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Wichita Falls Area Community Foundation
The mission of the Wichita Falls Area Community Foundation is to enhance the quality of life in the Wichita Falls area through the promotion and support of charitable giving.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 120 grants below total $5,508,660 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $6,339,172 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $830,512 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k44 grants · $324k
- $10k–50k59 grants · $1.3M
- $50k–250k15 grants · $1.4M
- $250k+2 grants · $2.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Southern Methodist University | $2,230,000 |
| St Mary's Catholic Church | $250,000 |
| Hospice of Wichita Falls | $187,725 |
| River Bend Nature Center | $150,127 |
| Highland Park United Methodist Church | $150,000 |
| Grace Church | $116,900 |
| Wichita Falls Symphony Orchestra | $107,700 |
| Camp Fire North Texas | $92,100 |
| Wichita Falls Area Food Bank | $89,075 |
| Wichita Falls Faith Mission Inc | $70,700 |
| MSU Texas - University Advancement | $68,827 |
| First Presbyterian Church | $62,800 |
| Interfaith Ministries of Wichita Falls Inc | $62,458 |
| Church of the Good Shepherd | $61,500 |
| North Texas Rehabilitation Center | $60,270 |
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 (FY19–24, $2.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 69% 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 +36% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
144 repeat relationships — 98 still active in FY2024, 46 since wound down; 21 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $571k 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
Southern Methodist University6× · 2019–2024 · $9.0M · revenue +37%- PLPETS LOW COST SPAY & NEUTER6× · 2019–2024 · $870k · revenue +76%
- RBRiver Bend Nature Works Inc6× · 2019–2024 · $815k · revenue +323% · 28% of their budget
Funded once
- COCity of Wichita Fallsone grant, 2022 · $532k
- GPGRAHAM PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $500k · revenue -82% · 45% of their budget
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH ENDOWMENT INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $400k · revenue ×11 · 74% of their budget
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.
The WTFB exists to collect, purchase, and distribute food to feed the hungry in 19 counties in West Texas in partnership with volunteers and community organizations and to educate these partners and the public at large about the real face…
To procure and distribute nutritional food to qualified agencies that feed the hungry of West Central Texas.
The Organizations mission is to bring unity and efficiency to investigations of child abuse through the use of a multi-disciplinary team and, thereby, to provide the best possible services to victims of child abuse and their families.
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.
National Christian Foundation North Texas (NCFNT) was created to facilitate smarter Christian giving with sophisticated charitable techniques.
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.
The wichita county community foundation is a nonprofit, non-sectarian organization dedicated to preserving local wealth so the communities in and around leoti and wichita county will forever remain attractive places to live, work and raise…
To provide emergency/supplemental assistance in the form of food, clothing, household items, utility, rent and mortgage aid to people in need in the waco community.also provides case management assistance to people wanting to become…
None
Formerly ywca wichita, the wichita family crisis center (wfcc) began operations in wichita, ks in 1907. wfcc's mission is to eliminate domestic violence in our community by supporting survivors through shelter, education & advocacy.
At fort worth colonial charities, we are dedicated to empowering the next generation through innovative educational, athletic, and enrichment programs supported by our investment. we believe in fostering not just skills, but confidence and…
Providing volunteer fire-fighting services on the west side of Possum Kingdom Lake in Palo Pinto County.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities Diocese of Fort Worth and the most unlike its peers is The Max and Billie Clark Foundation. 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 31 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
173 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. 173 of the 253 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 Southern Methodist University ↗
- Who funds PETS LOW COST SPAY & NEUTER ↗
- Who funds River Bend Nature Works Inc ↗
- Who funds Dallas Theological Seminary ↗
- Who funds WICHITA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Hospice of Wichita Falls Inc ↗
- Who funds GRAHAM PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WICHITA COUNTY HERITAGE SOCIETY DBA KELL HOUSE HERITAGE CENTER ↗
- Who funds CAMP FIRE NORTH TEXAS ↗
- Who funds WICHITA FALLS FAITH MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds Wichita Falls Symphony Orchestra ↗
- Who funds CHRIST ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds WICHITA FALLS AREA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH ENDOWMENT INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH MINISTRIES OF WICHITA FALLS INC DBA INTERFAITH OUTREACH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Midwestern State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Young Mens Christian Association of Wichita Falls ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR THE NEW SCHOOL BOULDER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Graham Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS CLUB OF WICHITA FALLS INC DBA BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF WICHITA FALLS ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds Northwest Texas Council of Boy Scouts of America ↗
- Who funds SENIOR CITIZEN SERVICES OF NORTH TEXAS INC DBA THE KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds HANDS TO HANDS COMMUNITY FUND ↗
- Who funds THE DALLAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED REGIONAL HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING 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: James N McCoy Foundation · The Priddy Foundation · Bryant Edwards Foundation Inc · J S Bridwell Foundation · The Fain Foundation · Donnell Foundation · Gene Conley Foundation · Perkins-Prothro Foundation · Guinn Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Kadane Foundation · Dillard 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 Wichita Falls Area Community 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.
- Oklahoma Christian University — 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.