· Private foundation
Saulsbury Family Foundation Inc
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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ODESSA COLLEGE | $300,000 |
| THE LIFE CENTER | $10,000 |
| HIGH SKY CHILDREN'S RANCH | $6,000 |
| WEST TEXAS SYMPHONY | $5,000 |
| FIRST PRIORITY PERMIAN BASIN | $5,000 |
| PERMIAN BASIN MISSION CENTER | $5,000 |
| PERMIAN BASIN REHABILITATION CENTER | $5,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS ODESSA | $5,000 |
| SAND HILLS STOCK SHOW & RODEO | $5,000 |
| WEST TEXAS GIFTS OF HOPE INC | $5,000 |
| WAGNER NOEL PERFORMING ARTS CENTER | $3,487 |
| ELLEN NOEL ART MUSEUM | $1,250 |
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 (FY17–24, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 23%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
24 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- IPIDEA Public Schools3× · 2019–2023 · $571k · revenue +123%
- WTWEST TEXAS FOOD BANK2× · 2017–2020 · $102k · revenue +111%
- WTWEST TEXAS GIFTS OF HOPE INC6× · 2017–2024 · $33k · revenue +202%
Funded once
- MOMEALS ON WHEELS ODESSone grant, 2017 · $5k
- FOFIRST ODESSA CHRISTIAN ACADEMYone grant, 2021 · $5k
- LCLION'S CLUB FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $2k
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 provide a positive learning experience in a safe and healthy environment that will improve the quality of life for the children, service, and empower them to become self-sufficient, contributing members of the community.
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.
Improve lives by mobilizing the power of our community to advance the common good through the annual campaign used to allocate funds to 15 partner agencies who provide services in the following areas improving peoples mental and physical…
To improve housing conditions within Odessa, Texas through credit counseling, homebuyer education and home building/ rehabilitation programs that is affordable for low to moderate income residents.
The organizations mission is to raise awareness and to improve the education of persons living in the Permian Basin.
Providing mental healthcare to restore hope and healing
To inspire and enable all young people to realize their full potential as productive, responsible, and caring citizens.
Support of special needs military or first responders and their families.
To inspire and enable all young people to realize their full potential as productive, responsible, and caring citizens.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Permian Basin Rehabilitation Center and the most unlike its peers is Permian Basin First Priority. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 27 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 IDEA Public Schools ↗
- Who funds WEST TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ODESSA ↗
- Who funds PERMIAN BASIN REHABILITATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds HIGH SKY CHILDRENS RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds WEST TEXAS GIFTS OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF ODESSA INC ↗
- Who funds PERMIAN BASIN MISSION CENTER ↗
- Who funds MARC INC ↗
- Who funds PERMIAN BASIN FIRST PRIORITY ↗
- Who funds Midland-Odessa Symphony & Chorale Inc ↗
- Who funds ELLEN NOEL ART MUSEUM OF THE PERMIAN BASIN ↗
- Who funds BYNUM SCHOOL ↗
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: JC Ferguson Foundation Inc · Abell-Hanger Foundation · Wayne & Jo Ann Moore Charitable Foundation · Permian Basin Area Foundation · Hext Family Foundation · Bryant Family Foundation · Helen Greathouse Charitable Trust · Pevehouse Family Foundation · Scharbauer Foundation Inc · Warren Charitable Foundation · The Henry Foundation · Wood Family Foundation Inc
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 Saulsbury Family Foundation Inc 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.