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Gray-Pampa Foundation Inc at a glance

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Gray-Pampa Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$285k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$73k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$500kArts & Culture$425kHuman Services$306kFood & Nutrition$123kYouth Development$105kPhilanthropy$79kCrime & Legal$68kReligion$66kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $181k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $73k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
FREEDOM MUSEUM USA$15,000
GOOD SAMARITAN$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
PAMPA SENIOR CITIZENS INC$5,000
HARVEST HOUSE$5,000
GRAY COUNTY LATCHKEY$3,000
02The need
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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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE BRIDGE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $5k → 20%GRAY COUNTY LATCHKEY: $13k → 17%THE BRIDGE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $5k → 20%GOOD SAMARITAN CHRISTIAN SERVICES PAMPA TX: $10k → 17%GOOD SAMARITAN CHRISTIAN SERVICES PAMPA TX: $10k → 17%GOOD SAMARITAN CHRISTIAN SERVICES PAMPA TX: $10k → 17%THE BRIDGE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $5k → 17%THE BRIDGE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $5k → 17%THE BRIDGE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $5k → 17%GRAY COUNTY LATCHKEY: $4k → 17%GRAY COUNTY LATCHKEY: $3k → 17%GRAY COUNTY LATCHKEY: $3k → 17%GRAY COUNTY LATCHKEY: $2k → 17%GRAY COUNTY LATCHKEY: $2k → 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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 38 repeat orgs$114k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
36

Total granted

$1.9M
$111k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
0%

Still filing today

34%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Public Safety & DisasterHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationPublic BenefitPhilanthropyOther
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

  • TW
    THE WELL STEM EDUCATION CENTER INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $182k · revenue +681%
  • PY
    PAMPA YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $70k · revenue +9%
  • PO
    PAMPA OPTIMIST YOUTH CLUB
    9× · 2017–2025 · $58k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • NL
    NEW LIFE ASSEMBLY OF GOD
    one grant, 2017 · $11k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
  • AO
    AMARILLO OPERA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +33%
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
Palo Pinto Volunteer Fire Dept

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.

Public Safety & Disaster
2
Nocona Rural Volunteer Fire Department Inc

Volunteer firefighting of all fires in the rural areas around nocona texas including assisting other fire departments during large fires in their areas.

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3
Palacios Volunteer Fire Department Inc

To extinguish any fires and to help the community stay safe.

Public Safety & Disaster
4
Pecan Plantation Volunteer Fire Dpt & Emergency Medical Services Inc

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…

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5
Hankamer Volunteer Fire Department

Provide fire fighting & ambulance service to hankamer, texas and surrounding areas.

Public Safety & Disaster
6
Matador Motley County Volunteer Fire Department

Fire fighting and prevention

Public Safety & Disaster
7
Brazos Volunteer Fire Department

To provide immediate response to fire and emergency needs in the brazos area of palo pinto county, tx and surrounding areas.

Public Safety & Disaster
8
Strawn Volunteer Fire Department

Provide fire protection and emergency assistance to strawn, texas, and surrounding communities.

Public Safety & Disaster
9
Buffalo Gap Volunteer Fire Department

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.

Public Safety & Disaster
10
Frelsburg Volunteer Fire Dept

Provide firefighting services for frelsburg, texas area.

Public Safety & Disaster
11
Garrison Volunteer Fire Department

To provide fire and medical emergency services for the city of garrison, tx and the surrounding districts.

Public Safety & Disaster
12
Tool Volunteer Fire Department Inc

Fire protection

Public Safety & Disaster
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pampa Optimist Youth Club; 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.
04the grantee network

25 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. 25 of the 76 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
13/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WHITE DEER LAND MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $178,145 · OtherWHITE DEER LAND MUSEUM FOUNDATIONFREEDOM MUSEUM USA: $132,500 · OtherFREEDOM MUSEUM USAAMARILLO AREA FOUNDATION - THE PANHANDLE GIVES: $122,500 · OtherAMARILLO AREA FOUNDATION - THE PANHANDLE GIVESLOVETT MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $104,924 · OtherLOVETT MEMORIAL LIBRARYLOVETT MEMORIAL LIBRARY PAMPA: $100,360 · OtherLOVETT MEMORIAL LIBRARY PAMPAPAMPA YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $70,000 · OtherHARVEST HOUSE: $68,956 · OtherTHE SOUTHSIDE SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER: $67,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $58,439 · OtherPAMPA OPTIMIST YOUTH CLUB: $58,000 · OtherFAIRVIEW CEMETERY: $57,251 · Other+55 more: $552,490 · Other+55 moreTHE WELL STEM EDUCATION CENTER INC: $181,813 · EducationTHE WELL S…PAMPA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $86,000 · PhilanthropyAMARILLO AREA FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 · PhilanthropyGood Samaritan Christian Services Inc: $30,000 · Human ServicesGRAY COUNTY LATCHKEY INC: $26,530 · Human ServicesTHE BRIDGE: $25,000 · Human ServicesPAMPA MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $53,000 · Food & NutritionWINDOW ON A WIDER WORLD INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureAMARILLO OPERA INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureGIRL SCOUTS OF TEXAS OKLAHOMA PLAINS INC: $20,000 · Youth Development
Other$1,570,565Education$181,813Philanthropy$90,000Human Services$81,530Food & Nutrition$53,000Arts & Culture$40,000Youth Development$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE WELL STEM EDUCATION CENTER INC: $181,813 over 8y, 16% of budgetPAMPA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $86,000 over 7y, 38% of budgetPAMPA YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $70,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetPAMPA OPTIMIST YOUTH CLUB: $58,000 over 9y, 11% of budgetPAMPA MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $53,000 over 7y, 6.0% of budgetPAMPA SENIOR CITIZENS INC: $34,890 over 5y, 6.3% of budgetWINDOW ON A WIDER WORLD INC: $30,000 over 2y, 8.2% of budgetGRAY COUNTY LATCHKEY INC: $26,530 over 6y, 14% of budgetTHE BRIDGE: $25,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF TEXAS OKLAHOMA PLAINS INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGOLDEN SPREAD COUNCIL INC 562 OF THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAMARILLO OPERA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetPAMPA ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $5,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetAMARILLO AREA FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIAMI-ROBERTS COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMCLEAN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $2,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHOOVER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBRISCOE FIRE DEPT: $2,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetWELLINGTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCANADIAN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOBEETIE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE: $829 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

M K Brown Foundation …Amarillo Area Foundat…David D & Nona S Payn…The 100 Club of Amari…Texas Farm Bureau Ag …Xcel Energy FoundationThe Legett FoundationInez B & He McCarley …Pampa United Way IncDr Kent Roberts & Ile…Josephine Anderson Ch…Kimble Foundation Tru…
M K Brown Foundation IncTX39× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Gray-Pampa Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gray-Pampa Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%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
    5report 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 Gray-Pampa Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Gray-Pampa Foundation Inc 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 76 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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