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Gilliland Family Foundation at a glance

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Gilliland Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$65k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
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 2024.

Education$502kEnvironment$111kHuman Services$100kHealth$70kRecreation & Sports$68kHousing & Shelter$57kYouth Development$45kArts & Culture$37kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$15,000
BAPTIST COMMUNITY SERVICES$15,000
DON HARRINGTON DISCOVERY CENTER$10,000
THE BRIDGE$10,000
AMARILLO SYMPHONY INC$5,000
MARTHA'S HOME$5,000
VESSEL OF HUMANITY & COMPASSION INC$2,500
STORYBRIDGE INC$2,500
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BAPTIST COMMUNITY SERVICES: $60k → 9%PRESBYTERIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN: $15k → 9%PRESBYTERIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 9%BAPTIST COMMUNITY SERVICES: $15k → 20%ADVO COMPANIES INC: $10k → 9%ANOTHER CHANCE HOUSE INC: $5k → 20%THE BRIDGE: $10k → 20%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.
$934k · 17 repeat orgs$142k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
9

Total granted

$934k
$112k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+36%

Still filing today

76%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthYouth DevelopmentCivil RightsRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • OS
    OPPORTUNITY SCHOOL INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $300k · revenue +28%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF CROSS BAR SRMA
    2× · 2022–2023 · $111k · revenue +293% · 76% of their budget
  • BC
    BAPTIST COMMUNITY SERVICES
    2× · 2020–2024 · $75k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • TG
    The Great Outdoors Fundgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $63k · revenue +100%
  • AC
    ADVO COMPANIES INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +9%
  • SC
    SOUTHWEST CHAPTER OF NATIONAL AMBUCS INC
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -4%
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
Amarillo Area Foundation Inc

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.

Philanthropy
2
Medical Center League House of Amarillo Texas Inc

To serve as a home away from home for patients and their families coming to amarillo, texas for health care treatment.

Health
3
Atascosa Health Center Inc

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.

Health
4
East Texas Community Clinic Inc

To provide comprehensive primary care and preventive care to all persons regardless of their ability to pay.

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5
Aaf Community Health Foundation

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.

Health
6
Amarillo Spca

Welfare of homeless animals

Animals
7
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
8
Amarillo Botanical Gardens

To inspire people to connect with plants through education, experience, and enjoyment

Environment
9
Center City of Amarillo Inc

Center city of amarillo, inc., brings people to downtown amarillo through organization, events, promotion, design and facilitation of economic restructuring.

Community Improvement
10
Affordable Homes of South Texas Inc

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.

Housing & Shelter
11
Amarillo Tribune

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.

Community Improvement
12
Affordable Central Texas Inc

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.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Harrington Cancer and Health Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

23 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. 23 of the 29 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
15/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OPPORTUNITY SCHOOL INC: $300,000 · OtherOPPORTUNITY SCHOOL INCAMARILLO INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRIC: $150,000 · OtherAMARILLO INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICHIGH PLAINS FOOD BANK: $35,000 · OtherDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER INC: $24,500 · OtherHAVEN HEALTH CLINICS: $30,000 · Other+12 more: $121,708 · Other+12 moreBAPTIST COMMUNITY SERVICES: $75,000 · Human ServicesBAPTIST COMMU…PRESBYTERIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN: $25,000 · Human ServicesPRESBYTERIAN …ADVO COMPANIES INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesADVO COMPANIE…THE BRIDGE: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE BRIDGEANOTHER CHANCE HOUSE: $5,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF CROSS BAR SRMA: $110,790 · Recreation & SportsFRIENDS OF …The Great Outdoors Fund: $62,500 · EnvironmentMAVERICK BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF AMARILLO INC: $45,000 · Youth DevelopmentAMARILLO SYMPHONY INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureDON HARRINGTON DISCOVERY CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureTEXAS PANHANDLE WAR MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · Arts & CultureAMARILLO AREA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC: $35,000 · Civil Rights
Other$661,208Human Services$125,000Recreation & Sports$110,790Environment$62,500Youth Development$45,000Arts & Culture$37,000Civil Rights$35,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOPPORTUNITY SCHOOL INC: $300,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF CROSS BAR SRMA: $110,790 over 2y, 76% of budgetBAPTIST COMMUNITY SERVICES: $75,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Great Outdoors Fund: $62,500 over 1y, 17% of budgetMAVERICK BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF AMARILLO INC: $45,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetAMARILLO AREA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC: $35,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetHIGH PLAINS FOOD BANK: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN: $25,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER INC: $24,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetAMARILLO SYMPHONY INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSTORYBRIDGE INC: $17,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetHARRINGTON CANCER AND HEALTH FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDON HARRINGTON DISCOVERY CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetADVO COMPANIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BRIDGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSOUTHWEST CHAPTER OF NATIONAL AMBUCS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetANOTHER CHANCE HOUSE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHidden Falls Ranch: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMARTHA'S HOME INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE AMARILLO COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEAL THE CITY FREE CLINIC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTEXAS PANHANDLE WAR MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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.

Amarillo Area Foundat…High Plains Christian…Josephine Anderson Ch…Mary E Bivins Foundat…Dr Kent Roberts & Ile…Xcel Energy FoundationAmarillo Business Fou…Cj and Syble Fowlston…Mays FoundationKimble Foundation Tru…The Ware FoundationThe Don & Sybil Harri…
Amarillo Area Foundation IncTX48.7× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Gilliland Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gilliland Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 Gilliland Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Gilliland 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 29 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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