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Hibbs Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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 $10k25 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $107k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $69k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TYLER JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $69,000 |
| FAITH COMES BY HEARING | $35,000 |
| THE MENTORING ALLIANCE | $25,000 |
| CHEROKEE HOME FOR CHILDREN | $15,000 |
| MARVIN UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $11,050 |
| YOUNG AUDIENCES OF NORTHEAST TEXAS | $10,729 |
| EAST TEXAS FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| HEARTLIGHT MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| Love Thy City of East Texas | $5,000 |
| TEXAS CULTURAL TRUST COUNCIL | $5,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT | $2,680 |
| UNITED WAY OF SMITH COUNTY | $2,500 |
| EAST TEXAS COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART | $2,060 |
| EAST TEXAS AREA COUNCIL BSA | $1,750 |
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, $77k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
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 +43% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
42 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 11 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, 86% 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
- TJTYLER JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $171k · revenue +46%
- MAMENTORING ALLIANCE7× · 2017–2024 · $50k · revenue +287%
- DMDallas Museum of Art8× · 2017–2024 · $27k · revenue +396%
Funded once
- THTEXAS HISTORICAL FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $24k · revenue +497%
- OFOne For Israelone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -6%
MCLENNAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ATTN CHRISTOPHER QUALLSgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +48%
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.
To promote preservation and protection of historic structures
To complement the state of texas' support of the colleges by providing financial support for new and ongoing projects and activities in the areas of research, education and community service.
Texas Christian Foundations mission is to mobilize resources by inspiring biblical generosity and educating Texans on ways their generosity can impact their community, Texas and the world.
Texas water foundation is a statewide nonprofit that provides educational resources and educational services on water in texas for decision makers, water professionals, and everyday texans. texas water foundation works in the areas of…
Support economic development of greater tyler area.
Texas Society of Architects is the voice for Texas architecture, supporting the creation of safe, beautiful, sustainable environments.
The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.
National Christian Foundation North Texas (NCFNT) was created to facilitate smarter Christian giving with sophisticated charitable techniques.
To foster transparency and uphold ethical standards across all levels of government in texas and empower citizens to hold their government accountable.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mentoring Alliance and the most unlike its peers is Nicholas Pet Haven. 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 36 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
71 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. 71 of the 126 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 TYLER JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MENTORING ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Dallas Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds Young Audiences of Northeast Texas Inc ↗
- Who funds TEXAS HISTORICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAMP SUMMIT INC ↗
- Who funds TEJAS MISSIONS INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTLIGHT MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CHEROKEE HOME FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Tyler Civic Theatre Inc ↗
- Who funds PATH - PEOPLE ATTEMPTING TO HELP ↗
- Who funds TYLER MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Whitehouse Isd Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds CAMP TYLER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EAST TEXAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Frontier Camp Inc ↗
- Who funds Texas Cultural Trust Council ↗
- Who funds LOVE THY CITY OF EAST TEXAS ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds One For Israel ↗
- Who funds MCLENNAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ATTN CHRISTOPHER QUALLS ↗
- Who funds TYLER ROTARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST PAUL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AZLEWAY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SMITH COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Texas 2036 ↗
- Who funds EAST TEXAS COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CASETA-Center for the Advancement & Study of Early Texas Art ↗
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: East Texas Communities Foundation · Ben and Maytee Fisch Foundation · A S Genecov Foundation · James I Perkins Family Foundation · The Rogers Foundation · Byers Family Foundation · Riter Family Foundation · Hoeffner Foundation · The Louis and Peaches Owen Family Foundation · Bob L Herd Foundation · The Junior League of Tyler Inc · Wolf Benevolent Tua
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 Hibbs 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.
- 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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