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Fmh Foundation
Its FY2024 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $689k
- $50k–250k33 grants · $3.7M
- $250k+10 grants · $9.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PERMIAN BASIN BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CENTER | $4,000,000 |
| YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOC OF BIG SPRING TX | $1,705,000 |
| MARTIN COUNTY HOSPITAL DISTRICT | $1,000,000 |
| LEVELLAND WALLACE THEATER | $800,000 |
| DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF SNYDER | $650,000 |
| CITY OF SEMINOLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT | $400,000 |
| NORTHEAST MIDLAND COUNTY VOLUNTEER FD | $375,000 |
| MIDLAND MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $345,000 |
| WEST TEXAS FOOD BANK | $275,000 |
| PERMIACARE | $255,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $227,000 |
| ECISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| FAMILY CRISIS CENTER OF THE BIG BEND INC | $200,000 |
| BASIN DREAM CENTER FOR ORPHANS | $200,000 |
| MIDLAND FESTIVAL BALLET | $150,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $10.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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 +31% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
108 repeat relationships — 51 still active in FY2024, 57 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.0M 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
- PBPERMIAN BASIN BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CENTER3× · 2022–2024 · $11M · revenue +383% · 75% of their budget
- MCMARTIN COUNTY CONVENT FOUNDATION3× · 2019–2022 · $4.3M · revenue +377% · 61% of their budget
- MCMEDICAL CENTER HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION3× · 2021–2023 · $3.8M · revenue +383% · 43% of their budget
Funded once
- MAMIDLAND ATHLETIC SYNDICATE INCone grant, 2023 · $3.5M · 70% of their budget
- ENELLEN NOEL ART MUSEUM OF THE PBone grant, 2022 · $3.0M
- RCRANKIN COUNTY HOSPITALone grant, 2023 · $3.0M
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 collect, preserve, catalog and exhibit scientific, geological and engineering data gathered by the petroleum industry - to be a working library for use by industry professionals, educators, students and other members of the interested…
Permian basin animal advocates strives to educate and help the public with spay and neuter while also rescuing abandoned or unwanted animals and finding them forever homes.
To support and compliment the work of Workforce Solutions of West Central Texas Board, which is responsible for the planning, oversight, and evaluation of a consolidated workforce system for the 19 County West Central Texas region.
Meals on Wheels of Odessa enables people to live with dignity by offering community support and sustenance through coordinated services and enable older adults to live in their own homes safely and independently as long as they are able.
We will share the petroleum and energy story and its impact on our lives.
To collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret the history of the North Texas Area to inspire an interest in the past for the education and enrichment of people of all ages.
Operate a non-profit medical clinic exclusively for charitable purposes to provide medical health services to uninsured and low income adults in the Abilene area.
The Mission of The Mesquite Arts Center is to make visual and performing arts available to all the communities of North Texas; to become a creative force and an educational resource for our regional residents; and to deliver the economic…
Providing mental healthcare to restore hope and healing
To provide rehabilitation services to every child in the permian basin with a neurologic or orthopedic need at little or no cost.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Nonprofit Management Center of the Permian Basin Inc and the most unlike its peers is Heritage Museum of Big Spring. 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 31 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
113 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. 113 of the 167 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 PERMIAN BASIN BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds MARTIN COUNTY CONVENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL CENTER HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND ATHLETIC SYNDICATE INC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR LIFE MIDLAND INC ↗
- Who funds MANOR PARK INC ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND COMMUNITY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds WEST TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds LEVELLAND WALLACE THEATER ↗
- Who funds UMC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE SOUTHWEST ↗
- Who funds CITY OF MIDLAND AQUATICS INC ↗
- Who funds HIGH SKY CHILDRENS RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Midland Texas ↗
- Who funds PERMIAN BASIN QUALITY OF PLACE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds WEST TEXAS COUNSELING AND GUIDANCE ↗
- Who funds THE SPRINGBOARD CENTER ↗
- Who funds CASA OF WEST TEXAS ↗
- Who funds Greenwood Volunteer Fire Department ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND FESTIVAL BALLET ↗
- Who funds MARTIN COUNTY HISTORICAL MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF MIDLAND TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds MARFA PUBLIC RADIO CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND SHARED SPACES INC ↗
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: Permian Basin Area Foundation · Abell-Hanger Foundation · Wayne & Jo Ann Moore Charitable Foundation · Scharbauer Foundation Inc · Pevehouse Family Foundation · Helen Greathouse Charitable Trust · The Henry Foundation · Beal Foundation · Yarborough Foundation · Warren Charitable Foundation · The Fasken Foundation · Paul and Katherine Morrow Family 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 Fmh 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.
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