· Private foundation
W C Payne Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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–50k6 grants · $129k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $525k
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY | $500,000 |
| NATIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR MUSEUM | $200,000 |
| THE LAMPLIGHTER SCHOOL | $200,000 |
| THE COMMIT PARTNERSHIP | $75,000 |
| YMCA OF GREATER HOUSTON | $50,000 |
| OKLAHOMA CITY MUSEUM OF ART | $48,800 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS | $25,000 |
| CASADY SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| JORDAN SPIETH FAMILY FOUNDATION | $14,808 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA | $10,000 |
| FAITH FIGHT FINISH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
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, $375k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +1% since the first grant, against -21% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 14 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k 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
Washington and Lee University7× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +15%- TBTHE BRIDGE3× · 2017–2020 · $150k · revenue +74%
OKLAHOMA CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER INC5× · 2017–2021 · $135k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- CCOMMIT2DALLASgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue +28%
- OCOK CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTERone grant, 2023 · $30k
- SFSCHOOL FINANCEone grant, 2018 · $30k
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.
Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.
Wla combines best practices in teaching and learning, with the latest in educational technology to create an unparalleled high school experience. students will graduate from wla prepared for college, career, and lives of public leadership.
The organization was established to impact, over time, the quality of pre-k-12 public education for all texas students by supporting and developing educational leaders.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
The mission of Royal Public Schools is to spark students' natural curiosity and love of learning while providing the knowledge and skills they need to lead successful and fulfilling lives.
Esd prepares children for intellectual discovery, integrity and purpose; we develop the talent and potential in each student through sound learning, discipline, and faith.
The organization's mission is to enrich, strengthen, enhance, and support the advancement of international leadership of texas, inc., a nonprofit corporation and texas open-enrollment charter school operator, by engaging in fundraising and…
To prepare students for college through a rigorous arts infused program.
To equip students for success through the power of reading.Readers 2 Leaders envisions a world where all students have equitable opportunities to thrive as readers and leaders, but it will require energy and collaboration from across the…
The Winston School Is A Small College Preparatory School Designed To Maximize The Potential Of Bright Students Who Learn Differently. Through individualized Learning Strategies Our Students Are Empowered To Meet Confidently The Challenges…
The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
Bridges academy austin is an exceptions school for exceptional learners. our mission is to help students maximize their potential through evidence-based instructions and intervention.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Lamplighter School and the most unlike its peers is The Stallings Award Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 36 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 Washington and Lee University ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds THE LAMPLIGHTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP ISD INC ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE TEACHING TRUST ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area ↗
- Who funds DALLAS KIDS FIRST ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA CITY MUSEUM OF ART INC FKA OKLAHOMA CITY ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Poston Gardens Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL CARE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMIT2DALLAS ↗
- Who funds The Stallings Award Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHEER 4 YOUR LIFE ↗
- Who funds THE JORDAN SPIETH FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BEHIND EVERY DOOR MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD NEIGHBORS 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: Byrne Family Foundation Trust · Records Johnston Family Foundation · The Merrick Foundation · El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation · Inasmuch Foundation · Meadows Foundation Inc · Communities Foundation of Oklahoma · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc
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 W C Payne 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.
- World Neighbors Inc — 46% of income from government
- Special Care Inc — 0% of income from government
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.