· Private foundation
Dora Roberts Foundation - Fi Xxxxx4008
Its FY2025 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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k6 grants · $110k
- $50k–250k17 grants · $1.9M
- $250k+5 grants · $2.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE | $500,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY OF BIG SPRING | $500,000 |
| HAPPY DAY HUMANE SOCIETY | $400,000 |
| FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $335,000 |
| HOWARD COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE | $300,000 |
| HOWARD COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $224,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE BIG SPRING COWBOY REUNION | $179,800 |
| BIG SPRING YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSO | $160,000 |
| HOWARD COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION INC | $152,000 |
| HOWARD COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING | $131,529 |
| SAN ANGELO AREA FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| YARD SPORTS COMPLEX | $100,000 |
| CASA OF WEST TEXAS | $100,000 |
| EVANGELICAL DEVELOPMENT MINISTRY | $100,000 |
| GRAND COMPANIONS HUMANE SOCIETY | $100,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
37 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k 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
- RARUNNELS ACADEMY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $2.4M · revenue +74% · 49% of their budget
- BCBaylor College of Medicine7× · 2019–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +47%
- HDHAPPY DAYS HUMANE SOCIETY6× · 2019–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +216% · 44% of their budget
Funded once
- YOYMCA OF BIG SPRINGone grant, 2019 · $178k
- DRDORA ROBERTS REHABILITATION CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $156k · revenue +329%
- NCNORTHSIDE COMMUNITY CENTERone grant, 2019 · $75k
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.
A state of texas licensed foster care and adoption agency that identifies and provides approved healing foster homes for children.
Care for abandoned animals in vernon and wilbarger county, tx including spay, neuter, adoption and education.
sustain farming ranching and land management in a food desert.
Local humane society animal shelter and animal rescue.
Offers programs & services to older persons such as meals, house keeping, yard work, public transportation, and social activities.
Cowboy at the cross ministries is an evangelical, outreach ministry. gathering strays, allowing god to change our ways, to walk in truth and holiness.
Provide & maintain facility for ministry services
Assisting the poor and needy with food, clothing, medical , rent, and utilites.
Pregnancy counseling
Christian education high school
Provide early childhood intervention
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is High Sky Childrens Ranch Inc and the most unlike its peers is Crossroads Tennis Association. 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 41 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 16% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 6% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 53 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 RUNNELS ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Baylor College of Medicine ↗
- Who funds HAPPY DAYS HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HOWARD COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOWARD COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING ↗
- Who funds HOWARD COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE MUSEUM OF BIG SPRING ↗
- Who funds ISAIAH 58 ↗
- Who funds EVANGELICAL DEVELOPMENT MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CASA OF WEST TEXAS ↗
- Who funds PERMIAN BASIN HONOR FLIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds Grand Companions Humane Society ↗
- Who funds RAPE CRISIS SERVICES OF BIG SPRING ↗
- Who funds HOWARD COUNTY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds HANGAR 25 AIR MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SAFE PLACE OF THE PERMIAN BASIN ↗
- Who funds FOOD 2 KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds DORA ROBERTS REHABILITATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds SAN ANGELO AREA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Ranch Hands Rescue ↗
- Who funds Yard Sports Complex ↗
- Who funds West Texas Community Mediation Center ↗
- Who funds WESTSIDE COMMUNITY DAYCARE CENTER 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: Permian Basin Area Foundation · Wayne & Jo Ann Moore Charitable Foundation · Fmh Foundation · James a Buddy Davidson Charitable Foundation · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Broughton Foundation Trust · The Paul J Williams Foundation · Yarborough Foundation · Scharbauer Foundation Inc · Abell-Hanger Foundation · JC Ferguson Foundation Inc · The Fasken 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 Dora Roberts Foundation - Fi Xxxxx4008 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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