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J S Bridwell Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k24 grants · $112k
- $10k–50k61 grants · $909k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $642k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Midwestern State University | $1,000,000 |
| YMCA | $333,334 |
| Texas Tech University | $200,000 |
| Wichita Falls Area Community Foundation | $166,667 |
| First Christian Church | $125,000 |
| United Regional Health Care Foundation | $100,000 |
| Camp Fire Council of North Texas | $50,000 |
| Peyton's Project | $30,000 |
| Senior Citizens Services of North Texas | $30,000 |
| Wichita Falls Faith MissionFaith Refuge | $25,000 |
| Wichita Falls Area Food Bank | $25,000 |
| Downtown Wichita Falls Development Inc | $25,000 |
| Rathgeber Hospitality House | $25,000 |
| Christ Counseling Ministries | $25,000 |
| Vernon College | $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 (FY20–25, $3.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 64% 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 +18% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
93 repeat relationships — 67 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $413k 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
- URUNITED REGIONAL HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +41%
- HOHospice of Wichita Falls Inc2× · 2020–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +18%
- PMPresbyterian Manor Inc3× · 2020–2024 · $620k · revenue +37%
Funded once
Southern Methodist Universitygraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue +26%- TBTHE BOYS CLUB OF WICHITA FALLS INC DBA BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF WICHITA FALLSone grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue -3%
- COCity of Wichita Fallsone grant, 2020 · $205k
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.
The wichita county community foundation is a nonprofit, non-sectarian organization dedicated to preserving local wealth so the communities in and around leoti and wichita county will forever remain attractive places to live, work and raise…
The Organizations mission is to bring unity and efficiency to investigations of child abuse through the use of a multi-disciplinary team and, thereby, to provide the best possible services to victims of child abuse and their families.
Formerly ywca wichita, the wichita family crisis center (wfcc) began operations in wichita, ks in 1907. wfcc's mission is to eliminate domestic violence in our community by supporting survivors through shelter, education & advocacy.
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…
To procure and distribute nutritional food to qualified agencies that feed the hungry of West Central Texas.
Love and caring are the center of life at Rolling Meadows. Rolling Meadows was founded on the biblical belief that each person's life is a gift from God and is meant to be lived in dignity, comfort and security. Rolling Meadows seeks to…
Support of special needs military or first responders and their families.
To support and compliment the work of Workforce Solutions of West Central Texas Board, which is responsible for the planning, oversight, and evaluation of a consolidated workforce system for the 19 County West Central Texas region.
To provide a sober alcohol and drug frr house and other facilites for living, meals, meetings and recreation for those persons addicdted to alcohol and desiring to change their lives and become sober
The primary purpose of the organization is to provide assistance to temporarily disadvantaged individuals and families.
The mission of the walworth county care center is to provide access to long-term care services in a high quality, compassionate, and dignified manner to residents in walworth county.
The mission of casa of west texas is to recruit, train and support committed volunteers who are appointed by the court to advocate for the best interest of children in the foster care system.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Texas Area United Way Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wichita Falls University Kiwanis Foundation Inc. 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 27 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
80 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. 80 of the 145 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 UNITED REGIONAL HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
- Who funds Hospice of Wichita Falls Inc ↗
- Who funds Presbyterian Manor Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS CLUB OF WICHITA FALLS INC DBA BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF WICHITA FALLS ↗
- Who funds Wichita Falls Area Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds WICHITA FALLS AREA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds WICHITA COUNTY HERITAGE SOCIETY DBA KELL HOUSE HERITAGE CENTER ↗
- Who funds SENIOR CITIZEN SERVICES OF NORTH TEXAS INC DBA THE KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds Arts Council Wichita Falls Area Inc ↗
- Who funds Peyton's Project ↗
- Who funds Rathgeber Hospitality House ↗
- Who funds HANDS TO HANDS COMMUNITY FUND ↗
- Who funds North Texas Rehabilitation Center Inc ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF WICHITA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HUNDRED CLUB OF WICHITA FALLS ↗
- Who funds North Central Texas Community Health Care Center ↗
- Who funds CHRIST COUNSELING MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds PETS LOW COST SPAY & NEUTER ↗
- Who funds Wichita Falls Symphony Orchestra ↗
- Who funds ALL HANDS CULTURAL COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHRISTMAS IN ACTION ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Club of Vernon Inc ↗
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: Bryant Edwards Foundation Inc · The Fain Foundation · Wichita Falls Area Community Foundation · James N McCoy Foundation · Donnell Foundation · The Priddy Foundation · Guinn Foundation Inc · Perkins-Prothro Foundation · Gene Conley Foundation · Kadane Foundation · Libra Foundation · Dillard Family Foundation
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 J S Bridwell 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.
- Horizon Communities Corp — 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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