· Private foundation
James B and Lois R Archer Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 57% of JAMES B AND LOIS R ARCHER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $165k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $300k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER | $1,142,100 |
| ANGELO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ON BEHALF OF ASU | $500,000 |
| CHILDEREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF GREATER WEST TEXAS INC | $250,000 |
| JUNCTION COMMUNITY AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM AND FAMILY CENTER | $50,000 |
| THE MARTIN HOUSE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER | $50,000 |
| THE TEAMMATES FOR KID'S FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| WEST TEXAS REHABILITATION CENTER | $50,000 |
| 147 MILLION ORPHANS FOUNDATION DBA LOVE ONE INTERNATIONAL | $50,000 |
| ANGELO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| SUTTON COUNTY FOOD PANTRY | $30,000 |
| AMERICAN CORNERSTONE INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| SUTTON COUNTY HEALTH FOUNDATION | $19,600 |
| CITYSERVE NETWORK | $10,000 |
| KIMBLE RURAL FIRE DEPARTMENT | $10,000 |
| SCHREINER UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
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 (FY21–21, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 15% of James B and Lois R Archer Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
15 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 15 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $447k 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
- BUBelmont University5× · 2019–2023 · $3.9M · revenue +55%
- CACHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF GREATER WEST TEXAS3× · 2021–2023 · $750k · revenue +12%
- TWThe West Texas Rehabilitation Center3× · 2019–2024 · $125k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- TOTHAT OTHERS MAY RISE INCone grant, 2022 · $93k · 73% of their budget
- MAMD ANDERSONTHYROID CANCER PROGRAMone grant, 2021 · $50k
- WTWEST TEXAS BOYS RANCHone grant, 2023 · $41k · revenue +18%
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.
Sunny Glen Childrens Home, Inc. cares for children in need. Our care will be competent, compassionate and professional. We will help every child achieve their greatest potential-physically, emotionally, spiritually and academically.
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.
When care is within reach, lives change. Texas Community Counseling is a faith-based nonprofit committed to bringing hope and healing through mental health care to the communities that need it the most. We empower individuals to heal,…
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.
To protect and enhance the quality of life for abused and neglected children in Medina, Real and Uvalde Counties of Texas.
Pathways' mission is: transforming lives, families and communities.
A state of texas licensed foster care and adoption agency that identifies and provides approved healing foster homes for children.
To reduce the trauma for children during the investigation and prosecution of child abuse cases.
A state of texas licensed foster care-adoption agency that identifies and provides approved healing foster homes for children.
Texans Care for Children shapes public policies and brings Texans together to make children a statewide priority. We work so kids can have what they need to be healthy, secure, and thriving and so every Texan can have the best start to…
To advocate for and provide services to children and families when there are allegations of abuse and neglect throughout the investigation,prosecution, treatment, and prevention of child abuse, and to reduce the trauma to childrent with…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Buckner Children & Family Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Journey of Hope Grief Support Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 27 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
44 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. 44 of the 66 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 Belmont University ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF GREATER WEST TEXAS ↗
- Who funds ANGELO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TEAMMATES FOR KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The West Texas Rehabilitation Center ↗
- Who funds MARTIN HOUSE CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds THAT OTHERS MAY RISE INC ↗
- Who funds LOVE ONE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CORNERSTONE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Junction Community After School Program & Family Center ↗
- Who funds WEST TEXAS BOYS RANCH ↗
- Who funds MEALS FOR THE ELDERLY INC ↗
- Who funds Wall Volunteer Fire Department Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW HORIZONS RANCH & CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SUTTON COUNTY FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF SAN ANGELO INC ↗
- Who funds JAMES PHILLIPS WILLIAMS MEM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAFARI CLUB INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds SUTTON COUNTY HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SONOMA COUNTY VINTNERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MILITARY CHILD EDUCATION COALITION ↗
- Who funds WEST TEXAS COUNSELING AND GUIDANCE ↗
- Who funds EL PROGRESO LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds TEAMABILITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE FORGE FOR FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds First Response Ministry Inc ↗
- Who funds AIR UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
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: San Angelo Health Foundation · San Angelo Area Foundation · The Moody Foundation · Sterling-Turner Foundation · Kickapoo Springs Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · Art and Eva Camunez Tucker Foundation · F V Hall & Marylou Hall Childrens Crisis Fund · Mary Ellen Kent Bunyard Family Foundation · Pevehouse Family Foundation · Carl C Anderson Sr and Marie Jo Anderson Charitable Foundation · San Antonio Area 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 B and Lois R Archer 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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