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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 it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$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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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 11% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its 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%MEERS 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%PARADISE VALLEY 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%COVE ACRES VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $1k → 19%GOTEBO VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $1k → 23%WICHITA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $2k → 16%VALLEY VIEW VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $1k → 16%EDGEWATER PARK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $1k → 19%COXS STORE 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
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 23% of Kimbell Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 88% of the giving stays in TX; by stated purpose, 66%.

Kimbell Family 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 field
05the grantee network

5 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. 5 of the 34 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
5/5
Grantees still filing
4/5
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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…Coxs Store Volunteer Fire Department Inc: $1,000 · Public Safety & DisasterPECAN CREEK 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
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 CHRIST ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds WICHITA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds Coxs Store Volunteer Fire Department Inc ↗
  • Who funds PECAN CREEK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds CLAY COUNTY OUTREACH 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.

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

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 Kimbell Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kimbell Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's 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, 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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    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 34 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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