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Garrison Family 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.

$1.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
33
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$215k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through 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 2025.

Education$2.4MHealth$1.8MHuman Services$1.4MReligion$1.1MRecreation & Sports$695kAnimals$680kArts & Culture$606kYouth Development$190kOther$0
02FY2025 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $399k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $928k
$20,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC$215,000
CETA CANYON CAMP & RETREAT CENTER$125,000
LUBBOCK COUNTY EXPO CENTER INC$100,000
COVENANT HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION$100,000
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH TEXAS$90,000
AUSTIN YMBL SUNSHINE CAMP$82,500
WESLEY FOUNDATION AT TEXAS TECH$80,998
AUSTIN PETS ALIVE$75,000
AGRICULTURE HERITAGE MUSEUM INC$60,000
JOSEPHS HAMMER$40,000
HARMONY SCHOOL OF CREATIVE ARTS$40,000
LONG GAME YOUTH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL TEXAS$40,000
HOPE TO OPPORTUNITIES FOUNDATION$30,661
AUSTIN PARKS FOUNDATION$30,000
ALL GODS CHILDREN INTERNATIONAL$30,000
02The need
03

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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Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $585k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JOSEPHS HAMMER: $100k → 13%HIGH POINT VILLAGE: $97k → 17%HIGH POINT VILLAGE: $60k → 17%JOSEPHS HAMMER: $40k → 13%HIGH POINT VILLAGE: $50k → 17%HIGH POINT VILLAGE: $50k → 17%BUCKNER FOUNDATION: $15k → 17%BUCKNER FOUNDATION: $15k → 17%OPEN DOOR RECOVERY HOUSE: $20k → 9%LOUDER THAN SILENCE: $13k → 10%YOUTH AND FAMILY ALLIANCE: $15k → 10%YOUTH AND FAMILY ALLIANCE: $15k → 10%YOUTH AND FAMILY ALLIANCE: $10k → 10%YOUTH AND FAMILY ALLIANCE: $5k → 10%NEW LEGACY HOME FOR WOMEN: $25k → 17%INSIDE OUT FOUNDATION: $15k → 17%INSIDE OUT FOUNDATION: $15k → 17%INSIDE OUT FOUNDATION: $15k → 17%INSIDE OUT FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.6M · 50 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

50 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
36

Total granted

$8.6M
$886k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+5%

Still filing today

88%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $172k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthReligionAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • MCMURRY UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2018–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +93%
  • CC
    CETA CANYON CAMP & RETREAT CENTER
    7× · 2018–2025 · $865k · revenue +34%
  • JP
    JEREMIAH PROGRAM
    4× · 2018–2022 · $478k · revenue +182%

Funded once

  • OH
    Oregon Health & Science University
    one grant, 2018 · $125k
  • GI
    GARRISON INSTITUTE ON AGING
    one grant, 2020 · $83k
  • WF
    WESLEY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $73k
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.

04Its 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
Lubbock Family Outreach Center Inc Dba Family Guidance & Outreach Center

The Family Guidance & Outreach Center of Lubbock is dedicated to the prevention of child abuse and neglect and supporting, mentoring, and educating parents.

Human Services
2
Leadership Austin

Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.

Youth Development
3
Texas Girls and Boys Ranch

Sharing jesus, healing hearts, transforming lives.

Human Services
4
Lubbock Area United Way Inc

Giving people hope. working to address the root issues of the significant challenges facing our south plains communities to create lasting, positive change.

Philanthropy
5
The Lullaby House

The Lullaby House missionis ot strengthen families by providing programs and services to teenage parents and familites in need which will inspire and promote generational change.

Youth Development
6
Family Promise of Lubbock Inc

To provide homeless families with children the tools necessary to achieve long term financial, parental, and personal self-sufficiency through a comprehensive program of temporary housing, case management, and supportive services.

Housing & Shelter
7
Lubbock Christian University

Lubbock christian university is a christ-centered, academic community of learners, transforming the hearts, minds, and hands of students for lives of purpose and service.

Education
8
Lone Star Justice Alliance

Lone star justice alliance (lsja) was established in 2017 as a non-profit legal organization to boldly address systemic failures in the justice system through advocacy and innovative evidence-based programs that improve life outcomes for…

Crime & Legal
9
Lubbock Christian School

Lubbock christian school is dedicated to providing a quality environment in which each student will grow in wisdom and stature and in favor with god and man. lcs strives for excellence spiritually, personally, and professionally among…

Education
10
Central Texas Children's Home

To provide family services and to provide residential child care for dependent children where there is a need to assist children and families disrupted by problems.

Human Services
11
Lone Star Casa Inc

Lone Star CASA elevates the voices of children in Kaufman and Rockwall County who have experienced abuse and neglect by providing trained volunteer advocates to work alongside children and families so they can achieve safety and stability…

Civil Rights
12
Goodwill Industries of Lubbock Inc

Goodwill is a local nonprofit helping people overcome challenges, build skills, find jobs and grow careers.

Employment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Central & South Texas; the most unlike its peers is Kats Alley Cats. 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

71 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. 71 of the 94 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
70/71
Grantees still filing
45/71
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MCMURRY UNIVERSITY: $1,125,000 · EducationMCMURRY UNIVERSITYTEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC: $721,058 · EducationTEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INCVELA: $120,615 · EducationVELALUBBOCK COUNTY EXPO CENTER INC: $100,000 · Education+4 more: $175,330 · Education+4 moreMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL & SOUTH TEXAS: $527,000 · OtherMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL & SOUTH…TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY: $214,400 · OtherTEXAS TECH UNIVERSITYFIRST TEE OF AUSTIN: $203,483 · OtherFIRST TEE OF AUSTINIndividual grant recipient: $166,500 · OtherOregon Health & Science University: $125,000 · OtherAUSTIN YMBL SUNSHINE CAMP: $446,300 · OtherAUSTIN YMBL SUNSHINE CAMPAUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC: $400,700 · OtherAUSTIN PETS ALIVE INCMALTA FARMS INC: $168,600 · Other+43 more: $1,279,291 · Other+43 moreCETA CANYON CAMP & RETREAT CENTER: $865,000 · ReligionCETA CANYON …Wesley Foundation at Texas Tech: $159,386 · ReligionWesley Found…+2 more: $17,500 · ReligionAlstrom Angels: $420,000 · HealthAlstrom Ange…COVENANT HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $225,000 · HealthCOVENANT HEA…Casa Esperanza Inc: $180,000 · HealthCasa Esperan…COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF LUBBOCK INC: $76,115 · HealthCOMMUNITY HE…HOPE HOUSE INC: $43,000 · Health+3 more: $85,000 · Health+3 moreJEREMIAH PROGRAM: $477,500 · Housing & ShelterHIGHLAND LAKES CRISIS NETWORK DBA ARK OF HIGHLAND LAKES: $180,000 · Housing & ShelterHIGH POINT VILLAGE INC: $257,000 · Human ServicesJOSEPHS HAMMER: $140,000 · Human ServicesINSIDE OUT FOUNDATION: $55,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH AND FAMILY ALLIANCE: $45,000 · Human ServicesBUCKNER FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesNEW LEGACY HOME FOR WOMEN: $25,000 · Human Services+5 more: $75,415 · Human ServicesHARMONY SCHOOL OF CREATIVE ARTS: $265,000 · Arts & CultureAGRICULTURE HERITAGE MUSEUM INC: $140,000 · Arts & CultureSAGE STUDIO & GALLERY: $65,000 · Arts & CultureLUBBOCK ENTERTAINMENT AND PERFORMING ARTS ASSOCIATION: $55,000 · Arts & Culture+6 more: $54,500 · Arts & Culture
Education$2,242,003Other$3,531,274Religion$1,041,886Health$1,029,115Housing & Shelter$657,500Human Services$627,415Arts & Culture$579,500

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 budgetMCMURRY UNIVERSITY: $1,125,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetCETA CANYON CAMP & RETREAT CENTER: $865,000 over 7y, 10% of budgetTEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC: $721,058 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL & SOUTH TEXAS: $527,000 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetJEREMIAH PROGRAM: $477,500 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetAUSTIN YMBL SUNSHINE CAMP: $446,300 over 7y, 7.8% of budgetAlstrom Angels: $420,000 over 5y, 23% of budgetAUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC: $400,700 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetHARMONY SCHOOL OF CREATIVE ARTS: $265,000 over 7y, 20% of budgetHIGH POINT VILLAGE INC: $257,000 over 4y, 6.1% of budgetCOVENANT HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $225,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetHIGHLAND LAKES CRISIS NETWORK DBA ARK OF HIGHLAND LAKES: $180,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetCasa Esperanza Inc: $180,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetMALTA FARMS INC: $168,600 over 5y, 32% of budgetWesley Foundation at Texas Tech: $159,386 over 2y, 15% of budgetJOSEPHS HAMMER: $140,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetAGRICULTURE HERITAGE MUSEUM INC: $140,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetVELA: $120,615 over 6y, 7.1% of budgetSOUTH PLAINS WILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTER INC: $99,900 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetLONG GAME YOUTH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL TEXAS: $85,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF LUBBOCK INC: $76,115 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSAGE STUDIO & GALLERY: $65,000 over 4y, 7.2% of budgetLUBBOCK CHILDRENS HEALTH CLINIC: $63,991 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetSOUTH PLAINS FOOD BANK INC: $60,024 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHOPE TO OPPORTUNITIES FOUNDATION: $55,661 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetINSIDE OUT FOUNDATION: $55,000 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetLUBBOCK ENTERTAINMENT AND PERFORMING ARTS ASSOCIATION: $55,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetAustin Child Guidance Center: $50,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetAUSTIN ACHIEVE PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAUSTIN PARKS FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH AND FAMILY ALLIANCE: $45,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCAMP AGAPE: $44,750 over 1y, 35% of budgetSEEDLING FOUNDATION: $38,830 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetAustin Plastic Surgery Foundation Austin Smiles: $35,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetHSB PARK INC: $30,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF LUBBOCK INC: $30,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetBRIDGES TO LIFE: $30,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetBUCKNER FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE SOUTHWEST INC: $30,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetNATIONAL BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetALL GOD'S CHILDREN INTERNATIONAL: $30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSILVERTON DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION INC: $27,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWEST TEXAS A&M UNIV FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEW LEGACY HOME FOR WOMEN: $25,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetKIDLINKS: $25,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOME OF LUBBOCK AND FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY INC: $20,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOPEN DOOR RECOVERY HOUSE: $20,000 over 1y, 6.1% 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.

Community Foundation …Austin Community Foun…Ch Foundation IncHelen Jones Foundatio…Diekemper Family Foun…The Moody FoundationTexas Instruments Fou…South Plains Foundati…Wayne & Jo Ann Moore …The Dallas FoundationMary L Livermore Foun…HDS Foundation
Community Foundation of West TexasTX39.9× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of West Texas · Austin Community Foundation Inc · Ch Foundation Inc · Helen Jones Foundation Inc · Diekemper Family Foundation Inc · The Moody Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · South Plains Foundation · Wayne & Jo Ann Moore Charitable Foundation · The Dallas Foundation · Mary L Livermore Foundation · HDS 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 Garrison Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Garrison Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Garrison Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Garrison Family 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 94 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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