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Paul F & Virginia J Engler Fndn

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.0M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
6
Grants FY2024
10
Organizations funded FY2023
20%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$500,000
Organizations funded a year
8 to 28
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$35M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 20% of the organizations Paul F & Virginia J Engler Fndn funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $352k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationEnvironmentOther
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
FY2024still arriving5$1.0M40%
FY202310$1.4M20%
FY202215$1.1M47%
FY20218$1.0M13%
FY202011$1.0M18%
FY201926$2.5M31%
FY201828$2.5M43%
FY201725$2.0Mn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$12MArts & Culture$363kHousing & Shelter$76kHealth$47kReligion$15kYouth Development$13kPhilanthropy$10kHuman Services$7kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Nebraska Foundation$5,000,00031%
Martha's Home Inc$54,303510%
Downtown Women's Center Inc$20,08480%
St Mary's Cathedral School$5,5004n/a
The Amarillo College Foundation$5,00010%
Texas Panhandle Heritage Foundation$4,4002n/a
Presbyterian Home for Children$3,00010%
Donley County Senior Citizens Inc$3,0001n/a
The Opportunity Plan Inc$2,50010%
Panhandle Breast Health$2,50012%
Show all 26 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 33 recipients with no EIN on record ($7.5M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Paul F & Virginia J Engler Fndn supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Nebraska Foundation: $5,000,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetMartha's Home Inc: $54,303 over 5y, 10% of budgetDowntown Women's Center Inc: $20,084 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetThe Amarillo College Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPresbyterian Home for Children: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Opportunity Plan Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPanhandle Breast Health: $2,500 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetAscension Academy: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHarrington Cancer and Health Foundation: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFolds of Honor Foundation: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmarillo Botanical Gardens: $1,100 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWest Texas A&M Univ Foundation: $1,050 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWindow on a Wider World Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMcMurry University: $810 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmarillo Symphony Inc: $776 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFaith City Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHigh Plains Food Bank: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union: $350 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetColonial Williamsburg Foundation: $335 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThomas Jefferson Foundation Inc: $250 over 2y, 0.0% 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 20.

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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.

Mays FoundationTX39× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mays Foundation · Dr Kent Roberts & Ilene Roberts Balliett Foundation · Amarillo Area Foundation Inc · Josephine Anderson Charitable Trust · Cj and Syble Fowlston Charitable Trust · High Plains Christian Ministries Foundation · Mary E Bivins Foundation · M K Brown Foundation Inc · Xcel Energy Foundation · Bruckner Family Foundation Inc · Amarillo Business Foundation · Kimble Foundation Trust

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 Paul F & Virginia J Engler Fndn

How much does Paul F & Virginia J Engler Fndn give?
Paul F & Virginia J Engler Fndn reported 6 grants totaling $1,012,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 28 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Paul F & Virginia J Engler Fndn fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (96%), Arts & Culture (3%), Housing & Shelter (1%).
Who are Paul F & Virginia J Engler Fndn's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: University of Nebraska Foundation ($5.0M), Martha's Home Inc ($54k), Downtown Women's Center Inc ($20k).
Does Paul F & Virginia J Engler Fndn fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Paul F & Virginia J Engler Fndn accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Paul F & Virginia J Engler Fndn?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mays Foundation, Dr Kent Roberts & Ilene Roberts Balliett Foundation, Amarillo Area Foundation Inc.
Where is Paul F & Virginia J Engler Fndn based?
Paul F & Virginia J Engler Fndn 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 60 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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