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Saulsbury Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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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.

$356k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$2.6MPhilanthropy$442kHuman Services$186kFood & Nutrition$132kHealth$110kYouth Development$60kRecreation & Sports$40kArts & Culture$24kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $46k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ODESSA COLLEGE$300,000
THE LIFE CENTER$10,000
HIGH SKY CHILDREN'S RANCH$6,000
WEST TEXAS SYMPHONY$5,000
PERMIAN BASIN MISSION CENTER$5,000
SAND HILLS STOCK SHOW & RODEO$5,000
PERMIAN BASIN REHABILITATION CENTER$5,000
MEALS ON WHEELS ODESSA$5,000
WEST TEXAS GIFTS OF HOPE INC$5,000
FIRST PRIORITY PERMIAN BASIN$5,000
WAGNER NOEL PERFORMING ARTS CENTER$3,487
ELLEN NOEL ART MUSEUM$1,250
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.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 23%PERMIAN BASIN MISSION CENTER: $5k → 16%PERMIAN BASIN MISSION CENTER: $5k → 16%PERMIAN BASIN MISSION CENTER: $5k → 16%PERMIAN BASIN MISSION CENTER: $5k → 16%PERMIAN BASIN MISSION CENTER: $5k → 16%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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.6M · 24 repeat orgs$12k to everyone else

24 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
3

Total granted

$3.6M
$12k

Still filing today

54%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesReligionOther
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

  • IP
    IDEA Public Schools
    3× · 2019–2023 · $571k · revenue +123%
  • WT
    WEST TEXAS FOOD BANK
    2× · 2017–2020 · $102k · revenue +91%
  • WT
    WEST TEXAS GIFTS OF HOPE INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $33k · revenue +202%

Funded once

  • MO
    MEALS ON WHEELS ODESS
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • FO
    FIRST ODESSA CHRISTIAN ACADEMY
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • LC
    LION'S CLUB FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
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
Greater Opportunities of the Permian Basin Inc

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.

Human Services
2
Food Bank of West Central Texas

To procure and distribute nutritional food to qualified agencies that feed the hungry of West Central Texas.

Food & Nutrition
3
Panhandle Behavioral Services Inc
Health
4
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.

Philanthropy
5
United Way of Odessa Inc

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…

Philanthropy
6
Odessa Affordable Housing Inc

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.

Housing & Shelter
7
Education Partnership of the Permian Basin

The organizations mission is to raise awareness and to improve the education of persons living in the Permian Basin.

Education
8
Samaritan Center Inc

Providing mental healthcare to restore hope and healing

Human Services
9
Boys and Girls Club of Midland Inc

To inspire and enable all young people to realize their full potential as productive, responsible, and caring citizens.

Youth Development
10
West Texas Hero Homes Inc

Support of special needs military or first responders and their families.

Housing & Shelter
11
Boys and Girls Clubs of the Permian Basin Inc

To inspire and enable all young people to realize their full potential as productive, responsible, and caring citizens.

Youth Development
12
Center for 20TH Century Texas Studies
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Permian Basin Rehabilitation Center; 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.
04the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 27 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ODESSA COLLEGE: $2,000,000 · OtherODESSA COLLEGEUTPB: $400,000 · OtherUTPBWEST TEXAS FOOD BANK: $101,500 · Other+14 more: $278,874 · Other+14 moreIDEA Public Schools: $571,432 · EducationIDEA Public School…+1 more: $3,000 · EducationPERMIAN BASIN REHABILITATION CENTER: $45,275 · HealthHIGH SKY CHILDRENS RANCH INC: $38,000 · HealthWEST TEXAS GIFTS OF HOPE INC: $33,000 · HealthBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ODESSA: $60,000 · Youth DevelopmentPERMIAN BASIN MISSION CENTER: $25,000 · Human ServicesMidland-Odessa Symphony & Chorale Inc: $10,000 · Arts & CultureELLEN NOEL ART MUSEUM OF THE PERMIAN BASIN: $7,150 · Arts & CulturePERMIAN BASIN FIRST PRIORITY: $12,500 · Religion
Other$2,780,374Education$574,432Health$116,275Youth Development$60,000Human Services$25,000Arts & Culture$17,150Religion$12,500

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 budgetIDEA Public Schools: $571,432 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWEST TEXAS FOOD BANK: $101,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ODESSA: $60,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetPERMIAN BASIN REHABILITATION CENTER: $45,275 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetHIGH SKY CHILDRENS RANCH INC: $38,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWEST TEXAS GIFTS OF HOPE INC: $33,000 over 6y, 4.0% of budgetPERMIAN BASIN MISSION CENTER: $25,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF ODESSA INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetMARC INC: $16,200 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPERMIAN BASIN FIRST PRIORITY: $12,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetMidland-Odessa Symphony & Chorale Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetELLEN NOEL ART MUSEUM OF THE PERMIAN BASIN: $7,150 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBYNUM SCHOOL: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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.

  • 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 PERMIAN BASIN MISSION CENTER ↗
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF ODESSA INC ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

JC Ferguson Foundatio…Abell-Hanger Foundati…Wayne & Jo Ann Moore …Permian Basin Area Fo…Hext Family FoundationBryant Family Foundat…Helen Greathouse Char…Pevehouse Family Foun…Scharbauer Foundation…Warren Charitable Fou…The Henry FoundationWood Family Foundatio…
JC Ferguson Foundation IncTX24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%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
    2report 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.

    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 27 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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