· Private foundation
Snell Charitable Foundation Inc
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 $10k6 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $133k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Boys & Girls Club of Vernon | $50,000 |
| Red River Valley Museum | $25,000 |
| Lubbock EntertainmentPerforming Arts Association | $25,000 |
| Wichit Falls Symphony Orchastra | $22,500 |
| Texoma Alliance to Stop Abuse | $20,000 |
| Wichit Falls Area Food Bank | $20,000 |
| Meals on Wheels | $10,000 |
| Vernon College Foundation | $10,000 |
| Rathgerber Hospitality House | $7,500 |
| Tunnel to Towers | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| River Bend Nature Center | $6,500 |
| Interfaith Ministries Inc | $5,000 |
| Midwestern State University | $2,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of your 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.
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.
16 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.
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, 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
- BABoys and Girls Club of Vernon Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $426k · revenue +70%
- RRRed River Valley Museum9× · 2017–2025 · $205k · revenue +126%
- LELUBBOCK ENTERTAINMENT AND PERFORMING ARTS ASSOCIATION8× · 2018–2025 · $200k · revenue +121%
Funded once
- PLPETS LOW COST SPAY & NEUTERgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +76%
- TSTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDRENgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +37%
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +134%
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 WTFB exists to collect, purchase, and distribute food to feed the hungry in 19 counties in West Texas in partnership with volunteers and community organizations and to educate these partners and the public at large about the real face…
To procure and distribute nutritional food to qualified agencies that feed the hungry of West Central Texas.
Care, hope, and support for all when illness threatens life.
Care for abandoned animals in vernon and wilbarger county, tx including spay, neuter, adoption and education.
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 mission of the Wichita Falls Area Community Foundation is to enhance the quality of life in the Wichita Falls area through the promotion and support of charitable giving. Our vision is to build strong, vibrant communities inspired by…
Firefighter & emergency medical services for the waskom, tx area.
Established in 1934, vna helps older adults live with dignity and independence at home by providing in-home care, food and friendship for the ill, hungry, and homebound.
Fix West Texas mission is to lower the local euthanasia rate dogs and cats put to sleep in our local shelter due to lack of space and to lower intakes number of dogs and cats taken in by the local shelter and local rescues in our West…
The High Plains Food Bank exists to help solve the issue of hunger and food insecurity in the Texas Panhandle.
Support of special needs military or first responders and their families.
Supports visiting nurse association of texas, who's mission is to provide care to our community, enhancing health and well being with compassion, dignity and integrity.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wichita Falls Symphony Orchestra and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 19 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 Boys and Girls Club of Vernon Inc ↗
- Who funds Red River Valley Museum ↗
- Who funds LUBBOCK ENTERTAINMENT AND PERFORMING ARTS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WICHITA FALLS AREA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Texoma Alliance to Stop Abuse ↗
- Who funds VERNON COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Wilbarger County United Fund ↗
- Who funds Wichita Falls Symphony Orchestra ↗
- Who funds Rathgeber Hospitality House ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PETS LOW COST SPAY & NEUTER ↗
- Who funds TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
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: Gene Conley Foundation · The Fain Foundation · Bryant Edwards Foundation Inc · J S Bridwell Foundation · Wichita Falls Area Community Foundation · E Paul & Helen Buck Waggoner Foundation Inc · James N McCoy Foundation · The Priddy Foundation · William F & Moonyeen Reynolds Foundation · Donnell Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Edward Jones 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 Snell Charitable 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.
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