· Public charity
Mary E Bivins Foundation
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What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 32 grants below total $2,570,870 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,719,227 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $148,357 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $377k
- $50k–250k16 grants · $1.9M
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PAMPA YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER IN | $300,000 |
| ASPIRE A MINDFUL PLACE | $235,000 |
| WEST TEXAS A & M UNIVERSITY FOUNDAT | $198,000 |
| FAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES OF AMARILLO | $175,000 |
| PANHANDLE REGIONAL PLANNING COMMISS | $150,000 |
| THE MAVERICK BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF | $146,500 |
| REFUGEE LANGUAGE PROJECT | $125,000 |
| AMARILLO COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $123,000 |
| CATHOLIC FAMILY SERVICE INC | $100,000 |
| AMARILLO AREA FOUNDATION INC | $100,000 |
| MEADOWS MENTAL HEALTH POLICY INSTIT | $100,000 |
| OPPORTUNITY SCHOOL INC | $100,000 |
| AMARILLO SYMPHONY INC | $90,000 |
| PARTNERS OF THE COMING HOME PROGRAM | $80,000 |
| TURN CENTER | $60,370 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $2.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +13% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
52 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 36 since wound down; 15 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, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- OSOPPORTUNITY SCHOOL INC2× · 2019–2024 · $300k · revenue +28%
- FSFAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES OF AMARILLO3× · 2018–2024 · $235k · revenue +27%
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE3× · 2021–2024 · $208k · revenue +85%
Funded once
- HTHOPE TO OPPORTUNITIES FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue -58%
- OHOGH HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue +142% · 61% of their budget
- SISTORYBRIDGE INCone grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue -30%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
A state of texas licensed foster care and adoption agency that identifies and provides approved healing foster homes for children.
Welfare of homeless animals
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.
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.
Downtown amarillo, inc. is committed to making downtown amarillo a vibrant and attractive place.
Center city of amarillo, inc., brings people to downtown amarillo through organization, events, promotion, design and facilitation of economic restructuring.
Our mission is to meet the spiritual and practical needs of the families of prisoners. We strive to provide a safe and caring home in whichfamilies can rest while visiting loved ones currently incarcerated in the adjacent prison system.
Healthy Family Services of Texas is dedicated to promoting the physical, mental, and emotional health of our patients by offering comprehensive healthcare services and wellness programs.
The center is a care provider rendering life sustaining assistance to the indigent and job training and placement for able bodied clients withouth regard to religious preference, political affiliation, sex, race, handicap, or other…
Provide meals on wheels, congregate meals, and recreational facility for elderly and low income persons of dawson county texas.
To provide primary health and dental care to the underserved of fayette and lee counties, texas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Amarillo Wesley Community Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Casa of the Rolling Plains. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
132 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 132 of the 148 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 WEST TEXAS A&M UNIV FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMARILLO WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TURN CENTER ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds PAMPA YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE TO OPPORTUNITIES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE AMARILLO COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES OF AMARILLO ↗
- Who funds ASPIRE A MINDFUL PLACE ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE ↗
- Who funds OGH HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DUMAS EDUCATION AND SOCIAL MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE PARC ↗
- Who funds AMARILLO AREA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LEE BIVINS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAVERICK BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF AMARILLO INC ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds STORYBRIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS INC OF AMARILLO ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF AMARILLO ↗
- Who funds Cactus Nazarene Ministry Center ↗
- Who funds DALHART SENIOR CITIZENS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds TYLER STREET RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds REFUGEE LANGUAGE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds AMARILLO SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds DALLAM-HARTLEY COUNTIES HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMARILLO HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds HIGH PLAINS CHILDREN'S HOME AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MEADOWS MENTAL HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE FOR TEXAS ↗
- Who funds AMARILLO AREA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds SILVERTON DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CETA CANYON CAMP & RETREAT CENTER ↗
- Who funds FAITH CITY INC ↗
- Who funds HIGH PLAINS RETREAT CENTER ↗
- Who funds PANHANDLE COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Amarillo Area Foundation Inc · Josephine Anderson Charitable Trust · The Don & Sybil Harrington Foundation · High Plains Christian Ministries Foundation · Dr Kent Roberts & Ilene Roberts Balliett Foundation · Cj and Syble Fowlston Charitable Trust · Kimble Foundation Trust · The United Way Inc · Brumley Foundation · Amarillo Business Foundation · David D & Nona S Payne Foundation Inc · Mays 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 Mary E Bivins 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.
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.