· Private foundation
The Bobbie a Atkinson Foundation
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 $10k16 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEXARKANA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $25,000 |
| CHRISTUS ST MICHAEL FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| TEXARKANA REGIONAL ART & HUMANITIES | $15,000 |
| TEXARKANA COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| TEXARKANA MUSEUMS SYSTEM | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,500 |
| TEXAS HIGH SCHOOL BAND BOOSTER CLUB | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| FRIENDS OF TEXARKANA PARKS | $3,000 |
| RESTORATION OF HOPE (HOPE FOR TEXARKANA) | $3,000 |
| CADDO AREA COUNCIL BSA | $3,000 |
| TEXARKANA PUBLIC LIBRARY | $3,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER TEXARKANA | $2,500 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF RUSK COUNTY | $2,500 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ALLIANCE | $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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
42 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
- TSTEXARKANA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $86k · revenue +271%
- LDLONGVIEW DREAM CENTER6× · 2017–2025 · $20k · revenue +165%
- HFHabitat for Humanity of Texarkana Inc7× · 2018–2024 · $17k · revenue +98%
Funded once
- CSCHRISTUS ST MICHEAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $15k
- CCCENTRAL CHRISTIAN CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $5k
- PCPRISON CHAPEL MINISTRY OF EAST TEXASone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
Support Services for the elderly through nutritional assistance
Treatment of handicapped and disabled children and adults and providing job training for disabled persons. Providing activities for Alzheimer's Disease patients.
To promote Corsicana and the surrounding area.
To promote and encourage agriculture production by educating youth and sponsoring exhibitions of livestock and farm products.
Established for the financial support of hospice of texarkana, inc.
Public arts funding
TexProtects advances public policy and local implementation to strenghten families to prevent child abuse and neglect.
The Texas Nonprofit Hospice Alliance (TNPHA) is a group of nonprofit hospices dedicated to sharing best practices and providing quality care for individuals with life-limiting illnesses.
Promote the restaurant industry
To foster transparency and uphold ethical standards across all levels of government in texas and empower citizens to hold their government accountable.
Care of neglected children
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texarkana Regional Arts & Humanit and the most unlike its peers is Angel Fund Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
39 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. 39 of the 80 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 TEXARKANA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTUS St Michael Foundation ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF TEXARKANA ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Texarkana Inc ↗
- Who funds LONGVIEW DREAM CENTER ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity of Texarkana Inc ↗
- Who funds Henderson Civic Theatre Inc ↗
- Who funds Domestic Violence Prevention Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST TEXAS CASA INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF EAST TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds Harvest Texarkana Regional Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR THE PATHWAY ↗
- Who funds MISSION TEXARKANA INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF RUSK COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FULL ARMOR CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds AR-TX REDI ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds FOR THE SAKE OF ONE ↗
- Who funds Randy Sams Outreach Shelter ↗
- Who funds TEXARKANA RESOURCES FOR DISABLEDIN ↗
- Who funds TEXARKANA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: Patterson Troike Foundation Inc · Ledwell Family Foundation · United Way of Greater Texarkana Inc · Wayne H Garrison Charitable Tr · East Texas Communities Foundation · Cabe Cook Foundation · Vasco McCoy Jr Foundation · Kelley & Morgan Families Foundation · The Morriss Family Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · Yates Foundation · Cadence Bank 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 The Bobbie a Atkinson Foundation 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.