· Private foundation
Dr Kent Roberts & Ilene Roberts Balliett Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 55% of DR KENT ROBERTS & ILENE ROBERTS BALLIETT FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k41 grants · $184k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $213k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMARILLO COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| WILD WEST WILDLIFE REHABILITATION C | $20,000 |
| DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER | $15,000 |
| AMARILLO MUSEUM OF ART | $15,000 |
| THE HOPE AND HEALING PLACE | $13,000 |
| PANHANDLE ADULT REBUILDING CENTER | $10,000 |
| AMARILLO HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $10,000 |
| AMARILLO SYMPHONY | $10,000 |
| ANOTHER CHANCE HOUSE | $10,000 |
| WILDCAT BLUFF NATURE CENTER | $10,000 |
| AMARILLO SPCA | $10,000 |
| THE BRIDGE | $10,000 |
| ST ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF AM | $10,000 |
| FAITH CITY MISSION | $10,000 |
| OPPORTUNITY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $380k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 85% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
97 repeat relationships — 50 still active in FY2025, 47 since wound down; 9 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k 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
- ASAMARILLO SYMPHONY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $120k · revenue +88%
- THTHE HOPE AND HEALING PLACE INC8× · 2017–2025 · $108k · revenue +25%
- HPHIGH PLAINS FOOD BANK9× · 2017–2025 · $95k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- HTHEALTH THE CITYone grant, 2018 · $20k
- BBUCKNERone grant, 2020 · $20k
- SCSUNSHINE COTTAGE SCHOOL FOR DEAF CHILDRENgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +48%
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.
To serve as a home away from home for patients and their families coming to amarillo, texas for health care treatment.
Center city of amarillo, inc., brings people to downtown amarillo through organization, events, promotion, design and facilitation of economic restructuring.
A community foundation operating as a public charity, with a mission to improve the quality of life in the texas panhandle through effective philanthropic efforts.
The purpose or purposes for which the corporation is organized shall be limited to: (a)providing information about public policy, politics, government, and national and statewide issues to the general public.
Downtown amarillo, inc. is committed to making downtown amarillo a vibrant and attractive place.
To provide a stimulating, healthy and safe environment for children, where they experience developmental and learning activities appropriate for their age and ability levels.
Promotion of adult literacy in the texas panhandle.
Support organization of amarillo area foundation, inc. to provide and support medical and health care facilities, services, and education in amarillo, texas, and the texas panhandle area.
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.
Health care services are provided to low to moderate income families who are residents of South Texas. Services are provided at a low cost are based on abiilty to pay base. Approximately 18,022 patients were served in the fiscal year.
Providing christ-centered recovery material and aftercare services to women across the nation who are incarcerated or who reside in addiction recovery facilitites.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Amarillo Wesley Community Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Meals On Wheels. 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 40 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
83 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 83 of the 169 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 AMARILLO SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds LONE STAR BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOPE AND HEALING PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds HIGH PLAINS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE ↗
- Who funds AMARILLO SPCA ↗
- Who funds AMARILLO OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS PANHANDLE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAITH CITY INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AMARILLO LITTLE THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS PANHANDLE WAR MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CETA CANYON CAMP & RETREAT CENTER ↗
- Who funds AMARILLO AREA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ANOTHER CHANCE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds WINDOW ON A WIDER WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN SPREAD COUNCIL INC 562 OF THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL RESCUE SHELTER INC ANIMAL RESCUE SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Chamber Music Amarillo ↗
- Who funds TURN CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE AMARILLO COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds DON HARRINGTON DISCOVERY CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WILDCAT BLUFF NATURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S HOME INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds COALITION OF HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds EVELINE'S SUNSHINE COTTAGE ↗
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: Josephine Anderson Charitable Trust · Amarillo Area Foundation Inc · Mary E Bivins Foundation · Kimble Foundation Trust · High Plains Christian Ministries Foundation · Cj and Syble Fowlston Charitable Trust · Mays Foundation · Amarillo Business Foundation · William & Louise Mullins Foundation · Brumley Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Don & Sybil Harrington 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 Dr Kent Roberts & Ilene Roberts Balliett 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.