· Private foundation
Mary Ellen Kent Bunyard Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 69% of Mary Ellen Kent Bunyard Family Foundation’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $296k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $114k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Rio Concho Manor | $64,000 |
| Concho Valley Regional Food Bank | $50,000 |
| San Angelo Early Childhood Center | $45,400 |
| Sonrisas Therapeutic Riding Inc | $30,000 |
| West Texas Boys Ranch | $30,000 |
| House of Faith | $30,000 |
| All-Tex Spash Pad Fund | $25,000 |
| West Texas Counseling Guidance Cent | $20,000 |
| Pregnancy Help Center of Concho Val | $20,000 |
| Young Men's Christian Association | $20,000 |
| Girl Scouts of Central Texas | $18,000 |
| House of Faith | $15,000 |
| Texas Ramp Project | $15,000 |
| San Angelo DESK Inc | $15,000 |
| American Heart Association | $12,500 |
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 (FY18–25, $280k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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 +10% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $118k 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
- MFMEALS FOR THE ELDERLY INC7× · 2018–2025 · $243k · revenue +79%
- SASan Angelo Museum of Fine Arts5× · 2019–2023 · $173k · revenue +67%
- WTWEST TEXAS BOYS RANCH7× · 2018–2025 · $139k · revenue +138%
Funded once
- ADAlcohol Drug Abuse Center of CVone grant, 2018 · $150k
- LELA ESPERANZA CLINIC INCone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +10%
- WTWest Texas Counseling Guidance Ctrone grant, 2018 · $78k
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.
Hospice of san angelo, inc. (hospice or organization) provides an expert approach to care for those living with a limiting illness in the comfort of their own home and designated nursing homes throughout the twelve counties in the west…
San antonio foster care and adoption services inc. is a licensed child placement agency in the state of texas. the organization cares for children placed in foster care by the state of texas.
South Texas Rural Health Services, Inc. provides charitable health services, including the recruitment of health care personnel to the rural service area, and primarily serves the low income population.
Sharing jesus, healing hearts, transforming lives.
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.
Health care services are provided to low to moderate income families who are residents of South Texas. Services are provided at a low cost are based on abiilty to pay base. Approximately 18,022 patients were served in the fiscal year.
Provide community-based primary healthcare with particular concern for the poor and needy. with a coordinated and holistic apporach in caring for body, mind, and spirit, offer affordable health care, social service, and health education…
Provides short term shelter, housing and other services for the homeless and those at risk of becoming homeless in bexar county.
The WTFB exists to collect, purchase, and distribute food to feed the hungry in 19 counties in West Texas in partnership with volunteers and community organizations and to educate these partners and the public at large about the real face…
Respite Care of San Antonio is dedicated to providing specialized care for children with special needs and complex medical conditions through a General Residential Operation (GRO), Developmental Childcare Center, and Community Programs for…
A nondenominational Christian Non-Profit Organization whose purpose is to create decent affordable housing for those in need, and to make a decent shelter a matter of conscience with people everywhere.
To provide comprehensive community-oriented primary health care to the residents of the western south plains, in a manner that is linguistically, culturally and financially accessible.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Concho Valley Home for Girls Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pregnancy Help Center of Concho Valley Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 68 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 MEALS FOR THE ELDERLY INC ↗
- Who funds San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts ↗
- Who funds RUST STREET MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds SAN ANGELO AREA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WEST TEXAS BOYS RANCH ↗
- Who funds PREGNANCY HELP CENTER OF CONCHO VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds Concho Valley Regional Food Bank ↗
- Who funds LA ESPERANZA CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds CONCHO VALLEY HOME FOR GIRLS INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE CONCHO VALLEY ↗
- Who funds RIO CONCHO MANOR INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS RAMP PROJECT ↗
- Who funds SAN ANGELO DESK INC ↗
- Who funds SIGHT SAVERS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds SAN ANGELO EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER ↗
- Who funds The West Texas Rehabilitation Center ↗
- Who funds BUCKNER RETIREMENT SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL TEXAS ↗
- Who funds SONRISAS THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC ↗
- Who funds THE WHIT PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY FAMILIES SAN ANGELO ↗
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: 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
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 Ellen Kent Bunyard Family 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.