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The James and Eva Mayer Foundation at a glance

· 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.

$225k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
$100,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YMCA$100,000
WAYLAND BAPTIST UNIVERSITY$100,000
SHELBY'S BRIDGE$25,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%EDWARD PIERCE CENTER FOR AUTISM: $20k → 11%SHELBY'S BRIDGE: $25k → 16%CRISIS CENTER OF THE PLAINS: $24k → 22%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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 15% of The James and Eva Mayer Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in TX; by stated purpose, 84%.

The James and Eva Mayer Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.5% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 7 repeat orgs$397k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
19

Total granted

$1.2M
$372k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-20%
-19%

Still filing today

71%
26%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • WB
    WAYLAND BAPTIST UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $510k · revenue -6%
  • CH
    COVENANT HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2019 · $300k · revenue -13%
  • Y
    YMCA
    2× · 2018–2024 · $122k

Funded once

  • WT
    WEST TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • HP
    HIGH PLAINS CHILDREN'S HOME AND FAMILY SERVICES INC
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue -19%
  • CO
    CITY OF PLAINVIEW TX
    one grant, 2018 · $40k
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
Plainview Education Partnership

Assisted students attending wayland baptist university plainview, texas

Education
2
Hendrick Home for Children
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3
Sunny Glen Children's Home Inc

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.

Human Services
4
High Plains Children's Home and Family Services Foundation Inc

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…

Human Services
5
Talladega County Child Advocacy Center Inc

Interview facility for child abuse victims.

Human Services
6
Pinnacle Christian School

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…

Education
7
Panhandle Behavioral Services Inc
Health
8
Christian Home of Pecos

Christain Home

Crime & Legal
9
Pureview Health Center

To provide the communities we serve with quality, patient-centered, accessible healthcare with comfort.

Health
10
Tipton Christian School

Education and instruction for grades k-6th

Education
11
Texas Community Counseling

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,…

Human Services
12
Can Behavioral Health

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:…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is High Plains Children's Home and Family Services Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 27 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
3/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WAYLAND BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $510,000 · EducationWAYLAND BAPTIST UNIVERSITYPLAINVIEW CHRISTIAN ACADEMYINC: $45,000 · EducationPLAINVIEW CHRISTIAN ACADEMYINCYMCA: $122,000 · OtherYMCAWEST TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · OtherWEST TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITYHIGH PLAINS CHILDREN'S HOME AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $50,000 · OtherHIGH PLAINS CHILDREN'S HOME AND FAM…LUBBOCK ENTERTAINMENT & PERFORMING ARTS: $50,000 · OtherLUBBOCK ENTERTAINMENT & PERFORMING …CITY OF PLAINVIEW TX: $40,000 · OtherCITY OF PLAINVIEW TXSALVATION ARMY: $38,500 · OtherSALVATION ARMYIndividual grant recipient: $34,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCOMMUNITY PARTNER OF THE PLAINS RAINBOW ROOM: $21,000 · Other+10 more: $85,000 · Other+10 moreCOVENANT HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $300,000 · HealthCOVENANT HEALTH SYSTEM FO…RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF AMARILLO: $50,000 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHA…+1 more: $10,000 · HealthSILVERTON DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION INC: $100,000 · Community ImprovementSHELBYS BRIDGE: $25,000 · Human ServicesCRISIS CENTER OF THE PLAINS: $24,000 · Human ServicesEdward Pierce Center for Autism Inc: $19,500 · Human Services
Education$555,000Other$490,500Health$360,000Community Improvement$100,000Human Services$68,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
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 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 ↗

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 …Xcel Energy FoundationJe and le Mabee Found…Amarillo Business Fou…The Don & Sybil Harri…Mary E Bivins Foundat…Community Foundation …Textron Charitable Tr…Charities Aid Foundat…Amazonsmile FoundationFidelity Investments …
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 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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