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Wayne H Garrison Charitable Tr at a glance

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Wayne H Garrison Charitable Tr

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.

$28k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$41kArts & Culture$27kHealth$14kRecreation & Sports$9kFood & Nutrition$5kCommunity Improvement$4kHousing & Shelter$4kYouth Development$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$329k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TRAHC$5,000
TEXAS A & M UNIVERSITY-TEXARKANA$5,000
Individual grant recipient$2,500
CHRISTUS ST MICHAEL FOUNDATION$2,500
TEXARKANA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$1,995
GROUND FLOOR COLLECTIVE$1,500
TEXARKANA PICKLEBALL CLUB$1,500
PARTNERSHIP FOR THE PATHWAY$1,250
CITY OF TEXARKANA ARKANSAS$1,000
TEXARKANA CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER$1,000
NORTHEAST TEXAS CASA INC$1,000
HARVEST REGIONAL FOOD BANK$1,000
HAVEN HOMES$1,000
ALZHEIMER'S ALLIANCE$550
RANDY SAMS OUTREACH SHELTER$500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Domestic Violence Prevention Inc: $1k → 14%RUNNIN' WJ RANCH: $1k → 19%RUNNIN' WJ RANCH: $500 → 19%RUNNIN' WJ RANCH: $500 → 19%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.
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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$98k · 22 repeat orgs$32k to everyone else

22 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
20

Total granted

$98k
$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+49%

Still filing today

36%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureRecreation & SportsHealthHousing & ShelterEducationHuman ServicesOther
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

  • TS
    TEXARKANA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $10k · revenue +271%
  • PF
    PARTNERSHIP FOR THE PATHWAY
    6× · 2017–2025 · $5k · revenue +43%
  • MS
    MAIN STREET TEXARKANA BUSINESS ORGANIZATION FOR A NEW DOWNTOWN
    2× · 2017–2020 · $3k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • TC
    TEXARKANA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue +126%
  • GF
    GROUND FLOOR COLLECTIVE
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
  • AH
    American Heart Association Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +33%
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
University of Arkansas Hope-Texarkana Foundation Inc

The primary purpose of the University of Arkansas Hope - Texarkana Foundation is to advance higher education by securing private financial support for all units and activities of the University of Arkansas Hope Texarkana.

Unclassified
2
Atx Helps

ATX Helps was created to fill gaps in the spectrum of services available to people in Austin who are experiencing homelessness.

Human Services
3
Texas Clean Energy Coalition
—
4
Texans for Lawsuit Reform Foundation
Philanthropy
5
Arkansas Cash for Kindness

To provide assistance to those in need living in the community.

Philanthropy
6
Texas Foster Care & Adoption Serv

A state of texas licensed foster care and adoption agency that identifies and provides approved healing foster homes for children.

Human Services
7
North Central Texas Medical Foundation
Health
8
Corsicana Area Chamber of Commerce

To promote Corsicana and the surrounding area.

—
9
Texas Inmate Families Association

Our mission is to break the cycle of crime by strengthening families through support, education, and advocacy.

—
10
Texoma Family Shelter

Feed and house homeless families, counsel and help them prepare for job interviews, assist in completing forms for govt assistance, and provide rent/utilities assistance. Coordinate with local food bank.

Human Services
11
Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Research Foundation
Philanthropy
12
Texas Bankers Foundation
Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texarkana Regional Arts & Humanit; the most unlike its peers is Angel Fund Foundation Inc. 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

20 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. 20 of the 51 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
12/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Texas A&M University: $20,500 · OtherTexas A&M UniversityIndividual grant recipient: $10,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTEXAS A & M UNIVERSITY-TEXARKANA: $10,000 · OtherTEXAS A & M UNIVERSITY-TEXARKANATEXARKANA MUSEUM SYSTEM: $8,250 · OtherTEXARKANA MUSEUM SYSTEMTEXARKANA PUBLIC LIBRARY COMMISSION: $4,000 · OtherCHRISTUS St Michael Foundation: $3,500 · OtherLITERACY COUNCIL: $3,240 · Other+33 more: $36,590 · Other+33 moreTEXARKANA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $10,020 · Arts & CultureTEXARKANA SYM…TEXARKANA REGIONAL ARTS & HUMANIT: $5,000 · Arts & CultureTEXARKANA REG…PARTNERSHIP FOR THE PATHWAY: $5,250 · Recreation & SportsTEXARKANA PICKLEBALL CLUB: $1,500 · Recreation & SportsTEXARKANA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · EducationGROUND FLOOR COLLECTIVE: $1,500 · EducationAmerican Heart Association Inc: $2,500 · HealthARKANSAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $500 · HealthRunnin WJ Therapeutic Center Inc: $2,000 · Human ServicesDomestic Violence Prevention Inc: $1,000 · Human ServicesMAIN STREET TEXARKANA BUSINESS ORGANIZATION FOR A NEW DOWNTOWN: $2,500 · Community Improvement
Other$96,580Arts & Culture$15,020Recreation & Sports$6,750Education$4,000Health$3,000Human Services$3,000Community Improvement$2,500

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 budgetTEXARKANA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $10,020 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR THE PATHWAY: $5,250 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetCHRISTUS St Michael Foundation: $3,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTEXARKANA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAIN STREET TEXARKANA BUSINESS ORGANIZATION FOR A NEW DOWNTOWN: $2,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetRunnin WJ Therapeutic Center Inc: $2,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetRandy Sams Outreach Shelter: $2,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHEAST TEXAS CASA INC: $1,650 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGROUND FLOOR COLLECTIVE: $1,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTEXARKANA PICKLEBALL CLUB: $1,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetDomestic Violence Prevention Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetANGEL FUND FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetHarvest Texarkana Regional Food Bank Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEXARKANA VOLUNTEER SERVICES BUREAU INC DBA HANDS ON TEXARKANA: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetARKANSAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 TEXARKANA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR THE PATHWAY ↗
  • Who funds TEXARKANA REGIONAL ARTS & HUMANIT ↗
  • Who funds CHRISTUS St Michael Foundation ↗
  • Who funds TEXARKANA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds MAIN STREET TEXARKANA BUSINESS ORGANIZATION FOR A NEW DOWNTOWN ↗
  • Who funds Runnin WJ Therapeutic Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds Randy Sams Outreach Shelter ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEAST TEXAS CASA INC ↗
  • Who funds GROUND FLOOR COLLECTIVE ↗
  • Who funds TEXARKANA PICKLEBALL CLUB ↗
  • Who funds HAVEN HOMES ↗
  • Who funds Domestic Violence Prevention Inc ↗
  • Who funds ARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ANGEL FUND FOUNDATION INC ↗

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.

Patterson Troike Foun…The Bobbie a Atkinson…Ledwell Family Founda…United Way of Greater…Kelley & Morgan Famil…Cabe Cook FoundationVasco McCoy Jr Founda…The Morriss Family Fo…American Electric Pow…Yates FoundationChristus Health Ark-L…Christus Health
Patterson Troike Foundation IncTX36.9× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Patterson Troike Foundation Inc · The Bobbie a Atkinson Foundation · Ledwell Family Foundation · United Way of Greater Texarkana Inc · Kelley & Morgan Families Foundation · Cabe Cook Foundation · Vasco McCoy Jr Foundation · The Morriss Family Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · Yates Foundation · Christus Health Ark-La-Tex · Christus Health

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 Wayne H Garrison Charitable Tr funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wayne H Garrison Charitable Tr. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 51 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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