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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
2
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 49% of DAVID D & NONA S PAYNE FOUNDATION INC’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.

02FY2023 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 38 grants below total $896,507 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $986,507 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $90,000 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 · FY2023

  • Under $10k5 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k30 grants · $596k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $275k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Ranching Heritage Association$100,000
Kid's Inc of Amarillo$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
Buckner Children and Family Services$25,000
Don Harrington Discovery Center$25,000
Pampa Meals on Wheels$25,000
Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum$25,000
Citadelle Art Foundation$25,000
Window on a Wider World$25,000
Pampa Independent School District$24,636
West Texas A&M University Foundation$20,000
02Your 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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.5M · 42 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

42 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2023, 10 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
34

Total granted

$2.5M
$785k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+17%

Still filing today

71%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $244k 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

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

  • 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
  • PC
    Pampa/Gray County Habitat for Humanity
    one grant, 2017 · $25k

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

03Your 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
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…

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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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Amarillo Wesley Community Center Inc and 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.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyYouth Sports ProgramsClassical Music OrchestrasLocal History MuseumsChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Government Accountability &…Professional Dance CompaniesFood Pantries and AssistanceDomestic Violence and Sexua…Environmental Advocacy and …Senior Support ServicesCivil Legal ServicesYouth Development CentersUnited Way AffiliatesChristian Youth CampsCommunity Theater CompaniesCollege Foundation Support
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 48 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%0%<5yr16%0%5–10yr20%13%10–20yr16%19%20–35yr10%33%35–55yr13%35%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%0%<5yr16%0%5–10yr20%11%10–20yr16%9%20–35yr10%45%35–55yr13%36%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/56
the rest of the field
15%
20,233/136,748

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.

03the grantee network

52 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. 52 of the 82 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/52
Grantees still filing
31/52
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, 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 INCPampa Independent School District — $106,497 · OtherPampa Independent School DistrictRanching Heritage Association — $100,000 · OtherPanhandle-Plains Historical Museum — $85,000 · OtherHigh Plains Food Bank — $80,000 · OtherPAMPA OPTIMIST YOUTH CLUB — $75,000 · OtherHIGH PLAINS FOOD BANK — $75,000 · OtherAMARILLO WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $70,000 · OtherMAVERICK BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF AMARILLO INC — $85,000 · Other+43 more — $912,340 · Other+43 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 …CANADIAN COMMUNITY CENTER — $20,000 · Human ServicesPANHANDLE COMMUNITY SERVICES — $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…DON HARRINGTON DISCOVERY CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · Arts & CultureDON HARRI…WELLINGTON RITZ THEATRE INC — $65,000 · Arts & CultureWELLINGTO…Citadelle Art Foundation — $45,000 · Arts & CultureCitadelle…WINDOW ON A WIDER WORLD INC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureWINDOW ON…AMARILLO LITTLE THEATER INC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureAMARILLO …AMARILLO OPERA INC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureAMARILLO …TEXAS PANHANDLE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $20,000 · Arts & CultureTEXAS PAN…+1 more — $9,000 · Arts & CultureTEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC — $240,000 · EducationTEXAS TEC…WEST TEXAS A&M UNIV FOUNDATION — $60,000 · EducationWEST TEXA…+1 more — $5,000 · EducationPAMPA 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$1,968,837Human Services$445,000Recreation & Sports$315,000Arts & Culture$314,000Education$305,000Food & Nutrition$175,000Philanthropy$150,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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 budgetKIDS INC OF AMARILLO — $100,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetDON HARRINGTON DISCOVERY CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetRanching Heritage Association — $100,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetPAMPA MEALS ON WHEELS INC — $95,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetSPEARHEAD CORPORATION — $85,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetMAVERICK BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF AMARILLO INC — $85,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetHEDLEY SENIOR CITIZENS ASSOCIATION INC — $80,000 over 4y, 23% of budgetDONLEY COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS INC — $80,000 over 4y, 7.0% of budgetPAMPA OPTIMIST YOUTH CLUB — $75,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetHIGH PLAINS FOOD BANK — $75,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC — $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% 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 budgetPRESBYTERIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN — $60,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetWEST TEXAS A&M UNIV FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCitadelle Art Foundation — $45,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF TEXAS OKLAHOMA PLAINS INC — $40,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTRALEE CRISIS CENTER FOR WOMEN INC — $40,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetKANZA Society Inc — $37,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetOPPORTUNITY SCHOOL INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFAITH CITY INC — $35,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetWINDOW ON A WIDER WORLD INC — $25,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetMAKE A CHILD SMILE INC — $25,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetAMARILLO LITTLE THEATER INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetHIGH PLAINS RETREAT CENTER — $25,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetAMARILLO OPERA INC — $25,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetCANADIAN COMMUNITY CENTER — $20,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetPANHANDLE COMMUNITY SERVICES — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCANADIAN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC — $20,000 over 1y, 4.8% 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 budgetPAMPA HIGH SCHOOL CHOIR BOOSTER CLUB — $12,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetCASA OF THE HIGH PLAINS INC — $12,000 over 2y, 1.9% 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 budgetSHARING HOPE MINISTRY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTEXAS ARCHEOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $9,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetPHS Baseball Softball Booster Club — $5,000 over 1y, 19% 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.

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

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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How do I get to David D & Nona S Payne Foundation Inc?

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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 82 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 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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