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Directors Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $367k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $830k
- $250k+1 grant · $762k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ABILENE YOUTH SPORTS AUTHORITY | $762,209 |
| BELTWAY PARK BAPTIST CHURCH | $245,000 |
| ALL KIND ANIMAL INITIATIVE | $200,000 |
| VITAL SEEDS MINISTRIES | $107,275 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $65,000 |
| ABILENE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $62,500 |
| PREGNANCY RESOURCES OF ABILENE | $50,000 |
| LOVE CARE MINISTRIES | $50,000 |
| HENDRICK HOME FOR CHILDREN | $50,000 |
| HARDIN SIMMONS UNIVERSITY | $40,000 |
| ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY | $40,000 |
| BIG COUNTRY CASA | $37,208 |
| HENDRICK HOSPICE CARE | $30,000 |
| CAMP ABLE OF BUFFALO GAP | $27,209 |
| WYLIE BULLDOG EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIO | $25,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $302k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
27 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $74k 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
- AYABILENE YOUTH SPORTS AUTHORITY4× · 2021–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +72% · 68% of their budget
- PRPregnancy Resources of Abilene Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $208k · revenue +65%
- HHHENDRICK HOME FOR CHILDREN4× · 2021–2024 · $200k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- AYAbilene Youth Sportsone grant, 2020 · $300k
- BBBeltway Baptist Churchone grant, 2020 · $140k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $80k
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.
The mission of Abilene Christian School, Inc. is to equip students to excel academically, serve meaningfully, and walk faithfully with God.
We provide affordable quality child care for a diverse community. Our four licensed facilities deliver quality child care programming for children ages birth to 10 years, so that parents can work, attend school, and/or receive job training…
Committed to supporting displaced single mothers in Fort Bend County by providing housing assistance and wraparound services.
To change lives and build Christian families through maternity, foster, and adoption services.
To operate a residential mental health and substance abuse facility that will serve men with addictive disorders by providing residential accomodations, substance abuse treatment including individual, group, and family counseling,…
Care, hope, and support for all when illness threatens life.
The purpose of the Organization is to provide knowledge and understanding of economics, matters of public concern, finance, education and training, and problems of minority groups therby promoting the economy and quality of life in Abilene…
Through faith in action, austin habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
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.
Operate a non-profit medical clinic exclusively for charitable purposes to provide medical health services to uninsured and low income adults in the Abilene area.
Our mission is to help the underemployed, through personal, career, academic and spiritual development, acquire the confidence and skills for gainful and long-term employment.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Abilene Christian University and the most unlike its peers is Community Foundation Inc. 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 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 60 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 ABILENE YOUTH SPORTS AUTHORITY ↗
- Who funds All Kind Animal Initiative ↗
- Who funds Pregnancy Resources of Abilene Inc ↗
- Who funds HENDRICK HOME FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BIG COUNTRY COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Hendrick Hospice Care ↗
- Who funds HEALING HEARTS CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds HARDIN-SIMMONS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Abilene Zoological Society ↗
- Who funds Abilene Boys Ranch Inc ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity Abilene Inc ↗
- Who funds Love & Care Ministries ↗
- Who funds TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Cancer Services Network Inc ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TEXAS FUNERAL DIRECTORS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds RIDING HIGH MINISTRIES INC ↗
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: Community Foundation of Abilene · Barber Foundation · Shelton Family Foundation · Dian Graves Owen Foundation · Greathouse Foundation · The Massey Family Charitable Trust · The Legett Foundation · Kickapoo Springs Foundation · Joe Davis Foundation - Defined · Food Bank of West Central Texas · The Karakin Foundation · American Electric Power 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 Directors 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.
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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