· Private foundation
Gilliland Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BAPTIST COMMUNITY SERVICES | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| DON HARRINGTON DISCOVERY CENTER | $10,000 |
| THE BRIDGE | $10,000 |
| MARTHA'S HOME | $5,000 |
| AMARILLO SYMPHONY INC | $5,000 |
| STORYBRIDGE INC | $2,500 |
| VESSEL OF HUMANITY & COMPASSION INC | $2,500 |
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 (FY18–24, $125k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 24% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
17 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 3 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, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- OSOPPORTUNITY SCHOOL INC2× · 2020–2021 · $300k · revenue +28%
- FOFRIENDS OF CROSS BAR SRMA2× · 2022–2023 · $111k · revenue +293% · 76% of their budget
- BCBAPTIST COMMUNITY SERVICES2× · 2020–2024 · $75k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- TGThe Great Outdoors Fundgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $63k · revenue +100%
- ACADVO COMPANIES INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +9%
- SCSOUTHWEST CHAPTER OF NATIONAL AMBUCS INCone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -4%
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.
A community foundation operating as a public charity, with a mission to improve the quality of life in the texas panhandle through effective philanthropic efforts.
To serve as a home away from home for patients and their families coming to amarillo, texas for health care treatment.
Health care services are provided to low to moderate income families who are residents of South Texas. Services are provided at a low cost are based on abiilty to pay base. Approximately 18,022 patients were served in the fiscal year.
To provide comprehensive primary care and preventive care to all persons regardless of their ability to pay.
Support organization of amarillo area foundation, inc. to provide and support medical and health care facilities, services, and education in amarillo, texas, and the texas panhandle area.
Welfare of homeless animals
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.
To inspire people to connect with plants through education, experience, and enjoyment
Center city of amarillo, inc., brings people to downtown amarillo through organization, events, promotion, design and facilitation of economic restructuring.
Affordable Homes of South Texas, Inc. is organized for the purpose of providing housing for qualified low-income families within the City of McAllen, Texas and Hidalgo County, Texas.
The purpose or purposes for which the corporation is organized shall be limited to: (a)providing information about public policy, politics, government, and national and statewide issues to the general public.
Texas housing conservancy (txhc) is a nonprofit that preserves long-term affordability in multifamily housing for texas' workforce by leveraging private capital without ongoing public subsidy.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Harrington Cancer and Health Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Cross Bar Srma. 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 38 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
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 29 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 OPPORTUNITY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CROSS BAR SRMA ↗
- Who funds BAPTIST COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds The Great Outdoors Fund ↗
- Who funds MAVERICK BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF AMARILLO INC ↗
- Who funds AMARILLO AREA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds HIGH PLAINS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds HAVEN HEALTH CLINICS ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AMARILLO SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds STORYBRIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds HARRINGTON CANCER AND HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DON HARRINGTON DISCOVERY CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ADVO COMPANIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST CHAPTER OF NATIONAL AMBUCS INC ↗
- Who funds HEAL THE CITY FREE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds Hidden Falls Ranch ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S HOME INC ↗
- Who funds ANOTHER CHANCE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds THE AMARILLO COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TEXAS PANHANDLE WAR MEMORIAL FOUNDATION 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: Amarillo Area Foundation Inc · High Plains Christian Ministries Foundation · Josephine Anderson Charitable Trust · Mary E Bivins Foundation · Dr Kent Roberts & Ilene Roberts Balliett Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Amarillo Business Foundation · Cj and Syble Fowlston Charitable Trust · Mays Foundation · Kimble Foundation Trust · The Ware Foundation · The Don & Sybil Harrington 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 Gilliland Family 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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