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Scharbauer Foundation Inc at a glance

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Scharbauer Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$27M
Granted FY2024still arriving
66
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$8.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$41MEducation$28MHuman Services$15MRecreation & Sports$13MCommunity Improvement$9.6MPhilanthropy$8.5MArts & Culture$5.4MYouth Development$3.1MOther$0
02FY2024 · 66 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $54k
  • $10k–50k28 grants · $574k
  • $50k–250k14 grants · $1.3M
  • $250k+12 grants · $25M
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$560M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MIDLAND ATHLETIC SYNDICATE INC$8,500,000
MIDLAND MEMORIAL FOUNDATION$7,000,000
HARMONY PUBLIC SCHOOLS$4,000,000
PERMIAN BASIN MEDICAL CENTER (DBA THE BEACON ALLIANCE)$1,237,348
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS OF THE PERMIAN BASIN$1,190,282
BYNUM SCHOOL$750,000
THE HOLDSWORTH CENTER$750,000
PERMIAN BASIN AREA FOUNDATION$500,000
MIDLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC$500,000
MIDLAND COMMUNITY THEATRE$425,000
NORTHEAST MIDLAND COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT$350,000
PERMIACARE$255,000
MISSION AGAPE$200,000
CASA DE AMIGOS OF MIDLAND TEXAS INCORPORATED$185,000
UNITED WAY OF MIDLAND INC$150,000
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 (FY17–24, $6.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%SPRINGBOARD CENTER: $100k → 16%MANOR PARK INC: $500k → 12%NONPROFIT MANAGEMENT CENTER OF THE PERMIAN BASIN: $650k → 14%MANOR PARK INC: $500k → 12%MANOR PARK INC: $100k → 12%SENIOR LIFE MIDLAND INC: $100k → 12%SPRINGBOARD CENTER: $400k → 14%MANOR PARK INC: $100k → 12%SAMARITAN COUNSELING CENTER OF WEST TEXAS INC: $125k → 12%SAMARITAN CENTER INC: $65k → 12%SPRINGBOARD CENTER: $100k → 14%BUCKNER CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $100k → 14%SPRINGBOARD CENTER: $100k → 14%BUCKNER CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $100k → 14%SPRINGBOARD CENTER: $75k → 14%MIDLAND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $400k → 12%NONPROFIT MANAGEMENT CENTER OF THE PERMIAN BASIN: $55k → 14%NONPROFIT MANAGEMENT CENTER OF THE PERMIAN BASIN: $55k → 14%CASA DE AMIGOS OF MIDLAND TEXAS INCORPORATED: $208k → 12%NONPROFIT MANAGEMENT CENTER OF THE PERMIAN BASIN: $55k → 14%NONPROFIT MANAGEMENT CENTER OF THE PERMIAN BASIN: $50k → 14%CASA DE AMIGOS OF MIDLAND TEXAS INCORPORATED: $185k → 12%UNITED WAY OF MIDLAND: $175k → 12%UNITED WAY OF MIDLAND: $165k → 12%SPRINGBOARD CENTER: $50k → 14%UNITED WAY OF MIDLAND INC: $150k → 12%NONPROFIT MANAGEMENT CENTER OF THE PERMIAN BASIN: $50k → 14%UNITED WAY OF MIDLAND INC: $150k → 12%NONPROFIT MANAGEMENT CENTER OF THE PERMIAN BASIN: $39k → 14%UNITED WAY OF MIDLAND INC: $100k → 12%SPRINGBOARD CENTER: $25k → 14%CASA DE AMIGOS OF MIDLAND TEXAS INCORPORATED: $100k → 12%GREATER IDEAL FAMILY LIFE CENTER: $60k → 12%NONPROFIT MANAGEMENT CENTER OF THE PERMIAN BASIN: $52k → 12%UNITED WAY OF MIDLAND INC: $50k → 12%NONPROFIT MANAGEMENT CENTER OF THE PERMIAN BASIN: $50k → 12%UNITED WAY OF MIDLAND INC: $40k → 12%GREATER IDEAL FAMILY LIFE CENTER: $40k → 12%NONPROFIT MANAGEMENT CENTER OF THE PERMIAN BASIN: $40k → 12%FRIENDSHIP HOUSE: $40k → 12%CASA DE AMIGOS OF MIDLAND TEXAS INCORPORATED: $38k → 12%CENTERS FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $35k → 12%CENTERS FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $230k → 12%CENTERS FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $150k → 12%CENTERS FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $100k → 12%CENTERS FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $75k → 12%CENTERS FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $60k → 12%CENTERS FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $30k → 12%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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of Scharbauer Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Scharbauer Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$99M · 99 repeat orgs$27M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

99 repeat relationships: 42 still active in FY2024, 57 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

99
60

Total granted

$99M
$14M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+9%

Still filing today

74%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13M 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
Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • PB
    PERMIAN BASIN BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CENTER
    2× · 2022–2023 · $12M · revenue +157%
  • MC
    MIDLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $8.6M · revenue +93%
  • SL
    SENIOR LIFE MIDLAND INC
    4× · 2018–2023 · $3.7M · revenue +18% · 26% of their budget

Funded once

  • IP
    IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS (PERMIAN BASIN)
    one grant, 2019 · $3.5M
  • CF
    COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS (FBO MIDLAND DOWNTOWN PARK CONSERVANCY)
    one grant, 2021 · $2.0M
  • PB
    PERMIAN BASIN PETROLEUM MUSEUM LIBR
    one grant, 2019 · $1.4M
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
Lubbock Family Outreach Center Inc Dba Family Guidance & Outreach Center

The Family Guidance & Outreach Center of Lubbock is dedicated to the prevention of child abuse and neglect and supporting, mentoring, and educating parents.

Human Services
2
Midland County Public Library Foundation

To support and enhance the operations, acquisitions, and funding of projects and programs that encourage lifelong learning through the Midland County Public Library System.

Education
3
Progress Texas Institute

The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.

Civil Rights
4
East Texas Community Clinic Inc

To provide comprehensive primary care and preventive care to all persons regardless of their ability to pay.

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5
Meals On Wheels of Odessa Inc

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.

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6
Permian Basin Community Centers for Mhmr

Our mission is to enhance the behavioral and developmental health and wellness of our community by helping people live their best lives.

Health
7
Helping Our Riders Succeed in Education

The H.O.R.S.E. Center is an established, multi-faceted equine facility committed to deepening the strength of emotional, physical, and conceptual connections utilizing diverse modalities to to elevate our clients to better themselves.

Human Services
8
Childrens Advocacy Center of West Texas Inc

The Organizations mission is to bring unity and efficiency to investigations of child abuse through the use of a multi-disciplinary team and, thereby, to provide the best possible services to victims of child abuse and their families.

Crime & Legal
9
West Central Texas Workforce Development Board Inc

To support and compliment the work of Workforce Solutions of West Central Texas Board, which is responsible for the planning, oversight, and evaluation of a consolidated workforce system for the 19 County West Central Texas region.

Employment
10
Midland Energy Library Inc

To collect, preserve, catalog and exhibit scientific, geological and engineering data gathered by the petroleum industry - to be a working library for use by industry professionals, educators, students and other members of the interested…

Education
11
Reece Endeavor of Midland

To meet the growing housing needs of people with special needs throughout Midland County - we want to offer them stability and affordability and help them become integrated into the community.

Philanthropy
12
Presbyterian Medical Care Mission

Operate a non-profit medical clinic exclusively for charitable purposes to provide medical health services to uninsured and low income adults in the Abilene area.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Midland Inc; the most unlike its peers is Greenwood Volunteer Fire Department. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

114 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 114 of the 168 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
26
Early backer (in before they grew)
112/114
Grantees still filing
67/114
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MIDLAND MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $16,160,828 · OtherMIDLAND MEMORIAL FOUNDATIONMIDLAND ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $6,100,274 · OtherMIDLAND ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATIONSAFE PLACE OF THE PERMIAN BASIN: $3,600,000 · OtherSAFE PLACE OF THE PERMIAN BASINIDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS (PERMIAN BASIN): $3,500,000 · OtherIDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS (PERMIAN BASIN)PERMIAN BASIN MEDICAL CENTER (DBA THE BEACON ALLIANCE): $3,489,326 · OtherPERMIAN BASIN MEDICAL CENTER (DBA THE BEACON ALLIANCE)THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS OF THE PERMIAN BASIN: $3,381,804 · OtherWEST TEXAS FOOD BANK: $2,520,000 · Other+100 more: $25,301,330 · Other+100 morePERMIAN BASIN BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CENTER: $12,000,000 · HealthPERMIAN BASIN…HIGH SKY CHILDRENS RANCH INC: $2,259,350 · HealthHIGH SKY CHIL…MIDLAND CHILDRENS REHABILITATION CENTER INC: $617,500 · Health+12 more: $1,038,261 · Health+12 moreMIDLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $8,614,000 · EducationMIDLAND COLLE…HARMONY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $4,000,000 · EducationHARMONY PUBLI…ODESSA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000,000 · EducationODESSA COLLEG…BYNUM SCHOOL: $893,829 · EducationBYNUM SCHOOL+9 more: $1,190,126 · Education+9 moreSENIOR LIFE MIDLAND INC: $3,667,500 · Human ServicesSENIOR LI…MANOR PARK INC: $1,200,000 · Human ServicesMANOR PAR…The Nonprofit Management Center of the Permian Basin Inc: $1,102,622 · Human ServicesThe Nonpr…UNITED WAY OF MIDLAND INC: $922,500 · Human ServicesUNITED WA…THE SPRINGBOARD CENTER: $880,000 · Human ServicesTHE SPRIN…CENTERS FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $735,000 · Human ServicesCENTERS F…CASA DE AMIGOS OF MIDLAND TEXASINC: $530,500 · Human ServicesYoung Men's Christian Association of Midland Texas: $500,000 · Human Services311 Ministries: $407,500 · Human ServicesMIDLAND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $400,000 · Human Services+8 more: $813,156 · Human Services+8 moreMIDLAND ATHLETIC SYNDICATE INC: $8,500,000 · Recreation & SportsCITY OF MIDLAND AQUATICS INC: $395,000 · Recreation & Sports+2 more: $277,500 · Recreation & SportsCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC: $7,000,000 · PhilanthropyTHE HOLDSWORTH CENTER: $1,500,000 · PhilanthropyPERMIAN BASIN AREA FOUNDATION: $500,000 · Philanthropy+5 more: $63,425 · PhilanthropyMIDLAND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INC: $8,250,000 · Community Improvement+2 more: $275,020 · Community Improvement
Other$64,053,562Health$15,915,111Education$15,697,955Human Services$11,158,778Recreation & Sports$9,172,500Philanthropy$9,063,425Community Improvement$8,525,020

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPERMIAN BASIN BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CENTER: $12,000,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetMIDLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $8,614,000 over 8y, 22% of budgetMIDLAND ATHLETIC SYNDICATE INC: $8,500,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetMIDLAND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INC: $8,250,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC: $7,000,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetMIDLAND ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $6,100,274 over 8y, 67% of budgetHARMONY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $4,000,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSENIOR LIFE MIDLAND INC: $3,667,500 over 4y, 26% of budgetSAFE PLACE OF THE PERMIAN BASIN: $3,600,000 over 2y, 51% of budgetWEST TEXAS FOOD BANK: $2,520,000 over 7y, 6.7% of budgetHIGH SKY CHILDRENS RANCH INC: $2,259,350 over 5y, 11% of budgetMIDLAND COMMUNITY THEATRE INC: $1,873,000 over 4y, 19% of budgetMARC INC: $1,820,000 over 6y, 16% of budgetTHE HOLDSWORTH CENTER: $1,500,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE SOUTHWEST: $1,275,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF MIDLAND TEXAS INC: $1,255,104 over 2y, 31% of budgetMANOR PARK INC: $1,200,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetThe Nonprofit Management Center of the Permian Basin Inc: $1,102,622 over 8y, 25% of budgetODESSA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetELLEN NOEL ART MUSEUM OF THE PERMIAN BASIN: $1,000,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetNORTHEAST MIDLAND COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $950,000 over 2y, 44% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MIDLAND INC: $922,500 over 8y, 16% of budgetBYNUM SCHOOL: $893,829 over 4y, 13% of budgetTHE SPRINGBOARD CENTER: $880,000 over 7y, 5.8% of budgetCENTERS FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $735,000 over 8y, 4.0% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $635,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMIDLAND CHILDRENS REHABILITATION CENTER INC: $617,500 over 4y, 14% of budgetThe Fields Edge: $575,000 over 3y, 28% of budgetCASA DE AMIGOS OF MIDLAND TEXASINC: $530,500 over 4y, 16% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Midland Texas: $500,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetPERMIAN BASIN AREA FOUNDATION: $500,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBUSH TENNIS CENTER: $450,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetPERMIAN BASIN PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS INC: $420,000 over 2y, 10% of budget311 Ministries: $407,500 over 4y, 42% of budgetMIDLAND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $400,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetCITY OF MIDLAND AQUATICS INC: $395,000 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetUNLOCK MINISTRIES INC DBA OPPORTUNITY TRIBE: $350,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetSAMARITAN CENTER INC: $323,156 over 7y, 12% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ODESSA: $305,000 over 4y, 9.7% of budgetEDUCATE MIDLAND: $276,500 over 4y, 26% of budgetMIDLAND SHARED SPACES INC: $274,770 over 3y, 15% of budgetWEST TEXAS YOUTH DEVELOPMENT INC: $272,500 over 3y, 28% of budgetAGAPE CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $266,254 over 3y, 15% of budgetTEEN FLOW YOUTH MINISTRY: $265,000 over 6y, 19% of budgetMISSION HEALTH CARE INC: $253,994 over 4y, 16% of budgetCASA OF WEST TEXAS: $250,000 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetThe Way Retreat Center: $250,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE PERMIAN BA: $230,000 over 4y, 6.3% 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 PERMIAN BASIN BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds MIDLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MIDLAND ATHLETIC SYNDICATE INC ↗
  • Who funds MIDLAND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC ↗
  • Who funds MIDLAND ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HARMONY PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds SENIOR LIFE MIDLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds SAFE PLACE OF THE PERMIAN BASIN ↗
  • Who funds WEST TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds HIGH SKY CHILDRENS RANCH INC ↗
  • Who funds MIDLAND COMMUNITY THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds MARC INC ↗
  • Who funds THE HOLDSWORTH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF THE SOUTHWEST ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF MIDLAND TEXAS INC ↗
  • Who funds MANOR PARK INC ↗
  • Who funds The Nonprofit Management Center of the Permian Basin Inc ↗
  • Who funds ODESSA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ELLEN NOEL ART MUSEUM OF THE PERMIAN BASIN ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEAST MIDLAND COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF MIDLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds BYNUM SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds THE SPRINGBOARD CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CENTERS FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
  • Who funds MIDLAND CHILDRENS REHABILITATION CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds The Fields Edge ↗
  • Who funds CASA DE AMIGOS OF MIDLAND TEXASINC ↗
  • Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Midland Texas ↗
  • Who funds PERMIAN BASIN AREA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BUSH TENNIS CENTER ↗

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.

Abell-Hanger Foundati…Permian Basin Area Fo…Helen Greathouse Char…The Henry FoundationBeal FoundationWayne & Jo Ann Moore …Pevehouse Family Foun…Fmh FoundationWarren Charitable Fou…The Fasken FoundationYarborough FoundationBryant Family Foundat…
Abell-Hanger FoundationTX182× affinity88 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Abell-Hanger Foundation · Permian Basin Area Foundation · Helen Greathouse Charitable Trust · The Henry Foundation · Beal Foundation · Wayne & Jo Ann Moore Charitable Foundation · Pevehouse Family Foundation · Fmh Foundation · Warren Charitable Foundation · The Fasken Foundation · Yarborough Foundation · Bryant Family Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    28report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 168 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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