· Private foundation
Perkins-Prothro Foundation
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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k97 grants · $258k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $362k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $325k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Wichita Falls ISD Foundation | $500,000 |
| YMCA | $333,333 |
| Hospice of Wichita Falls | $316,666 |
| Sweet Briar College | $125,000 |
| Southern Methodist University | $72,200 |
| First United Methodist Church | $67,500 |
| Wichita Falls Symphony Orchestra | $60,000 |
| Midwestern State University | $40,000 |
| Wichita Falls Symphony Orchestra | $39,000 |
| Midwestern State University | $30,000 |
| Uplift Education | $26,666 |
| Cimarron Heritage Center | $25,000 |
| Sweet Briar College | $22,500 |
| Clemson University | $20,000 |
| Wichita Falls Symphony Orchestra | $18,250 |
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 (FY20–24, $1.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 63% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of Perkins-Prothro Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
97 repeat relationships — 63 still active in FY2024, 34 since wound down; 34 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $134k 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
- HOHospice of Wichita Falls Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +18%
- SUSOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY5× · 2020–2024 · $616k · revenue +12%
- WFWichita Falls Symphony Orchestra5× · 2020–2024 · $574k · revenue +80% · 28% of their budget
Funded once
- WFWFISD Foundationone grant, 2023 · $1.0M
- CMCimarron Memorial Hospitalone grant, 2023 · $40k
- UOUS Olympic & Paralympic Fndone grant, 2021 · $25k
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.
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…
The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.
The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
To foster and support the activities and purposes of Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH), to encourage broad-based public support of the healthcare system and its affiliated institutions, and to advance the medical objectives, including…
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.
Using Shakespeare's works as a cornerstone, Shakespeare Dallas serves the Southwest region with fun and accessible indoor and outdoor theatre, integrated school programs, and cultural enrichment for people of all ages and backgrounds.
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
Uatx is a nonprofit dedicated to building a liberal arts university committed to freedom of inquiry, freedom of conscience, and civil discourse. to maintain these principles, the university will be fiercely independent financially,…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Dallas Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. 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 42 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
120 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. 120 of the 215 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 Hospice of Wichita Falls Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Wichita Falls Symphony Orchestra ↗
- Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
- Who funds Presbyterian Manor Inc ↗
- Who funds SWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds UTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA ↗
- Who funds UPLIFT EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds HIGHLAND PARK ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Wichita Falls Area Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds Arts Council Wichita Falls Area Inc ↗
- Who funds HANDS TO HANDS COMMUNITY FUND ↗
- Who funds Salesmanship Club Charitable Golf of Dallas Inc ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN AREA ART FROM THE STREETS ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE FOREVER ↗
- Who funds WICHITA FALLS YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds SM Wright Foundation ↗
- Who funds WICHITA FALLS AREA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Guadalupe Neighborhood Development Corporation ↗
- Who funds VINCARE SERVICES OF AUSTIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WICHITA COUNTY HERITAGE SOCIETY DBA KELL HOUSE HERITAGE CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds EMANCIPET INC ↗
- Who funds CIMARRON HERITAGE CENTER ↗
- Who funds EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES 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: Bryant Edwards Foundation Inc · J S Bridwell Foundation · The Fain Foundation · Wichita Falls Area Community Foundation · James N McCoy Foundation · Vin and Caren Prothro Foundation · The Priddy Foundation · The Dallas Foundation · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Donnell Foundation · Hazel & Henry S Grace Foundation · Hegi Family 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 Perkins-Prothro 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.
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- The Learning Alliance Inc — 0% of income from government
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.