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Frances Maddox 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $257k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE BRIDGE | $25,000 |
| PANHANDLE PAWS OF HOPE | $25,000 |
| THE PARC | $20,000 |
| EVELINE'S SUNSHINE COTTAGE | $18,000 |
| THE MAVERICK BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $15,500 |
| LIFE CHALLENGE AMARILLO | $15,000 |
| PETS LOW COST SPAY & NEUTER | $15,000 |
| AMARILLO AREA CASA | $15,000 |
| DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| AMARILLO SPCA | $13,000 |
| FRIENDS OF AJ SWOPE | $13,000 |
| FAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES OF AMARILLO | $12,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| MARTHA'S HOME | $10,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $368k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 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.
24 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k 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
- TPTHE PARC7× · 2019–2025 · $205k · revenue +133%
- DWDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $159k · revenue +7%
- PPPANHANDLE PAWS OF HOPE8× · 2018–2025 · $157k · revenue +107% · 29% of their budget
Funded once
- HFHidden Falls Ranchgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +46%
- MAMAKE A WISH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $10k
- COCENTRAL OKLAHOMA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $7k · revenue +36%
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.
Sanctuary for abused or abandoned animals
Animal rescue league of el paso is a no-kill animal shelter. we serve abandoned, injured & abused companion animals by providing medical care and locating lifelong homes
As an advocate for the community goal of maintaining its no kill status, the humane society provides adoption, rescue and foster opportunities for the homeless animals at the city of waco animal shelter, as well as community education…
Humane animal shelter
Provide veterinary and shelter services for displaced and wayward animals in the township and outlying area of port aransas, texas.
Adoption and shelter facility for unwanted, abandoned and neglected animals. provide aid to the community who need help with vetting or care of their animals.
To provide basic needs and services to homeless individuals who are willing to commit to improving their lifestyle.
Shelter, food and veterniary care provided for animals in a clean shelter environment. this is a no-kill facility. animals are neutered, vaccinated, microchipped prior to being adopted. every effort is made to educate the community about…
Assisting and housing females in recovery
Animal rescue foundation inc (arf) rescues homeless dogs and cats in the tulsa area and helps them find loving homes. we do this by rescuing homelss animals out of area shelters, accepting owner surrendered pets, placing them in foster…
Animal rescue and rehabilitation
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Life Challlenge of Amarillo Inc and the most unlike its peers is Transformation Park. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
23 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. 23 of the 30 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 EVELINE'S SUNSHINE COTTAGE ↗
- Who funds THE PARC ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PANHANDLE PAWS OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds HIGH PLAINS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds AMARILLO AREA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S HOME INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE CHALLLENGE OF AMARILLO INC ↗
- Who funds PETS LOW COST SPAY & NEUTER ↗
- Who funds SHARING HOPE MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds AMARILLO SPCA ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES OF AMARILLO ↗
- Who funds NOVO MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds DON HARRINGTON DISCOVERY CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TURN CENTER ↗
- Who funds ANOTHER CHANCE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL RESCUE SHELTER INC ANIMAL RESCUE SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF AJ SWOPE ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE ↗
- Who funds Hidden Falls Ranch ↗
- Who funds HOPE LIVES HERE ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL OKLAHOMA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds TRANSFORMATION PARK ↗
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: Amarillo Area Foundation Inc · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mary E Bivins Foundation · Amarillo Business Foundation · Dr Kent Roberts & Ilene Roberts Balliett Foundation · Josephine Anderson Charitable Trust · High Plains Christian Ministries Foundation · Mays Foundation · Kimble Foundation Trust · Ned O and Linda Miller Charitable · William & Louise Mullins Foundation · Bruckner Family Foundation Inc
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 Frances Maddox 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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