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Warren Charitable 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k65 grants · $186k
- $10k–50k43 grants · $942k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $988k
- $250k+2 grants · $2.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE MEMAS FOUNDATION | $1,835,000 |
| BUCKNER CHILDREN FAMILY SERVICES | $361,000 |
| YMCA | $125,000 |
| BASIN DREAM CENTER FOR ORPHANS | $120,000 |
| MUSEUM OF THE SOUTHWEST | $100,000 |
| MIDLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC | $100,000 |
| LITERACY COALITION OF THE PERMIAN B | $95,000 |
| MIDLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $80,000 |
| MISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $57,500 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE PERMIAN | $55,250 |
| MIDLAND CHILDREN'S REHABILITATION C | $55,000 |
| SPRINGBOARD CENTER | $50,000 |
| SPECTRUM OF SOLUTIONS | $50,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE - BIG BEND | $50,000 |
| BUFFALO TRAIL COUNCIL BSA | $50,000 |
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, $4.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +18% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
183 repeat relationships — 94 still active in FY2024, 89 since wound down; 25 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $359k 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
- TMTHE MEMAS FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2024 · $3.7M · revenue +99% · 100% of their budget
- MCMIDLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +93%
- WTWEST TEXAS FOOD BANK8× · 2017–2024 · $750k · revenue +111%
Funded once
- NMNORTHEAST MIDLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEone grant, 2021 · $120k
- DTDelta Tau Delta Educational Foundation Incone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -42%
- GIGREATER IDEAL FAMILY LIFE CENTERone grant, 2023 · $90k · revenue -61%
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.
Meals on Wheels of Odessa enables people to live with dignity by offering community support and sustenance through coordinated services and enable older adults to live in their own homes safely and independently as long as they are able.
Providing mental healthcare to restore hope and healing
Hmm health provides quality healthcare to all its neighbors with love, compassion, and respect.
To meet the growing housing needs of people with special needs throughout Midland County - we want to offer them stability and affordability and help them become integrated into the community.
Morning Star Boys' Ranch, answering God's call to love and serve those in need, are dedicated to building responsible adults by believing in youth, and providing programs to strengthen families and the community.
It is the mission of the organization to provide services to disadvantaged and homeless families with children; to reintegrate homeless families with children into permanent housing and employment.
Hospice care of terminally ill patients
Care, hope, and support for all when illness threatens life.
To offer Kingdom partners a holy and unforgettable experience at our Texas Hill Country retreat and camp facility highlighting the still waters of God's majestic creation.
To provide rehabilitation services to every child in the permian basin with a neurologic or orthopedic need at little or no cost.
Support of special needs military or first responders and their families.
The Family Guidance & Outreach Center of Lubbock is dedicated to the prevention of child abuse and neglect and supporting, mentoring, and educating parents.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Midland Inc and the most unlike its peers is Warren Wildlife Gallery. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 27% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
141 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. 141 of the 299 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 THE MEMAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds WEST TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds BYNUM SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE SPRINGBOARD CENTER ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds MANOR PARK INC ↗
- Who funds HIGH SKY CHILDRENS RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM CENTER TEXAS ↗
- Who funds 2801 SAN JACINTO ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE SOUTHWEST ↗
- Who funds Coleman County Youth Activity Center ↗
- Who funds CASA OF WEST TEXAS ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds BASIN DREAM CENTER FOR ORPHANS ↗
- Who funds MARC INC ↗
- Who funds CASA DE AMIGOS OF MIDLAND TEXASINC ↗
- Who funds TEEN FLOW YOUTH MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds ODESSA FAMILY YMCA ↗
- Who funds WARREN WILDLIFE GALLERY ↗
- Who funds LITERACY COALITION OF THE PERMIAN BASIN ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND FAIR HAVENS ↗
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: Abell-Hanger Foundation · Scharbauer Foundation Inc · Permian Basin Area Foundation · Helen Greathouse Charitable Trust · Pevehouse Family Foundation · Beal Foundation · The Henry Foundation · Wayne & Jo Ann Moore Charitable Foundation · Fmh Foundation · The Fasken Foundation · James a Buddy Davidson Charitable Foundation · Bryant Family 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 Warren Charitable 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project 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.
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