· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 60% of PAUL F & VIRGINIA J ENGLER FNDN’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 · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $13k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WTAMU COLLEGE OF BUSINESS | $500,000 |
| WTAMU COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE | $500,000 |
| DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER | $5,000 |
| OPPORUNITY PLAN INC | $2,500 |
| AMARILLO AREA FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| PANHANDLE BREAST HEALTH | $2,500 |
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 (FY18–22, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 54% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +88% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 2 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2019 · $5.0M · revenue +70%
- MHMARTHA'S HOME INC5× · 2017–2022 · $54k · revenue +12%
- DWDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $20k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- DHDON HARRINGTON DISCOVERY CNTRone grant, 2023 · $350k
- R1REGION 16 EDUCATION SERVICE CENTERone grant, 2022 · $40k
- TATHE AMARILLO COLLEGE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +87%
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 university of mary hardin-baylor prepares students for leadership, service, and faith-informed discrenment in a global society. academic excellence, personal attention, broad-based scholarship and a commitment to a baptist vision for…
To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.
The texas a&m foundation builds a brighter future for texas a&m university, one relationship at a time, by uniting generosity and vision to raise support and manage endowed gifts.
Operated exclusively for educational purposes specifically including to further educational activities at texas a& m university-central texas within the meaning of 501(c)(3).
Howard payne university is a christ-centered academic community dedicated to excellence by developing and equipping the whole person for intellectual inquiry, personal and professional integrity, and service to god and humanity.
To strengthen the association of former students, promote the interests and welfare of texas a&m university, perpetuate ties of affection and esteem formed in university or college days, and serve the student body.
The mission of hardin-simmons university is to be a community dedicated to providing excellence in education enlightened by christian faith and values.
The Foundation was formed to be a vital partner with Texas A&M University-Kingsville by developing donor relationships and linking resources in the pursuit of the University's goals of excellence.Values: Service to the University and the…
To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
To recognize the accomplishments and contributions of our outstanding Texas business leaders and to perpetuate and inspire the values of entrepreneurial spirit, personal integrity, and community leadership in all generations of Texans.
To ensure that the student body experiences balanced intellectual, psychological, social and spiritual development, aimed at enabling them to become active productive members of society where they live and work.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Amarillo Area Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bushland Band Boosters Inc. 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.
25 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. 25 of the 60 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 UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S HOME INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AMARILLO AREA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMARILLO COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TEXAS PANHANDLE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds DONLEY COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS INC ↗
- Who funds PANHANDLE BREAST HEALTH ↗
- Who funds THE OPPORTUNITY PLAN INC ↗
- Who funds HARRINGTON CANCER AND HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASCENSION ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEAL THE CITY FREE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds AMARILLO BOTANICAL GARDENS ↗
- Who funds Bushland Band Boosters Inc ↗
- Who funds WEST TEXAS A&M UNIV FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WINDOW ON A WIDER WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds MCMURRY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AMARILLO SYMPHONY INC ↗
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: 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
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 Paul F & Virginia J Engler Fndn 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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