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Kimbell Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$251k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$251k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

Youth Development$253kPublic Benefit$100kPublic Safety & Disaster$52kEducation$35kHuman Services$500
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$250,600
Median grant
1
States reached
$970k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WICHITA FALLS$250,600
02The need
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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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 11% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 16%CHRIST ACADEMY: $17k → 9%CLAY COUNTY OUTREACH INC: $500 → 11%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WICHITA FALLS: $251k → 16%GRADY CO VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $15k → 15%STERLING VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $1k → 16%FORT COBB VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $1k → 17%CHATTANOOGA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $1k → 19%SWAN LAKE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $1k → 19%MOUNTAIN VIEW VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $1k → 19%TIPTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $1k → 21%SADDLE MOUNTAIN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $2k → 23%CHRIST ACADEMY: $17k → 9%BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $1k → 16%PARADISE VALLEY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $3k → 16%HULEN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $1k → 19%ALDEN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $4k → 19%GRANDFIELD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $1k → 21%SEDAN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $1k → 23%BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $1k → 16%MEERS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $3k → 16%APACHE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $2k → 19%COOPERTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $1k → 23%BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $170 → 16%WICHITA MOUNTAIN ESTATES VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $2k → 16%EDGEWATER PARK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $1k → 19%GOTEBO VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $1k → 23%WICHITA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $2k → 16%COXS STORE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $1k → 16%COVE ACRES VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $1k → 19%VALLEY VIEW VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $1k → 16%CEMENT VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $1k → 19%INDIAHOMA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $1k → 16%PECAN CREEK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $1k → 16%CACHE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $1k → 16%PORTER HILL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $1k → 16%MEDICINE PARK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $1k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

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Where the work is directed

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

About 23% of Kimbell Family 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. Read by recipient address, 88% of the giving stays in TX; read by stated purpose it is 66% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Kimbell Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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.

03Your field
05the grantee network

5 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 5 of the 34 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.

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

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WICHITA FALLS — $250,600 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WICHITA FALLSCITY OF WICHITA FALLS — $100,000 · OtherCITY OF WICHITA FALLSGRADY CO VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT — $15,000 · Other+26 more — $37,695 · Other+26 moreCHRIST ACADEMY — $33,334 · EducationCHRIST AC…WICHITA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC — $2,000 · EducationWICHITA C…PECAN CREEK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC — $1,000 · Public Safety & DisasterCoxs Store Volunteer Fire Department Inc — $1,000 · Public Safety & DisasterCLAY COUNTY OUTREACH INC — $500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$403,295Education$35,334Public Safety & Disaster$2,000Food & Nutrition$500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCHRIST ACADEMY — $33,334 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetWICHITA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPECAN CREEK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC — $1,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budget
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 CHRIST ACADEMY
  • Who funds WICHITA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC
  • Who funds PECAN CREEK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
  • Who funds Coxs Store Volunteer Fire Department Inc
  • Who funds CLAY COUNTY OUTREACH 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.

Wichita Falls Area Community FoundationTX15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Wichita Falls Area Community Foundation · Amazonsmile 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 Kimbell Family 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.

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no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Kimbell Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Kimbell Family 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 34 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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