· Private foundation
M K Brown Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k20 grants · $72k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $162k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $260k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PAMPA YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER | $200,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $60,000 |
| GOLDEN SPREAD COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS | $40,000 |
| PAMPA SENIOR CITIZENS | $20,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF TEXAS OKLAHOMA PLAIN | $20,000 |
| WEST TEXAS A M UNIVERSITY | $17,500 |
| TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| HIGH PLAINS FOOD BANK | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $14,125 |
| PAMPA MEALS ON WHEELS | $10,000 |
| GOOD SAMARITAN CHRISTIAN SERVICES | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| OLD MOBEETIE TX ASSN | $5,000 |
| DONLEY COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $135k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.
53 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 9 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, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $245k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HPHIGH PLAINS FOOD BANK8× · 2017–2024 · $125k · revenue +13%
- PSPAMPA SENIOR CITIZENS INC5× · 2017–2024 · $70k · revenue +114%
- PMPAMPA MEALS ON WHEELS INC5× · 2017–2024 · $48k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- PEPAMPA EDUCATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -23%
- LSLONE STAR BALLET INCone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -14%
- PHPANHANDLE-PLAINS HISTORICAL SOCIETYgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +29%
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.
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.
Howard payne university is a christ-centered academic community dedicated to excellence by developing and equipping the whole person for intellectual inquiry, personal and professional integrity, and service to god and humanity.
To ensure that the student body experiences balanced intellectual, psychological, social and spiritual development, aimed at enabling them to become active productive members of society where they live and work.
To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
The association's purpose is to promote the role of the pharmacist and the practice of pharmacy in the state of texas.
The Texas Academy of Physician Assistants advances the PA profession through advocacy and development by leading PAs across Texas.
The texas medical association (tma), the nation's largest and one of the oldest state medical societies, represents over 59,000 physicians and medical students dedicated to enhancing the health of all texans. in collaboration with 110…
To provide high school curricula for students in grades 8-12. the school operates under an open-enrollment charter granted by the texas board of education and is part of the public school system of texas.
The university of mary hardin-baylor prepares students for leadership, service, and faith-informed discrenment in a global society. academic excellence, personal attention, broad-based scholarship and a commitment to a baptist vision for…
None
Operate a non-profit medical clinic exclusively for charitable purposes to provide medical health services to uninsured and low income adults in the Abilene area.
How this is measured
42 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. 42 of the 95 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 GOLDEN SPREAD COUNCIL INC 562 OF THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds PAMPA YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HIGH PLAINS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Good Samaritan Christian Services Inc ↗
- Who funds PAMPA SENIOR CITIZENS INC ↗
- Who funds PAMPA MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE ↗
- Who funds DONLEY COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS INC ↗
- Who funds THE OPPORTUNITY PLAN INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF TEXAS OKLAHOMA PLAINS INC ↗
- Who funds KANZA Society Inc ↗
- Who funds OLD MOBEETIE TEXAS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WINDOW ON A WIDER WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF THE HIGH PLAINS INC ↗
- Who funds PAMPA OPTIMIST YOUTH CLUB ↗
- Who funds PAMPA EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMARILLO SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds HOOVER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT ↗
- Who funds BAYLOR UNIVERSITY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Amarillo Area Foundation Inc · David D & Nona S Payne Foundation Inc · Josephine Anderson Charitable Trust · Gray-Pampa Foundation Inc · Dr Kent Roberts & Ilene Roberts Balliett Foundation · Kimble Foundation Trust · Mary E Bivins Foundation · The Legett Foundation · Mays Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Cj and Syble Fowlston Charitable Trust · Amarillo Business Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization M K Brown Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from M K Brown Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Oral Roberts University: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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