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Dr Kent Roberts & Ilene Roberts Balliett Foundation at a glance

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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.

$397k
Granted FY2025still arriving
59
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$948kHuman Services$562kHousing & Shelter$313kHealth$301kEducation$247kAnimals$215kYouth Development$184kFood & Nutrition$178kOther$0
02FY2025 · 59 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k41 grants · $184k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $213k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$7.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
AMARILLO SYMPHONY$10,000
WILDCAT BLUFF NATURE CENTER$10,000
AMARILLO SPCA$10,000
FAITH CITY MISSION$10,000
OPPORTUNITY SCHOOL$10,000
THE BRIDGE$10,000
ST ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF AM$10,000
ANOTHER CHANCE HOUSE$10,000
LONESTAR BALLET$10,000
PANHANDLE PLAINS HISTORICAL MUSEUM$10,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH: $3k → 20%BUCKNER CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICE: $9k → 14%ANOTHER CHANCE HOUSE: $10k → 20%BUCKNER CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICE: $8k → 14%ANOTHER CHANCE HOUSE: $10k → 20%ANOTHER CHANCE HOUSE: $10k → 20%ANOTHER CHANCE HOUSE: $5k → 20%REFUGEE LANGUAGE PROJECT: $10k → 20%EVELINE'S SUNSHINE COTTAGE: $5k → 20%FAITH CITY MISSION: $10k → 20%FAITH CITY MISSION: $20k → 20%MEALS ON WHEELS: $15k → 20%EVELINE SUNSHINE COTTAGE: $10k → 20%EVELINE SUNSHINE COTTAGE: $10k → 20%AMARILLO CHILDREN'S HOME: $8k → 9%AMARILLO CHILDREN'S HOME: $5k → 9%ANOTHER CHANCE HOUSE: $10k → 20%PARC: $10k → 20%AMARILLO CHILDREN'S HOME: $5k → 9%AMARILLO CHILDREN'S HOME: $5k → 9%PARC: $10k → 20%BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 20%AMARILLO CHILDREN'S HOME: $3k → 9%AMARILLO CHILDREN'S HOME: $3k → 9%A WORLD FOR CHILDREN: $2k → 9%A WORLD FOR CHILDREN: $2k → 9%A WORLD FOR CHILDREN: $2k → 9%A WORLD FOR CHILDREN: $2k → 9%BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 20%7 STAR HORSE THERAPY: $10k → 9%ANOTHER CHANCE HOUSE: $5k → 20%PANHANDLE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $5k → 20%BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 20%PARC: $5k → 20%EVELINE SUNSHINE COTTAGE: $5k → 20%BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 20%PARC: $5k → 20%MEALS ON WHEELS: $10k → 20%MEALS ON WHEELS: $5k → 20%THE BRIDGE: $15k → 20%THE BRIDGE: $10k → 20%THE BRIDGE: $10k → 20%THE BRIDGE: $10k → 20%THE BRIDGE: $10k → 20%THE BRIDGE: $10k → 20%THE BRIDGE: $10k → 20%THE BRIDGE: $10k → 20%THE BRIDGE: $10k → 20%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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.2M · 97 repeat orgs$425k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +11% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

97
63

Total granted

$3.2M
$365k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+11%

Still filing today

59%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationPhilanthropyAnimalsOther
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

  • AS
    AMARILLO SYMPHONY INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $120k · revenue +88%
  • TH
    THE HOPE AND HEALING PLACE INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $108k · revenue +25%
  • HP
    HIGH PLAINS FOOD BANK
    9× · 2017–2025 · $95k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • B
    BUCKNER
    one grant, 2020 · $20k
  • HT
    HEALTH THE CITY
    one grant, 2018 · $20k
  • DC
    DOVE CREEK RANCH AND EQUINE RESCUE
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
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
Medical Center League House of Amarillo Texas Inc

To serve as a home away from home for patients and their families coming to amarillo, texas for health care treatment.

Health
2
Center City of Amarillo Inc

Center city of amarillo, inc., brings people to downtown amarillo through organization, events, promotion, design and facilitation of economic restructuring.

Community Improvement
3
Amarillo Area Foundation Inc

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.

Philanthropy
4
Amarillo Tribune

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.

Community Improvement
5
Downtown Amarillo Inc

Downtown amarillo, inc. is committed to making downtown amarillo a vibrant and attractive place.

Community Improvement
6
Hendrick Home for Children
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7
Children's Learning Centers of Amarillo Inc

To provide a stimulating, healthy and safe environment for children, where they experience developmental and learning activities appropriate for their age and ability levels.

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8
Amarillo Area Adult Literacy Council Inc

Promotion of adult literacy in the texas panhandle.

—
9
Aaf Community Health Foundation

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.

Health
10
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
11
Atascosa Health Center Inc

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.

Health
12
Sharing Hope Ministry Inc

Providing christ-centered recovery material and aftercare services to women across the nation who are incarcerated or who reside in addiction recovery facilitites.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Amarillo Wesley Community Center Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

83 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
80/83
Grantees still filing
55/83
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LONE STAR BALLET INC: $115,000 · OtherAMARILLO MUSEUM OF ART: $105,000 · OtherHIGH PLAINS FOOD BANK: $95,000 · OtherLAURA W BUSH INSTITUTE FOR: $92,500 · OtherDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER INC: $72,500 · Other+119 more: $1,680,500 · Other+119 moreAMARILLO SYMPHONY INC: $120,000 · Arts & CultureAMARILLO SYMPHON…TEXAS PANHANDLE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $75,000 · Arts & CultureTEXAS PANHANDLE …AMARILLO OPERA INC: $75,000 · Arts & CultureAMARILLO OPERA I…AMARILLO LITTLE THEATER INC: $70,000 · Arts & CultureAMARILLO LITTLE …TEXAS PANHANDLE WAR MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $64,000 · Arts & CultureTEXAS PANHANDLE …WINDOW ON A WIDER WORLD INC: $48,400 · Arts & CultureWINDOW ON A WIDE…DON HARRINGTON DISCOVERY CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $32,500 · Arts & CultureDON HARRINGTON D…AMARILLO ART INSTITUTE INC: $29,000 · Arts & CultureAMARILLO ART INS…+3 more: $4,500 · Arts & CultureTHE BRIDGE: $95,000 · Human ServicesTHE BRIDGEFAITH CITY INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesFAITH CITY IN…ANOTHER CHANCE HOUSE: $50,000 · Human ServicesANOTHER CHANC…BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC: $42,000 · Human ServicesBUCKNER CHILD…THE PARC: $30,000 · Human ServicesTHE PARCEVELINE'S SUNSHINE COTTAGE: $30,000 · Human ServicesEVELINE'S SUN…MEALS ON WHEELS: $30,000 · Human ServicesMEALS ON WHEE…PRESBYTERIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN: $27,500 · Human ServicesPRESBYTERIAN …A WORLD FOR CHILDREN: $18,000 · Human Services+6 more: $45,000 · Human Services+6 moreTHE HOPE AND HEALING PLACE INC: $108,000 · HealthTURN CENTER: $39,000 · HealthCOALITION OF HEALTH SERVICES INC: $30,000 · HealthMARCH OF DIMES INC: $14,000 · Health+4 more: $11,000 · HealthAMARILLO SPCA: $90,000 · AnimalsANIMAL RESCUE SHELTER INC ANIMAL RESCUE SHELTER INC: $45,000 · AnimalsWILD WEST WILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTER: $20,000 · AnimalsCETA CANYON CAMP & RETREAT CENTER: $59,500 · ReligionMISSION AMARILLO: $20,000 · ReligionASCENSION ACADEMY: $25,000 · EducationThe Leaders Readers Network: $16,500 · EducationWEST TEXAS A&M UNIV FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EducationSUNSHINE COTTAGE SCHOOL FOR DEAF CHILDREN: $10,000 · EducationSTORYBRIDGE INC: $7,000 · EducationAMARILLO ISD FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Education
Other$2,160,500Arts & Culture$518,400Human Services$442,500Health$202,000Animals$155,000Religion$79,500Education$78,500

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 budgetAMARILLO SYMPHONY INC: $120,000 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetLONE STAR BALLET INC: $115,000 over 9y, 2.2% of budgetTHE HOPE AND HEALING PLACE INC: $108,000 over 8y, 5.4% of budgetHIGH PLAINS FOOD BANK: $95,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BRIDGE: $95,000 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetAMARILLO SPCA: $90,000 over 9y, 5.1% of budgetFAITH CITY INC: $75,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetTEXAS PANHANDLE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 9y, 5.0% of budgetAMARILLO OPERA INC: $75,000 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER INC: $72,500 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetAMARILLO LITTLE THEATER INC: $70,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetTEXAS PANHANDLE WAR MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $64,000 over 8y, 39% of budgetCETA CANYON CAMP & RETREAT CENTER: $59,500 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetAMARILLO AREA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC: $57,500 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetOPPORTUNITY SCHOOL INC: $55,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetANOTHER CHANCE HOUSE: $50,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetWINDOW ON A WIDER WORLD INC: $48,400 over 9y, 2.6% of budgetGOLDEN SPREAD COUNCIL INC 562 OF THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $45,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetANIMAL RESCUE SHELTER INC ANIMAL RESCUE SHELTER INC: $45,000 over 9y, 1.7% of budgetChamber Music Amarillo: $42,000 over 4y, 26% of budgetBUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC: $42,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTURN CENTER: $39,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY INC: $35,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AMARILLO COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetDON HARRINGTON DISCOVERY CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $32,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetWILDCAT BLUFF NATURE CENTER INC: $31,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetMARTHA'S HOME INC: $30,500 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetTHE PARC: $30,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetEVELINE'S SUNSHINE COTTAGE: $30,000 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS: $30,000 over 3y, 7.9% of budgetCOALITION OF HEALTH SERVICES INC: $30,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetAMARILLO ART INSTITUTE INC: $29,000 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN: $27,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetAMARILLO BOTANICAL GARDENS: $27,500 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetASCENSION ACADEMY: $25,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF AMARILLO TEXAS: $25,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetTYLER STREET RESOURCE CENTER INC: $25,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF TEXAS OKLAHOMA PLAINS INC: $21,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMISSION AMARILLO: $20,000 over 4y, 5.7% of budgetCENIKOR FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBRIDGES TO LIFE: $19,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetA WORLD FOR CHILDREN: $18,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $17,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetAMARILLO TRI-STATE EXPOSITION: $17,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetThe Leaders Readers Network: $16,500 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetAMARILLO HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $15,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetMOORE COUNTY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetMAVERICK BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF AMARILLO INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% 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 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 FAITH CITY INC ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS PANHANDLE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AMARILLO OPERA 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 Chamber Music Amarillo ↗
  • Who funds BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds TURN CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE UNITED WAY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE AMARILLO COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DON HARRINGTON DISCOVERY CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WILDCAT BLUFF NATURE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds MARTHA'S HOME INC ↗
  • Who funds THE PARC ↗
  • Who funds EVELINE'S SUNSHINE COTTAGE ↗
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS ↗

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.

Josephine Anderson Ch…Amarillo Area Foundat…Mary E Bivins Foundat…Kimble Foundation Tru…High Plains Christian…Cj and Syble Fowlston…Mays FoundationAmarillo Business Fou…William & Louise Mull…Brumley FoundationXcel Energy FoundationThe Don & Sybil Harri…
Josephine Anderson Charitable TrustTX134.7× affinity62 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Dr Kent Roberts & Ilene Roberts Balliett Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dr Kent Roberts & Ilene Roberts Balliett Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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 169 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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