· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YMCA | $100,000 |
| WAYLAND BAPTIST UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| SHELBY'S BRIDGE | $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 (FY19–24, $69k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 15% of The James and Eva Mayer Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in TX; read by stated purpose it is 84% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
7 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 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; $25k 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
- WBWAYLAND BAPTIST UNIVERSITY5× · 2020–2024 · $510k · revenue -6%
- CHCOVENANT HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2019 · $300k · revenue -13%
- YYMCA2× · 2018–2024 · $122k
Funded once
- WTWEST TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $50k
- HPHIGH PLAINS CHILDREN'S HOME AND FAMILY SERVICES INCone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue -19%
- COCITY OF PLAINVIEW TXone grant, 2018 · $40k
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.
Assisted students attending wayland baptist university plainview, texas
Sunny Glen Childrens Home, Inc. cares for children in need. Our care will be competent, compassionate and professional. We will help every child achieve their greatest potential-physically, emotionally, spiritually and academically.
Dedicated to providing residential christian care to children and adults with special needs who are orphaned, neglected, abused, dependent, underprivileged, or otherwise taken advantage of; while ensuring their physical, emotional, social…
Interview facility for child abuse victims.
Pinnacle Christian School serves to meet the education needs of families in the greater Parker County area by providing complete, advanced, Bible-based academic K-8th grade instruction taught by highly-qualified teachers on Tuesdays and…
Christain Home
To provide the communities we serve with quality, patient-centered, accessible healthcare with comfort.
Education and instruction for grades k-6th
When care is within reach, lives change. Texas Community Counseling is a faith-based nonprofit committed to bringing hope and healing through mental health care to the communities that need it the most. We empower individuals to heal,…
Can behavioral health provides an integrated, holistic approach to caring for those with behavioral health, substance abuse, and co-occurring disorders in east harris county.can seeks to assist in developing all areas of one's well-being:…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is High Plains Children's Home and Family Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Edward Pierce Center for Autism Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 27 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 WAYLAND BAPTIST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SILVERTON DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF AMARILLO ↗
- Who funds HIGH PLAINS CHILDREN'S HOME AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds PLAINVIEW CHRISTIAN ACADEMYINC ↗
- Who funds SHELBYS BRIDGE ↗
- Who funds CRISIS CENTER OF THE PLAINS ↗
- Who funds Edward Pierce Center for Autism Inc ↗
- Who funds DRISKILL HALFWAY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds PLAINVIEW COMMUNITY CHEST INC FORMERLY PLAINVIEW AREA UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds HIGH PLAINS FOOD BANK ↗
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: 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
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 James and Eva Mayer 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.