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Coleman Buster Charitable Fdtn at a glance

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Coleman Buster Charitable Fdtn

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.

$19k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$53kFood & Nutrition$42kAnimals$24kReligion$13kArts & Culture$10kHousing & Shelter$8kYouth Development$6kCrime & Legal$5k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$385k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INTERFAITH MINISTRIES OF WICHITA FALLS I$5,000
WICHITA FALLS AREA FOOD BANK$5,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR$3,000
HUMANE SOCIETY OF WICHITA COUNTY TEXAS$3,000
ARTS COUNCIL WICHITA FALLS AREA INC$2,500
02The need
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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, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WHISPERS OF HOPE HORSE FARM: $5k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH: $5k → 11%INTERFAITH MINISTRIES OF WICHITA: $8k → 16%WHISPERS OF HOPE HORSE FARM: $3k → 9%INTERFAITH MINISTRIES OF WICHITA FALLS I: $5k → 16%WHISPERS OF HOPE HORSE FARM: $3k → 9%INTERFAITH MINISTRIES OF WICHITA FALLS I: $5k → 16%INTERFAITH MINISTRIES OF WICHITA FALLS I: $5k → 16%CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH: $5k → 16%INTERFAITH MINISTRIES OF WICHITA FALLS: $5k → 16%CHILD CARE INC: $4k → 16%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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$134k · 10 repeat orgs$24k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against -5% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
7

Total granted

$134k
$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
-5%

Still filing today

90%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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 ServicesAnimalsFood & NutritionArts & CultureReligionCrime & LegalOther
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

  • IM
    INTERFAITH MINISTRIES OF WICHITA FALLS INC DBA INTERFAITH OUTREACH SERVICES
    5× · 2020–2025 · $27k · revenue +10%
  • SC
    SENIOR CITIZEN SERVICES OF NORTH TEXAS INC DBA THE KITCHEN
    3× · 2019–2022 · $22k · revenue +15%
  • WF
    WICHITA FALLS AREA FOOD BANK
    4× · 2017–2025 · $20k · revenue +198%

Funded once

  • IO
    INTERFAITH OUTREACH SERVICES
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • CC
    CHILD CARE INC
    one grant, 2024 · $4k · revenue -25%
  • CC
    CHILD CARE RESOURCES INC
    one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue -5%
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
Hospice of Wichita Falls Inc

Care, hope, and support for all when illness threatens life.

Human Services
2
Wichita Family Crisis Center

Formerly ywca wichita, the wichita family crisis center (wfcc) began operations in wichita, ks in 1907. wfcc's mission is to eliminate domestic violence in our community by supporting survivors through shelter, education & advocacy.

Human Services
3
Humane Society of Central Texas

As an advocate for the community goal of maintaining its no kill status, the humane society provides adoption, rescue and foster opportunities for the homeless animals at the city of waco animal shelter, as well as community education…

Animals
4
Childrens Advocacy Center of West Texas Inc

The Organizations mission is to bring unity and efficiency to investigations of child abuse through the use of a multi-disciplinary team and, thereby, to provide the best possible services to victims of child abuse and their families.

Crime & Legal
5
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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6
Wichita County Community Foundation Inc

The wichita county community foundation is a nonprofit, non-sectarian organization dedicated to preserving local wealth so the communities in and around leoti and wichita county will forever remain attractive places to live, work and raise…

Community Improvement
7
Food Bank of West Central Texas

To procure and distribute nutritional food to qualified agencies that feed the hungry of West Central Texas.

Food & Nutrition
8
Wichita Habitat for Humanity Inc

At wichita habitat for humanity, we believe everyone deserves the strength, stability, and independence that comes with a safe, affordable home. we partner with hardworking individuals and families in our community, empowering them to…

Housing & Shelter
9
Wichita Area Sexual Assault Center Inc

Wichita area sexual assault center works with individuals and communities through comprehensive services and education to create a culture of intolerance for sexual violence and an atmosphere of healing for those impacted by it.

Health
10
Christmas in Action

In partnership with the community, christmas in action rehabilitates the homes of low income elderly and low income disabled so that they may continue to live in warmth, safety and independence.

Housing & Shelter
11
Caritas of Waco

To provide emergency/supplemental assistance in the form of food, clothing, household items, utility, rent and mortgage aid to people in need in the waco community.also provides case management assistance to people wanting to become…

Human Services
12
Children's Aid Society of West Tx Inc

To provide shelter, supervision, and counseling for children in crisis; to cooperate with other agencies in order to resolve problems related to the welfare of these children; to assist the families of these children in seeking possible…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Senior Citizen Services of North Texas Inc Dba the Kitchen; the most unlike its peers is Whispers of Hope Horse Farm. 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

14 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. 14 of the 18 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

INTERFAITH MINISTRIES OF WICHITA FALLS INC DBA INTERFAITH OUTREACH SERVICES: $27,000 · Human ServicesINTERFAITH MINISTRIES OF WICHITA FALLS INC DBA INTE…SENIOR CITIZEN SERVICES OF NORTH TEXAS INC DBA THE KITCHEN: $21,800 · Human ServicesSENIOR CITIZEN SERVICES OF NORTH TEXAS INC DBA THE …WHISPERS OF HOPE HORSE FARM: $10,000 · Human ServicesWHISPERS OF HOPE HORSE FARMCATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH: $9,500 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF FORT WORTHCHILD CARE INC: $3,500 · Human ServicesHUMANE SOCIETY OF WICHITA COUNTY: $18,925 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY OF…PETS LOW COST SPAY & NEUTER: $5,000 · AnimalsPETS LOW COST SPA…FAITH MISSION: $7,500 · OtherFAITH MISSIONINTERFAITH OUTREACH SERVICES: $5,000 · OtherINTERFAITH OUTR…CHILD CARE RESOURCES INC: $2,500 · OtherCHILD CARE RESO…4 KIDS SAKE OF WICHITA FALLS: $2,500 · Other4 KIDS SAKE OF …BOOKS 4 KIDS PROGRAM: $2,500 · OtherBOOKS 4 KIDS PR…COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF WIS: $2,200 · OtherCOURT APPOINTED…WICHITA FALLS AREA FOOD BANK: $20,000 · Food & NutritionWICHITA FALLS …WICHITA FALLS FAITH MISSION INC: $7,500 · ReligionArts Council Wichita Falls Area Inc: $7,000 · Arts & CultureBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR: $3,000 · Youth DevelopmentSOUTHERN GRIT ADVOCACY: $2,500 · Crime & Legal
Human Services$71,800Animals$23,925Other$22,200Food & Nutrition$20,000Religion$7,500Arts & Culture$7,000Youth Development$3,000Crime & Legal$2,500

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 budgetINTERFAITH MINISTRIES OF WICHITA FALLS INC DBA INTERFAITH OUTREACH SERVICES: $27,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetSENIOR CITIZEN SERVICES OF NORTH TEXAS INC DBA THE KITCHEN: $21,800 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetWICHITA FALLS AREA FOOD BANK: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF WICHITA COUNTY: $18,925 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetWHISPERS OF HOPE HORSE FARM: $10,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH: $9,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWICHITA FALLS FAITH MISSION INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetArts Council Wichita Falls Area Inc: $7,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPETS LOW COST SPAY & NEUTER: $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHILD CARE INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHILD CARE RESOURCES INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget4 KIDS SAKE OF WICHITA FALLS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSOUTHERN GRIT ADVOCACY: $2,500 over 1y, 1.4% 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.

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.

James N McCoy Foundat…Bryant Edwards Founda…J S Bridwell Foundati…Mightycause Charitabl…Gene Conley FoundationThe Fain FoundationWichita Falls Area Co…Community Foundation …Hazel & Henry S Grace…Libra FoundationThe Priddy FoundationNorth Texas Area Unit…
James N McCoy FoundationTX24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: James N McCoy Foundation · Bryant Edwards Foundation Inc · J S Bridwell Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Gene Conley Foundation · The Fain Foundation · Wichita Falls Area Community Foundation · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Hazel & Henry S Grace Foundation · Libra Foundation · The Priddy Foundation · North Texas Area United Way 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 Coleman Buster Charitable Fdtn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Coleman Buster Charitable Fdtn. 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%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.

    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 18 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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