%SENIOR LIFE MIDLAND: $25k → 12%MANOR PARK INC: $20k → 12%SENIOR LIFE MIDLAND: $5k → 12%MANOR PARK INC: $5k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.5M · 55 repeat orgs$256k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +15% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.

55 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

55
28

Total granted

$1.5M
$179k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+2%

Still filing today

78%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $78k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHealthCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • EN
    ELLEN NOEL ART MUSEUM OF THE PERMIAN BASIN
    4× · 2021–2024 · $68k · revenue +221%
  • MF
    MIDLAND FESTIVAL BALLET
    3× · 2021–2023 · $60k · revenue +99%
  • AC
    ARTS COUNCIL OF MIDLAND
    4× · 2021–2024 · $60k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • CD
    CASA DE AMIGOS OF MIDLAND TEXASINCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +37%
  • AC
    AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC SOUTH REGION
    one grant, 2020 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Midland County Public Library Foundation

To support and enhance the operations, acquisitions, and funding of projects and programs that encourage lifelong learning through the Midland County Public Library System.

Education
2
Midland Energy Library Inc

To collect, preserve, catalog and exhibit scientific, geological and engineering data gathered by the petroleum industry - to be a working library for use by industry professionals, educators, students and other members of the interested…

Education
3
Progress Texas Institute

The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.

Civil Rights
4
Midwestern State University Foundation Inc

To receive contributions by means of donations, gifts, and bequests and to expend such funds for the advancement of the literary, scientific, and other educational endeavors of Midwestern State University, a tax exempt institution of…

Education
5
Permian Basin Area Foundation

Permian Basin Area Foundation exists to partner with donors in creating permanent charitable funds to enrich the quality of life in West Texas communities.

Philanthropy
6
Permian Basin Petroleum Museum Library and Hall of Fame

We will share the petroleum and energy story and its impact on our lives.

Arts & Culture
7
Permian Basin Rehabilitation Center

Improving lives by providing exceptional and compassionate therapy services.

Health
8
Center for 20TH Century Texas Studies
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9
Midland School Corporation

Midland school provides a distinctive co-educational boarding school experience to a diverse student body in grades 9-12. through study and work, midland teaches the value of a lifetime of learning, self-reliance, simplicity,…

Education
10
Midland Chamber of Commerce

The midland chamber of commerce provides resources and services to promote and foster business growth and success for its members and the community.

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11
Lubbock Family Outreach Center Inc Dba Family Guidance & Outreach Center

The Family Guidance & Outreach Center of Lubbock is dedicated to the prevention of child abuse and neglect and supporting, mentoring, and educating parents.

Human Services
12
Capital of Texas Public Telecommunications Council

Klru is a leader in public media, distinguished by its energetic engagement with the community and for the quality and creativity of content. klru illuminates the wider world of knowledge; the importance of discourse; and the many…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Midland Inc and the most unlike its peers is Redirectional Outreach Program Efforts for Youth. 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 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number27%2%<5yr16%4%5–10yr18%16%10–20yr15%18%20–35yr12%33%35–55yr13%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value27%3%<5yr16%2%5–10yr18%10%10–20yr15%17%20–35yr12%37%35–55yr13%31%55yr+

The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/71
the rest of the field
16%
3,796/24,225

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.

04the grantee network

71 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 71 of the 95 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
70/71
Grantees still filing
44/71
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MIDLAND ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $38,000 · OtherMIDLAND ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATIONBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE PERMIAN BASIN INC — $35,000 · OtherSAFE PLACE OF THE PERMIAN BASIN — $35,000 · OtherMIDLAND MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $35,000 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS - PERMIAN BASIN CHAPTER — $30,000 · OtherBUSH TENNIS CENTER — $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $25,000 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE CHISHOLM TRAIL INC — $40,000 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE CHISHOLM TRAIL INCCASA OF WEST TEXAS — $30,000 · Other+43 more — $403,070 · Other+43 moreELLEN NOEL ART MUSEUM OF THE PERMIAN BASIN — $67,500 · Arts & CultureELLEN NOEL ART MUSEUM O…MIDLAND FESTIVAL BALLET — $60,000 · Arts & CultureMIDLAND FESTIVAL BALLETARTS COUNCIL OF MIDLAND — $60,000 · Arts & CultureARTS COUNCIL OF MIDLANDMUSEUM OF THE SOUTHWEST — $52,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF THE SOUTHWESTMIDLAND COMMUNITY THEATRE INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureMIDLAND COMMUNITY THEAT…MARFA PUBLIC RADIO CORPORATION — $25,000 · Arts & CultureMARFA PUBLIC RADIO CORP…PERMIAN BASIN OPERA — $20,000 · Arts & CulturePERMIAN BASIN OPERA+6 more — $35,000 · Arts & Culture+6 moreSENIOR LIFE MIDLAND INC — $75,000 · Human ServicesSENIOR LIFE MIDL…UNITED WAY OF MIDLAND INC — $67,000 · Human ServicesUNITED WAY OF MI…CENTERS FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC — $45,000 · Human ServicesCENTERS FOR CHIL…MANOR PARK INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesMANOR PARK INCThe Nonprofit Management Center of the Permian Basin Inc — $15,000 · Human ServicesThe Nonprofit Ma…CASA DE AMIGOS OF MIDLAND TEXASINC — $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE CAMRON STOTTS FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · Human Services+2 more — $10,000 · Human ServicesBYNUM SCHOOL — $40,000 · EducationBYNUM SCHOOLKAPPA DELTA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED — $40,000 · EducationKAPPA DELTA F…LITERACY COALITION OF THE PERMIAN BASIN — $37,500 · EducationLITERACY COAL…MIDLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $35,000 · EducationMIDLAND COLLE…TEXAS TRIBUNE INC — $15,000 · EducationTEXAS TRIBUNE…COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE PERMIAN BA — $15,000 · EducationCOMMUNITIES I…TRINITY SCHOOL OF MIDLAND TEXAS — $10,000 · Education+3 more — $15,000 · Education+3 moreAmerican Heart Association Inc — $35,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $30,000 · HealthPINK THE BASIN INC — $20,000 · HealthHIGH SKY CHILDRENS RANCH INC — $15,000 · Health+1 more — $2,500 · HealthMIDLAND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INC — $33,000 · Community ImprovementTHE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF MIDLAND INC — $15,000 · Community ImprovementMIDLAND SHARED SPACES INC — $15,000 · Community ImprovementJUNIOR LEAGUE OF ODESSA INC — $5,000 · Community ImprovementKEEP MIDLAND BEAUTIFUL INC — $40,000 · EnvironmentSIBLEY ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $27,000 · Environment
Other$701,070Arts & Culture$369,500Human Services$257,000Education$207,500Health$102,500Community Improvement$68,000Environment$67,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSENIOR LIFE MIDLAND INC — $75,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetELLEN NOEL ART MUSEUM OF THE PERMIAN BASIN — $67,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MIDLAND INC — $67,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetMIDLAND FESTIVAL BALLET — $60,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetARTS COUNCIL OF MIDLAND — $60,000 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE SOUTHWEST — $52,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetMIDLAND COMMUNITY THEATRE INC — $50,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCENTERS FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC — $45,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBYNUM SCHOOL — $40,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetKEEP MIDLAND BEAUTIFUL INC — $40,000 over 3y, 7.8% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE CHISHOLM TRAIL INC — $40,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetKAPPA DELTA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED — $40,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetMIDLAND ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $38,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetLITERACY COALITION OF THE PERMIAN BASIN — $37,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetMIDLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE PERMIAN BASIN INC — $35,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAFE PLACE OF THE PERMIAN BASIN — $35,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMIDLAND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INC — $33,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetBUSH TENNIS CENTER — $30,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCASA OF WEST TEXAS — $30,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetSIBLEY ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $27,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetMANOR PARK INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMARFA PUBLIC RADIO CORPORATION — $25,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetHOSPICE OF MIDLAND INC — $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTEXAS LYCEUM ASSOCIATION INC DBA THE TEXAS LYCEUM — $20,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetPINK THE BASIN INC — $20,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetPERMIAN BASIN OPERA — $20,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetHIGH SKY CHILDRENS RANCH INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF MIDLAND INC — $15,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetThe Nonprofit Management Center of the Permian Basin Inc — $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMIDLAND SHARED SPACES INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTEXAS TRIBUNE INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMARC INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE PERMIAN BA — $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPHILANTHROPY SOUTHWEST — $14,570 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetODESSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $12,000 over 1y, 52% of budgetCASA DE AMIGOS OF MIDLAND TEXASINC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSEVIER CO MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetTRINITY SCHOOL OF MIDLAND TEXAS — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CAMRON STOTTS FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetREFLECTION MINISTRIES OF TEXAS INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF ODESSA INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPERMIAN BASIN PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPermian Basin Adult Literacy Center — $10,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetThe Fields Edge — $8,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMIDLAND HUMANE COALITION INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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.

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.

Abell-Hanger Foundati…Scharbauer Foundation…Helen Greathouse Char…Permian Basin Area Fo…The Henry FoundationPevehouse Family Foun…Wayne & Jo Ann Moore …Beal FoundationFmh FoundationWarren Charitable Fou…The Fasken FoundationYarborough Foundation
Abell-Hanger FoundationTX103.7× affinity48 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Abell-Hanger Foundation · Scharbauer Foundation Inc · Helen Greathouse Charitable Trust · Permian Basin Area Foundation · The Henry Foundation · Pevehouse Family Foundation · Wayne & Jo Ann Moore Charitable Foundation · Beal Foundation · Fmh Foundation · Warren Charitable Foundation · The Fasken Foundation · Yarborough 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 Bryant Family 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    25report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 95 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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