· Private foundation
The 1687 Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k35 grants · $138k
- $10k–50k57 grants · $1.1M
- $50k–250k22 grants · $2.0M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION - AGREEMENT 2024 | $580,000 |
| TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION - AGREEMENT GRANT | $500,000 |
| TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC - GRANT | $350,000 |
| HEARTBEAT INTERNATIONAL - GRANT | $240,000 |
| LIFELINE CHILDREN'S SERVICES - GRANT | $180,563 |
| CAMP ABLE OF BUFFALO GAP - ABILENE GIVES FUNDRAISER | $150,495 |
| OPEN DOOR - 2024 MOBILE UNIT EXPENSES | $123,063 |
| ELAM MINISTRIES - GRANT | $120,000 |
| MERCY GATE MINISTRIES-MINDY - GRANT | $100,000 |
| TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION - GRANT | $100,000 |
| BILLY GRAHAM EVANGELISTIC ASSO - DONATION- SAMARITANS PURSE | $100,000 |
| TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC - THE 1687 FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIP | $100,000 |
| OLDEN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMEN - GRANT | $100,000 |
| CENTER FOR ASD - MATCHING GRANT | $75,000 |
| WMK LLC - VAN DONATION FOR HEATHER | $69,380 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $621k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +70% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.
67 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 63 since wound down; 112 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 3% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.6M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ECEASTLAND COUNTY OPEN DOOR5× · 2018–2022 · $571k · revenue +35% · 28% of their budget
- LCLIFELINE CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC5× · 2018–2022 · $521k · revenue +154%
- CPCHASE'S PLACE INC5× · 2017–2022 · $315k · revenue +79%
Funded once
- MAMILITARY AND GENERAL PUBLICone grant, 2017 · $2.0M
- TTTEXAS TECH FOUNDATION-VEGETATION MONITORING & MGMTone grant, 2022 · $370k
- SESPECIAL EVENTS FOR VETERANS CHARITIES AND DISABLEDone grant, 2017 · $276k
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.
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.
To strengthen families through parenting classes educational programs, youth programs and referral services for the prevention of child abuse and neglect.
Sharing jesus, healing hearts, transforming lives.
The Family Guidance & Outreach Center of Lubbock is dedicated to the prevention of child abuse and neglect and supporting, mentoring, and educating parents.
Pregnancy Resources' mission is to inspire hope and unconditionally love everyone we serve by empowering them to thrive through compassionate support and positive solutions.
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.
Provides housing and spiritual development for Christians reintegrating into society upon exiting the criminal justice system.
Christian coaching, counseling, assessment and consulting services to the communities of Tarrant County, Texas.
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.
RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…
To procure and distribute nutritional food to qualified agencies that feed the hungry of West Central Texas.
To lead a unified effort for a hunger-free texas.
TexProtects advances public policy and local implementation to strenghten families to prevent child abuse and neglect.
How this is measured
67 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. 67 of the 275 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 EASTLAND COUNTY OPEN DOOR ↗
- Who funds LIFELINE CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CHASE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds BYNUM SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ENCOURAGE ONE ANOTHER ↗
- Who funds HEARTBEAT INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF MIDLAND INC ↗
- Who funds Parents Defeating Autism Today ↗
- Who funds Elam Ministries ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXAS ↗
- Who funds NARROW GATE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Remember the Alamo Foundation ↗
- Who funds TEXAS RANGERS BASEBALL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Charis Hills Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Abell-Hanger Foundation · Beal Foundation · Permian Basin Area Foundation · Helen Greathouse Charitable Trust · Pevehouse Family Foundation · Scharbauer Foundation Inc · The Henry Foundation · Warren Charitable Foundation · Yarborough Foundation · James a Buddy Davidson Charitable Foundation · Wayne & Jo Ann Moore Charitable Foundation · United Way of Midland Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The 1687 Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The 1687 Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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