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Robin & Mark Thomas Family Foundati
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k25 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $10,500 |
| THE CHURCH HORSESHOE BAY | $3,300 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| TEXAS SCORECARD | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $570 |
| LINCOLN COUNTY FOOD BANK | $500 |
| TURNING POINT | $500 |
| SPENCER THEATER | $500 |
| KERR COUNTY FLOOD RELIEF FUND | $250 |
| SAFE PLACE | $250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250 |
| CHILDREN'S HOME OF LUBBOCK | $200 |
| HIGH SKY CHILDREN'S RANCH | $200 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS | $200 |
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 (FY17–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- CNCITIZENS NEWS GUILD INC4× · 2020–2025 · $4k · revenue +26%
- MPMANOR PARK INC7× · 2017–2025 · $4k · revenue +49%
- MCMIDLAND CHRISTIAN SCHOOL5× · 2021–2025 · $1k · revenue +117%
Funded once
- ACACH CHILD FAMILY SERVICESone grant, 2024 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $3k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PERMIAN BASINone grant, 2020 · $1k
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.
The Family Guidance & Outreach Center of Lubbock is dedicated to the prevention of child abuse and neglect and supporting, mentoring, and educating parents.
To procure and distribute nutritional food to qualified agencies that feed the hungry of West Central Texas.
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.
The High Plains Food Bank exists to help solve the issue of hunger and food insecurity in the Texas Panhandle.
To provide family services and to provide residential child care for dependent children where there is a need to assist children and families disrupted by problems.
The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.
To provide comprehensive primary care and preventive care to all persons regardless of their ability to pay.
Sunny Glen Childrens Home, Inc. cares for children in need. Our care will be competent, compassionate and professional. We will help every child achieve their greatest potential-physically, emotionally, spiritually and academically.
Sharing jesus, healing hearts, transforming lives.
See Schedule OFort Bend Seniors Meals on Wheels provides comprehensive services, including Meals on Wheels, congregate meals, transportation, case management, health screenings, information and referral services, recreation, and more. Our…
The james bruner-tk ranch, inc. operates personal care facilities for mentally challenged adults, licensed by the texas department of human services. the primary goal of tk ranch is to provide a safe and decent living environment for the…
TexProtects advances public policy and local implementation to strenghten families to prevent child abuse and neglect.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Freedom Center Texas and the most unlike its peers is Nantz Family Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 93 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 CITIZENS NEWS GUILD INC ↗
- Who funds MANOR PARK INC ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BYNUM SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF MIDLAND INC ↗
- Who funds EMPOWER TEXANS ↗
- Who funds THE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF FORT WORTH INC ↗
- Who funds HILL COUNTRY 100 CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds WEST TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM CENTER TEXAS ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN COUNTY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT COUNSELING INC ↗
- Who funds APHASIA CENTER OF WEST TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX CENTER ↗
- Who funds SENIOR LIFE MIDLAND 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: Pevehouse Family Foundation · Warren Charitable Foundation · Abell-Hanger Foundation · Permian Basin Area Foundation · The Fasken Foundation · Beal Foundation · Scharbauer Foundation Inc · Wayne & Jo Ann Moore Charitable Foundation · Chaparral Foundation · Bryant Family Foundation · James a Buddy Davidson Charitable Foundation · The Henry 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 Robin & Mark Thomas Family Foundati 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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