· Private foundation
Donnell 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 $10k63 grants · $107k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WICHITA FALLS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| PRESBYTERIAN MANOR | $8,250 |
| SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY | $7,500 |
| MIDWESTERN STATE UNIVERSITY | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| OPERATION RESCUE CHILDREN | $5,000 |
| TRIBAL RESCUE MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| TUNNELL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| RON HUTCHISON MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| FAITH MISSION | $5,000 |
| HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| STRAIGHT STREET | $3,000 |
| WICHITA FALLS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $2,500 |
| TEXOMA ALLIANCE TO STOP ABUSE | $2,500 |
| WORLD OUTREACH MINISTRIES | $2,000 |
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, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 97% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +13% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
59 repeat relationships — 45 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 17 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, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k 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
Southern Methodist University4× · 2021–2024 · $20k · revenue +18%- PMPresbyterian Manor Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $15k · revenue +37%
- WFWichita Falls Symphony Orchestra4× · 2020–2024 · $9k · revenue +80%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $12k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $12k
- HBH&S BUSINESS PARTNERSone grant, 2023 · $5k
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.
Care, hope, and support for all when illness threatens life.
To provide christ-centered programs and services that lead the homeless toward self-sufficiency.
To procure and distribute nutritional food to qualified agencies that feed the hungry of West Central Texas.
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…
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.
Bringing souls face to face with the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus Christ and forming missionaries of the New Evangelization. The organization has realized this mission by providing music and production services for worship events.
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.
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…
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…
The organization is dedicated to providing quality, comprehensive services to pregnant women, infants, and toddlers. teaming with other agencies enables them to help each child and family achieve social competency. early head start…
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…
The primary purpose of the organization is to provide assistance to temporarily disadvantaged individuals and families.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Senior Citizen Services of North Texas Inc Dba the Kitchen and the most unlike its peers is Tribal Rescue Ministries. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 11% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
51 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. 51 of the 129 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 Southern Methodist University ↗
- Who funds Presbyterian Manor Inc ↗
- Who funds Wichita Falls Area Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds Wichita Falls Symphony Orchestra ↗
- Who funds CHRIST ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds TRIBAL RESCUE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP FOR PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD OUTREACH MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHRIST COUNSELING MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION RESCUE CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds SENIOR CITIZEN SERVICES OF NORTH TEXAS INC DBA THE KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds The Museum of North Texas History ↗
- Who funds OAK HILLS FELLOWSHIP ↗
- Who funds HOWTOLIFE MOVEMENT ↗
- Who funds WICHITA FALLS AREA FOOD BANK ↗
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: Bryant Edwards Foundation Inc · James N McCoy Foundation · J S Bridwell Foundation · The Fain Foundation · Wichita Falls Area Community Foundation · The Priddy Foundation · Guinn Foundation Inc · Gene Conley Foundation · Perkins-Prothro Foundation · Leota Steed Foundation · Kadane Foundation · Libra 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 Donnell 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.