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Pickering Family 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k17 grants · $220k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $270k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RED RAIDER FACILITIES FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION | $70,000 |
| WEST TEXAS HOME BUILDERS ASSOCIATIO | $25,000 |
| HIGH POINT VILLAGE | $20,000 |
| SOUTH PLAINS FOOD BANK | $20,000 |
| LUBBOCK MEALS ON WHEELS | $15,000 |
| FOR OTHERS | $15,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $15,000 |
| YOU GOTTA BELIEVE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| TEXAS GIRLS AND BOYS RANCH | $10,000 |
| LUBBOCK-COOPER EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATI | $10,000 |
| FRENSHIP FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| RIVERTREE ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $10,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $115k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% 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.
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.
5 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 17 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, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $220k 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
- RRRED RAIDER FACILITIES FOUNDATION INC3× · 2022–2024 · $500k · revenue -152%
- TTTEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC2× · 2023–2024 · $140k · revenue -16%
- ATALZHEIMERS TEXAS INC3× · 2019–2022 · $95k · revenue -38%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $36k
- IMINDEPENDENT MEDICAL ALLIANCEone grant, 2021 · $19k · revenue -10%
American Diabetes Associationone grant, 2021 · $19k · revenue +10%
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 improve the care and well being of our community, nationally and internationally, through innovative clinically relevant research that is consistent with the mission, vision and values of Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH).
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…
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 foster and support the activities and purposes of Baylor Scott & White Health, to encourage broad-based public support of the health care system and its affiliated institutions, and to advance the medical objectives, including…
The association's purpose is to promote the role of the pharmacist and the practice of pharmacy in the state of texas.
As the state chamber of commerce, tab is the most influential and dominant voice for public policy issues affecting business in texas. through proven results-oriented advocacy and member services, tab develops a climate in texas which…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas Tech Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 26 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 RED RAIDER FACILITIES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMERS TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds JAB CARES ↗
- Who funds West Texas Home Builders Association Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTH PLAINS FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds HIGH POINT VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENT MEDICAL ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds FOR OTHERS COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds LUBBOCK MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS GIRLS AND BOYS RANCH ↗
- Who funds TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds LUBBOCK IMPACT INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERTREE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds LUBBOCK-COOPER EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
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: Kuykendall Foundation · Diekemper Family Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of West Texas · Xcel Energy Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Caprock Foundation Inc · International Assoc of Lions Clubs · The Evelyn M Davies Foundation Trust · Rushing Family Foundation · South Plains Foundation · Ch Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax
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 Pickering Family 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.
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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