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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.

$3.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
92
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$3.5MArts & Culture$3.2MHealth$2.8MHuman Services$2.1MRecreation & Sports$2.1MYouth Development$935kEnvironment$640kFood & Nutrition$638kOther$0
02FY2025 · 92 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k24 grants · $112k
  • $10k–50k61 grants · $909k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $642k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.3M
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Senior Citizens Services of North Texas$30,000
Peyton's Project$30,000
Wichita Falls Faith MissionFaith Refuge$25,000
Downtown Wichita Falls Development Inc$25,000
Christ Counseling Ministries$25,000
Rathgeber Hospitality House$25,000
Wichita Falls Area Food Bank$25,000
Chesterson Academy$20,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Presbyterian Children's Home: $10k → 10%Catholic Charities Fort Worth: $10k → 11%Presbyterian Children's Home: $10k → 10%Catholic Charities Fort Worth: $10k → 11%Hospice of Wichita Falls: $750k → 9%Presbyterian Children's Home: $10k → 10%Catholic Charities Fort Worth: $10k → 11%Hospice of Wichita Falls Co: $250k → 9%Presbyterian Children's Home: $10k → 10%Catholic Charities Fort Worth: $10k → 11%Presbyterian Children's Home: $10k → 10%Catholic Charities Fort Worth: $10k → 11%Catholic Charities Fort Worth: $10k → 11%Whispers of Hope Horse Farm: $8k → 9%Whispers of Hope Horse Farm: $8k → 9%Whispers of Hope Horse Farm: $5k → 9%Whispers of Hope Horse Farm: $5k → 9%Whispers of Hope Horse Farm: $5k → 9%Whispers of Hope Horse Farm: $1k → 9%Whispers of Hope Horse Farm: $1k → 9%Whispers of Hope Horse Farm: $1k → 9%Whispers of Hope Horse Farm: $1k → 9%United Regional Health Care Foundation: $500k → 16%United Regional Health Care Foundation: $250k → 16%United Regional Health Care Foundation: $250k → 16%United Regional Health Care Foundation: $100k → 16%United Regional Health Care Foundation: $40k → 16%Senior Citizens Services of North Texas Inc dba The Kitchen: $30k → 16%United Regional Health Care Foundation: $25k → 16%United Regional Health Care Foundation: $25k → 16%United Regional Health Care Foundation: $15k → 16%United Regional Health Care Foundation: $15k → 16%United Regional Health Care Foundation: $10k → 16%Sober Living Inc: $10k → 16%Presbyterian Manor: $500k → 16%Presbyterian Manor: $60k → 16%Presbyterian Manor: $60k → 16%Play for All: $5k → 16%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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$17M · 93 repeat orgs$2.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +3% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

93
39

Total granted

$17M
$2.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+3%

Still filing today

58%
49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $413k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthAnimalsHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • UR
    UNITED REGIONAL HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +41%
  • HO
    Hospice of Wichita Falls Inc
    2× · 2020–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +18%
  • PM
    Presbyterian Manor Inc
    3× · 2020–2024 · $620k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • Southern Methodist Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue +26%
  • TB
    THE BOYS CLUB OF WICHITA FALLS INC DBA BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF WICHITA FALLS
    one grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue -21%
  • CO
    City of Wichita Falls
    one grant, 2020 · $205k
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
Wichita County Community Foundation Inc

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
2
Childrens Advocacy Center of West Texas Inc

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.

Crime & Legal
3
Wichita Family Crisis Center

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.

Human Services
4
West Texas Food Bank

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…

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5
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
6
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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7
West Texas Hero Homes Inc

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

Housing & Shelter
8
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
9
Wichita Fellowship Club Inc

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

Health
10
Interfaith Ministries of Wichita Falls Inc Dba Interfaith Outreach Services

The primary purpose of the organization is to provide assistance to temporarily disadvantaged individuals and families.

Human Services
11
Walworth County Care Center Inc

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.

Health
12
Casa of West Texas

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.

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Texas Area United Way Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

80 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. 80 of the 145 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
79/80
Grantees still filing
50/80
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $4,000,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMidwestern State University: $3,440,500 · OtherMidwestern State UniversityYMCA: $1,416,668 · OtherYMCARiver Bend Nature Center: $585,000 · OtherTHE BOYS CLUB OF WICHITA FALLS INC DBA BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF WICHITA FALLS: $500,000 · Other+98 more: $4,086,939 · Other+98 moreUNITED REGIONAL HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION: $1,230,000 · Human ServicesUNITED REGIONAL H…Hospice of Wichita Falls Inc: $1,000,000 · Human ServicesHospice of Wichit…Presbyterian Manor Inc: $620,000 · Human ServicesPresbyterian Mano…SENIOR CITIZEN SERVICES OF NORTH TEXAS INC DBA THE KITCHEN: $150,000 · Human Services+7 more: $204,000 · Human Services+7 moreSouthern Methodist University: $1,000,000 · Education+5 more: $77,500 · EducationWICHITA COUNTY HERITAGE SOCIETY DBA KELL HOUSE HERITAGE CENTER: $190,000 · Arts & CultureArts Council Wichita Falls Area Inc: $140,000 · Arts & CultureWichita Falls Symphony Orchestra: $90,000 · Arts & CultureWichita Falls Alliance for Arts and Culture: $65,000 · Arts & CultureWICHITA FALLS YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $60,000 · Arts & CultureThe Museum of North Texas History: $58,400 · Arts & CultureZAVALA HISPANIC CULTURAL INITIATIVE: $53,000 · Arts & CultureWICHITA FALLS BALLET THEATRE INC: $36,000 · Arts & CultureRed River Valley Museum: $29,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $17,500 · Arts & CultureWichita Falls Area Community Foundation: $470,002 · PhilanthropyHANDS TO HANDS COMMUNITY FUND: $124,000 · PhilanthropyNORTH TEXAS AREA UNITED WAY INC: $26,000 · PhilanthropyRathgeber Hospitality House: $125,000 · HealthNorth Texas Rehabilitation Center Inc: $121,643 · HealthNorth Central Texas Community Health Care Center: $100,000 · HealthFIRST STEP OF WICHITA FALLS INC: $52,500 · HealthTexoma Alliance to Stop Abuse: $27,500 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $20,000 · HealthHUMANE SOCIETY OF WICHITA COUNTY: $105,500 · AnimalsPETS LOW COST SPAY & NEUTER: $90,000 · AnimalsCLAY COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER INC: $30,000 · AnimalsWild Bird Rescue Inc: $27,500 · Animals+1 more: $5,000 · Animals
Other$14,029,107Human Services$3,204,000Education$1,077,500Arts & Culture$738,900Philanthropy$620,002Health$446,643Animals$258,000

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 budgetUNITED REGIONAL HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION: $1,230,000 over 6y, 17% of budgetSouthern Methodist University: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHospice of Wichita Falls Inc: $1,000,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetPresbyterian Manor Inc: $620,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetTHE BOYS CLUB OF WICHITA FALLS INC DBA BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF WICHITA FALLS: $500,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetWichita Falls Area Community Foundation: $470,002 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetWICHITA FALLS AREA FOOD BANK: $205,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetWICHITA COUNTY HERITAGE SOCIETY DBA KELL HOUSE HERITAGE CENTER: $190,000 over 4y, 93% of budgetSENIOR CITIZEN SERVICES OF NORTH TEXAS INC DBA THE KITCHEN: $150,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetArts Council Wichita Falls Area Inc: $140,000 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetPeyton's Project: $130,000 over 5y, 25% of budgetRathgeber Hospitality House: $125,000 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetHANDS TO HANDS COMMUNITY FUND: $124,000 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetNorth Texas Rehabilitation Center Inc: $121,643 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF WICHITA COUNTY: $105,500 over 6y, 13% of budgetHUNDRED CLUB OF WICHITA FALLS: $100,889 over 2y, 30% of budgetNorth Central Texas Community Health Care Center: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHRIST COUNSELING MINISTRY INC: $97,500 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetPETS LOW COST SPAY & NEUTER: $90,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetWichita Falls Symphony Orchestra: $90,000 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetALL HANDS CULTURAL COMMUNITY CENTER: $90,000 over 6y, 15% of budgetCHRISTMAS IN ACTION: $82,500 over 5y, 8.6% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of Vernon Inc: $80,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetWichita Falls Alliance for Arts and Culture: $65,000 over 5y, 5.4% of budgetWICHITA FALLS YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $60,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetNEW HORIZONS RANCH & CENTER INC: $60,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH: $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Museum of North Texas History: $58,400 over 5y, 13% of budgetZAVALA HISPANIC CULTURAL INITIATIVE: $53,000 over 5y, 26% of budgetFIRST STEP OF WICHITA FALLS INC: $52,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN CHILDREN'S HOMES & SERVICES: $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCHILD ADVOCATES INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetDowntown Wichita Falls Development Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetINHERITANCE ADOPTIONS: $50,000 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetCLAY COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS INC: $45,000 over 6y, 4.2% of budgetSOUTHERN GRIT ADVOCACY: $37,500 over 3y, 14% of budgetWICHITA FALLS BALLET THEATRE INC: $36,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetWICHITA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetWHISPERS OF HOPE HORSE FARM: $34,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetWICHITA ADULT LITERACY COUNCIL INC: $32,250 over 4y, 6.3% of budgetThe Junior League of Wichita Falls Inc: $30,000 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetWichita West Volunteer Fire Dept: $30,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetCLAY COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER INC: $30,000 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetRed River Valley Museum: $29,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetWild Bird Rescue Inc: $27,500 over 4y, 7.5% of budgetTexoma Alliance to Stop Abuse: $27,500 over 6y, 4.0% of budgetNORTH TEXAS AREA UNITED WAY INC: $26,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetD Disaster Helping Hand Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 18% 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 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 ↗

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.

Bryant Edwards Foundation IncTX124.8× affinity57 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 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

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 J S Bridwell Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from J S Bridwell Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Horizon Communities Corp: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.
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Find your warmest path to J S Bridwell Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 145 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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