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Mary E Bivins Foundation

The mary e.

$3.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
63
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$375k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$1.9MFood & Nutrition$1.8MHuman Services$1.7MEducation$1.4MHousing & Shelter$934kYouth Development$725kArts & Culture$487kRecreation & Sports$430kOther$0
02FY2025 · 63 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 63 grants below total $2,716,935, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,996,798 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $279,863 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 $10k4 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k45 grants · $1.0M
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $985k
  • $250k+2 grants · $675k
$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$154M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PANHANDLE COMMUNITY SERVICES$375,000
MEADOWS MENTAL HEALTH POLICY INSTIT$300,000
THE BRIDGE$150,000
PRESBYTERIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN$138,000
OGALLALA COMMONS INC$100,000
DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER$100,000
STORYBRIDGE INC$96,000
PERRYTON AND VICINITY ACTIVITIES CE$86,355
WEST TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIO$64,425
DON HARRINGTON DISCOVERY CENTER FOU$50,000
NAZARETH COMMUNITY HALL$50,000
THE LEADERS READERS NETWORK$50,000
HIDDEN FALLS RANCH$50,000
THE UNITED WAY$50,000
STEPPING STONES LEARNING CENTER$45,000
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 (FY17–25, $2.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 76% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%DALHART SENIOR CITIZENS ASSOCIATION: $93k → 11%WHEELER AREA ACTIVITIES & IMPROVEME: $38k → 15%DONLEY COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS: $30k → 18%CATHOLIC FAMILY SERVICE INC: $100k → 20%SWISHER COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS: $20k → 20%PRESBYTERIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN: $138k → 9%GOOD SAMARITAN CHRISTIAN SERVICES I: $85k → 11%HEREFORD REGIONAL SPORTSPLEX: $50k → 17%DONLEY COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS INC: $25k → 18%BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES: $15k → 20%PRESBYTERIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN ABA: $100k → 9%HEREFORD SENIOR CITIZENS ASSOCIATIO: $38k → 17%DONLEY COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS: $15k → 18%CATHOLIC FAMILY SERVICES: $25k → 20%PRESBYTERIAN HOME FOR THE CHILDREN: $60k → 9%DUMAS EDUCATION & SOCIAL MINISTRIES: $150k → 12%HEREFORD SENIOR CITIZEN ASSOCIATION: $25k → 17%MEALS ON WHEELS OF DALHART: $25k → 11%GOOD SAMARITAN CHRISTIAN SERVICE IN: $20k → 17%HEREFORD SENIOR CITIZENS ASSOCIATIO: $25k → 17%DALHART SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER: $25k → 11%DALHART SENIOR CITIZENS ASSOCIATION: $22k → 11%GOOD SAMARITAN CHRISTIAN SERVICE IN: $18k → 11%BUCKNER CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICE: $25k → 14%DALHART SENIOR CITIZENS ASSOCIATION: $13k → 11%BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES: $25k → 14%CCS CONNECT COMMUNITY SERVICES: $30k → 9%MEALS ON WHEELS OF DALHART: $13k → 11%DUMAS EDUCATION & SOCIAL MINISTRIES: $25k → 12%PANHANDLE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $375k → 20%CCS CONNECT COMMUNITY SERVICES: $20k → 9%DUMAS EDUCATION & SOCIAL MINISTRIES: $25k → 12%DUMAS EDUCATION & SOCIAL MINISTRIES: $17k → 12%PARC: $100k → 20%THE PARC: $91k → 20%PANHANDLE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $74k → 20%AMARILLO HEARING FOUNDATION: $55k → 20%ANOTHER CHANCE HOUSE: $50k → 20%FAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES OF AMARILLO: $40k → 20%BAPTIST COMMUNITY SERVICES: $34k → 20%ANOTHER CHANCE HOUSE: $25k → 20%FAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES OF AMARILLO: $20k → 20%BAPTIST COMMUNITY SERVICES: $20k → 20%PANHANLDE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $13k → 20%REFUGEE LANGUAGE PROJECT: $125k → 20%FAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES OF AMARILLO: $175k → 20%FAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES: $50k → 20%THE BRIDGE: $150k → 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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.7M · 70 repeat orgs$4.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

70 repeat relationships: 43 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

70
77

Total granted

$8.7M
$4.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+2%

Still filing today

87%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $582k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureRecreation & SportsEducationFood & NutritionOther
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

  • PC
    PANHANDLE COMMUNITY SERVICES
    3× · 2021–2025 · $475k · revenue +41%
  • OS
    OPPORTUNITY SCHOOL INC
    2× · 2019–2024 · $300k · revenue +28%
  • FS
    FAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES OF AMARILLO
    3× · 2018–2024 · $235k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • PY
    PAMPA YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER INC
    one grant, 2024 · $300k · revenue +9%
  • HT
    HOPE TO OPPORTUNITIES FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue -58%
  • AA
    ASPIRE A MINDFUL PLACE
    one grant, 2024 · $235k · 27% of their budget
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
Hendrick Home for Children
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2
Texas Foster Care & Adoption Serv

A state of texas licensed foster care and adoption agency that identifies and provides approved healing foster homes for children.

Human Services
3
Dawson County Senior Citizens Center Inc

Provide meals on wheels, congregate meals, and recreational facility for elderly and low income persons of dawson county texas.

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4
Amarillo Spca

Welfare of homeless animals

Animals
5
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
6
Meals On Wheels Ministry Inc

Empowers older and disabled adults to live independentlly in thier own homes by providing nutritious home-delivered meals, safety checks, socialization, and community connection, which result in an enhanced quality of life and purpose as…

Food & Nutrition
7
Muleshoe Meals On Wheels Inc

The Muleshoe Meals on Wheels purpose is to engage in all activities necessary, useful, or expedient, through operative measures and active organizations, to promote and further the interests of the Senior citizens of the area. The purpose…

—
8
Mission Texarkana Inc

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…

Human Services
9
Azle Caring Center

Provide food, clothing and other household goods to low income families in the greater city of azle area.

Human Services
10
Mission Health Care Inc

The organization operates an adult day care facility in midland, texas which offers a multi-disciplinary, comprehensive health and activity program for frail and impaired elderly and disabled residents.

Health
11
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
12
Tejas Health Care

To provide primary health and dental care to the underserved of fayette and lee counties, texas.

Health
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 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.
04the grantee network

144 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. 144 of the 165 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.

16
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
26
Early backer (in before they grew)
142/144
Grantees still filing
79/144
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMARILLO WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $392,290 · OtherAMARILLO WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER INCOPPORTUNITY SCHOOL INC: $300,000 · OtherPAMPA YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $300,000 · OtherTHE AMARILLO COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $270,500 · OtherPANHANDLE REGIONAL PLANNING COMMISS: $199,700 · Other+79 more: $4,295,113 · Other+79 morePANHANDLE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $474,700 · Human ServicesPANHANDLE COMMUNITY SERVICE…PRESBYTERIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN: $298,000 · Human ServicesPRESBYTERIAN HOME FOR CHILD…FAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES OF AMARILLO: $235,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES OF …CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE: $233,465 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE T…DUMAS EDUCATION AND SOCIAL MINISTRIES INC: $217,400 · Human ServicesDUMAS EDUCATION AND SOCIAL …THE PARC: $191,000 · Human ServicesTHE PARCDALHART SENIOR CITIZENS ASSOCIATION: $152,082 · Human ServicesTHE BRIDGE: $150,000 · Human ServicesREFUGEE LANGUAGE PROJECT: $125,000 · Human Services+24 more: $1,218,494 · Human Services+24 moreMEADOWS MENTAL HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE FOR TEXAS: $400,000 · HealthMEADOWS MENTAL…TURN CENTER: $310,370 · HealthTURN CENTERASPIRE A MINDFUL PLACE: $235,000 · HealthASPIRE A MINDF…OGH HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $200,000 · HealthOGH HEALTHCARE…RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF AMARILLO: $150,000 · HealthRONALD MCDONAL…DALLAM-HARTLEY COUNTIES HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $105,723 · HealthDALLAM-HARTLEY…COALITION OF HEALTH SERVICES INC: $75,000 · HealthCollingsworth County Home Delivered Meals Program: $73,200 · HealthHEMPHILL COUNTY REGIONAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $66,000 · Health+8 more: $176,375 · Health+8 moreWEST TEXAS A&M UNIV FOUNDATION: $614,826 · EducationSTORYBRIDGE INC: $246,000 · EducationThe Leaders Readers Network: $101,500 · EducationSTEPPING STONES LEARNING CENTER: $45,000 · Education+3 more: $74,800 · EducationHOPE TO OPPORTUNITIES FOUNDATION: $250,000 · PhilanthropyAMARILLO AREA FOUNDATION INC: $190,000 · PhilanthropyTRI-COUNTY MEALS: $77,422 · PhilanthropyMOORE COUNTY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $67,120 · PhilanthropyPANHANDLE OF TEXAS LIONS FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $7,200 · PhilanthropyKIDS INC OF AMARILLO: $150,000 · Recreation & SportsTYLER STREET RESOURCE CENTER INC: $125,000 · Recreation & SportsPERRYTON ACTIVITY CENTER INC: $86,355 · Recreation & SportsGARRETSON CENTER INC: $80,942 · Recreation & SportsSPEARHEAD CORPORATION: $69,200 · Recreation & SportsAMARILLO TRI-STATE EXPOSITION: $50,000 · Recreation & SportsEASTRIDGE MISSION CENTER: $37,042 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $7,500 · Recreation & SportsAMARILLO SYMPHONY INC: $120,000 · Arts & CultureDON HARRINGTON DISCOVERY CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureWINDOW ON A WIDER WORLD INC: $78,100 · Arts & CultureWE FIND IN LOVE: $75,000 · Arts & CulturePANHANDLE-PLAINS HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $50,000 · Arts & CultureAMARILLO LITTLE THEATER INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureTEXAS PANHANDLE WAR MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureAMARILLO ART INSTITUTE INC: $36,540 · Arts & CultureAMARILLO ART CENTER ASSOCIATION: $30,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$5,757,603Human Services$3,295,141Health$1,791,668Education$1,082,126Philanthropy$616,742Recreation & Sports$606,039Arts & Culture$589,640

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 budgetWEST TEXAS A&M UNIV FOUNDATION: $614,826 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetPANHANDLE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $474,700 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMEADOWS MENTAL HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE FOR TEXAS: $400,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAMARILLO WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $392,290 over 3y, 17% of budgetTURN CENTER: $310,370 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetOPPORTUNITY SCHOOL INC: $300,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetPAMPA YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $300,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN: $298,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetTHE AMARILLO COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $270,500 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetHOPE TO OPPORTUNITIES FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetSTORYBRIDGE INC: $246,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetASPIRE A MINDFUL PLACE: $235,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetFAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES OF AMARILLO: $235,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE: $233,465 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetDUMAS EDUCATION AND SOCIAL MINISTRIES INC: $217,400 over 4y, 26% of budgetOGH HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 1y, 61% of budgetTHE PARC: $191,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetAMARILLO AREA FOUNDATION INC: $190,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetLEE BIVINS FOUNDATION: $190,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetMAVERICK BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF AMARILLO INC: $189,278 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER INC: $183,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetOGALLALA COMMONS INC: $160,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetDALHART SENIOR CITIZENS ASSOCIATION: $152,082 over 4y, 22% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF AMARILLO: $150,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetKIDS INC OF AMARILLO: $150,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetCactus Nazarene Ministry Center: $135,000 over 2y, 37% of budgetREFUGEE LANGUAGE PROJECT: $125,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetTYLER STREET RESOURCE CENTER INC: $125,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetAMARILLO SYMPHONY INC: $120,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetTEXAS RAMP PROJECT: $110,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetDALLAM-HARTLEY COUNTIES HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $105,723 over 2y, 12% of budgetAMARILLO HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $104,246 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN CHRISTIAN SERVICE INC OF DALHART TEXAS: $103,000 over 2y, 57% of budgetThe Leaders Readers Network: $101,500 over 3y, 28% of budgetHIGH PLAINS CHILDREN'S HOME AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $100,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCETA CANYON CAMP & RETREAT CENTER: $100,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetHIGH PLAINS RETREAT CENTER: $100,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetAMARILLO AREA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC: $100,000 over 2y, 9.4% of budgetFAITH CITY INC: $100,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetSILVERTON DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetDON HARRINGTON DISCOVERY CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetHEREFORD SENIOR CITIZENS ASSOCIATION INC: $99,580 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetMOORE COUNTY SENIOR CENTER INC: $91,450 over 4y, 8.5% of budgetBRIDGES TO LIFE: $90,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetPAMPA MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $90,000 over 4y, 9.4% of budgetCOLORFUL CLOSETS OF AMARILLO INC: $86,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetDONLEY COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS INC: $82,000 over 4y, 9.8% of budgetVICTORY TREE FOUNDATION: $81,944 over 3y, 22% 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.

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…Josephine Anderson Ch…The Don & Sybil Harri…High Plains Christian…Dr Kent Roberts & Ile…Cj and Syble Fowlston…Kimble Foundation Tru…The United Way IncBrumley FoundationAmarillo Business Fou…David D & Nona S Payn…Mays Foundation
Amarillo Area Foundation IncTX205.9× affinity106 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    41report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 165 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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