· Public charity
Pampa United Way Inc
Provide support for local nonprofit agencies that benefit the community and general public.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 12 grants below total $212,400 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $332,965 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $120,565 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ASPIRE A MINDFUL PLACE | $40,000 |
| PAMPA OPTIMIST YOUTH CLUB | $20,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $17,400 |
| PAMPA MEALS ON WHEELS | $15,000 |
| SOUTHSIDE SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER | $15,000 |
| GRAY COUNTY CHILD PROTECTION | $15,000 |
| THE BRIDGE | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| TEXAS PANHANDLE MENTAL HEALTH | $15,000 |
| LEEFORS SENIOR CENTER | $15,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $15,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $142k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 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.
14 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k 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
- POPAMPA OPTIMIST YOUTH CLUB8× · 2017–2024 · $181k · revenue +39%
- PMPAMPA MEALS ON WHEELS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $87k · revenue +42%
- GCGRAY COUNTY LATCHKEY INC7× · 2017–2023 · $78k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- GVGRASS VALLEY FIRE DEPARTMENTone grant, 2022 · $48k
- TCTRALEE CRISIS CENTER FOR WOMEN INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +50%
- BSBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICAone grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +24%
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.
Train volunteers to advocate for children in court directed foster care.
To recruit, train and supervise volunteers that advocate in the best interests of abused and neglected children in court.
To provide shelter, supervision, and counseling for children in crisis; to cooperate with other agencies in order to resolve problems related to the welfare of these children; to assist the families of these children in seeking possible…
Child Advocacy
Amarillo area casa advocates for abused and neglected children through support and training of court appointed volunteers
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Casa of the south plains inspires, educates, and empowers solution-minded community members who are committed to supporting the best interest of children in the foster care system. volunteer advocates create connections and promote…
Advocates for children
To provide trained community volunteers, to advocate for the best interests of abused and neglected children, and to promote community awareness about child abuse issues.
Big country casa recruits, trains, and supervises community volunteers who are appointed by judges to represent and advocate for the best interest of abused and neglected children in the cps system in taylor county, texas.
CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) of Grayson County is a non-profit organization dedicated to training and equipping our community to protect children, empower families, and advocate for positive outcomes for children involved in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tralee Crisis Center for Women Inc and the most unlike its peers is Create a Beat. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 20 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 PAMPA OPTIMIST YOUTH CLUB ↗
- Who funds PAMPA MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds GRAY COUNTY LATCHKEY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY DAY CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE ↗
- Who funds CREATE A BEAT ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN SPREAD COUNCIL INC 562 OF THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds CASA OF THE HIGH PLAINS INC ↗
- Who funds TRALEE CRISIS CENTER FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
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: Xcel Energy Foundation · Gray-Pampa Foundation Inc · Amarillo Area Foundation Inc · M K Brown Foundation Inc · David D & Nona S Payne Foundation Inc · Hutchinson County United Way Inc · Inez B & He McCarley Foundation Trust · Amazonsmile 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 Pampa United Way Inc 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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