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Perkins-Prothro Foundation at a glance

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Perkins-Prothro Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
119
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$400k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$6.0MHealth$1.6MArts & Culture$1.3MReligion$1.2MHuman Services$795kRecreation & Sports$469kPhilanthropy$272kFood & Nutrition$115kOther$0
02FY2025 · 119 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k87 grants · $233k
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $399k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $539k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.1M
$3,330
Median grant
14
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Presbyterian Manor$400,000
Hospice of Wichita Falls$333,333
Individual grant recipient$333,333
Wichita Falls Symphony Orchestra$187,500
Wichita Falls Area Food Bank$100,000
Wichita Falls Symphony Orchestra$75,000
First United Methodist Church$68,500
Wichita Falls Symphony Orchestra$57,500
Southern Methodist University$50,000
Southern Methodist University$47,000
Clemson University$47,000
Project Transformation North Texas$25,000
Archer City Writers Workshop$25,000
Museum of Tibetan Art & Cultrure USA Inc$21,000
Clemson University$20,000
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 (FY20–25, $2.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 61% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Hospice of Wichita Falls: $350k → 9%Easter Seals of New Hampshire: $7k → 7%Hospice of Wichita Falls: $333k → 9%Salesmanship Club Charitable Golf of Dallas: $20k → 14%Easter Seals New Hampshire: $7k → 7%Hospice of Wichita Falls: $317k → 9%Easter Seals New Hampshire: $7k → 7%Hospice of Wichita Falls: $13k → 9%Salesmanship Club Charitable Golf Dallas: $11k → 14%Hospice of Wichita Falls: $5k → 9%Salesmanship Club Charitable Golf of Dallas: $10k → 14%Salesmanship Club Charitable Golf of Dallas: $10k → 14%Hospice of Wichita Falls: $417k → 16%Salesmanship Club Charitable Golf of Dallas: $8k → 14%Gifford Youth Achievement Center: $3k → 12%Gifford Youth Achievement Center: $3k → 12%Gifford Youth Achievement Center: $3k → 12%Salesmanship Club Charitable Golf Dallas: $7k → 14%The Kitchen: $8k → 16%YMCA of Wichita Falls: $3k → 16%United Regional Health Care Foundation: $1k → 16%United Regional Health Care Foundation: $1k → 16%SM Wright Foundation: $8k → 14%SM Wright Foundation: $7k → 14%SM Wright Foundation: $5k → 14%SM Wright Foundation: $5k → 14%SM Wright Foundation: $2k → 14%SM Wright Foundation: $2k → 14%SM Wright Foundation: $2k → 14%SM Wright Foundation: $2k → 14%SM Wright Foundation: $2k → 14%SM Wright Foundation: $1k → 14%SM Wright Foundation: $1k → 14%Presbyterian Manor: $400k → 16%Hospice of Wichita Falls: $333k → 16%Presbyterian Manor: $300k → 16%Presbyterian Manor: $13k → 16%Presbyterian Manor: $13k → 16%Hospice of Wichita Falls: $6k → 16%Presbyterian Manor: $5k → 16%Presbyterian Manor: $2k → 16%Presbyterian Manor: $2k → 16%Presbyterian Manor: $2k → 16%Presbyterian Manor: $2k → 16%Hospice of Wichita Falls: $1k → 16%Presbyterian Manor: $1k → 16%Presbyterian Manor: $1k → 16%Presbyterian Manor: $1k → 16%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

NH
MT
NY
MA
IA
OH
CT
CA
UT
CO
VA
AZ
NM
NC
SC
DC
OK
TX
FL
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 5% of Perkins-Prothro Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Perkins-Prothro Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 113 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

113 repeat relationships: 74 still active in FY2025, 39 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

113
98

Total granted

$12M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+13%

Still filing today

65%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $466k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesAnimalsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • HO
    Hospice of Wichita Falls Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +18%
  • WF
    Wichita Falls Symphony Orchestra
    6× · 2020–2025 · $894k · revenue +80% · 37% of their budget
  • PM
    Presbyterian Manor Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $739k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • WF
    WFISD Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $1.0M
  • CM
    Cimarron Memorial Hospital
    one grant, 2023 · $40k
  • UO
    US Olympic & Paralympic Fnd
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
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
Witte Museum

The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.

Arts & Culture
2
The University of TexasTexas a&M Investment Management Company

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…

Education
3
Baylor University Medical Center

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
4
Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council

The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.

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5
Baylor Scott & White Medical Centers - Greater North Texas

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
6
Scott & White Healthcare Foundation

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…

Health
7
Texas Medical Association

The texas medical association (tma), the nation's largest and one of the oldest state medical societies, represents over 59,000 physicians and medical students dedicated to enhancing the health of all texans. in collaboration with 110…

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8
Baylor Scott & White Holdings

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
9
Texas Trees Foundation

The mission of texas trees foundation is to improve the health of cities and people through the transformative power of trees.

—
10
Scott & White Hospital-Marble Falls

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
11
Children's Health System of Texas

With more than 1 million patient visits each year, Children's Health is North Texas' leading pediatric health system and among the largest in the nation. For more than a century, our mission has been clear: make life better for children.…

Health
12
The Shakespeare Festival of Dallas dba Shakespeare Dallas

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Humanities Texas; the most unlike its peers is Spinehope Fka Spinal Deformity Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

131 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 131 of the 238 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
26
Early backer (in before they grew)
128/131
Grantees still filing
86/131
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Wichita Falls ISD Foundation: $3,031,250 · OtherWichita Falls ISD FoundationFirst United Methodist Church: $1,123,350 · OtherFirst United Methodist ChurchWFISD Foundation: $1,000,000 · OtherWFISD FoundationYMCA: $616,333 · OtherYMCAMidwestern State University: $348,696 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $333,333 · Other+126 more: $1,835,237 · Other+126 moreHospice of Wichita Falls Inc: $1,778,851 · Human ServicesHospice of Wichita F…Presbyterian Manor Inc: $739,100 · Human ServicesPresbyterian Manor I…+7 more: $145,559 · Human Services+7 moreSOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $627,550 · EducationSOUTHWESTERN …Southern Methodist University: $537,489 · EducationSouthern Meth…SWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE: $286,042 · EducationSWEET BRIAR I…UPLIFT EDUCATION: $99,998 · EducationUPLIFT EDUCAT…HIGHLAND PARK ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $90,119 · Education+13 more: $121,217 · Education+13 moreWichita Falls Symphony Orchestra: $893,783 · Arts & CultureWichita F…UTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA: $115,490 · Arts & CultureUTAH SYMP…Arts Council Wichita Falls Area Inc: $72,955 · Arts & CultureArts Coun…WICHITA FALLS YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $46,558 · Arts & Culture+20 more: $143,682 · Arts & Culture+20 moreWichita Falls Area Community Foundation: $83,000 · PhilanthropyHANDS TO HANDS COMMUNITY FUND: $76,763 · PhilanthropyQUAIL VALLEY CHARITIES INC: $29,995 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC: $26,664 · Philanthropy+4 more: $10,900 · PhilanthropyWICHITA FALLS AREA FOOD BANK: $134,769 · Food & NutritionLETOT CENTER CAPITAL FOUNDATION: $21,585 · Food & NutritionEMANCIPET INC: $30,000 · AnimalsSPCA of Texas: $21,500 · AnimalsThe Frank Buck Zoological Society: $16,900 · AnimalsCLAY COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER INC: $12,250 · AnimalsPEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC: $10,000 · AnimalsOPERATION KINDNESS: $6,000 · AnimalsTexas Pit Crew Inc: $6,000 · Animals
Other$8,288,199Human Services$2,663,510Education$1,762,415Arts & Culture$1,272,468Philanthropy$227,322Food & Nutrition$156,354Animals$102,650

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetHospice of Wichita Falls Inc: $1,778,851 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetWichita Falls Symphony Orchestra: $893,783 over 6y, 37% of budgetPresbyterian Manor Inc: $739,100 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $627,550 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSouthern Methodist University: $537,489 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE: $286,042 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetWICHITA FALLS AREA FOOD BANK: $134,769 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetUTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA: $115,490 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetUPLIFT EDUCATION: $99,998 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHIGHLAND PARK ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $90,119 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetWichita Falls Area Community Foundation: $83,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetHANDS TO HANDS COMMUNITY FUND: $76,763 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetArts Council Wichita Falls Area Inc: $72,955 over 6y, 6.4% of budgetSalesmanship Club Charitable Golf of Dallas Inc: $66,135 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetAUSTIN AREA ART FROM THE STREETS: $56,000 over 5y, 9.4% of budgetYELLOWSTONE FOREVER: $51,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWICHITA FALLS YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $46,558 over 6y, 5.5% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC: $36,663 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetVINCARE SERVICES OF AUSTIN FOUNDATION: $36,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetSM Wright Foundation: $36,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetGuadalupe Neighborhood Development Corporation: $36,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetEMANCIPET INC: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetQUAIL VALLEY CHARITIES INC: $29,995 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetEDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES INC: $27,900 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetWICHITA COUNTY HERITAGE SOCIETY DBA KELL HOUSE HERITAGE CENTER: $26,903 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC: $26,664 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCIMARRON HERITAGE CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH COLLABORATIVE INC: $23,328 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetWOFFORD COLLEGE: $23,166 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP FIRE NORTH TEXAS: $22,052 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetLETOT CENTER CAPITAL FOUNDATION: $21,585 over 4y, 37% of budgetSPCA of Texas: $21,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEaster Seals New Hampshire Inc: $20,665 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $19,666 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetZAVALA HISPANIC CULTURAL INITIATIVE: $17,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF TRAVIS COUNTY: $17,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Frank Buck Zoological Society: $16,900 over 6y, 12% of budgetINDIAN RIVER STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $16,662 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CURE STARTS NOW INC: $16,661 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGEORGIA O'KEEFFE MUSEUM: $14,166 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF DALLAS INC: $13,868 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC: $13,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCLAY COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER INC: $12,250 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $11,666 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUS SPEEDSKATING: $10,100 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROTHER BILLS HELPING HAND: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Ski Team Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 Hospice of Wichita Falls Inc ↗
  • Who funds Wichita Falls Symphony Orchestra ↗
  • Who funds Presbyterian Manor Inc ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
  • Who funds SWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds WICHITA FALLS AREA FOOD BANK ↗
  • 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 HANDS TO HANDS COMMUNITY FUND ↗
  • Who funds Arts Council Wichita Falls Area Inc ↗
  • 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 ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds VINCARE SERVICES OF AUSTIN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SM Wright Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Guadalupe Neighborhood Development Corporation ↗
  • Who funds EMANCIPET INC ↗
  • Who funds QUAIL VALLEY CHARITIES INC ↗

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.

Bryant Edwards Founda…J S Bridwell Foundati…The Fain FoundationWichita Falls Area Co…James N McCoy Foundat…Vin and Caren Prothro…The Priddy FoundationThe Dallas FoundationCommunity Foundation …Donnell FoundationHazel & Henry S Grace…Hegi Family Foundation
Bryant Edwards Foundation IncTX51.2× affinity22 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
  • The Learning Alliance Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
36report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.

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 238 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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The unnamed billions
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The regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home