· Private foundation
Cj and Syble Fowlston Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 49% of CJ AND SYBLE FOWLSTON CHARITABLE TRUST’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $92k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $215k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PANHANDLE PLAINS HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $35,000 |
| KIDS INC | $25,000 |
| HIGH PLAINS FOOD BANK | $25,000 |
| TEXAS RAMP PROJECT | $15,000 |
| THE BRIDGE | $15,000 |
| DON HARRINGTON DISCOVERY CENTER | $15,000 |
| THE LEADERS READERS NETWORK | $15,000 |
| GOLDEN SPREAD COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $10,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $10,000 |
| AMARILLO AREA ROTARY BASEBALL LEAGUE | $10,000 |
| AMARILLO TRIBUNE | $10,000 |
| AMARILLO CHANCE HOUSE | $10,000 |
| FAITH CITY MISSION | $10,000 |
| 7 STAR THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER | $10,000 |
| PANHANDLE OF TEXAS LIONS FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
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, $227k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 78% 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.
56 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 9 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k 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
- PHPANHANDLE-PLAINS HISTORICAL SOCIETY9× · 2017–2025 · $385k · revenue +114%
- HPHIGH PLAINS FOOD BANK9× · 2017–2025 · $215k · revenue +13%
- TRTEXAS RAMP PROJECT8× · 2017–2025 · $88k · revenue +144%
Funded once
- BNBARRIO NEIGHBORHOOD PLANNING COMMITone grant, 2021 · $10k
- MCMEDICAL CENTER LEAGUE HOUSE OF AMARILLO TEXAS INCone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +16%
- SRSAINTS' ROOST MUSEUMone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -45%
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.
Promotion of adult literacy in the texas panhandle.
Welfare of homeless animals
To provide family services and to provide residential child care for dependent children where there is a need to assist children and families disrupted by problems.
A community foundation operating as a public charity, with a mission to improve the quality of life in the texas panhandle through effective philanthropic efforts.
Downtown amarillo, inc. is committed to making downtown amarillo a vibrant and attractive place.
Center city of amarillo, inc., brings people to downtown amarillo through organization, events, promotion, design and facilitation of economic restructuring.
Our mission is to support low-income Texans efforts to achieve the American dream of a decent, affordable home in a quality neighborhood. We believe that Texas critical low-income housing and community development needs can best be solved…
Our mission is to meet the spiritual and practical needs of the families of prisoners. We strive to provide a safe and caring home in whichfamilies can rest while visiting loved ones currently incarcerated in the adjacent prison system.
Construct and/or rehabilitate houses for sale to low- and moderate-income families who qualify for home ownership. Homes are sold for an affordable mortgage.
The hospice of texarkana operation provides care to the terminally ill and provides grief support to the community. hospice of texarkana also has an inpatient facility available for our patients to receive care.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Hope and Healing Place 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.
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 40 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
55 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. 55 of the 93 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 PANHANDLE-PLAINS HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HIGH PLAINS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds TEXAS RAMP PROJECT ↗
- Who funds AMARILLO LITTLE THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds LONE STAR BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds FAITH CITY INC ↗
- Who funds AMARILLO SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds TYLER STREET RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WINDOW ON A WIDER WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds CETA CANYON CAMP & RETREAT CENTER ↗
- Who funds AMARILLO AREA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds ADVO COMPANIES INC ↗
- Who funds HIGH PLAINS HELPING HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds DON HARRINGTON DISCOVERY CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Hidden Falls Ranch ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds TURN CENTER ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SUCCESS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds AMARILLO RECOVERY FROM ALCOHOL AND DRUGS INC ↗
- Who funds SEVEN STAR HORSE AND FAMILY CENTER ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S HOME INC ↗
- Who funds MAVERICK BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF AMARILLO INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMARILLO COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
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 · Josephine Anderson Charitable Trust · Dr Kent Roberts & Ilene Roberts Balliett Foundation · Mary E Bivins Foundation · Kimble Foundation Trust · High Plains Christian Ministries Foundation · The Don & Sybil Harrington Foundation · Amarillo Business Foundation · Mays Foundation · William & Louise Mullins Foundation · Brumley Foundation · 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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Cj and Syble Fowlston Charitable Trust 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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