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Josephine Anderson Charitable Trust at a glance

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Josephine Anderson Charitable Trust

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$329k
Granted FY2025still arriving
54
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2026.

Arts & Culture$403kHuman Services$374kHealth$202kHousing & Shelter$170kEducation$164kYouth Development$152kFood & Nutrition$122kAnimals$78kOther$0
02FY2025 · 54 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 54 grants below total $274,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $328,600 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $54,100 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k48 grants · $195k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $80k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Josephine Anderson Leadership Scholarship WTAMU Fnd.$30,000
Amarillo Opera$10,000
Amarillo Little Theatre$10,000
Kids, Inc.$10,000
Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum$10,000
Laura Bush Institute for Women's Health$10,000
107 Golf Academy$5,000
Hope and Healing Place$5,000
Downtown Women's Center$5,000
Don Harrington Discovery Center$5,000
Texas 4-H, Potter County/ Texas A&M Agrilife Extension$5,000
Catholic Charities of the Texas Panhandle$5,000
Snack Pak 4 Kids$5,000
Amarillo Children's Home$5,000
Donley County Senior Citizens$5,000
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 (FY19–22, $185k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 78% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%A WORLD FOR CHILDREN: $2k → 6%DONLEY COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS: $5k → 18%FAITH CITY MISSION: $10k → 20%TEXAS BOYS RANCH: $3k → 17%DONLEY COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS: $5k → 18%BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 20%DONLEY COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS: $4k → 18%DONLEY COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS: $4k → 18%BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 20%CATHOLIC CHARITIES TEXAS PANHANDLE: $5k → 9%BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 20%FAITH CITY MISSION: $5k → 20%AMARILLO CHILDREN'S HOME: $5k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES TEXAS PANHANDLE: $5k → 9%AMARILLO CHILDREN'S HOME: $5k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES TEXAS PANHANDLE: $5k → 9%A WORLD FOR CHILDREN INC: $2k → 9%A WORLD FOR CHILDREN INC: $2k → 9%A WORLD FOR CHILDREN: $2k → 9%ADVO COMPANIES INC: $5k → 9%THE BRIDGE: $10k → 20%THE BRIDGE: $10k → 20%THE BRIDGE: $10k → 20%ELIZABETH RUTH'S HOME: $3k → 9%THE BRIDGE: $10k → 20%ANOTHER CHANCE HOUSE: $10k → 20%MEALS ON WHEELS: $10k → 20%ANOTHER CHANCE HOUSE: $10k → 20%MEALS ON WHEELS: $5k → 20%ANOTHER CHANCE HOUSE: $5k → 20%MEALS ON WHEELS: $5k → 20%MEALS ON WHEELS: $5k → 20%ANOTHER CHANCE HOUSE: $5k → 20%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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 97 repeat orgs$359k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

97 repeat relationships: 42 still active in FY2025, 55 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

97
63

Total granted

$1.9M
$308k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
0%

Still filing today

62%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • AL
    AMARILLO LITTLE THEATER INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $70k · revenue +12%
  • HP
    HIGH PLAINS FOOD BANK
    6× · 2019–2025 · $60k · revenue +9%
  • AO
    AMARILLO OPERA INC
    6× · 2019–2025 · $55k · revenue +243%

Funded once

  • AR
    AMARILLO RECOVERY FROM ALCOHOL AND DRUGS INC
    one grant, 2019 · $20k
  • T1
    THE 100 CLUB OF TEXAS PANHANDLE
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
  • TS
    The Salvation Army of Amarillo
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
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
Medical Center League House of Amarillo Texas Inc

To serve as a home away from home for patients and their families coming to amarillo, texas for health care treatment.

Health
2
Hendrick Home for Children
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3
Center City of Amarillo Inc

Center city of amarillo, inc., brings people to downtown amarillo through organization, events, promotion, design and facilitation of economic restructuring.

Community Improvement
4
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
5
Amarillo Tribune

The purpose or purposes for which the corporation is organized shall be limited to: (a)providing information about public policy, politics, government, and national and statewide issues to the general public.

Community Improvement
6
Amarillo Area Adult Literacy Council Inc

Promotion of adult literacy in the texas panhandle.

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7
Aaf Community Health Foundation

Support organization of amarillo area foundation, inc. to provide and support medical and health care facilities, services, and education in amarillo, texas, and the texas panhandle area.

Health
8
The Parc

A caring, relational place that promotes a sense of self-worth and helps the homeless become aware of their possibilities

Human Services
9
Amarillo Botanical Gardens

To inspire people to connect with plants through education, experience, and enjoyment

Environment
10
Hospice of Texarkana

The hospice of texarkana operation provides care to the terminally ill and provides grief support to the community. hospice of texarkana also has an inpatient facility available for our patients to receive care.

Health
11
Downtown Amarillo Inc

Downtown amarillo, inc. is committed to making downtown amarillo a vibrant and attractive place.

Community Improvement
12
Children's Home of Lubbock and Family Service Agency Inc

Working in creative collaboration to provide quality care that transforms the lives of at-risk children and their families through the active compassion of christ.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Amarillo Wesley Community Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is 107 Golf Academy. 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

96 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 96 of the 172 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
93/96
Grantees still filing
54/96
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HIGH PLAINS FOOD BANK: $60,000 · OtherDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER INC: $55,000 · OtherGOLDEN SPREAD COUNCIL INC 562 OF THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $50,000 · Other+117 more: $1,176,250 · Other+117 moreANOTHER CHANCE HOUSE: $45,000 · Human ServicesANOTHER CHANCE …THE BRIDGE: $40,000 · Human ServicesTHE BRIDGEDONLEY COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS INC: $34,500 · Human ServicesDONLEY COUNTY S…FAITH CITY INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesFAITH CITY INCPRESBYTERIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN: $25,000 · Human ServicesPRESBYTERIAN HO…MEALS ON WHEELS: $25,000 · Human ServicesMEALS ON WHEELSCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE: $20,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARIT…BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesBUCKNER CHILDRE…A WORLD FOR CHILDREN: $17,000 · Human ServicesA WORLD FOR CHI…+10 more: $49,500 · Human Services+10 moreAMARILLO LITTLE THEATER INC: $70,000 · Arts & CultureAMARILLO LITTL…AMARILLO OPERA INC: $55,000 · Arts & CultureAMARILLO OPERA…AMARILLO SYMPHONY INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureAMARILLO SYMPH…TEXAS PANHANDLE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $35,000 · Arts & CultureTEXAS PANHANDL…WINDOW ON A WIDER WORLD INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureWINDOW ON A WI…TEXAS PANHANDLE WAR MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $26,000 · Arts & CultureTEXAS PANHANDL…AMARILLO ART INSTITUTE INC: $23,000 · Arts & CultureAMARILLO ART I…DON HARRINGTON DISCOVERY CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $10,500 · Arts & CultureTHE HOPE AND HEALING PLACE INC: $42,500 · HealthCOALITION OF HEALTH SERVICES INC: $27,500 · HealthPANHANDLE BREAST HEALTH: $11,000 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF AMARILLO: $10,000 · HealthTURN CENTER: $7,500 · HealthSISTER-BEAR FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Health+3 more: $7,500 · HealthAMERICAN QUARTER HORSE FOUNDATION: $51,000 · AnimalsAMARILLO SPCA: $20,000 · AnimalsDOVE CREEK EQUINE RESCUE & SANCTUARY: $12,500 · AnimalsGIRL SCOUTS OF TEXAS OKLAHOMA PLAINS INC: $28,500 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG LIFE: $22,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTH SUCCESS PROJECT: $14,000 · Youth DevelopmentMAVERICK BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF AMARILLO INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentTEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 · EducationWEST TEXAS A&M UNIV FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationThe Leaders Readers Network: $7,500 · EducationSTORYBRIDGE INC: $5,000 · EducationASCENSION ACADEMY: $5,000 · EducationDALHART EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Education
Other$1,341,250Human Services$306,000Arts & Culture$302,000Health$111,000Animals$83,500Youth Development$74,500Education$67,500

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 budgetAMARILLO LITTLE THEATER INC: $70,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetHIGH PLAINS FOOD BANK: $60,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAMARILLO OPERA INC: $55,000 over 6y, 5.2% of budgetDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER INC: $55,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN QUARTER HORSE FOUNDATION: $51,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetGOLDEN SPREAD COUNCIL INC 562 OF THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $50,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetANOTHER CHANCE HOUSE: $45,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetTHE HOPE AND HEALING PLACE INC: $42,500 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetAMARILLO SYMPHONY INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetLONE STAR BALLET INC: $40,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetTHE BRIDGE: $40,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetTEXAS RAMP PROJECT: $38,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetTEXAS PANHANDLE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetTEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDONLEY COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS INC: $34,500 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetWINDOW ON A WIDER WORLD INC: $30,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetFAITH CITY INC: $30,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF TEXAS OKLAHOMA PLAINS INC: $28,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCOALITION OF HEALTH SERVICES INC: $27,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTEXAS PANHANDLE WAR MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $26,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetAMARILLO AREA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC: $25,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN: $25,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS: $25,000 over 4y, 8.2% of budgetOPPORTUNITY SCHOOL INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetAMARILLO ART INSTITUTE INC: $23,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetTYLER STREET RESOURCE CENTER INC: $23,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $22,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE: $20,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetAMARILLO SPCA: $20,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetBUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCETA CANYON CAMP & RETREAT CENTER: $17,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHIGH PLAINS CHILDREN'S HOME AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $17,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetA WORLD FOR CHILDREN: $17,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAMARILLO TRI-STATE EXPOSITION: $16,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMOORE COUNTY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY INC: $15,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH SUCCESS PROJECT: $14,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetDOVE CREEK EQUINE RESCUE & SANCTUARY: $12,500 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetBRIDGES TO LIFE: $12,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetDON HARRINGTON DISCOVERY CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetEASTRIDGE MISSION CENTER: $11,500 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetPANHANDLE BREAST HEALTH: $11,000 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetTHE AMARILLO COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF AMARILLO: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCENIKOR FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSPEARHEAD CORPORATION: $10,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetHIGH PLAINS HELPING HANDS INC: $10,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetMAVERICK BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF AMARILLO INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% 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 AMARILLO LITTLE THEATER INC ↗
  • Who funds HIGH PLAINS FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds AMARILLO OPERA INC ↗
  • Who funds DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN QUARTER HORSE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GOLDEN SPREAD COUNCIL INC 562 OF THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds ANOTHER CHANCE HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds THE HOPE AND HEALING PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds AMARILLO SYMPHONY INC ↗
  • Who funds LONE STAR BALLET INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BRIDGE ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS RAMP PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS PANHANDLE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds DONLEY COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS INC ↗
  • Who funds WINDOW ON A WIDER WORLD INC ↗
  • Who funds FAITH CITY INC ↗
  • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF TEXAS OKLAHOMA PLAINS INC ↗
  • Who funds COALITION OF HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS PANHANDLE WAR MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds AMARILLO AREA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC ↗
  • Who funds PRESBYTERIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
  • Who funds OPPORTUNITY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds AMARILLO ART INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds TYLER STREET RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE ↗
  • Who funds AMARILLO SPCA ↗
  • Who funds AMARILLO RECOVERY FROM ALCOHOL AND DRUGS 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.

Amarillo Area Foundat…Dr Kent Roberts & Ile…Mary E Bivins Foundat…Kimble Foundation Tru…High Plains Christian…Cj and Syble Fowlston…Amarillo Business Fou…Mays FoundationThe Don & Sybil Harri…Brumley FoundationXcel Energy FoundationWilliam & Louise Mull…
Amarillo Area Foundation IncTX140.8× affinity69 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amarillo Area Foundation Inc · Dr Kent Roberts & Ilene Roberts Balliett Foundation · Mary E Bivins Foundation · Kimble Foundation Trust · High Plains Christian Ministries Foundation · Cj and Syble Fowlston Charitable Trust · Amarillo Business Foundation · Mays Foundation · The Don & Sybil Harrington Foundation · Brumley Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · William & Louise Mullins 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 Josephine Anderson Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Josephine Anderson Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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.

    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 172 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.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2026) is on record and reports $372k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2025, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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