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David D & Nona S Payne Foundation Inc at a glance

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David D & Nona S Payne Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$987k
Granted FY2023
38
Grants FY2023
3
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02Its granteesRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$855kHuman Services$577kEducation$523kYouth Development$442kFood & Nutrition$425kRecreation & Sports$265kPhilanthropy$150kPublic Safety & Disaster$120kOther$0
02FY2023 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 38 grants below total $896,507, the rows itemized in this filing. The $986,507 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $90,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k5 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k30 grants · $596k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $275k
$20,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Kid's Inc of Amarillo$100,000
Ranching Heritage Association$100,000
Texas Tech Foundation$75,000
High Plains Food Bank$40,000
Lone Star Ballet, Inc.$35,000
Guyon Saunders Resource Center$30,000
Pampa Optimist Youth Club$30,000
Don Harrington Discovery Center$25,000
Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum$25,000
Window on a Wider World$25,000
Buckner Children and Family Services$25,000
Pampa Meals on Wheels$25,000
Citadelle Art Foundation$25,000
Pampa Independent School District$24,636
The Maverick Boys and Girls Club of Amarillo Inc$20,000
02Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 41 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

41 repeat relationships: 33 still active in FY2023, 8 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
35

Total granted

$2.5M
$820k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+13%

Still filing today

71%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $219k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’21’22’23
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationRecreation & SportsCrime & LegalFood & NutritionOther
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

  • DH
    DON HARRINGTON DISCOVERY CENTER FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2017–2023 · $100k · revenue +102%
  • PM
    PAMPA MEALS ON WHEELS INC
    4× · 2017–2023 · $95k · revenue +42%
  • MB
    MAVERICK BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF AMARILLO INC
    4× · 2017–2023 · $85k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • PY
    PAMPA YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue +122% · 35% of their budget
  • LV
    Lefors Volunteer Fire Department and EMS
    one grant, 2017 · $60k
  • HP
    HIGH PLAINS FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2017 · $35k · revenue +13%
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.

03Its 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
Center City of Amarillo Inc

Center city of amarillo, inc., brings people to downtown amarillo through organization, events, promotion, design and facilitation of economic restructuring.

Community Improvement
2
Amarillo Tribune

The purpose or purposes for which the corporation is organized shall be limited to: (a)providing information about public policy, politics, government, and national and statewide issues to the general public.

Community Improvement
3
Amarillo Spca

Welfare of homeless animals

Animals
4
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
5
Amarillo Symphony Inc

The amarillo symphony inspires, educates, and unites our region through the power of music.

Arts & Culture
6
Amarillo Area Adult Literacy Council Inc

Promotion of adult literacy in the texas panhandle.

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7
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…

—
8
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
9
South Texas Food Bank

To alleviate hunger in the immediate service area through the distribution of food products donated by the usda, feeding america, area grocery stores, etc. which are distributed to the needy by way of area food banks and other qualified…

Community Improvement
10
Feeding Texas

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

Community Improvement
11
Texas Government Accountability Foundation Inc

To foster transparency and uphold ethical standards across all levels of government in texas and empower citizens to hold their government accountable.

Public Benefit
12
Community Health Center of Lubbock Inc

Provide quality primary and preventataive health care services to those in need.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Amarillo Wesley Community Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Citadelle Art Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

51 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. 51 of the 81 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/51
Grantees still filing
30/51
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PAMPA YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $250,000 · OtherPAMPA YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER INCLONE STAR BALLET INC: $130,000 · OtherLONE STAR BALLET INCHigh Plains Food Bank: $120,000 · OtherHigh Plains Food BankPampa Independent School District: $106,497 · OtherPampa Independent School DistrictRanching Heritage Association: $100,000 · OtherPanhandle-Plains Historical Museum: $85,000 · OtherPAMPA OPTIMIST YOUTH CLUB: $75,000 · OtherAMARILLO WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $70,000 · OtherMAVERICK BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF AMARILLO INC: $85,000 · Other+44 more: $972,340 · Other+44 moreDONLEY COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS INC: $80,000 · Human ServicesDONLEY COUNTY…BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesBUCKNER CHILD…FAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES OF AMARILLO: $60,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY SUPPOR…PRESBYTERIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN: $60,000 · Human ServicesPRESBYTERIAN …TRALEE CRISIS CENTER FOR WOMEN INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesTRALEE CRISIS…FAITH CITY INC: $35,000 · Human ServicesFAITH CITY IN…MAKE A CHILD SMILE INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesMAKE A CHILD …PANHANDLE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $20,000 · Human ServicesCANADIAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $20,000 · Human ServicesGood Samaritan Christian Services Inc: $15,000 · Human ServicesTHE BRIDGE: $15,000 · Human ServicesTYLER STREET RESOURCE CENTER INC: $130,000 · Recreation & SportsTYLER STR…KIDS INC OF AMARILLO: $100,000 · Recreation & SportsKIDS INC …SPEARHEAD CORPORATION: $85,000 · Recreation & SportsSPEARHEAD…TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC: $240,000 · EducationTEXAS TEC…WEST TEXAS A&M UNIV FOUNDATION: $60,000 · EducationWEST TEXA…+1 more: $5,000 · EducationDON HARRINGTON DISCOVERY CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureWELLINGTON RITZ THEATRE INC: $65,000 · Arts & CultureCitadelle Art Foundation: $45,000 · Arts & CultureAMARILLO OPERA INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureAMARILLO LITTLE THEATER INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureTEXAS PANHANDLE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $9,000 · Arts & CulturePAMPA MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $95,000 · Food & NutritionHEDLEY SENIOR CITIZENS ASSOCIATION INC: $80,000 · Food & NutritionAMARILLO AREA FOUNDATION INC: $135,000 · PhilanthropyPAMPA UNITED WAY INC: $15,000 · Philanthropy
Other$1,993,837Human Services$445,000Recreation & Sports$315,000Education$305,000Arts & Culture$289,000Food & Nutrition$175,000Philanthropy$150,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPAMPA YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $250,000 over 1y, 35% of budgetTEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC: $240,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAMARILLO AREA FOUNDATION INC: $135,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetLONE STAR BALLET INC: $130,000 over 4y, 5.2% of budgetTYLER STREET RESOURCE CENTER INC: $130,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetDON HARRINGTON DISCOVERY CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetKIDS INC OF AMARILLO: $100,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetRanching Heritage Association: $100,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetPAMPA MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $95,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetMAVERICK BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF AMARILLO INC: $85,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetSPEARHEAD CORPORATION: $85,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetDONLEY COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS INC: $80,000 over 4y, 7.0% of budgetHEDLEY SENIOR CITIZENS ASSOCIATION INC: $80,000 over 4y, 23% of budgetBUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPAMPA OPTIMIST YOUTH CLUB: $75,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetAMARILLO WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $70,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetWELLINGTON RITZ THEATRE INC: $65,000 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetFAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES OF AMARILLO: $60,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetWEST TEXAS A&M UNIV FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN: $60,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCitadelle Art Foundation: $45,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetTRALEE CRISIS CENTER FOR WOMEN INC: $40,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF TEXAS OKLAHOMA PLAINS INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetKANZA Society Inc: $37,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetFAITH CITY INC: $35,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHIGH PLAINS FOOD BANK: $35,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOPPORTUNITY SCHOOL INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMAKE A CHILD SMILE INC: $25,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetAMARILLO OPERA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetHIGH PLAINS RETREAT CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetAMARILLO LITTLE THEATER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPANHANDLE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCANADIAN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $20,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetCANADIAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $20,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetTHE AMARILLO COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $16,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPAMPA UNITED WAY INC: $15,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetDRISKILL HALFWAY HOUSE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetTHE BRIDGE: $15,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCASA OF THE HIGH PLAINS INC: $12,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetPAMPA HIGH SCHOOL CHOIR BOOSTER CLUB: $12,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetSHARING HOPE MINISTRY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE OPPORTUNITY PLAN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLEGAL AID OF NORTHWEST TEXAS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLTOP SENIOR CITIZENS ASSOC: $10,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetTEXAS ARCHEOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $9,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetPHS Baseball Softball Booster Club: $5,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetHANSFORD COUNTY LIBRARY: $5,000 over 1y, 3.7% 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 PAMPA YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds AMARILLO AREA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds LONE STAR BALLET INC ↗
  • Who funds TYLER STREET RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds DON HARRINGTON DISCOVERY CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds KIDS INC OF AMARILLO ↗
  • Who funds Ranching Heritage Association ↗
  • Who funds PAMPA MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
  • Who funds MAVERICK BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF AMARILLO INC ↗
  • Who funds SPEARHEAD CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds DONLEY COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS INC ↗
  • Who funds HEDLEY SENIOR CITIZENS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds PAMPA OPTIMIST YOUTH CLUB ↗
  • Who funds AMARILLO WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds WELLINGTON RITZ THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES OF AMARILLO ↗
  • Who funds WEST TEXAS A&M UNIV FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PRESBYTERIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds Citadelle Art Foundation ↗
  • Who funds TRALEE CRISIS CENTER FOR WOMEN INC ↗
  • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF TEXAS OKLAHOMA PLAINS INC ↗
  • Who funds KANZA Society Inc ↗
  • Who funds FAITH CITY INC ↗
  • Who funds HIGH PLAINS FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds OPPORTUNITY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds MAKE A CHILD SMILE INC ↗

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…Mary E Bivins Foundat…Josephine Anderson Ch…M K Brown Foundation …Dr Kent Roberts & Ile…The Don & Sybil Harri…Mays FoundationKimble Foundation Tru…Xcel Energy FoundationCj and Syble Fowlston…High Plains Christian…Brumley Foundation
Amarillo Area Foundation IncTX86.1× affinity40 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amarillo Area Foundation Inc · Mary E Bivins Foundation · Josephine Anderson Charitable Trust · M K Brown Foundation Inc · Dr Kent Roberts & Ilene Roberts Balliett Foundation · The Don & Sybil Harrington Foundation · Mays Foundation · Kimble Foundation Trust · Xcel Energy Foundation · Cj and Syble Fowlston Charitable Trust · High Plains Christian Ministries Foundation · Brumley Foundation

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.
04Through Plinth

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Find your warmest path to David D & Nona S Payne 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 81 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $1.1M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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