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The Ware 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 41 grants below total $12,400 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,629,250 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $4,616,850 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Amarillo Children's Home | $2,900 |
| Another Chance House | $1,000 |
| Animal Rescue Shelter | $1,000 |
| Amarillo Area C.A.S.A. | $900 |
| Animal Defense League of Texas | $700 |
| Aggieland Humane Society | $600 |
| 24 Hours in the Canyon Cancer Survivorship Center | $500 |
| Accelerate Church | $400 |
| ADVO Companies, Inc. | $400 |
| American Cancer Society | $300 |
| Amarillo Area Foundation | $300 |
| Brazos Valley Food Bank | $200 |
| Amarillo Panhandle Humane Society | $200 |
| Amarillo First Church of the Nazarene | $200 |
| BISD Education Foundation | $200 |
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.
52 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 41 since wound down; 28 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, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
Southern Methodist University2× · 2022–2023 · $1.6M · revenue +3%- TGTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION2× · 2022–2023 · $300k · revenue +37%
- SPSOUTH PLAINS FOOD BANK INC2× · 2022–2023 · $180k · revenue +123%
Funded once
- WWTAMUone grant, 2022 · $500k
- TTTexas Tech Veterinary Schoolone grant, 2022 · $250k
- AADVOone grant, 2022 · $200k
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.
To lead a unified effort for a hunger-free texas.
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.
TexProtects advances public policy and local implementation to strenghten families to prevent child abuse and neglect.
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…
San antonio foster care and adoption services inc. is a licensed child placement agency in the state of texas. the organization cares for children placed in foster care by the state of texas.
As an advocate for the community goal of maintaining its no kill status, the humane society provides adoption, rescue and foster opportunities for the homeless animals at the city of waco animal shelter, as well as community education…
Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.
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…
Welfare of homeless animals
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…
One tail at a time west texas otat wtx serves the rural communities of west texas by supporting animal shelter operations rescuing and sheltering homeless unwanted companion animals dogs and cats primarily arranging their veterinary care…
The mission of casa of west texas is to recruit, train and support committed volunteers who are appointed by the court to advocate for the best interest of children in the foster care system.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The 100 Club Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sa Life Academy. 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 38 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
86 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. 86 of the 179 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 Southern Methodist University ↗
- Who funds TYLER STREET RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMARILLO AREA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH PLAINS FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds LUBBOCK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds ANOTHER CHANCE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds THE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF AMARILLO ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TURN CENTER ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds DON HARRINGTON DISCOVERY CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMARILLO SENIOR CITIZENS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BAPTIST COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds HIGH PLAINS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds LONG GAME YOUTH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL TEXAS ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S HOME INC ↗
- Who funds THE 100 CLUB OF AMARILLO INC ↗
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: Amarillo Area Foundation Inc · Dr Kent Roberts & Ilene Roberts Balliett Foundation · Josephine Anderson Charitable Trust · High Plains Christian Ministries Foundation · Kimble Foundation Trust · Mays Foundation · Mary E Bivins Foundation · Brumley Foundation · Cj and Syble Fowlston Charitable Trust · The Don & Sybil Harrington Foundation · Amarillo Business Foundation · Xcel Energy 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.
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