How much did J S Bridwell Foundation grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 72% of J S Bridwell Foundation’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

bootsequipmentrepairscapital improvementsbuildingpersonalcattle

2021

renovationdowntownwhispers hopehope horsehorse farm

2022

pledgemidwestern

2023

claypledgechildeducationalsenior citizensartsmuseum art

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 91 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k27 grants · $125k
$10k–50k51 grants · $857k
$50k–250k7 grants · $550k
$250k+6 grants · $2.8M

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$61M

Total assets

Largest grants

Midwestern State University$1,000,000
River Bend Nature Center$500,000
Presbyterian Manor$500,000
YMCA$333,334
Hospice of Wichita Falls Co$250,000
United Regional Health Care Foundation$250,000
Wichita Falls Area Community Foundation$150,000
Community Healthcare Center$100,000
Archer Co Museum & Art Center$100,000
Camp Fire Council of North Texas$50,000
Wichita Falls Area Community Foundation$50,000
Clay County Historical Society$50,000
Midwestern State University$50,000
United Regional Health Care Foundation$40,000
The Hundred Club Wichita Falls$38,889

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $2.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 11%. 63% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$15M · 84 repeat orgs$2.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.

84 repeat relationships — 62 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$15M

$2.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%

+6%

Still filing today

48%

47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $303k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterHealthCrime & LegalPhilanthropyOther

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

HO
Hospice of Wichita Falls Co
2× · 2020–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +39%
PM
Presbyterian Manor
3× · 2020–2024 · $620k · revenue +31%
WF
Wichita Falls Area Community Foundation
5× · 2020–2024 · $303k · revenue +159%

Funded once

SM
Southern Methodist University
one grant, 2020 · $1.0M
BG
Boys & Girls Clubs of Wichita Falls
one grant, 2023 · $500k
CO
City of Wichita Falls
one grant, 2020 · $205k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

West Texas Lighthouse for the Blind

Promote independence and self-reliance for the visually impaired through job opportunities.

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The Wichita Children's Home

To assure the safety and well-being of children and to create heathly families by providing: assessment and intervention services; a temporary home for children at risk of abuse, neglect, or homelessness; education, prevention and advocacy…

Human Services

Food Bank of West Central Texas

To procure and distribute nutritional food to qualified agencies that feed the hungry of West Central Texas.

Food & Nutrition

West Texas Food Bank

The Food Bank is a 501c3 nonprofit, hunger relief organization that distributes donated purchased food to children, families, and seniors through a network of over 100 partner agencies in 19 counties in West Texas

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West Central Texas Workforce Development Board Inc

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.

Employment

Western Kansas Community Foundation

Enriching western Kansas life through philanthropy, collaboration and leadership.

Philanthropy

West Texas Hero Homes Inc

Support of special needs military or first responders and their families.

Housing & Shelter

Wichita Art Museum Inc

The Wichita Art Museum brings people, ideas and American art together to enrich lives and build community.

Arts & Culture

Wichita Family Crisis Center

To eliminate domestic violence by supporting survivors through shelter, education, and advocacy.

Human Services

Wichita Falls Retirement Foundation

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…

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Habitat for Humanity of Wichita Falls

Habitat for humanity of wichita falls, inc. is a christian housing ministry that works in partnership with god's people in need to build decent, affordable housing and revitalize neighborhoods.

Housing & Shelter

Wichita County Community Foundation

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…

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wichita Falls Area Community and the most unlike its peers is United Regional Health Care Foundation. 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 31 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/64

the rest of the field

54/689

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.

05the grantee network

62 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

61/62

Grantees still filing

46/62

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$12,815,273Human Services$2,900,500Arts & Culture$570,900Philanthropy$399,835Health$266,643Food & Nutrition$197,500Animals$128,000

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.

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.

Bryant Edwards Foundation IncTX100.5× affinity44 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bryant Edwards Foundation Inc · The Fain Foundation · Wichita Falls Area Community · James N McCoy Foundation · The Priddy Foundation · Donnell Foundation · Perkins-Prothro Foundation · Kadane Foundation · Guinn Foundation Inc · Libra Foundation · Gene Conley Foundation · Hazel & Henry S Grace 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 organisation 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Wichita County Heritage Society.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~11 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 6 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 3.0× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 751575382 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Wichita County Heritage Society, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 11 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 93% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to J S Bridwell Foundation?

Find your warmest path to J S Bridwell Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

J S Bridwell Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

62 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to J S Bridwell Foundation?

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J S Bridwell Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

62 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to J S Bridwell Foundation?

More from the funding graph