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Directors Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
29
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$762k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$2.7MReligion$1.6MHuman Services$600kAnimals$463kEducation$393kHealth$368kPhilanthropy$268kCrime & Legal$177kOther$0
02FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $367k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $830k
  • $250k+1 grant · $762k
$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$283k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
HENDRICK HOME FOR CHILDREN$50,000
LOVE CARE MINISTRIES$50,000
PREGNANCY RESOURCES OF ABILENE$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
02The need
03

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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HENDRICK HOSPICE CARE: $35k → 22%HENDRICK HOSPICE CARE: $35k → 22%HENDRICK HOSPICE CARE: $30k → 22%HENDRICK HOSPICE CARE: $30k → 22%BEN RICHEY BOYS RANCH: $10k → 16%BEN RICHEY BOYS RANCH: $10k → 16%Ben Richey Boys Ranch: $10k → 16%BEN RICHEY BOYS RANCH: $10k → 16%BEN RICHEY BOYS RANCH: $10k → 16%Love and Care Ministrie: $47k → 16%YMCA OF ABILENE: $25k → 16%YMCA OF ABILENE: $25k → 16%YMCA OF ABILENE: $25k → 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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.1M · 27 repeat orgs$889k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
26

Total granted

$6.1M
$815k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+2%
+15%

Still filing today

44%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $74k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationPhilanthropyReligionHealthAnimalsOther
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

  • AY
    ABILENE YOUTH SPORTS AUTHORITY
    4× · 2021–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +72% · 68% of their budget
  • PR
    Pregnancy Resources of Abilene Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $208k · revenue +65%
  • HH
    HENDRICK HOME FOR CHILDREN
    4× · 2021–2024 · $200k · revenue +60%

Funded once

  • AY
    Abilene Youth Sports
    one grant, 2020 · $300k
  • BB
    Beltway Baptist Church
    one grant, 2020 · $140k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $80k
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
Abilene Christian School Inc

The mission of Abilene Christian School, Inc. is to equip students to excel academically, serve meaningfully, and walk faithfully with God.

Education
2
Day Nursery of Abilene Inc

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…

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3
Abigail's Place

Committed to supporting displaced single mothers in Fort Bend County by providing housing assistance and wraparound services.

Housing & Shelter
4
Christian Homes of Abilene Inc

To change lives and build Christian families through maternity, foster, and adoption services.

Human Services
5
Abilene Restoration Ministries dba Nehemiah Abilene

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,…

Health
6
Hospice of Wichita Falls Inc

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

Human Services
7
Abilene Chamber of Commerce Foundation

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…

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8
Austin Habitat for Humanity Inc

Through faith in action, austin habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.

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9
Central Texas Children's Home

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.

Human Services
10
Presbyterian Medical Care Mission

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.

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11
Faithworks of Abilene Inc

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.

Education
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Abilene Christian University; 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.
04the grantee network

26 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. 26 of the 60 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)
26/26
Grantees still filing
12/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BELTWAY PARK BAPTIST CHURCH: $928,000 · OtherBELTWAY PARK BAPTIST CHURCHVITAL SEEDS MINISTRIES: $349,330 · OtherVITAL SEEDS MINISTRIESIndividual grant recipient: $300,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientAbilene Youth Sports: $299,996 · OtherAbilene Youth SportsFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $275,000 · OtherFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETESLOVE CARE MINISTRIES: $200,000 · OtherHENDRICK HOME FOR CHILDREN: $200,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 · OtherBeltway Baptist Church: $140,000 · OtherBIG COUNTRY COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC: $137,208 · Other+36 more: $934,016 · Other+36 moreABILENE YOUTH SPORTS AUTHORITY: $2,080,709 · Youth DevelopmentABILENE YOUTH SPORTS AUTHORITYAll Kind Animal Initiative: $400,000 · AnimalsAbilene Zoological Society: $62,500 · AnimalsHendrick Hospice Care: $130,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $75,000 · Human ServicesAbilene Boys Ranch Inc: $50,000 · Human ServicesLove & Care Ministries: $47,000 · Human ServicesPregnancy Resources of Abilene Inc: $208,000 · Civil RightsHEALING HEARTS CONNECTION: $100,000 · PhilanthropyCancer Services Network Inc: $37,209 · PhilanthropyHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $18,300 · PhilanthropyHARDIN-SIMMONS UNIVERSITY: $90,000 · EducationTEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 · EducationBAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · Education
Other$3,913,550Youth Development$2,080,709Animals$462,500Human Services$302,000Civil Rights$208,000Philanthropy$155,509Education$140,000

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 budgetABILENE YOUTH SPORTS AUTHORITY: $2,080,709 over 4y, 68% of budgetAll Kind Animal Initiative: $400,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetPregnancy Resources of Abilene Inc: $208,000 over 5y, 5.0% of budgetHENDRICK HOME FOR CHILDREN: $200,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetBIG COUNTRY COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC: $137,208 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetHendrick Hospice Care: $130,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $130,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHEALING HEARTS CONNECTION: $100,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetHARDIN-SIMMONS UNIVERSITY: $90,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $75,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetAbilene Zoological Society: $62,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetAbilene Boys Ranch Inc: $50,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetHabitat for Humanity Abilene Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetLove & Care Ministries: $47,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetTEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCancer Services Network Inc: $37,209 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $18,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS FUNERAL DIRECTORS ASSOCIATION INC: $17,735 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetRIDING HIGH MINISTRIES INC: $15,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetBAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNOAH PROJECT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKentucky Race Track Chaplaincy Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSerenity Foundation of Texas: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHORUS ABILENE: $460 over 1y, 0.3% 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 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 Hendrick Hospice Care ↗
  • Who funds ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Community Foundation …Barber FoundationShelton Family Founda…Dian Graves Owen Foun…Greathouse FoundationThe Massey Family Cha…The Legett FoundationKickapoo Springs Foun…Joe Davis Foundation …Food Bank of West Cen…The Karakin FoundationAmerican Electric Pow…
Community Foundation of AbileneTX38.1× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Directors Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Directors Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%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 · 0–25%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Directors Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Directors Foundation 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 60 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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