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The Fain Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k31 grants · $147k
- $10k–50k40 grants · $604k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $658k
- $250k+3 grants · $833k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YMCA | $333,334 |
| Hospice of Wichita Falls Inc | $250,000 |
| River Bend Nature Center | $250,000 |
| Presbyterian Manor | $200,000 |
| United Regional Foundation | $125,000 |
| Wichita Falls Area Community Foundation | $83,333 |
| Community Healthcare Center | $50,000 |
| Art's Council Wichita Falls Area Kemp Center for the Arts | $50,000 |
| Camp Fire North Texas | $50,000 |
| Midwestern State University | $50,000 |
| Archer County Museum & Art Center | $50,000 |
| Clay County Historical Society | $25,000 |
| Wichita Falls Area Food Bank | $25,000 |
| Camp Fire North Texas | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 27% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +29% since the first grant, against -7% for the ones you funded once.
73 repeat relationships — 57 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 13 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $230k 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
- HOHospice of Wichita Falls Inc2× · 2020–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +18%
- TBTHE BOYS CLUB OF WICHITA FALLS INC DBA BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF WICHITA FALLS4× · 2020–2024 · $263k · revenue +315%
- PMPresbyterian Manor Inc3× · 2020–2024 · $230k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $25k
- WCWichita County Medical Allianceone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -70%
- DWDowntown Wichita Falls Development Incone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +5%
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 mission of the Arts Council is to nurture and strengthen the artistic, cultural and educational quality of the community.
The wichita county community foundation is a nonprofit, non-sectarian organization dedicated to preserving local wealth so the communities in and around leoti and wichita county will forever remain attractive places to live, work and raise…
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.
Formerly ywca wichita, the wichita family crisis center (wfcc) began operations in wichita, ks in 1907. wfcc's mission is to eliminate domestic violence in our community by supporting survivors through shelter, education & advocacy.
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.
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.
Support of special needs military or first responders and their families.
The mission of the walworth county care center is to provide access to long-term care services in a high quality, compassionate, and dignified manner to residents in walworth county.
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.
CASA of Williamson County, TX exists to empower community volunteers to advocate for children who have experienced abuse or neglect to find loving, safe, and permanent homes.
The mission of casa of west texas is to recruit, train and support committed volunteers who are appointed by the court to advocate for the best interest of children in the foster care system.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Senior Citizen Services of North Texas Inc Dba the Kitchen and the most unlike its peers is Whispers of Hope Horse Farm. 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 31 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
60 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. 60 of the 109 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 Hospice of Wichita Falls Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS CLUB OF WICHITA FALLS INC DBA BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF WICHITA FALLS ↗
- Who funds Presbyterian Manor Inc ↗
- Who funds CAMP FIRE NORTH TEXAS ↗
- Who funds Wichita Falls Area Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds ALL HANDS CULTURAL COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Peyton's Project ↗
- Who funds BEACON LIGHTHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Rathgeber Hospitality House ↗
- Who funds HANDS TO HANDS COMMUNITY FUND ↗
- Who funds WICHITA FALLS AREA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Wichita Falls Symphony Orchestra ↗
- Who funds PETS LOW COST SPAY & NEUTER ↗
- Who funds CHRIST COUNSELING MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF WICHITA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds North Central Texas Community Health Care Center ↗
- Who funds WICHITA COUNTY HERITAGE SOCIETY DBA KELL HOUSE HERITAGE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Archer County Museum and Arts Center Inc ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Club of Vernon Inc ↗
- Who funds SENIOR CITIZEN SERVICES OF NORTH TEXAS INC DBA THE KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds Wichita West Volunteer Fire Dept ↗
- Who funds NEW HORIZONS RANCH & CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Child Advocates CASA of Red River ↗
- Who funds INHERITANCE ADOPTIONS ↗
- Who funds The Museum of North Texas History ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN CHILDREN'S HOMES & SERVICES ↗
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: Bryant Edwards Foundation Inc · J S Bridwell Foundation · Wichita Falls Area Community Foundation · James N McCoy Foundation · The Priddy Foundation · Donnell Foundation · Guinn Foundation Inc · Gene Conley Foundation · Perkins-Prothro Foundation · Kadane Foundation · Libra Foundation · Hazel & Henry S Grace 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 Fain 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.
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