· Public charity
High Plains Christian Ministries Foundation
Financial support of charitable organizations.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k29 grants · $561k
- $50k–250k18 grants · $1.9M
- $250k+4 grants · $15M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BAPTIST COMMUNITY SERVICES | $10,648,105 |
| WATERFRONT CHURCH DC | $2,600,000 |
| THE LIVING STONE CHURCH | $868,000 |
| DENISON FORUM | $750,000 |
| MEADOWS MENTAL HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE | $240,000 |
| WTAMU FOUNDATION | $189,000 |
| HEAL THE CITY | $156,000 |
| HOPE CHOICE PREGNANCY CENTERS AND MENTORING PROGRAMS | $150,000 |
| DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER | $150,000 |
| HIGH PLAINS RETREAT CENTER | $147,150 |
| OPPORTUNITY SCHOOL | $130,000 |
| HARRINGTON CANCER AND HEALTH FOUNDATION | $125,000 |
| AMARILLO MERCY MINISTRIES | $98,000 |
| ANOTHER CHANCE HOUSE | $75,000 |
| AMARILLO AREA FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
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, $61.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% 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 +24% since the first grant, against -6% for the ones you funded once.
85 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2024, 47 since wound down; 16 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $478k 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
- BCBAPTIST COMMUNITY SERVICES8× · 2017–2024 · $60M · revenue +57% · 32% of their budget
- HCHARRINGTON CANCER AND HEALTH FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $721k · revenue +118%
- HCHOPE CHOICE INC7× · 2017–2024 · $720k · revenue +62%
Funded once
- THTTU HEALTH SCIENCES CENTERone grant, 2018 · $360k
- PNPANHANDLE NUC INCone grant, 2018 · $120k · revenue -94%
- PMPLAINS MEDICAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue -96% · 42% of their budget
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 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.
To educate students with the transforming truth of christ, inspiring academic excellence, godly character, and integrity in life pursuits.
Working in creative collaboration to provide quality care that transforms the lives of at-risk children and their families through the active compassion of christ.
Provides housing and spiritual development for Christians reintegrating into society upon exiting the criminal justice system.
Sharing jesus, healing hearts, transforming lives.
It is the mission of the organization to provide services to disadvantaged and homeless families with children; to reintegrate homeless families with children into permanent housing and employment.
Provision and management of property on which a family of nonprofit ministries carries out programs and services for vulnerable children and families.
To assist people through life's struggles by spiritually guiding individuals by encouraging, offering biblical counseling and educating individuals with tools and skills to cope with life's difficult situations. it is the desire of the…
To strengthen the lives of children and families.
The home provides care for children and wards of the court placed for foster home purposes.
Our mission is to show the love of christ to each and every child and family towhom we serve and beyond. we do this by creating a culture where the needs of children,families, and staff are seen and met in creative and innovative ways.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Life Challlenge of Amarillo Inc and the most unlike its peers is Colorado Baptist General Convention. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
90 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. 90 of the 141 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 BAPTIST COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds WEST TEXAS A&M UNIV FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BAPTIST COMMUNITY AFFORDABLE HOUSING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMARILLO RECOVERY FROM ALCOHOL AND DRUGS INC ↗
- Who funds HARRINGTON CANCER AND HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE CHOICE INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HIGH PLAINS RETREAT CENTER ↗
- Who funds AMARILLO AREA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ANOTHER CHANCE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds CENIKOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MISSION AMARILLO ↗
- Who funds LIFE CHALLLENGE OF AMARILLO INC ↗
- Who funds TURN CENTER ↗
- Who funds MAVERICK BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF AMARILLO INC ↗
- Who funds FRANK PHILLIPS COLLEGE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF AMARILLO ↗
- Who funds FAITH CITY INC ↗
- Who funds HIGH PLAINS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST CHAPTER OF NATIONAL AMBUCS INC ↗
- Who funds TYLER STREET RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MEADOWS MENTAL HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE FOR TEXAS ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN SPREAD COUNCIL INC 562 OF THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds TEXAS PANHANDLE WAR MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ATC HEALTH PROMOTION FOUNDATION ↗
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: Amarillo Area Foundation Inc · Mary E Bivins Foundation · Dr Kent Roberts & Ilene Roberts Balliett Foundation · Josephine Anderson Charitable Trust · Mays Foundation · Amarillo Business Foundation · Kimble Foundation Trust · Cj and Syble Fowlston Charitable Trust · The United Way Inc · The Don & Sybil Harrington Foundation · William & Louise Mullins Foundation · Bruckner Family Foundation 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 High Plains Christian Ministries 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.
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.