· Community foundation
Permian Basin Area Foundation
Permian Basin Area Foundation exists to partner with donors in creating permanent charitable funds to enrich the quality of life in West Texas communities.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k20 grants · $135k
- $10k–50k85 grants · $2.1M
- $50k–250k48 grants · $4.8M
- $250k+9 grants · $5.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Historic Cane Hill Inc | $1,227,000 |
| Trinity School of Midland | $1,071,965 |
| Alpine Independent School District | $732,000 |
| Midland Memorial Foundation | $363,599 |
| St Johns Episcopal Church | $345,834 |
| Manor Park Inc | $336,000 |
| Midland Childrens Rehabilitation Center | $322,500 |
| Communities In Schools of the Permian Basin | $300,000 |
| Texas A and M University 12th Man Foundation | $300,000 |
| Safe Place of the Permian Basin | $225,881 |
| Senior Life Midland | $207,213 |
| Buckner Children and Family Services | $203,075 |
| The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center | $200,000 |
| Frio Canyon EMS | $200,000 |
| West Texas Food Bank | $199,226 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $8.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.
243 repeat relationships: 130 still active in FY2024, 113 since wound down; 23 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TSTRINITY SCHOOL OF MIDLAND TEXAS8× · 2017–2024 · $3.5M · revenue +118%
- ECECTOR COUNTY ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2023 · $3.3M · revenue +189%
- MPMANOR PARK INC6× · 2018–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +62%
Funded once
- PBPERMIAN BASIN QUALITY OF PLACE CONSERVANCYone grant, 2022 · $8.1M · 89% of their budget
- PBPERMIAN BASIN BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CENTERone grant, 2023 · $1.0M · revenue -91%
- MEMonahans Economic Development Corporationone grant, 2021 · $425k
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.
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.
To receive contributions by means of donations, gifts, and bequests and to expend such funds for the advancement of the literary, scientific, and other educational endeavors of Midwestern State University, a tax exempt institution of…
To procure and distribute nutritional food to qualified agencies that feed the hungry of West Central Texas.
Permian Basin Area Foundation exists to partner with donors in creating permanent charitable funds to enrich the quality of life in West Texas communities.
Meals on Wheels of Odessa enables people to live with dignity by offering community support and sustenance through coordinated services and enable older adults to live in their own homes safely and independently as long as they are able.
To collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret the history of the North Texas Area to inspire an interest in the past for the education and enrichment of people of all ages.
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.
The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.
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).
To collect, preserve, catalog and exhibit scientific, geological and engineering data gathered by the petroleum industry - to be a working library for use by industry professionals, educators, students and other members of the interested…
The Organizations mission is to bring unity and efficiency to investigations of child abuse through the use of a multi-disciplinary team and, thereby, to provide the best possible services to victims of child abuse and their families.
How this is measured
313 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 313 of the 392 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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
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 PERMIAN BASIN QUALITY OF PLACE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds TRINITY SCHOOL OF MIDLAND TEXAS ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC CANE HILL INC ↗
- Who funds ECTOR COUNTY ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE GRACE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MANOR PARK INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE PERMIAN BA ↗
- Who funds MARC INC ↗
- Who funds PERMIAN BASIN BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds BYNUM SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds REFLECTION MINISTRIES OF TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND FAIR HAVENS ↗
- Who funds Ward County Greater Works Inc ↗
- Who funds WEST TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds THE SPRINGBOARD CENTER ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND CHILDRENS REHABILITATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CENTERS FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO TRAIL COUNCIL INC BSA 567 ↗
- Who funds SAFE PLACE OF THE PERMIAN BASIN ↗
- Who funds TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Midland-Odessa Symphony & Chorale Inc ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS RELIEF & DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds HIGH SKY CHILDRENS RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds ODESSA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARFA PUBLIC RADIO CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MARTIN COUNTY HISTORICAL MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTMAS IN ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds SUL ROSS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Abell-Hanger Foundation · Scharbauer Foundation Inc · Fmh Foundation · Helen Greathouse Charitable Trust · Wayne & Jo Ann Moore Charitable Foundation · Beal Foundation · The Henry Foundation · Pevehouse Family Foundation · Yarborough Foundation · Warren Charitable Foundation · The Fasken Foundation · James a Buddy Davidson Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Permian Basin Area Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Permian Basin Area Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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