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Mary Ellen Kent Bunyard Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$435k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
19
Grants FY2025
20
Organizations funded FY2024
25%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$64,000
Organizations funded a year
12 to 21
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$12M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Mary Ellen Kent Bunyard Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $114k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Housing & ShelterHealthEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving18$435k28%
FY202420$446k25%
FY202321$553k29%
FY202212$430k42%
FY202118$450k28%
FY202021$537k38%
FY201920$532k65%
FY201820$461kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Human Services$1.0MEducation$665kHealth$514kFood & Nutrition$428kYouth Development$422kHousing & Shelter$366kArts & Culture$201kRecreation & Sports$160kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.0M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Mary Ellen Kent Bunyard Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMeals for the Elderly Inc: $242,500 over 7y, 4.0% of budgetSan Angelo Museum of Fine Arts: $172,500 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetRust Street Ministries: $167,425 over 8y, 6.9% of budgetWest Texas Boys Ranch: $138,950 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetPregnancy Help Center of Concho Valley Inc: $135,000 over 7y, 5.2% of budgetLa Esperanza Clinic Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetConcho Valley Regional Food Bank: $100,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetConcho Valley Home for Girls Inc: $87,700 over 3y, 24% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of the Concho Valley: $83,000 over 3y, 8.7% of budgetRio Concho Manor Inc: $72,435 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTexas Ramp Project: $57,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetSan Angelo Desk Inc: $53,000 over 4y, 20% of budgetSight Savers of America Inc: $50,325 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBuckner Retirement Services Inc: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe West Texas Rehabilitation Center: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCornerstone Christian School: $39,912 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetGirl Scouts of Central Texas: $38,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSonrisas Therapeutic Riding Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetThe Whit Program Inc: $26,605 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetHealthy Families San Angelo: $22,500 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetThe Eldorado Service Center: $17,500 over 2y, 23% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLaity Renewal Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetYoung Life: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSan Angelo Symphony Society: $6,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSafari Club International Foundation: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetConcho Valley Turning Point: $5,431 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetWall Volunteer Fire Department Inc: $1,161 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 28.

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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.

San Angelo Area FoundationTX42.6× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: San Angelo Area Foundation · San Angelo Health Foundation · Art and Eva Camunez Tucker Foundation · Kickapoo Springs Foundation · F V Hall & Marylou Hall Childrens Crisis Fund · American Electric Power Foundation · United Way of the Concho Valley Inc · San Antonio Food Bank · Haby Charitable Trust · Pak Foundation · James B and Lois R Archer Charitable Foundation · Stribling Funding Corporation

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.

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About Mary Ellen Kent Bunyard Family Foundation

How much does Mary Ellen Kent Bunyard Family Foundation give?
Mary Ellen Kent Bunyard Family Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $434,900 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Mary Ellen Kent Bunyard Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (25%), Education (17%), Health (13%).
Who are Mary Ellen Kent Bunyard Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Meals for the Elderly Inc ($243k), San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts ($173k), Rust Street Ministries ($167k).
Does Mary Ellen Kent Bunyard Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Mary Ellen Kent Bunyard Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Mary Ellen Kent Bunyard Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include San Angelo Area Foundation, San Angelo Health Foundation, Art and Eva Camunez Tucker Foundation.
Where is Mary Ellen Kent Bunyard Family Foundation based?
Mary Ellen Kent Bunyard Family Foundation is based in TX.

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 68 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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