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Pickering Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$490k
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$510kEducation$170kHealth$169kHuman Services$135kFood & Nutrition$35kReligion$29kHousing & Shelter$25kYouth Development$15kOther$0
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k17 grants · $220k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $270k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB$15,000
FOR OTHERS$15,000
RIVERTREE ACADEMY$10,000
LUBBOCK-COOPER EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATI$10,000
FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES$10,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE$10,000
FIRST UNITED METHODIST LUBBOCK$10,000
TEXAS GIRLS AND BOYS RANCH$10,000
FLCCC ALLIANCE$10,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JAB CARES: $25k → 10%HIGH POINT VILLAGE: $20k → 17%FOR OTHERS: $15k → 4%JAB CARES: $25k → 10%JAB CARES: $20k → 10%LUBBOCK IMPACT: $10k → 17%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$820k · 5 repeat orgs$314k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
4

Total granted

$820k
$94k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-16%
+10%

Still filing today

80%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $220k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • RR
    RED RAIDER FACILITIES FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $500k · revenue -152%
  • TT
    TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $140k · revenue -16%
  • AT
    ALZHEIMERS TEXAS INC
    3× · 2019–2022 · $95k · revenue -38%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $36k
  • American Diabetes Association
    one grant, 2021 · $19k · revenue +10%
  • FU
    FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2021 · $19k
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
Texas Back Institute Research Foundation
Health
2
Texas Trust Gives
Philanthropy
3
Baylor Research Institute

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).

Health
4
Tex-E Inc
Education
5
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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6
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
7
Texas Bankers Foundation
Education
8
Greater Texas Foundation
Education
9
Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Research Foundation
Philanthropy
10
Baylor Health Care System Foundation

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…

Health
11
Texas Pharmacy Association

The association's purpose is to promote the role of the pharmacist and the practice of pharmacy in the state of texas.

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12
Texas Association of Business

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas Tech Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

18 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. 18 of the 26 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/18
Grantees still filing
7/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RED RAIDER FACILITIES FOUNDATION INC: $500,000 · EducationRED RAIDER FACILITIES FOUNDATION INCTEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC: $140,000 · EducationTEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INCALZHEIMERS TEXAS INC: $95,000 · OtherALZHEIMERS TEXAS INCIndividual grant recipient: $36,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipie…West Texas Home Builders Association Inc: $25,000 · OtherWest Texas Home Builders…FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $19,316 · OtherFIRST UNITED METHODIST C…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $15,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBFRENSHIP FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $10,000 · OtherFLCCC ALLIANCE: $10,000 · OtherYOU GOTTA BELIEVE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherFIRST UNITED METHODIST LUBBOCK: $10,000 · OtherJAB CARES: $70,000 · Human ServicesJAB CARESHIGH POINT VILLAGE INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesHIGH POINT V…FOR OTHERS COLLECTIVE INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesFOR OTHERS C…LUBBOCK IMPACT INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesLUBBOCK IMPA…TEXAS GIRLS AND BOYS RANCH: $10,000 · Human ServicesTEXAS GIRLS …American Diabetes Association: $19,316 · HealthINDEPENDENT MEDICAL ALLIANCE: $19,316 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $15,000 · HealthTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN: $10,000 · HealthLUBBOCK-COOPER EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthSOUTH PLAINS FOOD BANK INC: $20,000 · Food & NutritionLUBBOCK MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $15,000 · Food & NutritionFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentRIVERTREE ACADEMY: $10,000 · Youth Development
Education$640,000Other$240,316Human Services$125,000Health$73,632Food & Nutrition$35,000Youth Development$20,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRED RAIDER FACILITIES FOUNDATION INC: $500,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetTEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC: $140,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMERS TEXAS INC: $95,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetJAB CARES: $70,000 over 3y, 7.6% of budgetWest Texas Home Builders Association Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetHIGH POINT VILLAGE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSOUTH PLAINS FOOD BANK INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $19,316 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINDEPENDENT MEDICAL ALLIANCE: $19,316 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOR OTHERS COLLECTIVE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLUBBOCK MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLUBBOCK IMPACT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetRIVERTREE ACADEMY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS GIRLS AND BOYS RANCH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLUBBOCK-COOPER EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% 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.

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.

Kuykendall FoundationDiekemper Family Foun…Community Foundation …Xcel Energy FoundationTexas Instruments Fou…Caprock Foundation IncInternational Assoc o…The Evelyn M Davies F…Rushing Family Founda…South Plains Foundati…Ch Foundation IncCommunity Foundation …
Kuykendall FoundationTX15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Pickering Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Pickering Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 26 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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