· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Archer County Museum & Art Center | $50,000 |
| Camp Fire North Texas | $50,000 |
| Midwestern State University | $50,000 |
| Wichita Falls Area Food Bank | $25,000 |
| Peyton's Project | $25,000 |
| Camp Fire North Texas | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +33% since the first grant, against -7% for those 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
How this is measured
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 +236%
- PMPresbyterian Manor Inc3× · 2020–2024 · $230k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- DWDowntown Wichita Falls Development Incone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +5%
- WCWichita County Medical Allianceone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -73%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $25k
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.
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.
How this is measured
60 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. 60 of the 109 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
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 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 Symphony Orchestra ↗
- Who funds WICHITA FALLS AREA FOOD BANK ↗
- 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 CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH ↗
- Who funds Archer County Museum and Arts Center Inc ↗
- 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Fain Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Fain Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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