· Private foundation
W H and Mary Ellen Cobb Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WESTMINISTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $30,000 |
| DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER | $30,000 |
| BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES | $20,000 |
| OPPORTUNITY SCHOOL INC | $15,000 |
| AMARILLO CHILDREN'S HOME | $15,000 |
| WEST TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ST ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $230k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 52% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- OSOPPORTUNITY SCHOOL INC7× · 2017–2025 · $135k · revenue +28%
- CFCAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH6× · 2017–2024 · $85k · revenue +12%
- AAAMARILLO AREA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC2× · 2019–2022 · $40k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- RMRONALD McDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER NORTH TEXAS INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +55%
- GSGIRL SCOUTS OF TEXAS OKLAHOMAone grant, 2022 · $25k
- HPHIGH PLAINS CHILDREN'S HOME AND FAMILY SERVICES INCone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +4%
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.
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.
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…
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 educate students with the transforming truth of christ, inspiring academic excellence, godly character, and integrity in life pursuits.
Working in creative collaboration to provide quality care that transforms the lives of at-risk children and their families through the active compassion of christ.
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.
Communities in schools of central texas (cisct) ensures students have holistic support, removing academic and nonacademic barriers to their success in school.
Our mission is to show the love of christ to each and every child and family towhom we serve and beyond. we do this by creating a culture where the needs of children,families, and staff are seen and met in creative and innovative ways.
El paso center for children, inc's purpose is to provide homes for dependent and neglected children and an array of support services for emotionally disturbed children, adolescents, and their families. the organization operates entirely in…
To meet the needs of students in at-risk situations by improving academics, marketable skills, attendance, and behavior through the partnership of school, home, and community so that young people stay in school, learn successfully and…
Keeping children near the care they need so families can get better together.
The Family Guidance & Outreach Center of Lubbock is dedicated to the prevention of child abuse and neglect and supporting, mentoring, and educating parents.
How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 26 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 OPPORTUNITY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds CAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WEST TEXAS A&M UNIV FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RONALD McDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER NORTH TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds AMARILLO AREA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HIGH PLAINS CHILDREN'S HOME AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE SOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS INC OF AMARILLO ↗
- Who funds AMARILLO ART CENTER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF GREATER WICHITA FALLS AREA ↗
- Who funds TURN CENTER ↗
- Who funds MID-CONTINENT UNIVERSITY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Amarillo Area Foundation Inc · High Plains Christian Ministries Foundation · Mary E Bivins Foundation · Bruckner Family Foundation Inc · Amarillo Business Foundation · Mays Foundation · Dr Kent Roberts & Ilene Roberts Balliett Foundation · Ned O and Linda Miller Charitable · Kimble Foundation Trust · Cj and Syble Fowlston Charitable Trust · Josephine Anderson Charitable Trust · The Don & Sybil Harrington Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization W H and Mary Ellen Cobb Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from W H and Mary Ellen Cobb Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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