· Private foundation
James a Buddy Davidson Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k38 grants · $819k
- $50k–250k28 grants · $2.7M
- $250k+5 grants · $1.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YMCA OF MIDLAND | $350,000 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE | $300,000 |
| TEXAS A&M-CORPUS CHRISTI FOUNDATION | $300,000 |
| UMC FOUNDATION | $300,000 |
| COOK CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER | $300,000 |
| BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES | $235,000 |
| REFLECTION MINISTRIES OF TEXAS | $234,050 |
| BYNUM SCHOOL | $225,486 |
| CHRISTIANS IN ACTION | $200,000 |
| TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION | $140,000 |
| WILDLIFE RESCUE & REHAB INC | $121,000 |
| LUBBOCK CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE | $100,000 |
| COVENANT HEALTH FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| HELPING HANDS OF MIDLAND | $100,000 |
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, $3.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +51% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
134 repeat relationships — 47 still active in FY2024, 87 since wound down; 20 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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
Scott & White Healthcare Foundation4× · 2017–2020 · $1.9M · revenue +64%- CCCook Children's Medical Center7× · 2018–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +104%
- ASANGELO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC5× · 2017–2022 · $1.6M · revenue +156%
Funded once
- TWThe Way Retreat Centerone grant, 2018 · $245k · revenue -70%
- ETEAST TEXAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue -13%
- ETEAST TX BAPTIST UNIVone grant, 2018 · $200k
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.
Animal rescue and rehabilitation
Rescue neglected, unwanted homeless dogs and cats nurture and provide shelter until they are placed with a forever family strive to reduce animal overpopulation prevent cruelty to animals teach responsible pet ownership through an outreach…
One tail at a time west texas otat wtx serves the rural communities of west texas by supporting animal shelter operations rescuing and sheltering homeless unwanted companion animals dogs and cats primarily arranging their veterinary care…
Permian basin animal advocates strives to educate and help the public with spay and neuter while also rescuing abandoned or unwanted animals and finding them forever homes.
The austin humane society (ahs) offers comprehensive, humane, life-saving animal services, transforming the lives of animals and those who love them. because we believe homeless animals deserve a chance to thrive in a loving environment,…
Adoption and shelter facility for unwanted, abandoned and neglected animals. provide aid to the community who need help with vetting or care of their animals.
As an advocate for the community goal of maintaining its no kill status, the humane society provides adoption, rescue and foster opportunities for the homeless animals at the city of waco animal shelter, as well as community education…
The organization is dedicated to rescuing, rehabilitating and releasing orphaned and injured wildlife in the texas panhandle.
Wildlife rescue of central texas cares for injured and orphaned wildlife, provides public education programs, and promotes peaceful coexistence with our wild neighbors.
Laurel's House strengthens the human animal bond improves public health decreases the number of companion animal euthanasia due to overpopulation and diminishes human impact on native wildlife species by providing unprecedented access to…
To provide humane shelter, care and placement for stray and unwanted animals, and to promote the human-animal bond and responsible pet ownership to enhance the quality of life for the people and animals in our community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Casa of the South Plains Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Pecos River. 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 33 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
158 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 158 of the 256 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 Scott & White Healthcare Foundation ↗
- Who funds Cook Children's Medical Center ↗
- Who funds ANGELO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LUBBOCK CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WEST TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds SAFE PLACE OF THE PERMIAN BASIN ↗
- Who funds Ranching Heritage Association ↗
- Who funds SENIOR LIFE MIDLAND INC ↗
- Who funds BYNUM SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MISSION AGAPE ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds REFLECTION MINISTRIES OF TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIANS IN ACTION ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND CHILDRENS REHABILITATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WAYLAND BAPTIST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HOWARD PAYNE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WEST TEXAS BOYS RANCH ↗
- Who funds Hendrick Medical Center ↗
- Who funds HIGH SKY CHILDRENS RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Midland Texas ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS OF MIDLAND INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MANOR PARK INC ↗
- Who funds UMC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds TEXAS A&M-CORPUS CHRISTI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Fields Edge ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Westcave Outdoor Discovery Center ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Way Retreat Center ↗
- Who funds THE PEREGRINE FUND 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: Abell-Hanger Foundation · Permian Basin Area Foundation · Helen Greathouse Charitable Trust · Pevehouse Family Foundation · Scharbauer Foundation Inc · The Henry Foundation · Wayne & Jo Ann Moore Charitable Foundation · Beal Foundation · Warren Charitable Foundation · Yarborough Foundation · The Fasken Foundation · Ken W Davis 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 James a Buddy Davidson Charitable 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.
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