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The James and Eva Mayer 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.

$225k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
3
Grants FY2024
5
Organizations funded FY2023
80%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$100,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 7
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$4.2M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 80% of the organizations The James and Eva Mayer Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 49% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $96k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthHuman ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving3$225k33%
FY20235$196k80%
FY20224$168k25%
FY20215$206k20%
FY20207$190k86%
FY20195$200k80%
FY20187$186k71%
FY20175$204kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$605kHealth$415kHuman Services$166kHousing & Shelter$105kCommunity Improvement$100kArts & Culture$55kRecreation & Sports$50kYouth Development$34kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of The James and Eva Mayer Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Wayland Baptist University$510,00050%
Covenant Health System Foundation$300,00032%
Silverton Downtown Association Inc$100,000320%
West Texas A&M University$50,0001n/a
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Amarillo$50,00033%
High Plains Children's Home and Family Services Inc$50,00011%
Plainview Christian Academyinc$45,00032%
Shelbys Bridge$25,00017%
Crisis Center of the Plains$24,0001n/a
Edward Pierce Center for Autism Inc$19,50016%
Driskill Halfway House Inc$10,0001n/a
Plainview Community Chest Inc Formerly Plainview Area United Way$10,00014%
High Plains Food Bank$10,00010%
Plainview Community Concert Association Inc$5,0001n/a
Faith in Sharing House Inc$5,0001n/a

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($361k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The James and Eva Mayer Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWayland Baptist University: $510,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCovenant Health System Foundation: $300,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetSilverton Downtown Association Inc: $100,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of Amarillo: $50,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetHigh Plains Children's Home and Family Services Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPlainview Christian Academyinc: $45,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetShelbys Bridge: $25,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetEdward Pierce Center for Autism Inc: $19,500 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetPlainview Community Chest Inc Formerly Plainview Area United Way: $10,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetHigh Plains Food Bank: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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.

Community Foundation of West TexasTX19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of West Texas · Xcel Energy Foundation · Je and le Mabee Foundation Inc · Amarillo Business Foundation · The Don & Sybil Harrington Foundation · Mary E Bivins Foundation · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Charities Aid Foundation America · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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.

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About The James and Eva Mayer Foundation

How much does The James and Eva Mayer Foundation give?
The James and Eva Mayer Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $225,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 7 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The James and Eva Mayer Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (38%), Health (26%), Human Services (11%).
Who are The James and Eva Mayer Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Wayland Baptist University ($510k), Covenant Health System Foundation ($300k), Silverton Downtown Association Inc ($100k).
Does The James and Eva Mayer Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 80% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The James and Eva Mayer Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The James and Eva Mayer Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of West Texas, Xcel Energy Foundation, Je and le Mabee Foundation Inc.
Where is The James and Eva Mayer Foundation based?
The James and Eva Mayer Foundation is based in TX.

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 27 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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