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High Plains Christian Ministries Foundation at a glance

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High Plains Christian Ministries Foundation

Financial support of charitable organizations.

$17M
Granted FY2024still arriving
56
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$11M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$62MReligion$12MEducation$6.4MHealth$5.7MHousing & Shelter$4.4MRecreation & Sports$941kYouth Development$753kFood & Nutrition$675kOther$0
02FY2024 · 56 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $37k
  • $10k–50k29 grants · $561k
  • $50k–250k18 grants · $1.9M
  • $250k+4 grants · $15M
$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$576M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER$150,000
HOPE CHOICE PREGNANCY CENTERS AND MENTORING PROGRAMS$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
TURN CENTER$75,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–24, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CONNECT COMMUNITY SERVICES: $30k → 9%TRANSFORMATIONS BY AMARILLO ANGELS: $50k → 9%TRANSFORMATIONS BY AMARILLO ANGELS: $30k → 9%TRANSFORMATIONS BY AMARILLO ANGELS: $25k → 9%TRANSFORMATIONS BY AMARILLO ANGELS: $10k → 9%BUCKNER FAMILY SERVICES: $23k → 20%TRANSFORMATIONS BY AMARILLO ANGELS: $8k → 9%BUCKNER FAMILY SERVICES: $14k → 20%ADVO COMPANIES INC: $100k → 9%BAPTIST COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10.6M → 20%BAPTIST COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10.3M → 20%BAPTIST COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10.1M → 20%BAPTIST COMMUNITY SERVICES: $8.3M → 20%BAPTIST COMMUNITY SERVICES: $7.1M → 20%BAPTIST COMMUNITY SERVICES: $5.7M → 20%BAPTIST COMMUNITY SERVICES: $4.0M → 20%BAPTIST COMMUNITY SERVICES: $3.8M → 20%AMARILLO CHILDREN'S HOME: $50k → 9%FAITH CITY MINISTRIES: $200k → 20%AMARILLO CHILDREN'S HOME: $25k → 9%PRESBYTERIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN: $25k → 9%AMARILLO CHILDREN'S HOME: $25k → 9%REFUGEE LANGUAGE PROJECT: $22k → 9%PRESBYTERIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN: $20k → 9%THE PANAHNDLE ADULT REBUILDING CENTER: $100k → 20%FAITH CITY MINISTRIES: $100k → 20%ANOTHER CHANCE HOUSE: $100k → 20%REFUGEE LANGUAGE PROJECT: $10k → 9%ANOTHER CHANCE HOUSE: $75k → 20%ANOTHER CHANCE HOUSE: $60k → 20%ANOTHER CHANCE HOUSE: $60k → 20%ANOTHER CHANCE HOUSE: $40k → 20%PANHANDLE ADULT REBUILDING CENTER: $40k → 20%ANOTHER CHANCE HOUSE: $40k → 20%ANOTHER CHANCE HOUSE: $40k → 20%BRIDGE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $48k → 20%THE BRIDGE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $25k → 20%BRIDGE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $8k → 20%BRIDGE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $8k → 20%THE BRIDGE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $8k → 20%BRIDGE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $8k → 20%BRIDGE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $8k → 20%THE BRIDGE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $8k → 20%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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$92M · 85 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against -6% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

85
39

Total granted

$92M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
-6%

Still filing today

67%
49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $478k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationReligionArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • BC
    BAPTIST COMMUNITY SERVICES
    8× · 2017–2024 · $60M · revenue +57% · 32% of their budget
  • HC
    HARRINGTON CANCER AND HEALTH FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $721k · revenue +83%
  • HC
    HOPE CHOICE INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $720k · revenue +62%

Funded once

  • TH
    TTU HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER
    one grant, 2018 · $360k
  • PN
    PANHANDLE NUC INC
    one grant, 2018 · $120k · revenue -94%
  • AC
    ADVO COMPANIES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +46%
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
Central Texas Children's Home

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.

Human Services
2
Hendrick Home for Children
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3
Central Texas Christian School Inc

To educate students with the transforming truth of christ, inspiring academic excellence, godly character, and integrity in life pursuits.

—
4
Children's Home of Lubbock and Family Service Agency Inc

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.

Human Services
5
Texas Reach Out Inc

Provides housing and spiritual development for Christians reintegrating into society upon exiting the criminal justice system.

Health
6
Texas Girls and Boys Ranch

Sharing jesus, healing hearts, transforming lives.

Human Services
7
Compassion Ministries of Waco

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.

Community Improvement
8
Texas Baptist Children's Home and Family Services Inc

Provision and management of property on which a family of nonprofit ministries carries out programs and services for vulnerable children and families.

Human Services
9
Concho Valley Biblical Counseling Center

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…

Health
10
Texas Center for Child and Family Studies

To strengthen the lives of children and families.

Human Services
11
Albuquerque Christian Children's Home Inc

The home provides care for children and wards of the court placed for foster home purposes.

Human Services
12
The Retreat Home for Children

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.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Life Challlenge of Amarillo Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

90 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. 90 of the 141 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.

10
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
87/90
Grantees still filing
49/90
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BAPTIST COMMUNITY SERVICES: $59,920,716 · Human ServicesBAPTIST COMMUNITY SERVICES+16 more: $1,956,700 · Human ServicesWATERFRONT CHURCH DC: $3,530,000 · OtherWATERFRONT CHURCH DCDENISON MINISTRIES: $3,175,300 · OtherDENISON MINISTRIESLIVING STONE CHURCH: $1,332,300 · OtherLIVING STONE CHURCHHEAL THE CITY FREE CLINIC: $1,043,000 · OtherAMARILLO RECOVERY FROM ALCOHOL AND DRUGS INC: $745,084 · OtherHARRINGTON CANCER AND HEALTH FOUNDATION: $721,000 · Other+85 more: $9,774,403 · Other+85 moreWEST TEXAS A&M UNIV FOUNDATION: $4,802,040 · EducationTEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC: $660,000 · Education+9 more: $493,130 · EducationBAPTIST COMMUNITY AFFORDABLE HOUSING FOUNDATION: $2,514,578 · Membership BenefitHIGH PLAINS RETREAT CENTER: $527,850 · Membership BenefitHOPE CHOICE INC: $720,000 · HealthTURN CENTER: $335,161 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF AMARILLO: $300,000 · HealthMEADOWS MENTAL HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE FOR TEXAS: $240,000 · HealthATC HEALTH PROMOTION FOUNDATION: $212,609 · HealthCOALITION OF HEALTH SERVICES INC: $148,000 · HealthPLAINS MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Health+5 more: $137,800 · HealthFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $450,900 · Youth DevelopmentMAVERICK BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF AMARILLO INC: $330,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG LIFE: $207,500 · Youth DevelopmentMISSION AMARILLO: $340,500 · ReligionCETA CANYON CAMP & RETREAT CENTER: $128,500 · ReligionSHARING HOPE MINISTRY INC: $80,500 · ReligionCactus Nazarene Ministry Center: $25,000 · ReligionTOP O TEXAS EDUCATIONAL BROADCASTING FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Religion
Human Services$61,877,416Other$20,321,087Education$5,955,170Membership Benefit$3,042,428Health$2,193,570Youth Development$988,400Religion$594,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBAPTIST COMMUNITY SERVICES: $59,920,716 over 8y, 32% of budgetWEST TEXAS A&M UNIV FOUNDATION: $4,802,040 over 4y, 16% of budgetBAPTIST COMMUNITY AFFORDABLE HOUSING FOUNDATION: $2,514,578 over 5y, 17% of budgetAMARILLO RECOVERY FROM ALCOHOL AND DRUGS INC: $745,084 over 2y, 45% of budgetHARRINGTON CANCER AND HEALTH FOUNDATION: $721,000 over 8y, 8.1% of budgetHOPE CHOICE INC: $720,000 over 7y, 8.3% of budgetTEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC: $660,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER INC: $633,565 over 8y, 5.8% of budgetHIGH PLAINS RETREAT CENTER: $527,850 over 5y, 27% of budgetAMARILLO AREA FOUNDATION INC: $470,522 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $450,900 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetOPPORTUNITY SCHOOL INC: $432,500 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetANOTHER CHANCE HOUSE: $415,000 over 7y, 9.1% of budgetCENIKOR FOUNDATION: $350,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMISSION AMARILLO: $340,500 over 5y, 36% of budgetLIFE CHALLLENGE OF AMARILLO INC: $339,500 over 4y, 21% of budgetTURN CENTER: $335,161 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetMAVERICK BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF AMARILLO INC: $330,000 over 6y, 6.6% of budgetFAITH CITY INC: $300,000 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF AMARILLO: $300,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetHIGH PLAINS FOOD BANK: $295,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTHWEST CHAPTER OF NATIONAL AMBUCS INC: $282,543 over 3y, 90% of budgetTYLER STREET RESOURCE CENTER INC: $241,400 over 5y, 13% of budgetMEADOWS MENTAL HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE FOR TEXAS: $240,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE: $230,000 over 8y, 3.6% of budgetTEXAS PANHANDLE WAR MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $215,000 over 3y, 29% of budgetGOLDEN SPREAD COUNCIL INC 562 OF THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $215,000 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetATC HEALTH PROMOTION FOUNDATION: $212,609 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $207,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEASTRIDGE MISSION CENTER: $187,220 over 6y, 21% of budgetAMARILLO WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $185,500 over 8y, 3.4% of budgetCANYON HOPE MINISTRIES: $170,000 over 4y, 23% of budgetSAN JACINTO CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $167,851 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetBRIDGES TO LIFE: $160,000 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetHidden Falls Ranch: $150,000 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetCOALITION OF HEALTH SERVICES INC: $148,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN: $145,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetTHE PARC: $140,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetCETA CANYON CAMP & RETREAT CENTER: $128,500 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetTEXAS PANHANDLE INDEPENDENT FUTURES FOUNDATION: $127,500 over 2y, 35% of budgetTRANSFORMATIONS BY AUSTIN ANGELS: $123,450 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetTHE BRIDGE: $121,000 over 8y, 4.7% of budgetPANHANDLE NUC INC: $120,000 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetADVO COMPANIES INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetPLAINS MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 42% of budgetMOORE COUNTY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $90,000 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY INC: $85,900 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetTHE AMARILLO COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $85,000 over 1y, 2.9% 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 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 FAITH CITY INC ↗
  • Who funds FRANK PHILLIPS COLLEGE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF AMARILLO ↗
  • 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 TEXAS PANHANDLE WAR MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds GOLDEN SPREAD COUNCIL INC 562 OF THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds ATC HEALTH PROMOTION FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Amarillo Area Foundat…Mary E Bivins Foundat…Dr Kent Roberts & Ile…Josephine Anderson Ch…Mays FoundationAmarillo Business Fou…Kimble Foundation Tru…Cj and Syble Fowlston…The United Way IncThe Don & Sybil Harri…William & Louise Mull…Bruckner Family Found…
Amarillo Area Foundation IncTX130.5× affinity66 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 High Plains Christian Ministries Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from High Plains Christian Ministries Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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.

    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 141 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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