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The Massey Family Charitable Trust
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
- Under $10k33 grants · $101k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $139k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BELTWAY BAPTIST CHURCH | $28,835 |
| NOAH PROJECT | $20,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $15,000 |
| LOVE & CARE MINISTRIES | $15,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | $10,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRSTIAN ATHLETES | $10,000 |
| MIRATA-NEPAL FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN | $10,000 |
| CENTRAL TEXAS FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| MIDCOAST CONSERVANCY | $10,000 |
| NMDP | $10,000 |
| PREGNANCY RESOURCES OF ABILENE | $7,100 |
| PATHWAY TO VICTORY DR JEFFRESS 1ST BAPTIST DALLAS | $5,585 |
| CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK | $5,000 |
| HATIKVA PROJECT US | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LINCOLN COUNTY | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $116k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
58 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 4 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; $26k 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
- LCLove & Care Ministries6× · 2019–2024 · $90k · revenue +49%
- HPHATIKVA PROJECT US INC6× · 2018–2024 · $55k · revenue +57%
- HHHENDRICK HOME FOR CHILDREN6× · 2019–2024 · $50k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- LILIFENETS INTERNATIONAL INCone grant, 2022 · $10k
- BCBIG COUNTRY FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANone grant, 2018 · $5k
- BCBIG COUNTRY FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLone grant, 2020 · $5k
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.
The mission of Abilene Christian School, Inc. is to equip students to excel academically, serve meaningfully, and walk faithfully with God.
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…
Care, hope, and support for all when illness threatens life.
The purpose of the Organization is to provide knowledge and understanding of economics, matters of public concern, finance, education and training, and problems of minority groups therby promoting the economy and quality of life in Abilene…
RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…
National Christian Foundation North Texas (NCFNT) was created to facilitate smarter Christian giving with sophisticated charitable techniques.
Operate a non-profit medical clinic exclusively for charitable purposes to provide medical health services to uninsured and low income adults in the Abilene area.
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.
To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.
Good Samaritan Foundation (GSF) is a fundraising and grant-making organization dedicated solely to Texas nursing. Its mission is to increase the number of nurses dedicated to clinical care and to improve the quality of nurse education and…
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.
Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Abilene and the most unlike its peers is Meals On Wheels. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
38 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. 38 of the 87 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 Love & Care Ministries ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ABILENE ↗
- Who funds HATIKVA PROJECT US INC ↗
- Who funds HENDRICK HOME FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds NOAH PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Pregnancy Resources of Abilene Inc ↗
- Who funds Mitrata-Nepal Foundation for Children ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds Day Nursery of Abilene Inc ↗
- Who funds ABILENE YOUTH SPORTS AUTHORITY ↗
- Who funds Central Texas Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds Hendrick Hospice Care ↗
- Who funds BIG COUNTRY COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds Abilene Boys Ranch Inc ↗
- Who funds NMDP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Club of Abilene Inc ↗
- Who funds GROVER NELSON PARK ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRONTIER TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds Midcoast Conservancy ↗
- Who funds Serenity Foundation of Texas ↗
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: Greathouse Foundation · Dian Graves Owen Foundation · Barber Foundation · Shelton Family Foundation · Community Foundation of Abilene · The Legett Foundation · Kickapoo Springs Foundation · The Karakin Foundation · Directors Foundation · Moss Adamson Spalding Charities · Joe Davis Foundation - Defined · Jm Parker Foundation
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 Massey Family Charitable Trust 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.
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