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Tom C Barnsley Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$64k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
6
Grants FY2025
8
Organizations funded FY2024
13%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$11,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$19,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 8
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$1.4M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Tom C Barnsley Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationOther
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
FY2025still arriving6$64k33%
FY20248$55k13%
FY20237$55k0%
FY20228$42k0%
FY20217$59k57%
FY20208$50k13%
FY20198$56k38%
FY20185$50k60%
92% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$371kReligion$50kRecreation & Sports$33kHousing & Shelter$4kYouth Development$2kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
West Texas A&M University$28,0002n/a
Texas Tech Foundation Inc$5,00010%
West Texas Boys Ranch$4,00030%
Faith in Christ$1,0001n/a
Tabernacle Baptist Church$1,0001n/a

Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($445k), not named here.

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About Tom C Barnsley Foundation

How much does Tom C Barnsley Foundation give?
Tom C Barnsley Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $64,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 8 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Tom C Barnsley Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (77%), Religion (10%), Recreation & Sports (7%).
Who are Tom C Barnsley Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: West Texas A&M University ($28k), Texas Tech Foundation Inc ($5k), West Texas Boys Ranch ($4k).
Does Tom C Barnsley Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Tom C Barnsley Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is Tom C Barnsley Foundation based?
Tom C Barnsley 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 32 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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