· Private foundation
Greathouse 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k55 grants · $184k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $307k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $277k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OKLAHOMA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $138,000 |
| WEST TEXAS REHAB CENTER | $89,000 |
| GROVER NELSON PARK ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| BEN RICHEY BOYS RANCH | $31,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ABILENE | $30,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $25,700 |
| ABILENE YOUTH SPORTS AUTHORITY | $25,000 |
| CAMP ABLE | $20,000 |
| CHRISTIAN SERVICE CENTER | $20,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $20,000 |
| LOVE & CARE MINISTRIES | $20,000 |
| BREAKFAST ON BEECH STREET | $20,000 |
| PRESBYTERIAN MEDICAL CARE MISS | $20,000 |
| LAKE BROWNWOOD CHRISTIAN RETREAT | $20,000 |
| NOROC INC | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +29% since the first grant, against -3% for the ones you funded once.
97 repeat relationships — 70 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 2 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- ABAbilene Boys Ranch Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $329k · revenue +3%
- BABoys and Girls Club of Abilene Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $242k · revenue +45%
- NINOROC INC8× · 2017–2024 · $173k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- AYABILENE YOUTH BASEBALL LEAGUEone grant, 2023 · $25k
- VOVETERAN OUTDOORS INCone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -38%
- TAThe Abilene Womans Clubone grant, 2017 · $6k
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.
Pregnancy Resources' mission is to inspire hope and unconditionally love everyone we serve by empowering them to thrive through compassionate support and positive solutions.
The mission of Abilene Christian School, Inc. is to equip students to excel academically, serve meaningfully, and walk faithfully with God.
Construct and/or rehabilitate houses for sale to low- and moderate-income families who qualify for home ownership. Homes are sold for an affordable mortgage.
Committed to supporting displaced single mothers in Fort Bend County by providing housing assistance and wraparound services.
The organization produces an opera or other musical production every year or every other year, and offers related Master Classes and other educational opportunities for elementary school through college.
To promote the advancement of the optimal physical, mental, emotional, and social development of children who are blind and visually impaired.
Support operation of Abilene Boys Ranch, Inc.
To provide basic needs and services to homeless individuals who are willing to commit to improving their lifestyle.
Provide support and financial resources to clients of Adult Protective Services, an agency of the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services; to raise public awareness of the need for such services; and to advocate on behalf of…
To operate a residential mental health and substance abuse facility that will serve men with addictive disorders by providing residential accomodations, substance abuse treatment including individual, group, and family counseling,…
Our mission is to manage and promote the Historic Paramount Theatre to benefit the citizens of Abilene, Texas and the surrounding area.
The WTFB exists to collect, purchase, and distribute food to feed the hungry in 19 counties in West Texas in partnership with volunteers and community organizations and to educate these partners and the public at large about the real face…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Christian Homes of Abilene Inc and the most unlike its peers is House of Prayer for All Nations. 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 37 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
81 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. 81 of the 129 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 Abilene Boys Ranch Inc ↗
- Who funds ABILENE HERITAGE SQUARE INC ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Club of Abilene Inc ↗
- Who funds NOROC INC ↗
- Who funds Advocates for Camp Able Camp Able of Buffalo Gap ↗
- Who funds Love & Care Ministries ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds ABILENE YOUTH SPORTS AUTHORITY ↗
- Who funds GROVER NELSON PARK ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BREAKFAST ON BEECH STREET ↗
- Who funds Kenley School Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW HORIZONS RANCH & CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Day Nursery of Abilene Inc ↗
- Who funds NOAH PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Disability Resources Inc ↗
- Who funds TEXAS RAMP PROJECT ↗
- Who funds NEW BEGINNINGS BIG COUNTRY ↗
- Who funds Faithworks of Abilene Inc ↗
- Who funds BIG COUNTRY COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds EXPO CENTER OF TAYLOR COUNTY TEXAS ↗
- Who funds TADSAW INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Abilene Zoological Society ↗
- Who funds Global Samaritan Resources Inc ↗
- Who funds HONOR VETERANS NOW ↗
- Who funds Serenity Foundation of Texas ↗
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: Shelton Family Foundation · Dian Graves Owen Foundation · Community Foundation of Abilene · Barber Foundation · The Legett Foundation · Kickapoo Springs Foundation · The Karakin Foundation · The Massey Family Charitable Trust · Moss Adamson Spalding Charities · The Robison Excelsior Foundation · Claude & Mae Moss Charities · United Way of Abilene Inc
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 Greathouse 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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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