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James B and Lois R Archer Charitable Foundation at a glance

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James B and Lois R Archer Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$1.1M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$7.1MHealth$5.3MCrime & Legal$1.1MRecreation & Sports$200kHuman Services$167kCommunity Improvement$132kHousing & Shelter$76kInternational$70kOther$0
02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $165k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $300k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.9M
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$38M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
ANGELO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$50,000
WEST TEXAS REHABILITATION CENTER$50,000
THE TEAMMATES FOR KID'S FOUNDATION$50,000
JUNCTION COMMUNITY AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM AND FAMILY CENTER$50,000
147 MILLION ORPHANS FOUNDATION DBA LOVE ONE INTERNATIONAL$50,000
THE MARTIN HOUSE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER$50,000
SUTTON COUNTY FOOD PANTRY$30,000
AMERICAN CORNERSTONE INSTITUTE$25,000
SUTTON COUNTY HEALTH FOUNDATION$19,600
CITYSERVE NETWORK$10,000
FRIED OF CHRISTUS SANTA ROSA FOUNDATION$10,000
FIRST RESPONSE MINISTRY INC$10,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BUCKNER CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES: $25k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
NY
IA
OH
CA
CO
VA
AZ
TN
DC
AL
TX
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 15% of James B and Lois R Archer Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

James B and Lois R Archer Charitable Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$13M · 15 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
36

Total granted

$13M
$684k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+24%

Still filing today

73%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $447k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyAnimalsPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • BU
    Belmont University
    5× · 2019–2023 · $3.9M · revenue +55%
  • CA
    CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF GREATER WEST TEXAS
    3× · 2021–2023 · $750k · revenue +12%
  • TW
    The West Texas Rehabilitation Center
    3× · 2019–2024 · $125k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • TO
    THAT OTHERS MAY RISE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $93k · 73% of their budget
  • MA
    MD ANDERSONTHYROID CANCER PROGRAM
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • WT
    WEST TEXAS BOYS RANCH
    one grant, 2023 · $41k · revenue +18%
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
Sunny Glen Children's Home Inc

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.

Human Services
2
Central Texas Children's Home

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.

Human Services
3
Texas Community Counseling

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,…

Human Services
4
Hendrick Home for Children
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5
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
6
Bluebonnet Childrens Center

To protect and enhance the quality of life for abused and neglected children in Medina, Real and Uvalde Counties of Texas.

Crime & Legal
7
Pathways Youth and Family Services Inc

Pathways' mission is: transforming lives, families and communities.

Human Services
8
Texas Foster Care & Adoption Serv

A state of texas licensed foster care and adoption agency that identifies and provides approved healing foster homes for children.

Human Services
9
Center for Child Protection

To reduce the trauma for children during the investigation and prosecution of child abuse cases.

Crime & Legal
10
Family Link Treatment Services Inc

A state of texas licensed foster care-adoption agency that identifies and provides approved healing foster homes for children.

Health
11
Texans Care for Children Inc

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…

Crime & Legal
12
Guadalupe County Children's Advocacy Center

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…

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Buckner Children & Family Services Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

44 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. 44 of the 66 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/44
Grantees still filing
25/44
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $4,692,100 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTERANGELO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ON BEHALF OF ASU: $2,500,000 · OtherANGELO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ON BEHALF OF ASU+42 more: $1,173,385 · Other+42 moreBelmont University: $3,850,000 · EducationBelmont UniversityANGELO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $565,000 · EducationANGELO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION I…+6 more: $195,000 · EducationCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF GREATER WEST TEXAS: $750,000 · Civil RightsTEAMMATES FOR KIDS FOUNDATION: $250,000 · PhilanthropySUTTON COUNTY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $19,600 · PhilanthropyThe West Texas Rehabilitation Center: $125,000 · HealthWEST TEXAS COUNSELING AND GUIDANCE: $15,000 · HealthSUPPORT FOR LIFE: $10,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $10,000 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SAN ANTONIO INC: $10,000 · HealthTHE TRANSPLANT ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS: $10,000 · HealthTHAT OTHERS MAY RISE INC: $93,270 · Community ImprovementJUNIOR LEAGUE OF SAN ANGELO INC: $20,000 · Community ImprovementSONOMA COUNTY VINTNERS FOUNDATION: $19,150 · Community ImprovementMARTIN HOUSE CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER: $95,000 · Crime & LegalTHE FORGE FOR FAMILIES: $10,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$8,365,485Education$4,610,000Civil Rights$750,000Philanthropy$269,600Health$180,000Community Improvement$132,420Crime & Legal$105,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBelmont University: $3,850,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF GREATER WEST TEXAS: $750,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetANGELO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $565,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetTEAMMATES FOR KIDS FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetThe West Texas Rehabilitation Center: $125,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMARTIN HOUSE CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER: $95,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetTHAT OTHERS MAY RISE INC: $93,270 over 1y, 73% of budgetLOVE ONE INTERNATIONAL: $60,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetAMERICAN CORNERSTONE INSTITUTE INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJunction Community After School Program & Family Center: $50,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetWEST TEXAS BOYS RANCH: $41,405 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMEALS FOR THE ELDERLY INC: $40,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetWall Volunteer Fire Department Inc: $35,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetNEW HORIZONS RANCH & CENTER INC: $33,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSUTTON COUNTY FOOD PANTRY: $30,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetBUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF SAN ANGELO INC: $20,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetSAFARI CLUB INTERNATIONAL: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJAMES PHILLIPS WILLIAMS MEM FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetSUTTON COUNTY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $19,600 over 1y, 16% of budgetMILITARY CHILD EDUCATION COALITION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWEST TEXAS COUNSELING AND GUIDANCE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEL PROGRESO LIBRARY: $10,350 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetFirst Response Ministry Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetSUPPORT FOR LIFE: $10,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetSchreiner University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKimble Rural Fire Department: $10,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetTEXAS RAMP PROJECT: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCASA DE ESPERANZA DE LOS NINOS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSONRISAS THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetYOU TURN MINISTRIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SAN ANTONIO INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTEAMABILITY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetAIR UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE FORGE FOR FAMILIES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE TRANSPLANT ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS: $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetCITYSERVE NETWORK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $7,130 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJourney of Hope Grief Support Center Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% 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.

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.

San Angelo Health Fou…San Angelo Area Found…The Moody FoundationSterling-Turner Found…Kickapoo Springs Foun…American Electric Pow…Art and Eva Camunez T…F V Hall & Marylou Ha…Mary Ellen Kent Bunya…Pevehouse Family Foun…Carl C Anderson Sr an…San Antonio Area Foun…
San Angelo Health FoundationTX28.3× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 James B and Lois R Archer Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from James B and Lois R Archer Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report 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 James B and Lois R Archer Charitable 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 66 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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