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The Fasken Foundation at a glance

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The Fasken Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$1.7M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$2.9MHuman Services$1.5MHealth$1.3MArts & Culture$801kYouth Development$612kCommunity Improvement$313kCivil Rights$292kCrime & Legal$225kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,719,254
Median grant
1
States reached
$45M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SEE$1,719,254
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–23, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%COMMUNITY AGAINST VIOLENCE INC: $20k → 18%COMMUNITY AGAINST VIOLENCE INC: $20k → 18%COMMUNITY AGAINST VIOLENCE INC: $20k → 18%COMMUNITY AGAINST VIOLENCE INC: $20k → 18%HARMONY HOME CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $12k → 16%COMMUNITY AGAINST VIOLENECE INC: $12k → 18%HARMONY HOME CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $10k → 16%COMMUNITY AGAINST VIOLENCE INC: $10k → 18%MANOR PARK INC: $5k → 12%SPRINGBOARD CENTER: $30k → 14%SPRINGBOARD CENTER: $30k → 14%THE SPRINGBOARD CENTER: $30k → 14%PRESBYTERIAN CHILDREN'S HOMES AND SERVICES: $10k → 10%THE SPRINGBOARD CENTER: $25k → 14%BUCKNER CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES: $25k → 14%PRESBYTERIAN CHILDREN'S HOMES AND SERVICES: $10k → 10%THE SPRINGBOARD CENTER: $20k → 14%BUCKNER CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES: $20k → 14%THE SPRINGBOARD CENTER: $20k → 14%THE SPRINGBOARD CENTER: $19k → 14%NONPROFIT MANAGEMENT CENTER OF THE PERMIAN BASIN: $18k → 14%NONPROFIT MANAGEMENT CENTER OF THE PERMIAN BASIN: $18k → 14%BUCKNER CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES: $15k → 14%BUCKNER CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES: $15k → 14%BUCKNER CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES: $15k → 14%ODESSA FAMILY YMCA: $50k → 16%ODESSA FAMILY YMCA: $50k → 16%ODESSA FAMILY YMCA: $40k → 16%ODESSA FAMILY YMCA: $30k → 16%ODESSA FAMILY YMCA: $20k → 16%ODESSA FAMILY YMCA: $10k → 16%CASA DE AMIGOS: $30k → 12%BUCKNER CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES: $15k → 14%CASA DE AMIGOS: $30k → 12%CASA DE AMIGOS: $30k → 12%NONPROFIT MANAGEMENT CENTER OF THE PERMIAN BASIN: $15k → 14%CASA DE AMIGOS: $30k → 12%CASA DE AMIGOS: $30k → 12%CASA DE AMIGOS: $30k → 12%NONPROFIT MANAGEMENT CENTER OF THE PERMIAN BASIN: $10k → 14%UNITED WAY OF MIDLAND: $15k → 12%NONPROFIT MANAGEMENT CENTER OF THE PERMIAN BASIN: $10k → 14%CENTERS FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $30k → 12%CENTERS FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $30k → 12%CENTERS FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $30k → 12%CENTERS FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $30k → 12%CENTERS FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $20k → 12%CENTERS FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $10k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.3M · 129 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

129 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 129 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

129
121

Total granted

$8.3M
$460k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+26%

Still filing today

52%
17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHousing & ShelterHealthYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • IP
    IDEA Public Schools
    4× · 2020–2023 · $1.0M · revenue +78%
  • MC
    MIDLAND CHILDRENS REHABILITATION CENTER INC
    6× · 2018–2023 · $310k · revenue +17%
  • CO
    CASA OF WEST TEXAS
    6× · 2018–2023 · $265k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • R1
    REGION 18 EDUCATION SERVICE CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • CC
    CHRIST CHURCH ANGLICAN
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS OF THE PERMIAN BASIN
    one grant, 2020 · $20k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Childrens Advocacy Center of West Texas Inc

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.

Crime & Legal
2
Lubbock Family Outreach Center Inc Dba Family Guidance & Outreach Center

The Family Guidance & Outreach Center of Lubbock is dedicated to the prevention of child abuse and neglect and supporting, mentoring, and educating parents.

Human Services
3
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
4
Lone Star Casa Inc

Lone Star CASA elevates the voices of children in Kaufman and Rockwall County who have experienced abuse and neglect by providing trained volunteer advocates to work alongside children and families so they can achieve safety and stability…

Civil Rights
5
Meals On Wheels of Odessa Inc

Meals on Wheels of Odessa enables people to live with dignity by offering community support and sustenance through coordinated services and enable older adults to live in their own homes safely and independently as long as they are able.

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6
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
7
Permian Basin Rehabilitation Center

Improving lives by providing exceptional and compassionate therapy services.

Health
8
Childrens Advocacy Center of Van Zandt County Inc

The children's advocacy center of van zandt county is committed to ensuring quality services and support to those children impacted by abuse while also building a future where no child in van zandt county experiences abuse.

Human Services
9
Presbyterian Medical Services

Presbyterian medical services designs and delivers quality, integrated health, education, and human services in response to identified community needs of the multicultural people of the southwest.

Health
10
Progress Texas Institute

The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.

Civil Rights
11
Texas College

To ensure that the student body experiences balanced intellectual, psychological, social and spiritual development, aimed at enabling them to become active productive members of society where they live and work.

Education
12
Texprotects-the Texas Association for the Protection of Children

TexProtects advances public policy and local implementation to strenghten families to prevent child abuse and neglect.

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Freedom Center Texas; the most unlike its peers is Redirectional Outreach Program Efforts for Youth. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

91 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 91 of the 253 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
29
Early backer (in before they grew)
89/91
Grantees still filing
70/91
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SEE: $1,719,254 · OtherSEETEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY: $233,663 · Other+147 more: $3,545,583 · Other+147 moreIDEA Public Schools: $1,000,000 · EducationIDEA Public SchoolsCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE PERMIAN BA: $228,000 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS …COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NEW MEXICO: $190,000 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS …NEW MEXICO SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS - ARTS INSTITUTE: $167,500 · EducationNEW MEXICO SCHOOL FOR T…BYNUM SCHOOL: $135,000 · EducationBYNUM SCHOOLODESSA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $127,500 · EducationODESSA COLLEGE FOUNDATI…UNLOCK MINISTRIES INC DBA OPPORTUNITY TRIBE: $107,500 · Education+10 more: $179,664 · Education+10 moreODESSA FAMILY YMCA: $200,000 · Human ServicesODESSA FAMILY…THE SPRINGBOARD CENTER: $196,000 · Human ServicesTHE SPRINGBOA…CASA DE AMIGOS OF MIDLAND TEXASINC: $180,000 · Human ServicesCASA DE AMIGO…CENTERS FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $150,000 · Human ServicesCENTERS FOR C…COMMUNITY AGAINST VIOLENCE INC: $116,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY AGA…BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC: $107,717 · Human ServicesBUCKNER CHILD…The Nonprofit Management Center of the Permian Basin Inc: $90,000 · Human ServicesThe Nonprofit…HARMONY HOME CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $58,000 · Human ServicesFREEDOM CENTER TEXAS: $45,000 · Human Services+7 more: $73,000 · Human Services+7 moreMIDLAND CHILDRENS REHABILITATION CENTER INC: $310,000 · HealthHIGH SKY CHILDRENS RANCH INC: $286,250 · HealthPARKINSON VOICE PROJECT INC: $31,250 · Health+2 more: $12,500 · HealthNATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE NM INC: $244,000 · Arts & CultureSANTA FE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL LTD: $110,000 · Arts & CultureSANTA FE PRO MUSICA INC: $76,500 · Arts & CultureSANTA FE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $50,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $17,500 · Arts & CultureCASA OF WEST TEXAS: $265,000 · Civil RightsYouth Heartline: $27,000 · Civil RightsCASA OF THE PERMIAN BASIN INC: $12,500 · Civil RightsRedirectional Outreach Program Efforts for Youth: $80,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MIDLAND INC: $57,500 · Youth DevelopmentBoys and Girls Clubs of the Permian Basin Inc: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentTRUE KIDS 1: $27,500 · Youth Development
Other$5,498,500Education$2,135,164Human Services$1,215,717Health$640,000Arts & Culture$498,000Civil Rights$304,500Youth Development$195,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetIDEA Public Schools: $1,000,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMIDLAND CHILDRENS REHABILITATION CENTER INC: $310,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetHIGH SKY CHILDRENS RANCH INC: $286,250 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetCASA OF WEST TEXAS: $265,000 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetNATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE NM INC: $244,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE PERMIAN BA: $228,000 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetODESSA FAMILY YMCA: $200,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetTHE SPRINGBOARD CENTER: $196,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NEW MEXICO: $190,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetCASA DE AMIGOS OF MIDLAND TEXASINC: $180,000 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetMARC INC: $170,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetNEW MEXICO SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS - ARTS INSTITUTE: $167,500 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetCENTERS FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $150,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetBYNUM SCHOOL: $135,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetODESSA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $127,500 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetTEEN FLOW YOUTH MINISTRY: $125,000 over 6y, 6.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY AGAINST VIOLENCE INC: $116,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetSANTA FE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL LTD: $110,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetBUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC: $107,717 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUNLOCK MINISTRIES INC DBA OPPORTUNITY TRIBE: $107,500 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetWEST TEXAS FOOD BANK: $92,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSAFE PLACE OF THE PERMIAN BASIN: $92,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetThe Nonprofit Management Center of the Permian Basin Inc: $90,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetODESSA FAMILY PATHWAYS: $87,500 over 6y, 11% of budgetRedirectional Outreach Program Efforts for Youth: $80,000 over 6y, 5.7% of budgetSANTA FE PRO MUSICA INC: $76,500 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE PERMIAN BASIN INC: $73,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY CHILDREN'S MINISTRY: $71,250 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetMIDLAND TEEN COURT INC: $70,000 over 6y, 8.4% of budgetPERMIAN BASIN AREA FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMIDLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetAGAPE CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $60,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetHARMONY HOME CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $58,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MIDLAND INC: $57,500 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetSANTA FE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $50,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetFREEDOM CENTER TEXAS: $45,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE CHISHOLM TRAIL INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetAPHASIA CENTER OF WEST TEXAS INC: $38,750 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF MIDLAND TEXAS INC: $35,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetODESSA CHRISTMAS IN ACTION INC: $35,000 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetFort Davis Volunteer Fire Dept Inc: $31,250 over 6y, 8.2% of budgetPARKINSON VOICE PROJECT INC: $31,250 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetGrand Companions Humane Society: $31,250 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetCRISIS CENTER OF WEST TEXAS: $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of the Permian Basin Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHOSPICE OF MIDLAND INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFOOD PANTRY OF JEFF DAVIS COUNTY INC: $29,250 over 6y, 5.5% of budgetCHRISTMAS IN ACTION INC: $29,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budget
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 IDEA Public Schools ↗
  • Who funds MIDLAND CHILDRENS REHABILITATION CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds HIGH SKY CHILDRENS RANCH INC ↗
  • Who funds CASA OF WEST TEXAS ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE NM INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE PERMIAN BA ↗
  • Who funds ODESSA FAMILY YMCA ↗
  • Who funds THE SPRINGBOARD CENTER ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NEW MEXICO ↗
  • Who funds CASA DE AMIGOS OF MIDLAND TEXASINC ↗
  • Who funds MARC INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW MEXICO SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS - ARTS INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds CENTERS FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC ↗
  • Who funds BYNUM SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds ODESSA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds TEEN FLOW YOUTH MINISTRY ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY AGAINST VIOLENCE INC ↗
  • Who funds SANTA FE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL LTD ↗
  • Who funds BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds UNLOCK MINISTRIES INC DBA OPPORTUNITY TRIBE ↗
  • Who funds WEST TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds SAFE PLACE OF THE PERMIAN BASIN ↗
  • Who funds The Nonprofit Management Center of the Permian Basin Inc ↗
  • Who funds ODESSA FAMILY PATHWAYS ↗
  • Who funds Redirectional Outreach Program Efforts for Youth ↗
  • Who funds SANTA FE PRO MUSICA INC ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE PERMIAN BASIN INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY CHILDREN'S MINISTRY ↗
  • Who funds MIDLAND TEEN COURT INC ↗
  • Who funds PERMIAN BASIN AREA FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Abell-Hanger Foundati…Scharbauer Foundation…Permian Basin Area Fo…Helen Greathouse Char…Pevehouse Family Foun…The Henry FoundationWayne & Jo Ann Moore …Beal FoundationFmh FoundationWarren Charitable Fou…Yarborough FoundationBryant Family Foundat…
Abell-Hanger FoundationTX110.5× affinity52 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Abell-Hanger Foundation · Scharbauer Foundation Inc · Permian Basin Area Foundation · Helen Greathouse Charitable Trust · Pevehouse Family Foundation · The Henry Foundation · Wayne & Jo Ann Moore Charitable Foundation · Beal Foundation · Fmh Foundation · Warren Charitable Foundation · Yarborough Foundation · Bryant Family Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Fasken Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Fasken Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    25report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 253 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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