· Private foundation
E Paul & Helen Buck Waggoner Foundation Inc
Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
50% of E Paul & Helen Buck Waggoner Foundation Inc’s FY2021 grant dollars went to National Philanthropic Trust, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2021 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year E Paul & Helen Buck Waggoner Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 15 organizations, $235k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k18 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $187k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Episcopal School of Dallas | $25,000 |
| All Saints Episcopal School | $23,783 |
| Boys and Girls Club | $20,000 |
| Union Gospel Mission of Tarrant County | $20,000 |
| Proclaim International | $20,000 |
| Covenant Classical School | $20,000 |
| Midwestern State University | $20,000 |
| Vernon College Foundation | $15,000 |
| Wichita Falls Area Food Bank | $13,000 |
| Christ Chapel Church | $10,000 |
| Tarrant Area Food Bank | $6,283 |
| Red River Valley Museum | $6,000 |
| Wilbarger County Child Welfare | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Grace Church | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–20, $71k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +44% for those funded once.
32 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2020, 10 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2021, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.0M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TETHE EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF DALLAS INC4× · 2017–2020 · $100k · revenue +20%
- CCCOVENANT CLASSICAL SCHOOL4× · 2017–2020 · $70k · revenue +108%
- HOHospice of Wichita Falls Inc4× · 2017–2020 · $60k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- GMGospel Mission of Tarrant Countyone grant, 2017 · $20k
- TLTEXAS LIONS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue -490%
- PLPETS LOW COST SPAY & NEUTERgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +76%
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.
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.
To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.
To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
The foundation's mission is to strengthen and support faith communities by partnering wise investments with purposeful giving.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
To ensure that the student body experiences balanced intellectual, psychological, social and spiritual development, aimed at enabling them to become active productive members of society where they live and work.
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…
To support and further the mission of texas state university through the acceptance and investment of gifts established as endowments benefiting the students, faculty and staff.
For the benefit of texas a&m university - corpus christi
The university of north texas foundation, inc. serves as unt's strategic partner in managing and growing private assets for support of the university's mission. untf's continuity, flexibility, and creative solutions contribute to fully…
Good Samaritan Foundation (GSF) is a fundraising and grant-making organization dedicated solely to Texas nursing. Its mission is to increase the number of nurses dedicated to clinical care and to improve the quality of nurse education and…
To support the university of texas system
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How this is measured
21 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. 21 of the 48 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
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- Who funds COVENANT CLASSICAL SCHOOL ↗
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- Who funds Union Gospel Mission of Tarrant County ↗
- Who funds VERNON COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds ADERA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Red River Valley Museum ↗
- Who funds TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS LIONS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WICHITA FALLS AREA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds HOPE FARM INC ↗
- Who funds Rathgeber Hospitality House ↗
- Who funds PETS LOW COST SPAY & NEUTER ↗
- Who funds Tarrant Area Food Bank ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds Northwest Texas Council of Boy Scouts of America ↗
- Who funds OPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · James N McCoy Foundation · Wichita Falls Area Community Foundation · Snell Charitable Foundation Inc · The Fain Foundation · Bryant Edwards Foundation Inc · J S Bridwell Foundation · Perkins-Prothro Foundation · The Priddy Foundation · Once Upon a Time Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · Gene Conley Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization E Paul & Helen Buck Waggoner Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from E Paul & Helen Buck Waggoner Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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