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Wyatt Ranches 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.

$1.7M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
31
Grants FY2024
20
Organizations funded FY2023
60%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$45,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$272,631
Organizations funded a year
17 to 27
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$41M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 60% of the organizations Wyatt Ranches Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 64% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

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

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

’18’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving26$1.7M46%
FY202320$1.7M60%
FY202217$1.6M59%
FY202127$1.6M67%
FY202018$1.6M94%
FY201827$1.6M74%
FY201725$1.6Mn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Crime & Legal$2.3MEducation$1.6MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.5MInternational$1.1MEnvironment$809kArts & Culture$709kHealth$704kReligion$631kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The University of Texas Foundation Inc$500,00011%
Texas Dps Troopers Foundation Inc$240,000414%
The Posse Foundation Inc$205,00020%
Alley Theatre$200,00011%
Nuevos Horizontes de Starr County$150,000291%
Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Inc$141,60030%
Child Advocates Inc$115,00012%
Holy Spirit Catholic Church$103,0001n/a
The Methodist Hospital Foundation$100,00010%
Jim Wells County Fair Association$65,000111%
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All grantees of Wyatt Ranches Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The University of Texas Foundation Inc$500,00011%
Texas Dps Troopers Foundation Inc$240,000414%
The Posse Foundation Inc$205,00020%
Alley Theatre$200,00011%
Nuevos Horizontes de Starr County$150,000291%
Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Inc$141,60030%
Child Advocates Inc$115,00012%
Holy Spirit Catholic Church$103,0001n/a
The Methodist Hospital Foundation$100,00010%
Jim Wells County Fair Association$65,000111%
Alberto Esco Foundation Inc$60,000244%
Freer Independent School District$55,0002n/a
Rural South Texas Economic Development Corp$50,000145%
South Texas JROTC Conference Limited$50,000178%
MARFA THEATRE dba Marfa Live Arts$50,000135%
Robstown Isd Education Foundation$50,000131%
Catholic Solitudes Corporation$50,0002n/a
Hidalgo County Sheriffs Community Foundation$50,0001n/a
Kingsvile Border Patrol Officers Association$45,0001n/a
Starr County Memorial Hospital Auxilary$45,0001n/a
Rio Grande City Consolidated Independent School District$40,0001n/a
United Veterans Burial Association$30,0001n/a
Friends for Hope of the Rio Grande Valley$30,0001n/a
Corpus Christi Sailing Foundation$30,000114%
Corpus Christi Police Atheltic Leag$30,00015%
Child Wellness Network, Inc.$25,0001n/a
Great Meadow Foundation Inc$25,00011%
Crime Stoppers of South Texas Inc$20,000173%
Noah Neighbors Offering Animals Hope$15,0001n/a
Southwestern Medical Foundation$15,00010%
C a M P University$10,00013%
VFW Post 8931$10,000112%
100 Women Strong Inc$10,000160%
Gihon Foundation$10,00013%
St Mary's University$10,00020%
Alice Hispanic Heritage Committee$7,500124%
Corpus Christi Hope House Inc$5,00010%
Catholic Diocese of Brownsville$5,0001n/a
The Fanatical Change Foundation Inc$5,0001n/a
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc$5,00010%
Houston Metro Area Police Foundation LLC$3,0001n/a
Bridge Church Inc$1,0001n/a
Special Hearts in the Arts$1,0001n/a

Plus 71 recipients with no EIN on record ($8.8M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Wyatt Ranches Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 8 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 27 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe University of Texas Foundation Inc: $500,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTexas Dps Troopers Foundation Inc: $240,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetThe Posse Foundation Inc: $205,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetAlley Theatre: $200,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNuevos Horizontes de Starr County: $150,000 over 2y, 91% of budgetHouston Livestock Show and Rodeo Inc: $141,600 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetChild Advocates Inc: $115,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetThe Methodist Hospital Foundation: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJim Wells County Fair Association: $65,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetAlberto Esco Foundation Inc: $60,000 over 2y, 44% of budgetRural South Texas Economic Development Corp: $50,000 over 1y, 45% of budgetSouth Texas JROTC Conference Limited: $50,000 over 1y, 78% of budgetMARFA THEATRE dba Marfa Live Arts: $50,000 over 1y, 35% of budgetRobstown Isd Education Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetCorpus Christi Sailing Foundation: $30,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetCorpus Christi Police Atheltic Leag: $30,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetGreat Meadow Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCrime Stoppers of South Texas Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 73% of budgetSouthwestern Medical Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetC a M P University: $10,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetVFW Post 8931: $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budget100 Women Strong Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 60% of budgetGihon Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetSt Mary's University: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAlice Hispanic Heritage Committee: $7,500 over 1y, 24% of budgetCorpus Christi Hope House Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 27.

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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.

Coastal Bend Community FoundationTX13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Coastal Bend Community Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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About Wyatt Ranches Foundation

How much does Wyatt Ranches Foundation give?
Wyatt Ranches Foundation reported 31 grants totaling $1,728,830 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 27 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Wyatt Ranches Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (20%), Education (14%), Public Safety & Disaster (13%).
Who are Wyatt Ranches Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The University of Texas Foundation Inc ($500k), Texas Dps Troopers Foundation Inc ($240k), The Posse Foundation Inc ($205k).
Does Wyatt Ranches Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Wyatt Ranches Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Wyatt Ranches Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Coastal Bend Community Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Wyatt Ranches Foundation based?
Wyatt Ranches Foundation is based in TX.

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 114 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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