· 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 you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
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 |
| Covenant Classical School | $20,000 |
| Midwestern State University | $20,000 |
| Proclaim International | $20,000 |
| Boys and Girls Club | $20,000 |
| Union Gospel Mission of Tarrant County | $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 |
| Grace Church | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–20, $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 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 +52% since the first grant, against +44% for the ones you 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
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
- 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%
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 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
National Christian Foundation North Texas (NCFNT) was created to facilitate smarter Christian giving with sophisticated charitable techniques.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas Tech Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Triple D Foundation. 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 44 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 48 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 NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds Triple D Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT CLASSICAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Hospice of Wichita Falls Inc ↗
- 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 PETS LOW COST SPAY & NEUTER ↗
- Who funds Rathgeber Hospitality House ↗
- Who funds Tarrant Area Food Bank ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds OPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Northwest Texas Council of Boy Scouts of America ↗
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: 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
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 E Paul & Helen Buck Waggoner Foundation Inc 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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