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Fikes Foundation

To support various 501(c)(3) charitable organizations, including children's miracle network hospital and the mclane scott & white children's hospital located in temple, texas.

$644k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$550k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$1.5MHealth$55kEmployment$26kHousing & Shelter$10kYouth Development$10kPhilanthropy$10k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $600,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $644,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $44,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+1 grant · $550k
$550,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$43k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF MARY HARDIN-BAYLOR$550,000
BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CENTRAL TEXAS FOUNDATION$50,000
02The need
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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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 0% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%UNIVERSITY OF MARY HARDIN-BAYLOR: $550k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MARY HARDIN-BAYLOR: $250k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MARY HARDIN-BAYLOR: $250k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MARY HARDIN-BAYLOR: $250k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MARY HARDIN-BAYLOR: $198k → 14%ELDREDS NURSERY: $18k → 14%ELDREDS NURSERY FOUNDATION: $8k → 14%BELTON EDUCATIONAL ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CENTRAL TEXAS FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $5k → 14%AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION: $5k → 14%FAMILY PROMISE OF EAST BELL COUNTY: $5k → 14%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 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
East Texas Baptist University

East texas baptist university (etbu) was founded in 1912 as a fully accredited institution of higher education. affiliated with the baptist general convention of texas, etbu educates students by integrating biblical faith and learning to…

Education
2
Baylor Scott & White Holdings

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
3
Hardin-Simmons University

The mission of hardin-simmons university is to be a community dedicated to providing excellence in education enlightened by christian faith and values.

Education
4
Scott & White Hospital-College Station

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
5
Scott & White Hospital-Taylor

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
6
Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
7
Bethel University

We educate and equip students to lead lives of impact through transformative academics in a christ-centered community.

Education
8
Houston Christian University

The mission of houston christian university is to provide a learning experience that instills in students a passion for academic, spiritual, and professional excellence as a result of our central confession, "jesus christ is lord."

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9
Belhaven University

Belhaven university prepares students academically and spiritually to serve jesus christ in their careers, in human relationships, and in the world of ideas.

Education
10
Baylor Scott & White Medical Centers - Greater North Texas

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
11
Scott & White Hospital-Marble Falls

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
12
Scott & White Continuing Care Hospital

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc; the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. 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

10 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.

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

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
9/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF MARY HARDIN-BAYLOR: $1,497,584 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MARY HARDIN-BAYLOR+1 more: $5,000 · EducationScott & White Healthcare Foundation: $50,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $5,000 · HealthELDREDS NURSERY FOUNDATION: $26,230 · EmploymentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH ALABAMA: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $5,000 · InternationalFAMILY PROMISE OF BELL COUNTY INC: $5,000 · Housing & Shelter
Education$1,502,584Health$55,000Employment$26,230Youth Development$10,000Philanthropy$10,000International$5,000Housing & Shelter$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF MARY HARDIN-BAYLOR: $1,497,584 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetScott & White Healthcare Foundation: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetELDREDS NURSERY FOUNDATION: $26,230 over 2y, 22% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH ALABAMA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BELTON EDUCATIONAL ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF BELL COUNTY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

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.

E Rhodes and Leona B …Enterprise Holdings F…Renaissance Charitabl…The Blackbaud Giving …Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
E Rhodes and Leona B Carpenter FoundationPA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: E Rhodes and Leona B Carpenter Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Fikes Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fikes Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.
    04Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Fikes Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Fikes Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 9 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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