· Private foundation
Gray-Pampa Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $181k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $73k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMARILLO AREA FOUNDATION - THE PANHANDLE GIVES | $72,500 |
| THE WELL STEM EDUCATION CENTER INC | $37,000 |
| FAIRVIEW CEMETERY | $33,651 |
| PAMPA YOUTH & COMMUNITY CENTER | $30,000 |
| LOVETT MEMORIAL LIBRARY PAMPA | $19,899 |
| GOOD SAMARITAN | $15,000 |
| FREEDOM MUSEUM USA | $15,000 |
| PAMPA EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| WOODY GUTHRIE FOLK MUSIC CENTER | $10,000 |
| GOLDEN SPREAD COUNCIL (BOY SCOUTS) | $7,500 |
| PAMPA OPTIMIST YOUTH CLUB INC | $6,000 |
| HARVEST HOUSE | $5,000 |
| PAMPA SENIOR CITIZENS INC | $5,000 |
| GRAY COUNTY LATCHKEY | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $82k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
38 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- TWTHE WELL STEM EDUCATION CENTER INC8× · 2018–2025 · $182k · revenue +681%
- PYPAMPA YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER INC2× · 2024–2025 · $70k · revenue +9%
- POPAMPA OPTIMIST YOUTH CLUB9× · 2017–2025 · $58k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- NLNEW LIFE ASSEMBLY OF GODone grant, 2017 · $11k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $10k
- AOAMARILLO OPERA INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +33%
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.
The purposes of palo pinto volunteer fire department is the saving of lives, the protection of property endangered by fires and other disasters, and promotion of the teaching and practice of fire prevention and protection.
Volunteer firefighting of all fires in the rural areas around nocona texas including assisting other fire departments during large fires in their areas.
To extinguish any fires and to help the community stay safe.
Provides protection of property and preservation of life from and during fire or other emergencies within the area of its operation in hood and johnson counties, texas. also, provides rescue and various other emergency services in the…
Provide fire fighting & ambulance service to hankamer, texas and surrounding areas.
Fire fighting and prevention
To provide immediate response to fire and emergency needs in the brazos area of palo pinto county, tx and surrounding areas.
Provide fire protection and emergency assistance to strawn, texas, and surrounding communities.
The sole purpose for which the "buffalo gap volunteer fire department of buffalo gap, texas" is organized is to extinguish fires and protect lives and property.
Provide firefighting services for frelsburg, texas area.
To provide fire and medical emergency services for the city of garrison, tx and the surrounding districts.
Fire protection
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pampa Optimist Youth Club and the most unlike its peers is Mobeetie Volunteer Fire Department Inc. 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 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 76 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 THE WELL STEM EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PAMPA EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PAMPA YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PAMPA OPTIMIST YOUTH CLUB ↗
- Who funds PAMPA MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds PAMPA SENIOR CITIZENS INC ↗
- Who funds WINDOW ON A WIDER WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds Good Samaritan Christian Services Inc ↗
- Who funds GRAY COUNTY LATCHKEY INC ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF TEXAS OKLAHOMA PLAINS INC ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN SPREAD COUNCIL INC 562 OF THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds AMARILLO OPERA 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: M K Brown Foundation Inc · Amarillo Area Foundation Inc · David D & Nona S Payne Foundation Inc · The 100 Club of Amarillo Inc · Texas Farm Bureau Ag Research & Education Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Legett Foundation · Inez B & He McCarley Foundation Trust · Pampa United Way Inc · Dr Kent Roberts & Ilene Roberts Balliett Foundation · Josephine Anderson Charitable Trust · Kimble Foundation Trust
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 Gray-Pampa Foundation Inc 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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