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Donnell Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$117k
Granted FY2024still arriving
64
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$85kEducation$59kHuman Services$53kPhilanthropy$29kArts & Culture$25kCommunity Improvement$18kFood & Nutrition$16kYouth Development$15kOther$0
02FY2024 · 64 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k63 grants · $107k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$1,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WICHITA FALLS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$10,000
PRESBYTERIAN MANOR$8,250
MIDWESTERN STATE UNIVERSITY$7,500
SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY$7,500
Individual grant recipient$6,000
OPERATION RESCUE CHILDREN$5,000
FAITH MISSION$5,000
RON HUTCHISON MINISTRIES$5,000
TRIBAL RESCUE MINISTRIES$5,000
TUNNELL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$5,000
HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION$5,000
STRAIGHT STREET$3,000
TEXOMA ALLIANCE TO STOP ABUSE$2,500
WICHITA FALLS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$2,500
FAMILY ABUSE CENTER$2,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%PRESBYTERIAN CHILDRENS'S HOMES & SERVICES: $1k → 10%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%PRESBYTERIAN MANOR: $8k → 16%OPERATION RESCUE CHILDREN: $5k → 16%PRESBYTERIAN MANOR: $5k → 16%HANDS TO HANDS: $2k → 16%HANDS TO HANDS: $2k → 16%HANDS TO HANDS: $2k → 16%HANDS TO HANDS: $2k → 16%HANDS TO HANDS: $2k → 16%PRESBYTERIAN MANOR: $1k → 16%PRESBYTERIAN MANOR: $1k → 16%THE ARC OF WICHITA COUNTY: $250 → 16%THE ARC OF WICHITA COUNTY: $250 → 16%THE ARC OF WICHITA COUNTY: $250 → 16%PRESBYTERIAN MANOR: $100 → 16%THE KITCHEN: $1k → 16%YMCA OF WICHITA FALLS: $500 → 16%SOBER LIVING: $250 → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
NY
OH
PA
CA
CO
VA
AR
TN
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$281k · 59 repeat orgs$110k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against +5% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

59
52

Total granted

$281k
$73k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+5%

Still filing today

42%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k 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 ServicesArts & CultureEducationReligionHealthPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • Southern Methodist University
    4× · 2021–2024 · $20k · revenue +18%
  • PM
    Presbyterian Manor Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $15k · revenue +37%
  • WF
    Wichita Falls Symphony Orchestra
    4× · 2020–2024 · $9k · revenue +80%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $12k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $12k
  • HB
    H&S BUSINESS PARTNERS
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
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
Hospice of Wichita Falls Inc

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

Human Services
2
Wichita Falls Faith Mission Inc

To provide christ-centered programs and services that lead the homeless toward self-sufficiency.

Religion
3
Food Bank of West Central Texas

To procure and distribute nutritional food to qualified agencies that feed the hungry of West Central Texas.

Food & Nutrition
4
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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5
Childrens Advocacy Center of West Texas Inc

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.

Crime & Legal
6
Wichita Adore Ministries

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.

Religion
7
Wichita Family Crisis Center

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.

Human Services
8
Wichita Habitat for Humanity Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
9
Wichita County Community Foundation Inc

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…

Community Improvement
10
North Texas Parent & Child Development Inc

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…

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11
Caritas of Waco

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…

Human Services
12
Interfaith Ministries of Wichita Falls Inc Dba Interfaith Outreach Services

The primary purpose of the organization is to provide assistance to temporarily disadvantaged individuals and families.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Senior Citizen Services of North Texas Inc Dba the Kitchen; 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.
04the 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 129 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)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/51
Grantees still filing
32/51
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FAITH MISSION: $40,000 · OtherFAITH MISSIONMIDWESTERN STATE UNIVERSITY: $21,250 · OtherMIDWESTERN STATE UNIVERSITYRON HUTCHISON MINISTRIES: $15,000 · OtherRON HUTCHISON MINISTRIESUNITED REGIONAL FOUNDATION: $12,750 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $12,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $12,000 · OtherKAOEF: $11,100 · OtherSTRAIGHT STREET: $11,000 · Other+88 more: $132,060 · Other+88 morePresbyterian Manor Inc: $15,350 · Human ServicesPresbyterian…HANDS TO HANDS: $10,000 · Human ServicesHANDS TO HAN…HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesHEALTHNETWOR…OPERATION RESCUE CHILDREN: $5,000 · Human ServicesOPERATION RE…SENIOR CITIZEN SERVICES OF NORTH TEXAS INC DBA THE KITCHEN: $4,500 · Human ServicesSENIOR CITIZ…FAMILY ABUSE CENTER INC: $2,000 · Human Services+4 more: $2,500 · Human Services+4 moreSouthern Methodist University: $20,000 · EducationSouthern M…CHRIST ACADEMY: $7,000 · EducationCHRIST ACA…STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SI…OAK HILLS FELLOWSHIP: $4,000 · EducationOAK HILLS …KAPPA ALPHA ORDER EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $2,000 · Education+1 more: $650 · EducationWichita Falls Symphony Orchestra: $8,850 · Arts & CultureFELLOWSHIP FOR PERFORMING ARTS INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureThe Museum of North Texas History: $4,250 · Arts & CultureArts Council Wichita Falls Area Inc: $1,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $1,500 · Arts & CultureTRIBAL RESCUE MINISTRIES: $5,000 · ReligionCHRIST COUNSELING MINISTRY INC: $5,000 · ReligionHOWTOLIFE MOVEMENT: $3,000 · Religion+1 more: $100 · ReligionWichita Falls Area Community Foundation: $11,000 · PhilanthropyTexoma Alliance to Stop Abuse: $2,500 · HealthFIRST STEP OF WICHITA FALLS INC: $2,000 · HealthRathgeber Hospitality House: $1,250 · HealthBEACON LIGHTHOUSE INC: $1,000 · Health
Other$267,160Human Services$44,350Education$38,650Arts & Culture$20,600Religion$13,100Philanthropy$11,000Health$6,750

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 budgetSouthern Methodist University: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPresbyterian Manor Inc: $15,350 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWichita Falls Area Community Foundation: $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWichita Falls Symphony Orchestra: $8,850 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCHRIST ACADEMY: $7,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTRIBAL RESCUE MINISTRIES: $5,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetHEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHRIST COUNSELING MINISTRY INC: $5,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetWORLD OUTREACH MINISTRIES INC: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION RESCUE CHILDREN: $5,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetFELLOWSHIP FOR PERFORMING ARTS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSENIOR CITIZEN SERVICES OF NORTH TEXAS INC DBA THE KITCHEN: $4,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Museum of North Texas History: $4,250 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetOAK HILLS FELLOWSHIP: $4,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHOWTOLIFE MOVEMENT: $3,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetWICHITA FALLS AREA FOOD BANK: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTexoma Alliance to Stop Abuse: $2,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetProject Back to School: $2,250 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetCHILDFUND INTERNATIONAL USA: $2,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST STEP OF WICHITA FALLS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKAPPA ALPHA ORDER EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY ABUSE CENTER INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH TEXAS PANTRY: $1,750 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetChild Evangelism Fellowship of West Texas: $1,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRathgeber Hospitality House: $1,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHILD ADVOCATES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEACON LIGHTHOUSE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWICHITA ADULT LITERACY COUNCIL INC: $1,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWichita West Volunteer Fire Dept: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetArts Council Wichita Falls Area Inc: $1,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN CHILDREN'S HOMES & SERVICES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLAY COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ARC OF WICHITA COUNTY INC: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetChild Advocates CASA of Red River: $750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKMOC FM: $750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLEADERSHIP WICHITA FALLS INC: $650 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetD Disaster Helping Hand Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetYoung Mens Christian Association of Wichita Falls: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTMAS IN ACTION: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWICHITA COUNTY HERITAGE SOCIETY DBA KELL HOUSE HERITAGE CENTER: $500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWichita Falls Alliance for Arts and Culture: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHUNDRED CLUB OF WICHITA FALLS: $325 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSOBER LIVING INC: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetZAVALA HISPANIC CULTURAL INITIATIVE: $250 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTEXAS RAMP PROJECT: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF TEXAS: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Heritage Society: $250 over 1y, 0.1% 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 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 HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CHRIST COUNSELING MINISTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD OUTREACH MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION RESCUE CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds FELLOWSHIP FOR PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Bryant Edwards Founda…James N McCoy Foundat…J S Bridwell Foundati…The Fain FoundationWichita Falls Area Co…The Priddy FoundationGuinn Foundation IncGene Conley FoundationPerkins-Prothro Found…Leota Steed FoundationKadane FoundationLibra Foundation
Bryant Edwards Foundation IncTX62.1× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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.

    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 129 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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