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Warren Charitable Foundation at a glance

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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.

$4.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
123
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$1.8M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$6.6MPhilanthropy$3.9MEducation$3.6MHealth$3.4MYouth Development$1.5MReligion$878kHousing & Shelter$823kFood & Nutrition$778kOther$0
02FY2024 · 123 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k65 grants · $186k
  • $10k–50k43 grants · $942k
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $988k
  • $250k+2 grants · $2.2M
$6,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$158M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CENTRAL TEXAS OPPORTUNIITES: $275k → 18%MANOR PARK INC: $100k → 12%CENTRAL TEXAS OPPORTUNIITES: $201k → 18%CENTRAL TEXAS OPPORTUNIITES: $76k → 18%CENTRAL TEXAS OPPORTUNIITES: $75k → 18%SPRINGBOARD CENTER: $425k → 14%CENTRAL TEXAS OPPORTUNIITES: $50k → 18%BUCKNER CHILDREN FAMILY SERVICES: $361k → 14%BUCKNER CHILDREN FAMILY SERVICES: $359k → 14%SAFE PLACE: $215k → 14%BUCKNER CHILDREN FAMILY SERVICES: $213k → 14%BUCKNER CHILDREN FAMILY SERVICES: $32k → 14%BUCKNER CHILDREN FAMILY SERVICES: $22k → 14%SAFE PLACE: $285k → 12%SPRINGBOARD CENTER: $50k → 14%SPRINGBOARD CENTER: $50k → 14%MOVING WATERS: $28k → 16%GREATER IDEAL FAMILY LIFE CENTER: $90k → 12%SPRINGBOARD CENTER: $50k → 14%ODESSA FAMILY YMCA: $50k → 16%SPRINGBOARD CENTER: $50k → 14%ODESSA FAMILY YMCA: $50k → 16%SPRINGBOARD CENTER: $50k → 14%ODESSA FAMILY YMCA: $30k → 16%ODESSA FAMILY YMCA: $30k → 16%SPRINGBOARD CENTER: $25k → 14%CASA DE AMIGOS: $36k → 12%CASA DE AMIGOS: $33k → 12%YMCA OF MIDLAND: $25k → 12%KALEIDOSCOPE MINISTRIES: $25k → 12%FRIENDSHIP HOUSE: $25k → 12%BASIN DREAM CENTER FOR ORPHANS: $25k → 12%CASA DE AMIGOS: $24k → 12%CASA DE AMIGOS: $24k → 12%CASA DE AMIGOS: $23k → 12%KALEIDOSCOPE MINISTRIES: $20k → 12%FRIENDSHIP HOUSE: $20k → 12%BASIN DREAM CENTER FOR ORPHANS: $19k → 12%UNITED WAY OF MIDLAND: $16k → 12%UNITED WAY OF MIDLAND: $15k → 12%UNITED WAY OF MIDLAND: $14k → 12%MANOR PARK: $130k → 12%MANOR PARK: $125k → 12%MANOR PARK: $110k → 12%MANOR PARK: $100k → 12%MANOR PARK: $50k → 12%CENTERS FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $26k → 12%MANOR PARK: $25k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
IL
OR
IN
CT
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
TN
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$25M · 183 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against +6% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

183
90

Total granted

$25M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+6%

Still filing today

50%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $359k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationReligionPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TM
    THE MEMAS FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $3.7M · revenue +99% · 100% of their budget
  • MC
    MIDLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +93%
  • WT
    WEST TEXAS FOOD BANK
    8× · 2017–2024 · $750k · revenue +91%

Funded once

  • NM
    NORTHEAST MIDLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE DE
    one grant, 2021 · $120k
  • DT
    Delta Tau Delta Educational Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -42%
  • GI
    GREATER IDEAL FAMILY LIFE CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $90k · revenue -61%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Meals On Wheels of Odessa Inc

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.

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2
Samaritan Center Inc

Providing mental healthcare to restore hope and healing

Human Services
3
Healing Hands Ministries Inc

Hmm health provides quality healthcare to all its neighbors with love, compassion, and respect.

Health
4
Reece Endeavor of Midland

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.

Philanthropy
5
Morning Star Boys Ranch

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.

Youth Development
6
Compassion Ministries of Waco

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.

Community Improvement
7
Hospice of South Texas Inc

Hospice care of terminally ill patients

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8
Hospice of Wichita Falls Inc

Care, hope, and support for all when illness threatens life.

Human Services
9
Still Water Christian Ministries Inc

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.

Recreation & Sports
10
Midland Childrens Rehabilitation Center Inc

To provide rehabilitation services to every child in the permian basin with a neurologic or orthopedic need at little or no cost.

Health
11
West Texas Hero Homes Inc

Support of special needs military or first responders and their families.

Housing & Shelter
12
Lubbock Family Outreach Center Inc Dba Family Guidance & Outreach Center

The Family Guidance & Outreach Center of Lubbock is dedicated to the prevention of child abuse and neglect and supporting, mentoring, and educating parents.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Midland Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

141 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. 141 of the 299 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
34
Early backer (in before they grew)
136/141
Grantees still filing
85/141
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $1,211,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $1,117,700 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSALVATION ARMY: $831,325 · OtherSALVATION ARMYWEST TEXAS FOOD BANK: $750,375 · OtherWEST TEXAS FOOD BANKMIDLAND MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $647,079 · OtherFAMILY PROMISE: $639,000 · OtherMIDLAND CHILDREN'S REHAB CENTER: $614,350 · Other+129 more: $7,604,276 · Other+129 moreBUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC: $997,350 · Human ServicesBUCKNER CHILDREN & …THE SPRINGBOARD CENTER: $700,000 · Human ServicesTHE SPRINGBOARD CEN…CORNERSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC: $681,739 · Human ServicesCORNERSTONE COMMUNI…MANOR PARK INC: $640,739 · Human ServicesMANOR PARK INCFREEDOM CENTER TEXAS: $503,500 · Human ServicesFREEDOM CENTER TEXA…BASIN DREAM CENTER FOR ORPHANS: $192,500 · Human ServicesCASA DE AMIGOS OF MIDLAND TEXASINC: $167,083 · Human ServicesODESSA FAMILY YMCA: $160,000 · Human Services+15 more: $496,167 · Human Services+15 moreTHE MEMAS FOUNDATION: $3,686,516 · PhilanthropyTHE MEMAS FOUNDA…+2 more: $60,500 · PhilanthropyMIDLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $1,155,000 · EducationMIDLAND CO…BYNUM SCHOOL: $723,200 · EducationBYNUM SCHO…LITERACY COALITION OF THE PERMIAN BASIN: $150,000 · EducationLITERACY C…APHASIA CENTER OF WEST TEXAS INC: $124,330 · EducationDelta Tau Delta Educational Foundation Inc: $100,000 · Education+10 more: $262,450 · Education+10 moreHIGH SKY CHILDRENS RANCH INC: $605,500 · HealthMISSION HEALTH CARE INC: $60,000 · HealthPermian Basin Regional Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse: $50,000 · HealthPERMIAN BASIN REHABILITATION CENTER: $47,000 · Health+7 more: $103,601 · HealthMUSEUM OF THE SOUTHWEST: $350,000 · Arts & CultureWARREN WILDLIFE GALLERY: $152,000 · Arts & CulturePERMIAN BASIN HONOR FLIGHT INC: $40,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $55,000 · Arts & CultureColeman County Youth Activity Center: $300,500 · Recreation & SportsMIDLAND ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC: $53,900 · Recreation & SportsWEST TEXAS YOUTH DEVELOPMENT INC: $30,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $10,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$13,415,105Human Services$4,539,078Philanthropy$3,747,016Education$2,514,980Health$866,101Arts & Culture$597,000Recreation & Sports$394,400

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE MEMAS FOUNDATION: $3,686,516 over 3y, 100% of budgetMIDLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $1,155,000 over 8y, 9.0% of budgetBUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC: $997,350 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetWEST TEXAS FOOD BANK: $750,375 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetBYNUM SCHOOL: $723,200 over 7y, 25% of budgetTHE SPRINGBOARD CENTER: $700,000 over 7y, 6.0% of budgetCORNERSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC: $681,739 over 7y, 7.4% of budgetMANOR PARK INC: $640,739 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetHIGH SKY CHILDRENS RANCH INC: $605,500 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetFREEDOM CENTER TEXAS: $503,500 over 4y, 87% of budget2801 SAN JACINTO ASSOCIATION: $400,000 over 4y, 51% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE SOUTHWEST: $350,000 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetColeman County Youth Activity Center: $300,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCASA OF WEST TEXAS: $268,500 over 7y, 3.4% of budgetMIDLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $253,000 over 7y, 3.3% of budgetBASIN DREAM CENTER FOR ORPHANS: $192,500 over 4y, 10% of budgetMARC INC: $177,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetCASA DE AMIGOS OF MIDLAND TEXASINC: $167,083 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetTEEN FLOW YOUTH MINISTRY: $164,500 over 7y, 6.8% of budgetODESSA FAMILY YMCA: $160,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetWARREN WILDLIFE GALLERY: $152,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetLITERACY COALITION OF THE PERMIAN BASIN: $150,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetMIDLAND FAIR HAVENS: $125,716 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetAPHASIA CENTER OF WEST TEXAS INC: $124,330 over 8y, 4.3% of budgetRedirectional Outreach Program Efforts for Youth: $105,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetDelta Tau Delta Educational Foundation Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $95,959 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER IDEAL FAMILY LIFE CENTER: $89,500 over 1y, 14% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MIDLAND INC: $74,500 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY CHILDREN'S MINISTRY: $62,700 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetBEYOND BATTEN DISEASE FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetMISSION HEALTH CARE INC: $60,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetThe Way Retreat Center: $60,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetKALEIDOSCOPE MINISTRIES: $55,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetMIDLAND ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC: $53,900 over 4y, 9.0% of budgetPERMIAN BASIN AREA FOUNDATION: $51,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPermian Basin Regional Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse: $50,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetHARMONY HOME CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $50,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetBUSH TENNIS CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetHouston Habitat for Humanity Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPERMIAN BASIN REHABILITATION CENTER: $47,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetMIDLAND SHARED SPACES INC: $45,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetFRIENDSHIP HOUSE: $45,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetMISSION AGAPE: $40,550 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetBAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $40,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPERMIAN BASIN HONOR FLIGHT INC: $40,000 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetHillcrest School Inc: $36,049 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetAUSTIN AREA ART FROM THE STREETS: $35,000 over 7y, 2.1% of budget
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 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 ↗

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.

Abell-Hanger Foundati…Scharbauer Foundation…Permian Basin Area Fo…Helen Greathouse Char…Pevehouse Family Foun…Beal FoundationThe Henry FoundationWayne & Jo Ann Moore …Fmh FoundationThe Fasken FoundationJames a Buddy Davidso…Bryant Family Foundat…
Abell-Hanger FoundationTX126.6× affinity61 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Warren Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Warren Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
25report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Warren Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Warren Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 299 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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