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Mays Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k42 grants · $131k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $119k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY | $50,250 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH | $27,000 |
| OPPORTUNITY PLAN | $16,000 |
| WAYLAND BAPTIST UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| AMARILLO SYMPHONY | $15,000 |
| THE BRIDGE | $13,000 |
| PANHANDLE PLAINS HISTORICAL MUSEUM | $12,500 |
| DALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| SAINT PAUL METHODIST CHURCH | $8,000 |
| EASTRIDGE MISSION CENTER | $7,500 |
| AMARILLO CHILDREN'S HOME | $7,500 |
| HARRINGTON CANCER AND HEALTH FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
| CENTER CITY OF AMARILLO | $6,100 |
| HEAL THE CITY | $5,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $71k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 78% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +18% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
77 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2025, 36 since wound down; 9 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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
BAYLOR UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +57%- ASAMARILLO SYMPHONY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $135k · revenue +88%
- HTHEAL THE CITY FREE CLINIC5× · 2017–2021 · $82k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- WEWACO ENTREPRENEURIAL ECOSYSTEMDBA WACO STARTUPone grant, 2023 · $10k
- OCOAKS CHRISTIAN ACADEMYgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +213%
- AARADone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
The mission of Abilene Christian School, Inc. is to equip students to excel academically, serve meaningfully, and walk faithfully with God.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
To educate and prepare men and women for christian leadership in ministry.
To educate students with the transforming truth of christ, inspiring academic excellence, godly character, and integrity in life pursuits.
For the benefit of texas a&m university - corpus christi
The mission of houston christian university is to provide a learning experience that instills in students a passion for academic, spiritual, and professional excellence as a result of our central confession, "jesus christ is lord."
The purpose or purposes for which the corporation is organized shall be limited to: (a)providing information about public policy, politics, government, and national and statewide issues to the general public.
Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.
Sharing jesus, healing hearts, transforming lives.
To lead a unified effort for a hunger-free texas.
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.
Hospice care of terminally ill patients
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Amarillo Wesley Community Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Meals On Wheels. 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 43 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) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
76 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. 76 of the 147 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 BAYLOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BAYLOR LINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMARILLO SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds HEAL THE CITY FREE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds WEST TEXAS A&M UNIV FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE OPPORTUNITY PLAN INC ↗
- Who funds DALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WAYLAND BAPTIST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CENTER CITY OF AMARILLO INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL DELIVERY INFANT ADOPTION AGENCY ↗
- Who funds HIGH PLAINS RETREAT CENTER ↗
- Who funds DON HARRINGTON DISCOVERY CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE ↗
- Who funds EASTRIDGE MISSION CENTER ↗
- Who funds Red River Community House Inc ↗
- Who funds HARRINGTON CANCER AND HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REACHING SOULS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds FAITH CITY INC ↗
- Who funds EVELINE'S SUNSHINE COTTAGE ↗
- Who funds TURN CENTER ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds SAN JACINTO CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds TYLER STREET RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HIGH PLAINS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds THE AMARILLO COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF AMARILLO ↗
- Who funds TEXAS PANHANDLE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
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 · Dr Kent Roberts & Ilene Roberts Balliett Foundation · Josephine Anderson Charitable Trust · High Plains Christian Ministries Foundation · Mary E Bivins Foundation · Kimble Foundation Trust · Amarillo Business Foundation · Cj and Syble Fowlston Charitable Trust · The Don & Sybil Harrington Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · David D & Nona S Payne Foundation Inc · William & Louise Mullins 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 Mays 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.
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