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Gene Conley Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$469k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$85k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Youth Development$858kHealth$418kReligion$352kHuman Services$270kArts & Culture$186kEducation$155kCrime & Legal$137kCivil Rights$65kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $159k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $286k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH QUANAH TEXAS$85,000
TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR$80,500
NORTHWEST TX COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMER$60,000
BOYS CLUB OF BURKBURNETT$60,000
CHILD ADVOCATES CASA OF RED RIVER$25,000
WICHITA FALLS AREA FOOD BANK$25,000
SOUTHERN GRIT ADVOCACY$21,000
THE ARC OF TEXAS$15,000
ZAVALA HISPANIC CULTURAL INITIATIVE$12,500
CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH$10,000
GENESIS WOMENS SHELTER & SUPPORT$10,000
PATSY'S HOUSE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CETR I$10,000
PETS LOW COST SPAY AND NEUTER CLINIC$10,000
RIVER BEND NATURE WORKS$10,000
INTERFAITH MINISTRIES OF WICHITA FALLS I$10,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $270k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 85% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PRESBYTERIAN CHILDRENS HOMES AND SERVICE: $15k → 10%CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH: $10k → 11%TFI FAMILY SERVICES INC: $10k → 16%CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH: $10k → 11%PRESBYTERIAN CHILDRENS HOMES AND SERVICE: $5k → 10%CHILD CARE INC: $40k → 16%CHILD CARE INC: $25k → 16%GENESIS WOMENS SHELTER & SUPPORT: $10k → 14%CHILD CARE INC: $25k → 16%INTERFAITH MINISTRIES OF WICHITA FALLS: $15k → 16%INTERFAITH MINISTRIES OF WICHITA FALLS I: $10k → 16%CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH: $10k → 16%INTERFAITH MINISTRIES OF WICHITA FALLS I: $8k → 16%INTERFAITH MINISTRIES OF WICHITA FALLS: $5k → 16%INTERFAITH MINISTRIES OF WICHITA FALLS I: $5k → 16%INTERFAITH MINISTRIES OF WICHITA FALLS: $2k → 16%THE ARC OF TEXAS: $15k → 16%CHILD CARE INC: $25k → 16%CHILD CARE INC: $25k → 16%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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 28 repeat orgs$347k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

28 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
16

Total granted

$2.3M
$223k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+9%

Still filing today

64%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $124k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHealthCrime & LegalReligionOther
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

  • BA
    Boys and Girls Club of Vernon Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $351k · revenue +23%
  • BC
    BOYS CLUB OF BURKBURNETT BURKBURNETT BOYS & GIRLS CLUB
    5× · 2020–2025 · $203k · revenue +40%
  • CA
    Child Advocates CASA of Red River
    4× · 2020–2025 · $91k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • NT
    NORTHWEST TEXAS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF
    one grant, 2024 · $50k
  • HC
    HARDEMAN COUNTY ESSENTIALS CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
  • CF
    CAMP FIRE WEST TEXAS
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue +9%
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
Childrens Advocacy Center of West Texas Inc

The Organizations mission is to bring unity and efficiency to investigations of child abuse through the use of a multi-disciplinary team and, thereby, to provide the best possible services to victims of child abuse and their families.

Crime & Legal
2
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
3
Hospice of Wichita Falls Inc

Care, hope, and support for all when illness threatens life.

Human Services
4
Wichita Falls Area Community Foundation

The mission of the Wichita Falls Area Community Foundation is to enhance the quality of life in the Wichita Falls area through the promotion and support of charitable giving. Our vision is to build strong, vibrant communities inspired by…

Philanthropy
5
Casa for Kids of South Central Texas Inc

To recruit, train and supervise volunteers that advocate in the best interests of abused and neglected children in court.

Housing & Shelter
6
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
7
Casa of Williamson County Texas

CASA of Williamson County, TX exists to empower community volunteers to advocate for children who have experienced abuse or neglect to find loving, safe, and permanent homes.

Crime & Legal
8
Casa of West Texas

The mission of casa of west texas is to recruit, train and support committed volunteers who are appointed by the court to advocate for the best interest of children in the foster care system.

Civil Rights
9
Wichita Family Crisis Center

Formerly ywca wichita, the wichita family crisis center (wfcc) began operations in wichita, ks in 1907. wfcc's mission is to eliminate domestic violence in our community by supporting survivors through shelter, education & advocacy.

Human Services
10
Eastland County Crisis Center Inc

To provide services designed to meet the physical, social, and emotional needs of domestic violence and sexual assault victims by providing for immediate, short, and long-term needs.

Human Services
11
Food Bank of West Central Texas

To procure and distribute nutritional food to qualified agencies that feed the hungry of West Central Texas.

Food & Nutrition
12
Bluebonnet Childrens Center

To protect and enhance the quality of life for abused and neglected children in Medina, Real and Uvalde Counties of Texas.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Interfaith Ministries of Wichita Falls Inc Dba Interfaith Outreach Services; the most unlike its peers is Quanah High School Alumni Association. 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

36 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. 36 of the 52 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/36
Grantees still filing
21/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Boys and Girls Club of Vernon Inc: $350,663 · OtherBoys and Girls Club of Vernon IncTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR: $285,715 · OtherTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FORFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH QUANAH TEXAS: $190,000 · OtherFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH QUANAH TEXASBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $150,000 · OtherBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICAVERNON COLLEGE: $113,000 · OtherVERNON COLLEGEFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH IN QUANAH TX: $102,000 · OtherFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH IN QUANAH TXNORTHWEST TX COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMER: $60,000 · OtherTexoma Alliance to Stop Abuse: $57,500 · Other+22 more: $401,865 · Other+22 moreCHILD CARE INC: $140,000 · Human ServicesCHILD CARE …INTERFAITH MINISTRIES OF WICHITA FALLS INC DBA INTERFAITH OUTREACH SERVICES: $44,500 · Human ServicesINTERFAITH …CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH: $30,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CH…PRESBYTERIAN CHILDREN'S HOMES & SERVICES: $20,000 · Human ServicesPRESBYTERIA…THE ARC OF WICHITA COUNTY INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesTHE ARC OF …TFI FAMILY SERVICES INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesGENESIS WOMENS SHELTER & SUPPORT: $10,000 · Human ServicesBOYS CLUB OF BURKBURNETT BURKBURNETT BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $203,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS CLUB …CAMP FIRE WEST TEXAS: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentCAMP FIRE …CAMP FIRE NORTH TEXAS: $10,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $4,000 · Youth DevelopmentHARDEMAN COUNTY MUSEUM & HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $60,000 · Arts & CultureZAVALA HISPANIC CULTURAL INITIATIVE: $22,500 · Arts & CultureArts Council Wichita Falls Area Inc: $20,000 · Arts & CultureWichita Falls Symphony Orchestra: $18,000 · Arts & CultureRed River Valley Museum: $10,000 · Arts & CultureWichita Falls Alliance for Arts and Culture: $10,000 · Arts & CulturePatsy's House Children's Advocacy Center: $60,000 · Crime & LegalSOUTHERN GRIT ADVOCACY: $41,000 · Crime & LegalChild Advocates CASA of Red River: $91,000 · Civil RightsWICHITA FALLS FAITH MISSION INC: $50,000 · ReligionCHRIST COUNSELING MINISTRY INC: $25,000 · Religion
Other$1,710,743Human Services$269,500Youth Development$237,000Arts & Culture$140,500Crime & Legal$101,000Civil Rights$91,000Religion$75,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBoys and Girls Club of Vernon Inc: $350,663 over 5y, 6.5% of budgetBOYS CLUB OF BURKBURNETT BURKBURNETT BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $203,000 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetCHILD CARE INC: $140,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetChild Advocates CASA of Red River: $91,000 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetPatsy's House Children's Advocacy Center: $60,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetHARDEMAN COUNTY MUSEUM & HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $60,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetTexoma Alliance to Stop Abuse: $57,500 over 5y, 9.1% of budgetWICHITA FALLS FAITH MISSION INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetINTERFAITH MINISTRIES OF WICHITA FALLS INC DBA INTERFAITH OUTREACH SERVICES: $44,500 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetWICHITA FALLS AREA FOOD BANK: $43,900 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTHERN GRIT ADVOCACY: $41,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHRIST COUNSELING MINISTRY INC: $25,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetE EUGENE JOHNSON MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $22,965 over 2y, 9.4% of budgetZAVALA HISPANIC CULTURAL INITIATIVE: $22,500 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN CHILDREN'S HOMES & SERVICES: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetArts Council Wichita Falls Area Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetHARDEMAN COUNTY ESSENTIALS CENTER: $20,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetCAMP FIRE WEST TEXAS: $20,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetTHOMPSON SAWYER PUBLIC LIBRARY: $20,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetWichita Falls Symphony Orchestra: $18,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetProject Back to School: $17,500 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetTHE ARC OF WICHITA COUNTY INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTFI FAMILY SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOYS CLUB OF WICHITA FALLS INC DBA BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF WICHITA FALLS: $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetRed River Valley Museum: $10,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetCAMP FIRE NORTH TEXAS: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetWichita Falls Alliance for Arts and Culture: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetNORTH TEXAS AREA UNITED WAY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFIRST STEP OF WICHITA FALLS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRathgeber Hospitality House: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetQUANAH HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $4,500 over 1y, 6.3% 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.

The Priddy FoundationJames N McCoy Foundat…Wichita Falls Area Co…The Fain FoundationBryant Edwards Founda…J S Bridwell Foundati…Donnell FoundationGuinn Foundation IncLibra FoundationMightycause Charitabl…Leota Steed FoundationDillard Family Founda…
The Priddy FoundationTX51.4× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Priddy Foundation · James N McCoy Foundation · Wichita Falls Area Community Foundation · The Fain Foundation · Bryant Edwards Foundation Inc · J S Bridwell Foundation · Donnell Foundation · Guinn Foundation Inc · Libra Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Leota Steed Foundation · Dillard Family 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 Gene Conley Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gene Conley Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
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
    15report 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Gene Conley Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Gene Conley 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 52 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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