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Mays Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$300k
Granted FY2025still arriving
51
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.7MReligion$496kArts & Culture$271kHuman Services$197kHealth$156kCommunity Improvement$112kYouth Development$82kHousing & Shelter$47kOther$0
02FY2025 · 51 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k42 grants · $131k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $119k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$2,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$5.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BAYLOR UNIVERSITY$50,250
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH$27,000
OPPORTUNITY PLAN$16,000
AMARILLO SYMPHONY$15,000
WAYLAND BAPTIST UNIVERSITY$15,000
THE BRIDGE$13,000
PANHANDLE PLAINS HISTORICAL MUSEUM$12,500
Individual grant recipient$10,000
DALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY$10,000
SAINT PAUL METHODIST CHURCH$8,000
AMARILLO CHILDREN'S HOME$7,500
EASTRIDGE MISSION CENTER$7,500
HARRINGTON CANCER AND HEALTH FOUNDATION$7,000
CENTER CITY OF AMARILLO$6,100
HEAL THE CITY$5,500
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, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CANINE COMPANIONS: $1k → 14%AMARILLO CHILDREN'S HOME: $8k → 9%AMARILLO CHILDREN'S HOME: $8k → 9%FAITH CITY MISSION: $3k → 20%BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL: $2k → 14%AMARILLO CHILDREN'S HOME: $1k → 9%BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL: $2k → 14%BUCKNER CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES: $1k → 14%FAITH CITY MISSION: $5k → 20%FAITH CITY MISSION: $5k → 20%FAITH CITY MISSION: $3k → 20%FAITH CITY MISSION: $3k → 20%FAITH CITY MISSION: $2k → 20%MEALS ON WHEELS: $500 → 20%THE BRIDGE: $13k → 20%THE BRIDGE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $6k → 20%THE BRIDGE: $2k → 20%THE BRIDGE: $2k → 20%THE BRIDGE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $2k → 20%THE BRIDGE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $2k → 20%THE BRIDGE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $2k → 20%THE BRIDGE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $2k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
IL
CO
MO
NM
AR
HI
OK
GA
TX
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.1M · 77 repeat orgs$164k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against +1% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

77
60

Total granted

$3.1M
$142k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+1%

Still filing today

58%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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
EducationHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesReligionRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • BAYLOR UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +57%
  • AS
    AMARILLO SYMPHONY INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $135k · revenue +88%
  • HT
    HEAL THE CITY FREE CLINIC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $82k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • A
    ARAD
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • OC
    OAKS CHRISTIAN ACADEMYgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +213%
  • WE
    WACO ENTREPRENEURIAL ECOSYSTEMDBA WACO STARTUP
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
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
Abilene Christian School Inc

The mission of Abilene Christian School, Inc. is to equip students to excel academically, serve meaningfully, and walk faithfully with God.

Education
2
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
3
Texas Independent Baptist Seminary

To educate and prepare men and women for christian leadership in ministry.

Religion
4
Central Texas Christian School Inc

To educate students with the transforming truth of christ, inspiring academic excellence, godly character, and integrity in life pursuits.

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5
Texas a&M-Corpus Christi Foundation

For the benefit of texas a&m university - corpus christi

Education
6
Houston Christian University

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."

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7
Amarillo Tribune

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.

Community Improvement
8
Leadership Austin

Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.

Youth Development
9
Texas Girls and Boys Ranch

Sharing jesus, healing hearts, transforming lives.

Human Services
10
Feeding Texas

To lead a unified effort for a hunger-free texas.

Community Improvement
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
Hospice of South Texas Inc

Hospice care of terminally ill patients

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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 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.
04the grantee network

76 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. 76 of the 147 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
73/76
Grantees still filing
43/76
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $1,129,192 · EducationBAYLOR UNIVERSITYBAYLOR LINE FOUNDATION: $198,000 · EducationBAYLOR LINE FOUNDATIONWEST TEXAS A&M UNIV FOUNDATION: $78,900 · EducationDALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $62,500 · EducationWAYLAND BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $60,500 · Education+6 more: $43,750 · EducationFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH: $366,400 · OtherFIRST BAPTIST CHURCHKIDS CO: $75,000 · OtherKIDS COTHE OPPORTUNITY PLAN INC: $69,800 · OtherTHE OPPORTUNITY PLAN INCPANHANDLE PLAINS HISTORICAL MUSEUM: $55,100 · OtherSPECIAL DELIVERY INFANT ADOPTION AGENCY: $50,000 · OtherHIGH PLAINS RETREAT CENTER: $41,000 · Other+94 more: $521,458 · Other+94 moreAMARILLO SYMPHONY INC: $135,200 · Arts & CultureDON HARRINGTON DISCOVERY CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $33,600 · Arts & CultureRed River Community House Inc: $22,500 · Arts & CultureTEXAS PANHANDLE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+6 more: $15,750 · Arts & CultureHEAL THE CITY FREE CLINIC: $82,015 · HealthTURN CENTER: $18,000 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF AMARILLO: $10,000 · HealthHOPE CHOICE INC: $7,500 · HealthMEDICAL CENTER LEAGUE HOUSE OF AMARILLO TEXAS INC: $6,000 · Health+6 more: $9,250 · HealthTHE BRIDGE: $30,000 · Human ServicesFAITH CITY INC: $19,500 · Human ServicesEVELINE'S SUNSHINE COTTAGE: $18,500 · Human ServicesPRESBYTERIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN: $16,000 · Human ServicesBUCKNER INTERNATIONAL: $3,100 · Human Services+5 more: $4,250 · Human ServicesCENTER CITY OF AMARILLO INC: $57,815 · Community ImprovementTHE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF AMARILLO: $5,950 · Community ImprovementEASTRIDGE MISSION CENTER: $27,500 · Recreation & SportsTYLER STREET RESOURCE CENTER INC: $15,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $750 · Recreation & Sports
Education$1,572,842Other$1,178,758Arts & Culture$217,050Health$132,765Human Services$91,350Community Improvement$63,765Recreation & Sports$43,250

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 budgetBAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $1,129,192 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBAYLOR LINE FOUNDATION: $198,000 over 9y, 6.0% of budgetAMARILLO SYMPHONY INC: $135,200 over 9y, 1.5% of budgetHEAL THE CITY FREE CLINIC: $82,015 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetWEST TEXAS A&M UNIV FOUNDATION: $78,900 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetTHE OPPORTUNITY PLAN INC: $69,800 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetDALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $62,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWAYLAND BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $60,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER CITY OF AMARILLO INC: $57,815 over 9y, 3.9% of budgetSPECIAL DELIVERY INFANT ADOPTION AGENCY: $50,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetHIGH PLAINS RETREAT CENTER: $41,000 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetDON HARRINGTON DISCOVERY CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $33,600 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BRIDGE: $30,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetEASTRIDGE MISSION CENTER: $27,500 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetRed River Community House Inc: $22,500 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetHARRINGTON CANCER AND HEALTH FOUNDATION: $21,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetREACHING SOULS INTERNATIONAL INC: $20,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFAITH CITY INC: $19,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetEVELINE'S SUNSHINE COTTAGE: $18,500 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetTURN CENTER: $18,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN: $16,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSAN JACINTO CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $15,750 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetTYLER STREET RESOURCE CENTER INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHIGH PLAINS FOOD BANK: $13,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMARILLO COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER INC: $11,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF AMARILLO: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetSHARING HOPE MINISTRY INC: $10,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetTEXAS PANHANDLE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPANHANDLE NUC INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHOPE CHOICE INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMARILLO BOTANICAL GARDENS: $7,250 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTexas A&M Foundation: $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMEDICAL CENTER LEAGUE HOUSE OF AMARILLO TEXAS INC: $6,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF AMARILLO: $5,950 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetLONE STAR BALLET INC: $5,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBushland Band Boosters Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetTEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCitadelle Art Foundation: $4,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMARTHA'S HOME INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetAMARILLO AREA FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWINDOW ON A WIDER WORLD INC: $3,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetAMARILLO WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $3,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBUCKNER INTERNATIONAL: $3,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMISSION AMARILLO: $2,750 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetAMARILLO OPERA INC: $2,750 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCOFFEE MEMORIAL BLOOD CENTER FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

  • 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 OAKS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF AMARILLO ↗

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…Dr Kent Roberts & Ile…Josephine Anderson Ch…High Plains Christian…Mary E Bivins Foundat…Kimble Foundation Tru…Amarillo Business Fou…Cj and Syble Fowlston…The Don & Sybil Harri…Xcel Energy FoundationDavid D & Nona S Payn…William & Louise Mull…
Amarillo Area Foundation IncTX90.9× affinity43 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Mays Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Mays Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 147 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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