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The Don & Sybil Harrington Foundation

Support organization of amarillo area foundation, inc.

$4.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
38
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$898k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0186% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Community Improvement$13MPhilanthropy$6.7MHuman Services$2.5MHealth$2.1MEducation$1.9MArts & Culture$1.8MFood & Nutrition$300kYouth Development$245kRecreation & Sports$155kOther$4.8M
02FY2024 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 38 grants below total $3,874,919 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,992,574 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $117,655 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k21 grants · $555k
  • $50k–250k14 grants · $1.6M
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.8M
$45,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$121M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMARILLO AREA FOUNDATION INC$897,574
MEADOWS MENTAL HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE FOR TEXAS$440,000
TEXAS NETWORK OF YOUTH SERVICES$425,000
OGALLALA COMMONS$240,000
UNITED WAY OF AMARILLO & CANYON$231,163
HEMPHILL COUNTY HOSPITAL DISTRICT$175,000
BAYLOR UNIVERSITY$150,000
EARLY MATTERS$125,000
PANHANDLE REGIONAL PLANNING COMMISSION$100,000
TURN CENTER$91,240
WEST TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$90,000
DON HARRINGTON DISCOVERY CENTER$83,527
TULIA LOVE FUND$71,340
AMARILLO MUSEUM OF ART$50,000
AMARILLO TRIBUNE$50,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 31% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%AMARILLO CHILDREN'S HOME: $200k → 9%PANHANDLE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $200k → 9%STRATFORD AREA YOUTH CARE AGENCY INC: $50k → 12%WHEELER AREA ACTIVITIES & IMPROVEME: $50k → 15%HEREFORD SENIOR CITIZENS ASSOCIATIO: $89k → 17%EARLY MATTERS: $125k → 11%CCS CONNECT COMMUNITY SERVICES: $80k → 9%PANHANDLE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $60k → 9%DUMAS EDUCATION AND SOCIAL MINISTRIES: $150k → 12%DONLEY COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS: $30k → 18%CANADIAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $50k → 11%HEREFORD SENIOR CITIZENS ASSOCIATION: $10k → 17%DALHART SENIOR CITIZENS ASSOCIATION: $30k → 11%BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES: $25k → 14%DUMAS EDUCATION & SOCIAL MINISTRIES: $40k → 12%BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES: $20k → 14%BAPTIST COMMUNITY SERVICES: $100k → 20%AMARILLO MULTISERVICE CENTER FOR THE AGING INC: $21k → 9%AMARILLO MULTISERVICE CENTER FOR THE AGING INC: $21k → 9%AMARILLO MULTISERVICE CENTER FOR THE AGING INC: $21k → 9%AMARILLO MULTISERVICE CENTER AGING: $18k → 20%AMARILLO MULTISERVICE CENTER AGING: $18k → 20%AMARILLO MULTISERVICE CENTER AGING: $18k → 20%AMARILLO MULTISERVICE CENTER AGING: $18k → 20%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$21M · 35 repeat orgs$5.5M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of 0% since the first grant, against -3% for the ones you funded once.

35 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
51

Total granted

$21M
$4.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
-3%

Still filing today

86%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M 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 ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • MM
    MEADOWS MENTAL HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE FOR TEXAS
    3× · 2022–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +46%
  • DH
    DON HARRINGTON DISCOVERY CENTER FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $717k · revenue +102%
  • AS
    AMARILLO SYMPHONY INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $339k · revenue +88%

Funded once

  • HP
    HIGH PLAINS CHILDREN'S HOME AND FAMILY SERVICES INC
    one grant, 2019 · $300k · revenue -19%
  • FC
    FAITH CITY INC
    one grant, 2023 · $275k · revenue -20%
  • HT
    HEAL THE CITY FREE CLINIC
    one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue -14%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Center City of Amarillo Inc

Center city of amarillo, inc., brings people to downtown amarillo through organization, events, promotion, design and facilitation of economic restructuring.

Community Improvement
2
Medical Center League House of Amarillo Texas Inc

To serve as a home away from home for patients and their families coming to amarillo, texas for health care treatment.

Health
3
Downtown Amarillo Inc

Downtown amarillo, inc. is committed to making downtown amarillo a vibrant and attractive place.

Community Improvement
4
Central Texas Children's Home

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.

Human Services
5
Aaf Community Health Foundation

Support organization of amarillo area foundation, inc. to provide and support medical and health care facilities, services, and education in amarillo, texas, and the texas panhandle area.

Health
6
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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7
El Paso Center for Children Inc

El paso center for children, inc's purpose is to provide homes for dependent and neglected children and an array of support services for emotionally disturbed children, adolescents, and their families. the organization operates entirely in…

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8
Hendrick Home for Children
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9
Texas Center for Child and Family Studies

To strengthen the lives of children and families.

Human Services
10
Children's Aid Society of West Tx Inc

To provide shelter, supervision, and counseling for children in crisis; to cooperate with other agencies in order to resolve problems related to the welfare of these children; to assist the families of these children in seeking possible…

Human Services
11
Amarillo Area Adult Literacy Council Inc

Promotion of adult literacy in the texas panhandle.

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12
Atascosa Health Center Inc

Health care services are provided to low to moderate income families who are residents of South Texas. Services are provided at a low cost are based on abiilty to pay base. Approximately 18,022 patients were served in the fiscal year.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Amarillo Wesley Community Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Museum of the Plains. 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 42 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%5%<5yr16%10%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr15%15%20–35yr10%28%35–55yr15%28%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%1%<5yr16%46%5–10yr19%9%10–20yr15%3%20–35yr10%5%35–55yr15%37%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/102
the rest of the field
17%
2,839/16,909

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.

04the grantee network

86 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. 86 of the 102 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.

16
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
83/86
Grantees still filing
42/86
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DECOURSEY PROPERTIES — $12,656,226 · Community ImprovementDECOURSEY PROPERTIES+2 more — $94,220 · Community ImprovementAMARILLO AREA FOUNDATION INC — $6,588,748 · PhilanthropyAMARILLO AREA FOUNDATI…+2 more — $110,000 · PhilanthropyTHE UNITED WAY INC — $717,729 · OtherTHE UNITED WAY INCAMARILLO RECOVERY FROM ALCOHOL AND DRUGS INC — $375,000 · OtherAMARILLO RECOVERY …HEMPHILL COUNTY HOSPITAL DISTRICT — $335,000 · OtherHEMPHILL COUNTY HO…HIGH PLAINS CHILDREN'S HOME AND FAMILY SERVICES INC — $300,000 · OtherHIGH PLAINS CHILDR…HIGH PLAINS FOOD BANK — $250,000 · OtherAMARILLO WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $210,000 · OtherPLAINS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL — $204,141 · OtherOGALLALA COMMONS INC — $240,000 · Other+40 more — $2,861,982 · Other+40 moreTexas Network of Youth Services Inc — $425,000 · Human ServicesFAITH CITY INC — $275,000 · Human ServicesPANHANDLE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — $260,000 · Human ServicesPRESBYTERIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN — $200,000 · Human ServicesDUMAS EDUCATION AND SOCIAL MINISTRIES INC — $190,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE — $150,000 · Human ServicesAMARILLO MULTISERVICE CENTER FOR THE AGING INC — $135,966 · Human ServicesFAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES OF AMARILLO — $130,000 · Human ServicesEarly Matters Inc — $125,000 · Human ServicesBAPTIST COMMUNITY SERVICES — $100,000 · Human ServicesHEREFORD SENIOR CITIZENS ASSOCIATION INC — $99,000 · Human Services+9 more — $369,995 · Human ServicesMEADOWS MENTAL HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE FOR TEXAS — $1,255,000 · HealthTURN CENTER — $353,740 · HealthHEAL THE CITY FREE CLINIC — $250,358 · Health+7 more — $283,879 · HealthTEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC — $700,000 · EducationSTORYBRIDGE INC — $293,800 · EducationWEST TEXAS A&M UNIV FOUNDATION — $290,000 · EducationDALHART EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $250,000 · EducationBAYLOR UNIVERSITY — $150,000 · EducationSTEPPING STONES LEARNING CENTER — $123,800 · Education+1 more — $50,000 · EducationDON HARRINGTON DISCOVERY CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $717,182 · Arts & CultureAMARILLO SYMPHONY INC — $338,589 · Arts & CultureTEXAS PANHANDLE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $243,500 · Arts & CulturePANHANDLE-PLAINS HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $135,966 · Arts & CultureAMARILLO ART CENTER ASSOCIATION — $100,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF THE PLAINS — $64,480 · Arts & CultureAMARILLO LITTLE THEATER INC — $61,814 · Arts & Culture+4 more — $152,600 · Arts & Culture
Community Improvement$12,750,446Philanthropy$6,698,748Other$5,493,852Human Services$2,459,961Health$2,142,977Education$1,857,600Arts & Culture$1,814,131

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDECOURSEY PROPERTIES — $12,656,226 over 4y, 100% of budgetAMARILLO AREA FOUNDATION INC — $6,588,748 over 8y, 19% of budgetMEADOWS MENTAL HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE FOR TEXAS — $1,255,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY INC — $717,729 over 8y, 5.4% of budgetDON HARRINGTON DISCOVERY CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $717,182 over 8y, 9.4% of budgetTEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC — $700,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTexas Network of Youth Services Inc — $425,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetAMARILLO RECOVERY FROM ALCOHOL AND DRUGS INC — $375,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetTURN CENTER — $353,740 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetAMARILLO SYMPHONY INC — $338,589 over 8y, 2.7% of budgetHIGH PLAINS CHILDREN'S HOME AND FAMILY SERVICES INC — $300,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetSTORYBRIDGE INC — $293,800 over 3y, 26% of budgetWEST TEXAS A&M UNIV FOUNDATION — $290,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetFAITH CITY INC — $275,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetPANHANDLE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — $260,000 over 2y, 48% of budgetHEAL THE CITY FREE CLINIC — $250,358 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetHIGH PLAINS FOOD BANK — $250,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetDALHART EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $250,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetTEXAS PANHANDLE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $243,500 over 3y, 62% of budgetOGALLALA COMMONS INC — $240,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetAMARILLO WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $210,000 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN — $200,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetDUMAS EDUCATION AND SOCIAL MINISTRIES INC — $190,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE — $150,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetDALLAM-HARTLEY COUNTIES HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION — $150,000 over 2y, 65% of budgetBAYLOR UNIVERSITY — $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMARILLO MULTISERVICE CENTER FOR THE AGING INC — $135,966 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetPANHANDLE-PLAINS HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $135,966 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTERS OF AMARILLO INC — $135,966 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetDOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER INC — $134,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetFAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES OF AMARILLO — $130,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetEarly Matters Inc — $125,000 over 1y, 51% of budgetSTEPPING STONES LEARNING CENTER — $123,800 over 1y, 41% of budgetAMARILLO HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $120,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetAMARILLO ART CENTER ASSOCIATION — $100,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetHOPE TO OPPORTUNITIES FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetBAPTIST COMMUNITY SERVICES — $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHEREFORD SENIOR CITIZENS ASSOCIATION INC — $99,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetYOUNG LIFE — $97,101 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOPPORTUNITY SCHOOL INC — $97,101 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCACTUS NAZARENE HEALTH CENTER — $86,000 over 1y, 69% of budgetCCS CONNECT COMMUNITY SERVICES — $80,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetGREAT PLAINS CASA FOR KIDS INC — $75,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetMAVERICK BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF AMARILLO INC — $70,870 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetDUMAS AREA CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER — $65,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE PLAINS — $64,480 over 1y, 25% of budgetAMARILLO LITTLE THEATER INC — $61,814 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetFAMILY CARE FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 1y, 15% of budget
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.

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.

Amarillo Area Foundat…Mary E Bivins Foundat…Josephine Anderson Ch…Cj and Syble Fowlston…Dr Kent Roberts & Ile…Kimble Foundation Tru…The United Way IncMays FoundationDavid D & Nona S Payn…High Plains Christian…Amarillo Business Fou…Brumley Foundation
Amarillo Area Foundation IncTX148.6× affinity73 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amarillo Area Foundation Inc · Mary E Bivins Foundation · Josephine Anderson Charitable Trust · Cj and Syble Fowlston Charitable Trust · Dr Kent Roberts & Ilene Roberts Balliett Foundation · Kimble Foundation Trust · The United Way Inc · Mays Foundation · David D & Nona S Payne Foundation Inc · High Plains Christian Ministries Foundation · Amarillo Business Foundation · Brumley 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 Don & Sybil Harrington 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Oklahoma Blood Institute — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
30report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 102 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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